True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!
Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization's opinion? There is a clear difference in effort required between one side and the other.
Yep, and the general public is too stubborn to accept a little thing like nuance. Neither are the CEO assholes that can't stop talking about layoffs and replacing jobs, out in the open.
This is BS. Whatever payment processor they develop will need to interact with all of the major credit card processors: VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express. All credit and debit cards use these four brands as the backing network. There is no way around it.
Nobody is going to add a new credit card brand, not even Steam. Amazon doesn't do it. Twitter doesn't do it. Ebay doesn't do it. Nobody does. If they did, they would face immediate retribution from the VMDA empire. Their payments would cease, and Steam would collapse overnight.
The P in GOP stands for Projection.
The Secret War To Censor The Internet
Recent Lextorias video explains how a 2018 FOSTA-SESTA law amended protections to the Communications Decency Act, and immediately opened the flood gates for targeted harassment of payment processors for adult content censorship.
I think this confusion is proving the pointlessness of mags like Vogue and models in general. Why do models exist? They certainly weren't there to impose their overly high unrealistic body standards for women.
Especially with all of the airbrushing and photoshopping going on. Have you seen videos of digital editors working off of the source material? They fuck around with a LOT of the details, even to the point of changing arm/leg length. It doesn't seem like much of a leap to go to AI at this point. Even if they didn't, they would just use AI tools within Photoshop to almost do the same thing.
Models only exist for advertising. That's it. I don't understand why we would treat advertisers as some protected class. This is just the inevitable fate of an already pointless industry.
It's noticed as AI because the company told the fans it's AI.
If they did a good enough job with the filtering and inpainting and didn't say anything, they probably would have gotten away with it for a period of time.
State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don't think an industry is profitable, the government's job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That's how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn't fucked with by Republicans).
The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.
Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.
That's not true. If you give it context, it understands and retains context quite well. The thing is that you can't just say "write code for me" and expect it to work.
Also, certain models are better than certain tasks than others.