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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I don’t necessarily disagree with you here, but

    We don’t feel entitled to anything, we just don’t want every attempt we make to be marginalized and our artworks constantly stolen.

    is contradictory. You believe that you are entitled to publish and distribute your work while retaining some control over how it is used. Again, I don’t disagree with that take, but you either feel as though you deserve something (be it payment, credit, control, or something else) for the art you disseminate, or you don’t.


  • It’s probably easier and more correct to make the argument that AI is capable of generating both original and derivative works, just like a human is.

    A sufficiently large number of humans would be capable of performing the exact same calculations as a generative AI, a pokes a hole in the idea that it is incapable of generating original works. That being said, there does seem to be a subjective cutoff after which the generated work is no longer transformative. If I create some arbitrarily complex model that happens to recreate the latest Banksy given a specific prompt, to the point where replacing the model with Google Images would yield the same result, it’s difficult to see how the work shouldn’t be copyrighted.

    I’m fine with this conclusion because it’s pretty much where we are now. As an artist, I could study a piece of art and (a) create something original based on what I see, or (b) imitate it as closely as possible, and if you think the result is too close to (b), you take it to court.


  • The fact that Android is not an “industrial OS” proves that Linux is not just an “industrial OS”. The fact that Android is an “OS not well suited to the average desktop user” does not prove that a Linux is an “OS not well suited to the average desktop user”, so of course I didn’t use it to prove that point.

    Even so, you seem to take issue with the point that I did make. Is it, or is it not, “an industrial OS”? They’re your words, don’t come complaining to me because you chose them poorly.

    Android also isn’t a viable consumer OS without the closed source Google Play Services bundle

    This is patently false. The fact that Google Play isn’t even available in one of Android’s biggest markets, China, should have been a clue.

    Bonus:

    1. The average desktop user seems to be digging those newfangled Chromebooks. What say you about those devices?
    2. Would you consider BSD to be “an industrial OS not suited for the average desktop user?” Because, cards on the table, the BSD and Linux kernels are quite similar in the grand scheme of things, and one of them has a 17% desktop/laptop market share.