C. Robert Cargill

Yeah, but the minute they are REQUIRED to pay, the mood changes. People support creators, they don't pay for individual webcomics individually.

Economies ALWAYS rewards scarcity. Wu Tang Clan made an album and only made one copy. That one album cost millions because there is only one of them. U2 put an album on everybody's phone for free and people got pissed it was even in their collection. AI's value comes down to scarcity. Which is zero.

People like to frame creatives as being anti-AI because of a Talent vs No Talent argument of superiority. My position is based on how humans treat scarcity.

PEOPLE DO NOT PAY FOR WHAT THEY CAN EFFORTLESSLY MAKE THEMSELVES

If I can make something for free with little effort, why pay you to make it?

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Get well soon, King.

I believe so. Replicating actors, their work, and their voices is prohibited, but it's not my union, so I don't recall the language on movies using 100% generated AI assets.

Then art of value will be in person. Live music. Live stage. Live sports. In person readings. Screenings of film in theaters projected on film. We will value the real over the un-provable. An AI future is one in which anything can be made in seconds, only that which took effort will be valued.

Nope. That's reductive to the point of being several types of wrong. They got famous because they were sold as possessing qualities others couldn't duplicate. Literally the antithesis of AI. AI is post-scarcity art creation, and people do not think digital things have the same value as physical ones

I think people would understand AI better if we used it in this sense to mean Automated Information, as it covers the whole bevy of sins without distorting anything.

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright.

www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

There will absolutely be generic AI models to plug into things, but they will:

A) not be celebrities and

B) Be an immediate sign that you took shortcuts to savvy viewers, making them seem cheap and undesirable.

Anyone who has played with music software and knows Stock Loops has seen this happen.

STOP👏TAKING👏MONEY👏TO👏PROMOTE👏TILLY👏NORWOOD👏AS👏LEGITIMATE👏NEWS👏CHALLENGE👏

You can't just go out and hire another Michael B. Jordan. There's only one, so you have to hire him. But I can make 100 Tilly Norwoods. That's literally the point of AI: allowing people who can't the ability to imagine they could, resulting in something no one wants to actually pay real money for.

There is absolutely nothing "controversial" about Tilly Norwood. She's just a terrible idea. Who wants to pay an agency to rent their digital asset when they can literally make their own...in an industry abjectly against exactly this sort of thing? There may be AI CHARACTERS but never AI celebrities

No worries man. You're the third person whose done this with that post. I get it. So much is bad, even terrorist attacks/mass shootings are getting buried. Fucked times. Be well.

The top half of the cover shows a bit of dirty blue sky above a large ridge of scrap metal. At the bottom stands a robot tiger with a rifle slung across its back. It looks toward a yellow light in the right distance, where three people (two with rifles) and a somewhat more humanoid robot are walking.

#NowReading All the Ash We Leave Behind by @crobertcargill.bsky.social

I loved the other two books set in this world.

Ken. I understand the fact that A LOT is going on and its easy to miss news items, but there was *literally* a terror linked mass shooting event at a bar four miles from my house that I used to frequent. We're literally mourning a terror attack and you're lecturing me to stay calm. Read the room.

A picture of Donald Trump with his mysterious neck rash juxtaposed against a badly photoshopped image of Stephen Miller with vampire fangs.

I KNEW IT!

Those are some frosty ass margs. You should get some with some skillet queso.

One of the lesser known variants from the Simon Baker/Thomas Jane/Aaron Eckhart cloning project, giving us the most confusing scene in cinema history in MOLLY (1999) in which we cut back and forth between Jane and Eckhart so many times, we forget who is who.

My dog Nyx resting her head on a pillow, taking a nap.

Goodnight Bluesky

Not today, Satan! May's already dead!

Look, despite everything, Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson are married. The world could use a little more pure love in it. Getting married is the best thing to ever happen to me. So happy for them.

Never Gonna Give You Up

We're good. Just keep in mind that here in America, some places it is literally easier to buy a gun than cigarettes, so homegrown terror is a very real threat right now and it kills me that I said this out loud and hours later it happened a stone's throw from my front door at a bar I've drank in.

Weather report from Carrot App. 84 degrees. Sunny. The report: The sun is setting on this country. Literally and figuratively.

Jesus, Carrot. Did you have to go so dark?

Jeremy's are not to be left unattended! Does she know how close you are to a Lego store???

I DID NOT HIT HER! I DID NOT!