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  • Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA’s Artemis Towards Black Hole

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  • You should not be allowed to do DMCA searches on words that are over two thousand years old.

  • Wolf 359: The Massacre (part 1)

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  • They would have to call cubes back from where they are pushing territory on the other side of their territory.

    The Borg were not just fighting one species when they came to get the Federation, they were expanding outwards on all sides. So they committed the lowest level of resources they believed were necessary, and because the Queen was an arrogant fool, that was just one cube.

    For First Contact, you can argue that having been thus far unable to assimilate the Federation they are unaware of the speed of human advancement. In the Star Trek Universe it has been implied that humans are EXCEPTIONALLY inventive especially when faced with a problem, and that the Federation is even FASTER than humanity alone because of the additional viewpoints added to human inventiveness. Basically, the Human Problem of Fantasy Games where the humans are an average, all-around boring species while Elves and Dwarves and others all have specialties? That's not applicable to Star Trek Universe, where humans are especially well-suited to be engineers, and highly valued for their social abilities which foster teamwork. The presence of humans in the Federation is one of the ingredients that makes the Federation uniquely effective at technological advancement. Not only is the Federation large and powerful, it advances more quickly than the species that the Borg have assimilated, and has advanced to a level that the Borg never allow other species to advance to, AND it advances the way the Borg do by peacefully trading and adding technologies when it admits new member species.

    The Queen never dealt with a society like the Federation before, and she didn't expect them to advance very far beyond their capabilities at Wolf 359. She figured her cube was better, and that should be good enough and if by some weirdness it wasn't she would destroy the Federation by going back in time and destroying its weirdest, least predictable species: humanity.

  • Wolf 359: The Massacre (part 1)

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  • US Copyright Office denies protection for another AI-created image

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  • Or the novelty of AI-created art will wear off and we'll go on with our lives.

  • It has everything you could want

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  • I have a solution.

    We rename the continents.

  • It has everything you could want

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  • You can't use the second because the official name for Mexico is United Mexican States.

  • It has everything you could want

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  • There's also the Republic of Ireland, the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Republic of Tanzania, the People's Republic of China, the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Republic of Latvia, the Principality of Monaco, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Paraguay, the Republic of Ecuador and a whole ton of other countries who are called by the last word in their official names because that is HOW ENGLISH WORKS.

    And if you really gave a damn about all the people in Latin America, you'd call them by the proper names of their countries.

    But if you insist I'm wrong, go over to lemmy.ca and post a thread telling them they're American. See what they think.

  • It has everything you could want

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  • I'm pretty sure those crusaders are not from the Americas.

  • AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

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  • It would create jobs.

  • AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

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  • Yeah, but detectability isn't a new question, is it? It's just a twist on the old question of "Did someone else create it other than the guy who claimed it?"

  • AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

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  • Well, computer forensics IS a thing. Computers keep a record of everything done on them, and if it comes down to a lot of money at stake and a lawsuit then those computers can be looked at.

  • AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

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  • Funny, because photography is actually the precedent on this. A monkey took a picture, it was not copyrightable.

    I'd advise you to keep a record of your creative process here, because it may come down to how many prompts you used to steer it.

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    AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/

  • The enshittification of “enshittification”

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  • The problem here is that people want a service and businesses want a product. The "free-rider" period is businesses masquerading as a service in order to accumulate a product: Us.

    Because that is what they are selling. Our writing and our thoughts and our interactions. They are selling them to advertisers, to AI developers, and in the case of membership communities they are selling us to each other. But make no mistake, they are selling US.

    The problem with the enschittification model is not that "it's from the point of view of a freeloader err, free-rider" but that "it applies to a poor business model." It can only be solved when the business model changes, when userbase is no longer a product, or consumers AND a product, but are treated as the recipients of a service and members of a community. Right now only the Fediverse model does that.

    What's really killing the business end of this is the rot economy. Vampire capital keeps throwing money at companies that present their userbase as a product. The vampires want a profit, and they are told that the profit will come from a largue userbase creating user-created content. So they lure the product to the company by presenting it as a service, and then pull the rug out so that they can monetize the userbase and get endless growth. Things get progressively worse as they try to min/max the business: minimizing the costs and maximizing the revenue by rent-seeking from the users. Then the users, the PRODUCT, up and leave.

    Enschittification is happening because companies see users as their product, their source of content, and their source of revenue all at the same time but have presented their business to the users as a service.

    Their business model needs to radically change. And social media needs to shift to governments and non-profits providing it.

  • The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

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  • @masterspace Less tired of this than me. You win this time, Canada.

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    What Algorithms Can't Tell You about Art: On Prosecraft and why data analysis of fiction rarely says anything at all.

    countercraft.substack.com /p/what-algorithms-cant-tell-you-about

  • The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

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  • @masterspace You're really so obsessed with the last word you're gonna let this dissolve into name-calling? are you still IN school?

  • “AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent

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  • @DeltaTangoLima No, the problem is some marketing guy has redefined artificial intelligence to apply to a machine that has no reasoning ability.

  • The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

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  • Did too.

  • “AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent

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  • @zoe I think that's the most important topic. I mean, it would be one thing if this was an experimental thing that was only being used as a way to explore programming options, but there's guys out there pushing for this to replace all sorts of writing and communication. They're selling Lifelike Lie Machines as writers. That is going to hurt people.

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    “AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent

    techpolicy.press /ai-hurts-consumers-and-workers-and-isnt-intelligent/

  • The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

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  • I'd hate to see how you'd react to an actual temper tantrum.

    No, man. You're mocking people who don't have access to a high standard of learning. You're trying to rationalize that away so that you don't have to feel bad about it.

  • Technology @kbin.social
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    Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds

    finance.yahoo.com /news/over-just-few-months-chatgpt-232905189.html
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    I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) : What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.

    thenib.com /im-a-luddite/
  • Fediverse @kbin.social
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    Is jointhefediverse.wiki a good resource?

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    The extensive and unconventional reach of Dan McQuillan’s Resisting AI - Transforming Society

    www.transformingsociety.co.uk /2023/07/17/the-extensive-and-unconventional-reach-of-dan-mcquillans-resisting-ai/
  • Fediverse @kbin.social
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    Thinking about starting a WriteFreely

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    More Than Television and Movies: AI, Art, and the Struggle for Humanity

    jaredyatessexton.substack.com /p/more-than-television-and-movies-ai
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    Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Housing Crisis Worse

    www.levernews.com /artificial-intelligence-is-making-the-housing-crisis-worse/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Venn Diagram Rule

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    The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con

    softwarecrisis.dev /letters/llmentalist/
  • Fediverse @kbin.social
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    Threads may actually hinder widespread adoption of the Fediverse

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Someone suggested Threadites as a combined name for Lemmy/Kbin users rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I still don't understand but I will follow the rule

  • Technology @kbin.social
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    The first flying car, 'Model A,' approved by the FAA and it's 100% electric

    www.usatoday.com /story/money/cars/2023/06/30/first-flying-car-approved-by-faa-available-for-preorder/70372117007/
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    Who killed Google Reader?

    www.theverge.com /23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
  • Reddit Migration @kbin.social
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    Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

    catvalente.substack.com /p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
  • Gaming @kbin.social
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    How Marvel, Just Not Twin Peaks, Inspired Alan Wake 2

    www.gamespot.com /articles/how-marvel-just-not-twin-peaks-inspired-alan-wake-2/1100-6515464/