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First, tweening. If you can get an AI to do the job of a tweener you've already massively impacted the VFX/Animation pipeline.

Because the models are not creating a 1:1 replacement of the original work.

As mentioned before "style" is not something subject to copyright and the model creates a model of that style. The process of finetuning a model generally means that one would not want to recreate the original images as that would overfit it and render it, essentially useless.

When it comes to code, there is a higher chance of getting a one-to-one clone of the input as the options used in creating an algorithm, or even a simple function are dramatically reduced imo.

It doesn't "copy". These are not collages patched together from different original images.

Well...Wintermute wasn't essentially hostile to humanity - it just had it's own goals. I find that way more cyberpunk than a dystopian AI bent on humanity's destruction.

From the Ruby side Sinatra is just as fast as flask to get something going. Having supported all three ( Rails, flask, Sinatra ) if it's going to be an API. I usually start with Sinatra.

Kinda shocked that someone would apply for a patent for a tool that is essentially a decision tree.

Oddly enough last week I showed this video to my 9 year old daughter who has a passing interest in animation and she understood the technology clearly.

That fact alone means that we have to step up our game in modern technical documentation.

Mostly unenforceable in Canada as well.

The major problem I see for the "gig economy" is that as a contract worker one is essentially on their own for things like health insurance and unemployment benefits. While neither are things often talked about on the HN boards, here outside the Valley those become real concerns for employees with families.

exactly what I thought

You also need to take into consideration how incredibly lucky you were. "Pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" is a myth and always has been.

6 month emergency fund? Have you seen how many people in the US are living paycheque to paycheque? I know many people who make six figures who would struggle to meet that requirement.

Having grown up as a military brat I know about poor and I know that this kind of self-serving look-down-your-nose "advice" is just rationalization for living well in a society that enables sociopathy