leovingi

>If Putin can't defeat Ukraine, idk how is he planning to go against Poland, or Finland.

He isn't.

Post your income and a detailed list of how you spend it. If it happens to be less than mine or if I disagree with how you spend it, I am going to publicly berate you for your lack of "humanity"

It's always so easy to argue about spending someone else's money, especially if you can present it as a moral crusade, isn't it?

1) the creditors package up that debt and then sell it off to the next batch of suckers 2) the creditors are first in line to be reimbursed if the company goes belly up, so they are fine with it as long as the assets the company owns are worth more than the debt

>Given their links to other countries, it's hard not to suspect the latter.

Interesting... Which people are you talking about and which countries?

orgmode is what helped me write my first self-published novella, without having to worry too much about formatting for print. Apart from the initial configuration, it was pretty much plug and play when going from plain text to something I could upload to KDP.

Collective Shout is just the front and their purpose is to take the heat for this.

There is no chance in hell an organization like that wields anything close to the power required to force these kind of decisions.

Either it is the payment processors or the regulators, or a combination of both, or some other kind of group behind the scenes. Personally I don't know what the true answer is, but it's clearly not some activist organization.

For the most part I can actually tell, but it also depends on the style of the art. A lot of anime-inspired digital images are immediately obvious - AI tends to add quite a lot of "shine" to its output, if that makes sense. And it's way too clean, sterile even. And it all looks the same.

But when the art style is more minimalist or abstract, I find it genuinely difficult to notice a difference and have to start looking at the finer details, hence the mental workload comment. Often times I'll notice an eye not facing the right direction or certain lines appearing too "repetitive", something I rarely see in the works of human artists. It's difficult to explain without actual inage examples in front of me.

It's a fair question and one that I've asked myself as well.

I like to use the example of chess. I know that computers can beat human players and that there are technical advancements in the field that are useful in their own right, but I would never consistently watch a game of chess played between a computer and a human. Why? Because I don't care for it. To me, the fun and excitement is in seeing what a HUMAN can achieve, what a HUMAN can create - I apply the same logic to art as well.

As I'm currently learning how to draw myself, I know how difficult it is and seeing other people working hard at their craft to eventually produce something beautiful, after months and years of work - it's a shared experience. It makes me happy!

Seeing someone prompt an AI, wait half-a-minute and then post it on social media does not, even if the end result is of a reasonable quality.

And it's not just vulnerability reports that are affected by this general trend. I use social media, X specifically, to follow a lot of artists, mostly for inspiration and because I find it fun to share some of the work that other artists have created, but over the past year or so I find that the mental workload it takes for me to figure out if a particular piece of art is AI-generated is too much and I start leaning into the safe option of "don't share anything that seems even remotely suspicious unless I can verify the author".

The amount of art posts that I have shared with others has decreased significantly, to the point where I am almost certain some artists who have created genuine works simply get filtered out because their work "looks" like it could have been AI-generated... It's getting to the point where if I see anything that is AI it's an instant mute or block, because there is nothing of value there - it's just noise clogging up my feed.

all you had to do to stop him was actually enforce the law and protect the borders, as that was the main driving force behind his popularity, yet you couldn't even be bothered to do the most basic task of governance

you deserve him and everything that follows

>What's strange to me is the speed with which some of these changes were made

That's because while the original commenter is correct in terms of companies doing what they believe their consumer base supports, they ignore half of the equation, which is that it was never JUST about the consumers. It was also about protecting the company from disparate impact lawsuits, where any difference in the makeup of a company compared to the general public could be interpreted as discrimination, regardless of whether it actually does discriminatory practices.

My guess is that these companies feel that with the new US administration the risk of these kind of lawsuits has decreased significantly.

>relatively

Why are you suddenly, when faced with data that doesn't fit your narrative, using that word when it was nowhere to be found in the original discussion?

>Why? Does the UK need to deal with this "fact" too then?

If the interests of UK and China ever seriously clashed and led to a conflict, yes, they would. I can't believe that military capabilities and force projection in the modern world need to be explained on a website meant for professionals.