Cysioland

Chubbyemu (Medical/Biology)

There's a rumour that it was the youtube lib hbomberguy who made Gargron call the posts "toots" in exchange for some donations

It's a way to placate the "hehe toots" trolls while still getting them on the fediverse

The problem is exacerbated by the new language and The Discourse from terminally online literal children on the fediverse

America is already not democratic

Abolish draft.

Some of this backlash might definitely be just artists/developers afraid of competition. But it'd be interesting to see how the space develops.

The issue with AI art (and especially with AI code as well) is that it's just spicy plagiarism. The AI just looks through millions of works of art (or trillions of lines of code) and spits out something based on that. There've been cases of GitHub Copilot spitting out someone else's code verbatim. Fuck RIAA, fuck the copyright, but it's not a clear cut case.

I think the tech corps will win after all. RIAA is pretty much a legacy org

Not just in America

I think even Markiplier showed that if you clear cookies and shit and just keep clicking recommended you're eventually gonna end up on Holocaust denial

I mean, even without the payment aspect you probably would need some telemetry at least. And running it over the internet is cheap. One of the often touted advantages of 5G is that you could use the public 5G infrastructure as some sort of a big ass VPN.