I’m surprised anybody’s surprised. I mean, isn’t this intuitive? AI prompt results don’t have conscious decisions behind them; the model just does a high-probability guess, based on the existing information in its database. Dump enough AI prompt results into the database, and the amount of actual information goes down. Eventually it collapses, and you get a smear of fuzzy junk.
This seems pretty straightforward, yes?
Via @Strangeland_Elf.
I’m not even mad. I mean, it’s all true. Also: buy my books! FREE ME FROM THESE CHAINS.
Ehh, ehh? Get it? GET IT?
I’m sorry. I knew it was a bad idea when I wrote the headline.
…BUT NOT AS BAD AS MARVEL’S!
Via @alexthechick.
I mean. It’s a statue of Bacchus. I don’t actually know what the god’s old rites were, but I am somehow confident that doing a ‘bump and grind’ happened from time to time. Particularly if alcohol was involved.
It really did jump up a buck between refreshes, mind you. My laugh at that was enough to justify the Tweet. The rest? Swift adaptation to market conditions, my droogies. Swift adaptation to market conditions.
#commissionearned
PS: I don’t think I’ve ever read HILLBILLY ELEGY, actually. It’s not my usual style.
It’s interesting.
Sweet Silver Blues is a stand-in for Glen Cook’s Garrett Files generally, and obviously Cast A Deadly Spell is itself. What was interesting was that when I went to go look up Sweet Silver Blues my fingers typed out The Lonely Silver Rain, and that’s absolutely correct. Tom Vargas owes a good bit to Travis McGee. Also Carl Kolchak, and even Eddie Valiant, but the meme asked only for three.
THE FACE WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE REAL! I SWEAR TO GOD!
The US Supreme Court officially has no time for this X/Meta foolishness.
And, indeed, the ordure is about to hit the winnowing blade.
Via @KateDrawsComics, and more here. Note, however, that this case involves musical catalogues, and that Sony, Universal, and Warner are no doubt willing to negotiate a payoff (and licensing fees). Does that make this a pointless lawsuit? …Not really, because it’ll establish that ‘fair use’ does not extend this far. And that will help immensely with all the other anti-AI lawsuits out there.
