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Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences' (www.404media.co)

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This mental gymnastics definition of a paywall is not widely accepted. I was pointing out a small mistake. Is my website paywalled because you need to spend electricity to access it? A paywall is one where a monetary transaction is involved to view the content; that's just what the word means.

[+] xor -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just because you dislike two things, you don't have to lump them under the same definition. Language could evolve to consider registration-required sites to have a paywall, but that would be stupid and counter to similar usages of "pay". People seem really eager to stretch negative definitions to include other things they dislike, but it's not the word that makes something bad, it's the thing itself. Two things can be different/distinct concepts and also be equally bad.