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* Rice #3 worked! Sort of. I went and bought rice specifically grown in Louisiana instead of California. It's got some bran on it and it's got a little of the 'overcooked outside and crunchy inside' problem, but only a tiny bit. It's within tolerate limits.
* So Elon nuked the accounts of journalists who covered him and is putting a QAnon person in charge of safety and also some other stuff. I am the last person to defend Facebook. I've been going on about the same things for like 15 years now, but acting like the twitter stuff is no big deal because facebook is bad annoys me and downplays serious issues. I don't care if people stay on twitter. I went off facebook for 7 years and it cost me social connections and work opportunities. It hurt me not Zuck. I am assume anyone reading this can make their own decisions about what to do. But I am just annoyed by people acting like this is just typical modern social media problems.
Oh and he nuked accounts promoting Mastodon and I saw something about him accusing a former exec of... what he accused a certain rescue diver of years ago and sent his fan base after him but I haven't read details.
* People are dumb about AI. One reason why so many companies and contests are suddenly stating that they disallow AI submissions is because AI images are not currently subject to copyright per US case law. You cannot sell or hand over a copyright that you do not have. That may change, but right now the people screaming about luddites and the train having left the station are, once again, saying things not consistent with how our digital age has worked thus far or with the current realities of US copyright law.
Also, AI art should have a digital watermark on it, it turns out. I am not sure how to check for it, but that could be useful for people running spaces that way to disallow AI art. Based on a sample size of 'spaces I am in' it's pretty much all of them. I really need to look into this watermark thing more but also am just tired. Half the problem is that the pro-AI people are gross and part of the problem is that articles from what should be good sources are so filled with obvious crap or have a complete and utter failure to understand that fake images undermining trust online is the farthest thing from a new problem ever.
I am not an expert on AI by a long shot. But I do know some of the photography tech they are using as a comparison and it's like that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works, they clearly don't know what they are talking about. My iPhone doesn't have a tiny AI in it I promise you. Also I cannot take one more 'what if we cannot trust images online! ooh scary' paragraph.
* I went and tagged my stuff on ArtStation NoAI. My portfolio is small, so it wasn't hard but holy hell that should be an opt-out thing not opt-in. ArtStation users are very upset over AI, which is nice to see. ArtStation is talking about having the option to not see AI on your dash which I like.
I am glad that people are being upset at ArtStation and want them to handle things even better, but at least they are handling it better than other sites.
* So Elon nuked the accounts of journalists who covered him and is putting a QAnon person in charge of safety and also some other stuff. I am the last person to defend Facebook. I've been going on about the same things for like 15 years now, but acting like the twitter stuff is no big deal because facebook is bad annoys me and downplays serious issues. I don't care if people stay on twitter. I went off facebook for 7 years and it cost me social connections and work opportunities. It hurt me not Zuck. I am assume anyone reading this can make their own decisions about what to do. But I am just annoyed by people acting like this is just typical modern social media problems.
Oh and he nuked accounts promoting Mastodon and I saw something about him accusing a former exec of... what he accused a certain rescue diver of years ago and sent his fan base after him but I haven't read details.
* People are dumb about AI. One reason why so many companies and contests are suddenly stating that they disallow AI submissions is because AI images are not currently subject to copyright per US case law. You cannot sell or hand over a copyright that you do not have. That may change, but right now the people screaming about luddites and the train having left the station are, once again, saying things not consistent with how our digital age has worked thus far or with the current realities of US copyright law.
Also, AI art should have a digital watermark on it, it turns out. I am not sure how to check for it, but that could be useful for people running spaces that way to disallow AI art. Based on a sample size of 'spaces I am in' it's pretty much all of them. I really need to look into this watermark thing more but also am just tired. Half the problem is that the pro-AI people are gross and part of the problem is that articles from what should be good sources are so filled with obvious crap or have a complete and utter failure to understand that fake images undermining trust online is the farthest thing from a new problem ever.
I am not an expert on AI by a long shot. But I do know some of the photography tech they are using as a comparison and it's like that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works, they clearly don't know what they are talking about. My iPhone doesn't have a tiny AI in it I promise you. Also I cannot take one more 'what if we cannot trust images online! ooh scary' paragraph.
* I went and tagged my stuff on ArtStation NoAI. My portfolio is small, so it wasn't hard but holy hell that should be an opt-out thing not opt-in. ArtStation users are very upset over AI, which is nice to see. ArtStation is talking about having the option to not see AI on your dash which I like.
I am glad that people are being upset at ArtStation and want them to handle things even better, but at least they are handling it better than other sites.
