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  • oatscoop@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Who needs SkynetEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Any work made to convey a concept and/or emotion can be art. I’d throw in “intent”, having “deeper meaning”, and the context of its creation to distinguish between an accounting spreadsheet and art.

    The problem with AI “art” is it’s produced by something that isn’t sentient and is incapable of original thought. AI doesn’t understand intent, context, emotion, or even the most basic concepts behind the prompt or the end result. Its “art” is merely a mashup of ideas stolen from countless works of actual, original art run through an esoteric logic network.

    AI can serve as a tool to create art of course, but the further removed from the process a human is the less the end result can truly be considered “art”.

  • oatscoop@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•boycott Nintendo productsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Also Disney once told a family no multiple times regarding putting Spider-Man on their dead child’s tombstone.

    This is one of those situations where it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. Even the most cold-hearted corporate ghoul is going to understand the cost/benefit of going after that family isn’t remotely worth it.

    Yeah, the lawyers are going to say “no”. But even if they’re stupid enough to sue: some suit that isn’t a moron is going to tell them to drop it during the ensuing PR nightmare, and the family will be swimming in donations.

  • oatscoop@midwest.socialtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•liberal valuesEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Wait until they find out that there’s a ton of “we don’t know what the underlying cause is” and “we don’t have a cure for that yet” in medicine. In which case you have to do your best treating the symptoms – which is also true outside of the world of medicine.

    Sometimes a temporary fix buys you time to do it right. Sometimes a perfect or even “really good” solution isn’t feasible for myriad reasons: so you do the best with what you have.

  • oatscoop@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•"Is this a job?"English
    62·
    3 years ago

    I don’t have an inherit problem with “mom and pop” landlords as a thing if they’re willing to actually do what they’re resposible for. Rental property existing isn’t the problem and fills a need for a lot of people. Renting (at sane rates that allow saving up a down payment) is a pathway to ownership. It’s a solution to people that aren’t planning on settling down in an area – like students and people working towards another career.

    Price gouging and landlords screwing over tenants is an issue. Huge rental companies buying up everything they can is the problem. As is reality companies creating artificial scarcity and driving up prices on housing.

    The problem is what’s it’s always been: unmitigated greed, primarily by the rich and powerful.

  • oatscoop@midwest.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Gotta love international shippingEnglish
    101·
    3 years ago

    Nah, they didn’t grow up before computers: they were programing mainframes in the 60s. Those programmers can write you an absolute masterpiece of software … in COBOL. Also, they don’t bother with documentation because they’re intimately familiar with every line of code considering they created the whole system from scratch 40 years ago.

    The point at when you’re “screwed” is when they retire and some poor bastard inherits an inscrutably complex system, written in a 60 year old language no one uses anymore, and with zero documentation.