Isn’t intelligent commercials an oxymoron?

These guys are just cheap lawyers from the big cities of Los Angeles and Seattle and they’re trying to bring that development-friendly environment here to the rural Northcoast by establishing …

But where is “the line” between the current buzzword “AI” and, say, special effects in movies? What about Star Wars (Star Trek for that matter)? Action movies that are filled …

Seems like they could’ve jettisoned the faux outside experience with rock seats in the shade, auto exhaust, and a future of wind-burned trees and shrubs in weedy barked beds, and …

Good point

I’ve been concerned about, and more sensitive to, AI music as some of it can really imitate a single artist and that’s not acceptable. Pretty sure there’s nothing I can …

Tex Kelly makes the best commercials!

Crafts people of all types could have argued that their designs and methods were stolen to design the machines that could mass produce knock-offs of those crafts. Training AI on …

I would blame the poor state of the American labor movement, which in turn I blame on the successful use of race to divide and conquer. Baldwin made this point …

Our housekeeper Sixta was with us for over 15 years, and every Christmas we looked forward to the dozen tamales she made and gifted to us. Best I ever had …

Intellectual property was never a good idea anyway. It’s just a capitalist fairy tale, created and upheld by state violence.

Strange to have an ethical concern about someone using a tool to make things.

I’ve never had the patience to make tortillas by hand. Fortunately, I found a brand that sells raw tortillas made with lard, so every tortilla I ate at home or …

Exactly. And we all had fun and even got a degree. The struggle is how I learned to manage my money. Habha

My sincere condolences to Judy and family.

As I said, I understand the sentiment. But as the saying goes, “That’s progress.”Consider that the workers in now-obsolete jobs (like coachbuilders, buggy whip makers, etc.) felt the same way …

Humboldt Transit Authority and Pacific Outfitters have both made good use of people in Bigfoot costumes. AI isn’t needed.

I’d say we’re in agreement, just worded differently in a totally non-AI generated way. )

You’re making my points for me. As I said, there are good arguments against AI and the uncompensated use of creative content to train the models/agents is certainly one of …

Very pretty!

Considering where American manufacturing is these days— lowered wages, degraded working conditions, and displaced skilled labor—the Luddites weren’t exactly wrong.Kelly is kidding himself if he thinks there’s a distinction between …

I’m glad they added it. They weren’t originally on the list when I commented.

It’s not a Luddite behavior. Not completely. Not completely irrational either. It’s claims of outright stealing of content to train an AI model, and people have noticed. Why should a …

““I like it,” he said. “When I was in college, that answer for any of my communications and industrial design classes would have earned me a failing grade. There are …

AI, just a computer with lipstick on it. Or is that a pig with lip stick??? They both make oinking noises, rolling around in that mud…Oh look 3 crows picking …

I’m not a fan of the technology, at all, when it comes to artwork. I’ll skip any YouTube video that uses it for their cover image, regardless of the subject …

I want Esmerelda’s tacos!!!! Great job Tex!

There are many good reasons to dislike/distrust AI-generated content, but the complaint that it deprives talented artists/content creators of jobs sounds like a neo-Luddite complaint.For those unfamiliar with the term, …

As I have always said, Trump is the reverse-Midas and anti-Lincoln.

Yeah, Dems and others on the Liberal side at least have a commitment to the success of American Democracy, not the creeping slide into dictatorship we see from Republicans. See, …