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Right, but the point I'm trying to ask about is whether they're treating Ghibli specially here. People are reacting as if OpenAI is thumbing its nose specifically at Miyazaki here, whereas the impression I've got is that they simply opened the floodgates and dropped restrictions on styling in general.

Style has never been covered by copyright to begin with, so any concerns they might have had about being sued over style would have always been erring on the side of caution. They may simply think that the legal environment has calmed down enough that they won't be inundated with frivolous lawsuits any more.

Day 1, I replicate a replicator kit and put it together. I also contact a realtor and let them know I'm interested in buying some land. Off grid, far from cities, doesn't matter.

Day 2, I replicate two replicator kits and put them together.

Day 3, I replicate four replicator kits. I've now got eight of them. I'm not sure I'll need sixteen, at least not right away, and my basement is starting to get a bit crowded. So I'll leave it at that for the moment, but the moment I think I need more replicator capacity I can have it.

Yes, I read the article. But it doesn't answer my question. Did OpenAI specifically enable Ghibli style, or did it remove the restrictions in general?

Everyone's pulling out Miyazaki's out-of-context quote about procedural animation and are interpreting this as some kind of personal attack against him in particular because of it, but unless OpenAI specifically made Ghibli style available without lifting restrictions on others I don't see a reason to assume that.

Also, an article that calls X "The Nazi Network" is not exactly the most reliable source. This isn't even about X.

Masad's comments have come up before and sparked huge outrage before and just like before people are missing the hugely important context here.

He added that coding may become obsolete, but people will still need to continue to work on their fundamentals: “I’m at this point, like agents pilled. I’m very bullish. Like, I sort of changed my answer even like a year ago. I would say kind of learn a bit of coding. I would say learn how to think, learn how to break down problems, right? Learn how to communicate clearly, with as you would with humans, but also with machines.”

The way I see it, he's thinking that the current-day approach to coding is likely to go the same way that coding in assembly language went when high-level languages and compilers became good and common. The vast majority of programmers never need to think about individual registers or the specific sequence of opcodes needed to perform operations or access memory, the compilers handle that and they do a great job. Only a handful of specialists really need to go down to the metal like that any more.

So too will it be for a lot of the programming that current day programmers do. It'll still be useful to know how it works so that you'll know what to ask for and what to do when something goes wrong, but 99% of the code will be done by AIs and will hardly even be looked at by a human. There'll still be people who are experts at working with programs but the current approach to how that's done is likely to be obsolete.

Did they specifically allow "Ghibly style?" Or did they just loosen the restrictions on asking for styles in general, and Ghibly style just turned out to be the popular one that memes started snowballing around?

"Maybe someday they'll let a Democrat be president for three terms!"

Don't depend on this. I didn't expect him to survive his first term, but there's something about evil that seems to keep the body animated long past its best-by date.

The French actually enforce their laws. The US has assets in France that can be seized to cover fines if need be.

Tack on a few hundred for vaccinations, it'll disappear into that.

I'm very much not a fan of China, but I'd still say "prefer Europe but be open to China too." Canada's uniquely positioned to be able to trade well with both, the same advantage that America had before they turned isolationist and squandered it.

That said, I expect that applying reasonable standards to China will result in a lot of trade opportunities being cut off anyway. I just don't want them cut off preemptively without trying first.

Some vaccines that may be possible but I can't imagine it would be cheap even if you could check for the 20+ vaccines I've had.

How much were you expecting your "escape" to Europe to cost?