I’m German and I support Nicaragua in this matter.

There is microplastic in Antarctica. Unless your well feeds on an ancient aquifer instead of groundwater it will still be contaminated.

That garbage is rarely even worth pirating anymore.

What hole. They were never colonized.

Bold of you to assume they read it in the first place

Now do it for the AfD

The 42k are just the ones who have been identified by name. The actual number of casualties is naturally going to be much higher.

The US and Germany are both by far the two biggest contributors to the Ukranian war effort.

There is nothing unfortunate about being able to buy products that are both cheap and high quality.

Fun Fact: Ever since the end of the Cold War every Republican presidency increased military spending while every Democrat president reduced it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Military_spending_%25_of_revenue.webp

The inflation and subsequent cost of living increase is a direct consequence of the covid stimulus packages.

Now remind me again who it was that started the money printing after the catastrophic handling of the pandemic.

If my employer fired me for condemning terrorism I would no longer want to ever work for them anyway

The problem that I see is that you aren’t very present in the art.

Now that depends on how much agency you give yourself, doesn’t it? If you just give Midjourney a prompt and call it a day then yes. But the result won’t be very good, will it? Similar how you could just input random notes to a synthesizer and get shitty music in return.

The problem is that the majority of people does exactly that and then shares the resulting images online, making it appear that is all there is to it. You can however express yourself artistically by using prompt engineering to get something good and than working with that to further approach what you imagine by editing the result. There are many people out there who could not artistically express themselves as they lacked the ability to translate their vision to a canvas. With the help of image generating AI they can finally express themselves. I think this is something beautiful.

How are we going to develope [sic] new styles?

While I do agree with you that our current AI image generators won’t be very innovative, this is by design and not necessity.

This is what you would have gotten in let’s say 2017 when asking an AI what it thinks a dog looks like (s. DeepDream).

And a couple years later you can achieve this with Midjourney.

Things are developing very fast and in the end of the day, even if we would never get an AI that can innovate art there is nothing stopping humans from just doing it themselves as we have always done over millennia. You can already greatly increase the creativity of existing image generators by tweaking the randomness factors and those algorithms don’t just remix existing images, they are actually creating their own. You need the training set of existing labeled images to train the AI as it doesn’t know what a frog is, nor a tree or anything really.

AI is just going to continue to remix remixes of remixes

This is indeed a concern. If you feed too much AI generated images into the training of an image generator it causes a sort of degenerative disease in the AI that results in inferior results. Some sort of AI incest so to speak. The prevalence of AI art on the internet and the inability to reliably differentiate it from human art is proving to be a challenge for making new training sets.

The entire point of generative AI is to generate things not present in the training set by teaching it to abstract the concept.

It’s a very fair comparison because in both cases you take the physical skill requirement that takes years to learn and even longer to master out of producing art. To make a good electronic song you need to compose, but you don’t need to know how to physically play the instruments. To make a good image you need to know how to compose it, but not how to physically draw it.

At least in Germany they get you by pirating and logging who seeds to them, as uploading is the killer not downloading. If you throttle your upload to 0kb/s aka disabling it you can torrent safely.

I am not a good illustrator though, but I’m good at working with AI and Photoshop. Using generated images as a base gives me the best quality in a reasonable time.

I’m pretty sure there are musicians who would roll in their graves at the thought of generating music in synthesizers, yet without we would have electronic music.

The contract for RWE to expand the mine there goes back decades and the wind farm operator knew it would be demolished before they build it. It’s at the end of its life cycle now and had to be demolished one way or another.

German government could either breach their contract with RWE and pay them compensation or allow the destruction of a derelict wind park in exchange of RWE stopping coal extraction 8 years earlier then planned. It’s a job well done by the government.

The wind turbines are already at the end of their lifespan and they knew RWE had the license to expand the mine there when the wind turbines where build.

Of course it’s economical for RWE, they are not building a new mine. Just continuing their mining operation there for another 7 years.

Yeah. It’s not gonna stop people from this community, French or not.

But the French government if crazy about copyright, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually tried it. Just the insanity alone that you can’t take pictures of Paris at night because the Eiffel Tower lights are copyrighted… xD

Websites containing instructions and links to such an illegal browser would also be banned