This kind of guy is why cops have to read you Miranda rights.

Also this headline is fucking terrible. I reflexively downvoted it, because it reads like ‘do you still beat your wife.’ Studio denies these claims we’re repeating! CEO generically “”“responds.”“” But no, the CEO didn’t fucking deny it, he basically confirmed it in the smarmiest way possible. How did you bungle this both ways?

Samus is the John Wick of the Nintendo universe.

Google burned several billion dollars doing this properly, and still, nobody cared. Mainframes are almost never the right approach. Whatever hardware you connect from is usually capable of whatever you’re connecting for.

If we had to revert to PS3 levels of memory and storage, modern rendering and computing would remain obscenely powerful. Even new games on low-powered hardware would be-- wait, that’s not theoretical, just look at the Switch. The first one ran Wolfenstein II on the DOOM (2016) engine, with fantastic texture detail thanks to cell-phone compression. Not even joking. The second one still makes Resident Evil: Requiem look really fucking good.

Developers go where customers are. Anything that’s only possible on niche hardware… will probably form a niche market. So even if the bubble fucks us hard enough that we’re all stuck using battery power, that’s still a better option than a subscription for remote streaming. If everyone in 2036 is somehow stuck with the specs of a 2026 cell phone, I guess we’ll have to put up with games that are only as profitable as Genshin Impact and Balatro.

Commercial parody is commonplace fair use. If it surpasses the original… oh well.

The amount being used becomes negligible as the corpus grows. Filtering a billion webpages into one gigabyte means their average contribution is one byte. Play with the numbers all you like, it’s gonna come out to less than a paragraph.

If we went full copyright maximalist, and criminally banned using anything but public-domain / BSD / CC0 works, the commercial impact would not be much different. The technology itself shifts the economics of text, images, video, and code.

They definitely won’t be able to use it, and you’ll have nothing to worry about.

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The little stars are pretty much universal shorthand for generated images and video. For several years at this point.

“Calm down,” “I’m not reading,” “slop justification,” “‘I am physically incapable.’”

Lie better.

‘I didn’t read that, you’re just lazy, slop slop slop ha ha.’

Yes it fucking is. What you’re doing is shitty and you need to be better. You can’t claim to care oh-so-deeply about true human effort, then brush aside when someone tries explaining their position on the issue you hassled them about.

This is abusive trolling.

Shitposts being deep expressions of the soul, apparently. News to me after several Photoshop Phridays selected my hard work of maybe half an hour. News also to the photographers whose images I stole and illegally combined. Images picked from the few relevant examples, when I’d search for a specific reference and cross my fingers.

These contradictions don’t phase you. You’re not listening. Any disagreement gets labeled as brain damage, and then the same complaints get parroted anew. As if people who pirated Photoshop will be swayed by copyright law.

My guy: the personalized aspect of a gag image for strangers is the quality of the idea, not the tedious skill of rotoscoping low-quality inputs. Effort can be part of the joke, but there’s entire subcultures for text over stolen frames from Spongebob. Now eight gigs of linear algebra will let your computer render bespoke images on command. In what reality will people politely abandon that and pretend it never happened?

Would a model trained only on licensed work change how you talk about this, at all?

Quoting one sentence from a book is fair use even if you shoplifted that book.

Genuinely surprised it’s even opt-out.

These companies train on Disney DVDs. Permission is not a factor. Training is transformative use, as much for counting letter frequency as for building a chatbot that can sort of code.

We goons seem distinctly realistic about this tech, because we did this shit the hard way, and that was much closer to theft. The shrill insistence ‘it’s only combining images!’ has to be met with (1) nah we know what looks like and it’s never this clean or bespoke, and (2) the alternative is literally combining images. Those photos of an elephant hunt, Ted Nugent, and Snuffleupagus had identifiable authorship, and their union involved neither permission not attribution.

What bugs me most is people asserting, ‘models don’t understand what they’re showing.’ They don’t have to? The user understands those concepts, which is why they asked for them. A human being is using the tool’s ability to show those things to express an idea. Even if that idea is really really stupid.

The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

You didn’t read any of that - you just sneered harder than the first guy. Most of y’all do not seem to care which complaints you pick, except for where they point toward. They are not addressable. They are pretense.

That’s why grabbing whole photographs off Google Images and slapping them together in Photoshop is lauded as good-old-days shitposting, but you still posture about “plagiarism.”

You’ll take my code and have a nice life or so help me!

“That fuckin’ dog ruined my life.”

They were sadly on-point with ‘Biden promises peaceful transfer of power to guy he called a Nazi.’ They were just stupid about which part of that was a problem.

If it’s not happening inside your computer, it’s basically on Archive.org.

Act accordingly.

‘We’re gonna not vote and get what we want’ never ever ever works.

Ever.