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Thank you for the breakdown! I personally find all the distinctions in the US fascinating even though, upon listening to the oral arguments - I knew Justin was going down in flames when his lawyer proposed that maybe we need a jury to decide if "nazi" in Tenkar's video was in the general...

Okay, but the thing about snake oil is 1 particular snake oil and 1 particular set of useful properties. Why it became to iconic "scam" product is because other types of it were sold as panacea. LLMs, like snake oil, are a thing that exists. They do not do what the people pitching them to the...

This is utter garbage and of no use to anyone. It is, in fact, you asking people to parse through hours of content trying to find something vaguely useful when there are better alternatives available that have less risk, use less resources and are less actively harmful to them. Nobody wants to...

They really don't. See how their best idea for a Warlock is "You can use Eldritch Blast." All these scenarios in which they are "good for starting" out hinge on the assumption that they do things which they cannot reliably be said to do and the idea that it is somehow a hardship to find advice...

This is precisely why you avoid AI. If you go to a forum/chat etc and someone recommends a resource (like I did), you can keep track of who recommended it, what they recommended, due some due diligence and get a feel for if they synch with your auras, are not too advanced or too simple for you...

Okay there's a lot going on here in this one claim. "With the right software" is purely speculative. Software to do this does not exist, and while someone may be working on it - it is entirely unconnected to Generative AI and specifically the Generative AI that Chris Cocks has championed. He's...

Factually incorrect. Alphafold is not a generative AI, is a narrow focus deep learning system which was specifically selected for brute forcing complex data. It is essentially using computers for what they are good for - solving complex logic puzzles involving large volumes of data. It doesn't...

The technology for the "great AI wars" neither exists nor is being worked on. All discussion on the great AI wars relates to the General Artificial Intelligence ("AGI"), this is a type of computing which we don't even have a framework for - even though people have been saying "it's here" and...

The variety of AI we are discussing is already being confirmed as cost inefficient by Microsoft and OpenAI. Much like robots that make pizza mid-delivery, it doesn't really solve any big problems and is, at best, a more expensive solution than those currently available. A sample of the legal...

Well you can do that, but whether it actually benefits you is entirely another matter. Marketing. First and most obviously, from a marketing perspective - if everyone has free and unlimited use of an "artist" then the presence of that artist in your work presents no advantage - you just blend...

A major distinction between generative AI and various other developments is its difficult to find a way in which it will benefit small creators. Photocopiers basically made micro-zines possible by allowing people to type and format things once, then make copies of it for distribution - making...

I'm pretty sure everyone in this conversation has already decided their moral philosphy regarding using AI - and that few are open to persuasion on whether they are about the harms to the already vulnerable creators, or the harm to the environment, or the legality of stealing through proxy. So...

This is a thread for discussing the nuTSR fiasco. Decorum in this situation requires allowing those who loved him space to grieve as they see fit. Posting in this thread isn't interrupting them and they can opt to avoid the thread, it's not driving people to post on tribute videos etc. There is...

I don't really see how anyone can reasonably conclude there should be a x day memorandum on having a negative opinion on a dead person - you feel what you feel and to pretend otherwise is insincere. Lots of people weren't super comfortable with the Irish chanting "Lizzy's in a box!" when the...

As I am but a humble visitor here I will spare you my opinions on the community elements, aside to point out that among the many other sins the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum engaged in was looking for was to deliberately and publicly deadname Janelle shortly after her passing. Later Ernie would...

They went with the strategy of just pointing out that his initial pleading was completely inadequet, which is why Justin's lawyer then had to spend most of the appeal trying to explain why he thinks that while people get called a Nazi as an insult all the time - for the purposes of this one...

Okay, been listening to this. Obviously I can't promise an outcome but I didn't really hear anything that leads me to believe there appeal judges are going to find any merit to the appeal. For this those who want the breakdown without subjecting themselves to 35 minutes. Justin's lawyer...

Notably, his faux campaigning on X has been getting no engagement... it's almost like all the people who are still there and still support WFD like the current administration. Also, he still volunteers misinformation to try to defend the honour of nuTSR... the group that published works by...

It's pretty clear that Mick does not really understand the concept of comedy - set up, payoff, subversion of expectations, etc. He certainly doesn't appreciate that the people he's comparing himself to do tons of drafts, work on multiple versions playing with timing, wording, etc and built their...

I admit I am probably only going to try to listen to it purely to compare Justin's lawyer with Justin as he appeared at his bankruptcy hearing. That is to say, I am curious how much they must have in common to get this far.