Hot take: Dropping a single nuclear bomb over Silicon Valley would solve most of the world's issues
BlueMonday1984
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Damn, seems everything from the Y2K era's coming back - even email viruses. Calling it right now, we're gonna have the next ILOVEYOU within a year.
Least fascist programmer
AI is a pseudoscience that conflates a plagiarism-fueled lying machine with a thinking, living human mind. Fuck off.
Hot take: A lying machine that destroys your intelligence and mental health is unsafe for everyone, mentally ill or no
You want my take, this probably isn't gonna injure Disney all that much - they're one of the largest megacorps on the entire planet, and they've got damning evidence of infringement against Midjourney.
How much damage Midjourney's gonna take (at least in the immediate term), I'm not sure. If they settle ASAP, they can probably limit the damage, but if they try and fight, they'll probably be bankrupted by the case.
I expect they think they can get a precedent here.
That's true - the case is pretty clear-cut thanks to how much damning evidence they've managed to pull out. The old trend of using AI to make offensive shit in the Pixar style likely helped as well, but that's speculation on my end.
Midjourney is also odd in that it didn’t take money from outside investors and it’s actually profitable selling monthly subscriptions. This is an AI company that is not a venture capital money bonfire, it’s an actual business.
I suspect Disney isn’t out to just shut Midjourney down. Disney’s goal is to gouge Midjourney for a settlement and a license.
In practice, I doubt Disney's gonna get to shake much out of Midjourney before they end up going under - given that gen-AI is built to facilitate plagiarism and copyright infringement, a win for Disney here would lead to a de facto ban on generative AI.
Eric "Slophand" Slopton: He's like Eric Clapton, but somehow more racist
New Blood in the Machine: The weaponization of Waymo, about protesters torching Waymos in a repeat of last year's Waymo Warm-Overs.
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