But piracy is a MUCH smaller issue than theft. Piracy doesn’t deprive the original owner of any material thing. Piracy might decrease sales and profits (research actually says the opposite 🤷‍♂️).

And we have no idea the actual material impact AI will have on the arts. From the reaction we’re seeing it might even make people turn more and more to physical hand crafted art.

We’re already seeing that social media is favoring videos of artists’ processes much more than the final results.

So yeah, no, I don’t see this situation as so much more terrible than theft. I really don’t understand how it could be.

To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.

Still not theft? Things can be bad without being theft.

No AI is the product of any theft. If we’re talking about piracy, piracy is NOT theft. I thought we all agreed on this already.

My only real take here is basically every single libertarian eventually becomes a technofascist. Why is that? Idk. But it happens over and over again.

Ah that’s where you draw the line? Not killing and starving millions in Gaza, Sudan? Not killing millions in invasions in the Middle East?

Ok, you know where your allegiance is. You’re wrong, as your “good billionaires” would eat you for an afternoon snack. But have fun.

Dude comments are public, you can easily see all I’ve ever commented 😂

The oligarchs and billionaires. Or do you only oppose them if they are “asiatic” or something?

But then you defend their plans and expansions like what they are doing in the Balkans, Southern and Eastern Europe.

Seems like the only way companies can turn “AI” profitable is to do massive lay-offs to cut costs. Not because AI can actually take on those jobs that were cut, but because it’s a “good” excuse.

Awesome.

We like in the dumbest cyberpunk version of the future. Predatory capitalism but all the tech is vaporwave and it’s all just dumb dumb finance bros running the show.

🤷‍♂️ gayest is gayest idk man

Sigh… yes. We’ve already been over this guys.

Frankie Grande is the gayest person. Freddie Mercury is the most bi person. Sabrina Carpenter is the straightest person.

I mean you gotta do what you gotta do 🤷‍♂️

Not die in the coming global wars for resources. But I mean realistically I’m not well positioned for that.

While very famous, those cases represent a minuscule amount of total cases. You can say “it happens, see these dozens and dozens of examples”. But that won’t matter. We have statistics, data. And data says a negligible amount of SA accusations and testimonies given are false. Around 5%, or less.

Are you this skeptical of EVERYTHING, or just when women are involved?

Also, NO ONE is saying take women’s accusations and testimony as the only necessary evidence. What we’re saying is take them as VALID evidence, and not something to never believe and constantly question.

You do know what a testimony is right? 😂

Would you be willing to say that in court, under threat of perjury?

Why would you believe your media regarding a country they admit is “closed off”?

Do you seriously believe they execute ppl for having the same haircut as Kim? And then execute ppl for having a different haircut from him?

They execute generals all the time, then the generals appear alive a few months later. That’s that mystical Juche necromancy for ya.

Performance-wise apple’s chips are way ahead of amd and any other arm based chip as well. Not sure what you’re talking about.

And compatibility ofc, that’s what I meant good software. Like optimizing steamOS to run on the m chips.

But that would never happen of course.

Apple does have the technology though… imagine a steam deck with the m series chip? An m4 pro could run basically all modern games on a small screen at 60+ fps with the right software…

I feel like Outer Worlds at least tried to have a message. But they got scared and pulled away and gave up before the end. It starts way stronger than Fallout 3 imo. At least when it comes to writing and story. It’s of course not a SERIOUS game, but it tries to say something even if it does give up. In my experience Bethesda games are allergic to having a message or point.

That’s literally one of the first missions 😭