…care to contribute a link to their favorite site for an AI activity? I’d be really interested in seeing what’s out there, but the field is moving and growing so fast and search engines suck so hard that I know I’m missing out.

Cure my FOMO please!

  • man_in_space@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    What do you think a prompt is? You’re telling the computer “I want to see this, spit it out.” I can ask Midjourney to draw me the Empire State Building in the style of Van Gogh. It’ll spin the gears and spit out the image requested. (Actually, I’ll do that right now and edit it into the comment. Here it is.) How is that not a derivative work?

    RE: Piracy, I’ll quote Sean McGuire, an artist for Marvel:

    I keep seeing the argument of “pirate from the giant names” with the implication that it hurts no one, because the company is so big.

    I write for Marvel comics.

    I write for Marvel comics, my reviews are good, people love the characters I’m writing for, and our illegal downloads are through the roof, because people think piracy hurts no one. It hurts the creators who have fought our whole careers to get through a door that traditionally has only been open for straight white men. Am I the best thing in comics today? Nah. My ego isn’t that big. But I’m good and I’m getting better; give me ten years and I might well be the best thing in comics.

    And that doesn’t happen if people pirate my comics and Marvel stops seeing it as worthwhile to give me money.