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For MAGA supporters, it was about owning the libs. For MAGA leaders, it was and is about owning the people.

The "left" is too busy arguing with itself over who is ideologically pure enough to belong to do anything else. It's had this problem for a couple of decades. The point at which "the Left" decided that it no longer represented poor people just because they were poor (as opposed to being...

I think a monarchy with just enough power to say, "Brexit, are you kidding? Sorry, not happening," would have been much, much better than what the UK has now (and then) -- which is essentially a monarchy that has unfettered extra-legal power over its own staff and households, and bugger all else.

This is nice and all. But what's the point when YouTube publishes a transcript (based on the sound) right along with the video? She says of whisper AI that "most people wouldn't bother with it". Of course not. They don't have to. YouTube does it for them. Edit: And Google will probably...

At least I have an excuse not to carry a smartphone: even with the strongest reading glasses (I do own a pair at strength 6.0) I can't see the text well enough to use one without getting a terrible headache. Consequently, I've never owned or used one. Ergo there's nothing unusual or out of...

Amazon's BS, including utterly hideous prices (3 to 10 times local box stores), is doing wonders for brick n' mortar stores, at least here in my building. You used to see multiple Amazon boxes arriving every day. Now, maybe twice a month. That said, while Amazon is the last place I'd search for...

Remember when the Korean couple spent so much time on their computers playing video games that they let their child starve? Why haven't we made such games illegal? They are clearly extremely and dangerously addictive, and even adults are unable to escape the effects. Yet we let children play...

Putting himself on Mars, preferably. It would be great: an event both his fans and his not-fans would applaud.

Agree. The comments are important on Ars. So many times I've seen people very knowledgeable about subjects covered in an Ars article (sometimes even the experts named in the article!) enhance it significantly with their comments. But general news sites aren't prepared for the amount of...

Indeed! Surely a "sanitary nuisance" is like a building full of trash providing a home for rats, not a TV ad. I mean, the ad might well make the Florida surgeon general feel "dirty," but I don't think that counts.

Um... It's part of a workflow, which will be used on AI vector art the moment it's released. It's no more human necessarily than AI image2image diffusion generators, and almost no one here defends them, despite the identical requirement that you start with a picture... from somewhere.

I think this is the only viable response, and it's a good one. I can understand why a 9th grade teacher might worry about detecting LLM use. But universities? If it reads as though AI wrote it, it doesn't matter whether the student used it or not, the text just isn't worthy of a passing grade.

At risk, yes. But also at significantly reduced risk, assuming you know the basics of food hygiene. In this case, if all you know is that cooking until food reaches an internal temperature of 65C kills listeria, you're already ahead of the game, whether you cook at home or just reheat pre-made...

Maybe Spotify should ask Zuckerberg how Facebook stops the millions of people who don't have unique names from posting on each other's accounts. It can't be because they use an "automated process plus human review" to catch every error after the fact. I mean, it must be something simpler than...

Maybe. But if copyright trolls can mindlessly produce something that you later produce mindfully, you gotta ask, how "new" is your version of the concept, really? I'm happy to imagine AI generation plus some additional human directed transformative process as a basis for copyright, with...

Depends. If your photo is a very close copy of the painting, it's not copyrightable. Your photo must include some element of your own creativity: photo taken at an angle, photo showing person looking at the painting, etc. Totally. Though I'd say the law is about a murky as a bog right now.

Well, indeed. If I use the identical prompt and settings and let the seed be randomly generated, I have little control over any given result, and generations can vary quite widely (unless I'm using img2img functions). But... If I take the same seed and settings, but change one word in the...

I have yet to see an AI generation that wouldn't be improved with some post-generation tweaking (likewise with most photographs). And judging from the efforts some AI users go to in order to refine the image (hundreds of prompts, yes, but also both AI and traditional editing of parts of an AI...

And, as we all know, it's much more efficient to read an AI's summary of something than the thing itself. There couldn't possibly be anything on the original "no-paywall, limited selection of websites" site that you might want to read for yourself with the confidence that the author of the text...

Amen. Or as my current character would say, "The dwarf does not abide."