Having studied the issue in law school, I can state that ads are rarely found to actually lie. They engage in what the law regards as “mere puffery.” LOL

Thanks, and I appreciate that you aren’t engaged in any pathetic anti-lawyer diatribe. I practiced biotech IP law for three decades, after being a research scientist who was involved in …

The first word of my response was “yes.” The reason being I believe the system that lawyers created as it relates to IP is worse than the alternative (a free …

You’re presenting an answer to a question I didn’t pose. The copyist in my hypo wasn’t modifying your existing work to produce better art, simply parasitizing the work that you …

Yes. I stand by the belief that the old system where artists copied each other to the best of their ability or modified existing works, without involving lawyers, was overall …

Oh lord, the same people crying in here are the same people that should be taking the steps instead of an elevator or using an old telephone instead of a …

“Slap a few prompts into a generator and call it a day”. Anyone who says that has not put many hours into working with AI art & video. Making those …

Small business like artists and animators? Right…

But isn’t Mr. Kelly a small business that other small businesses are supporting? He’s just using one more tool in his process.

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Seems like you’re evading my simple question. Am I to take it that you would be totally on board with the scenario I posed?

every time I see a business use AI for and ad, I consciously stop patronizing that business.I’m just one person, but I support local businesses, and that includes supporting businesses …

It takes skill, knowledge and experience to do quality computer animation. AI merely requires you can punch some keys. It will even correct bad spelling in the prompt. You can …

UPDATE 9:55 p.m.: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Lt. Jesse Taylor tells us that the suspect, “Stephen Paul Paiment (age 69) was arrested for arson.”

And yet…Democratic leadership paved the road for Trump, privatizing essential public services leading to a personal debt crisis for tens of millions of American families… Padding the generous pensions of …

Oh the irony, that ideas, knowledge, and art could spread freely only before the invention of the “free market.” If a market can only exist with the backing of state …

Is Flash a Humboldt native?

“Affordable” doesn’t generate the lucrative high interest debt imposed by Wall Street to access the essential services Wall Street finances.Three generations of legislators and the professional managerial class have been …

So of course no name mentioned. What a mental trip.

Sounds like Trump needs to mobilize the national guard (again) to invade Eureka and stamp out this wave of unbridled criminality and, dare I say, terrorism? https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

The United States has been minting moguls for generations making capitalism a quaint idea of the past.This is neo-feudalism where wealth provides its own justification.

Serious hypothetical:Assume you labored long and hard in secret to create a perfect work of art (e.g. painting, sculpture, etc.) that became wildly popular as soon as you unveiled it, …

It’s bad. The Esmeralda’s commercials are especially bad. Why is there a pile of broken glass already sitting by the helicopter? The physics of biggy jumping on the helicopter are …

AI is a tool. Guns are a tool.Tools can be used for good, or they can be used for bad.It is the people using those tools who make the difference.Our …

They could argue that point, but odds are the argument would fail.When Singer developed his sewing machine in the mid-1800s, he didn’t utilize, nor attempt to improve on, the techniques …

AI is the ultimate expression of end stage capitalism. It is pure bullshit designed specifically to make it impossible to tell the difference between truth and fiction. The end result …

The proliferation of AI is disastrous for the environment. The energy demands are astronomical. If it’s being used to find cancer, that’s one thing. But to sell tacos?

The AI Bigfoot meme is usualy about killing things, drugging people with downs syndrom, and getting violent diarrhea from eating bad food. Using it to promote your restaurant seems like …

looks more like a Lupin than a Rose to me.

I object to advertising, which is lying for profit. I object to the internet, which damages local retail clerks. I object to electricity, which damaged coal shovelers. And I object …