https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/polish-farmers-threaten-to-ruin-zelenskiy-visit-amid-grain-dispute

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/polish-farmers-threaten-to-ruin-zelenskiy-visit-amid-grain-dispute

This alongside most eastern members, so it clearly is more than just a “next election” move; surely that plays a part, as always, but the problem is objective and is there.

Ukraine economy is guaranteed by both EU and US, so they don’t need to trade their grain in Europe.

From the article:

On Wednesday, Zelenskiy used his speech to the UN general assembly to accuse the countries of hypocrisy and acting in Russia’s interests. “It’s alarming to see how some in Europe play out solidarity in a political theatre – making a thriller from the grain,” he said. “They may seem to play their own role but in fact they are helping set the stage to a Moscow actor.”

Accusing people that have been handing out resources to your country to be Moscow’s shill is gaslighting and, frankly, pathetic.

Why should we ban AI, a really useful technology, also for co-collaboration within the Arts, just because some people will make money with it? Art has been constant copypaste remixing anyhow.

I said ban for creative works, at least for commercial use, which is a very little part of what can be done with AI; and maybe personal informations processing though, cause you know… privacy

Why would anyone read GOT in space when they can just read GOT? The people opting for GOT in space will most likely already have read GOT anyhow

Because it won’t be called GoT: space edition, it will be a rip-off of GoT with the same overarching story and characters but in a scifi/whatever setting. And yes, it already happens: many TV series on Netflix are a rip off of other successful series (most of the time produced by Netflix), which flood the platform; it happens with every single successful serie. You can find dozens if not more of the same, fucking, TV serie with a different name but with the same old jokes, characters, plot point and sometime style.

Why do people watch them anyway? For the same reason cable TV is so trash: cheap entertainment works, no matter how shitty it is; it happens with anime/manga/light novels too.

And yes, it is shitty. But at least it takes time to write and produce that crap, while with AI it will be immediate and cheap. Cheap and immediate means they will produce so much crap, finding quality stuff will be nigh impossible since it will cost much much more to produce with less earnings than garbage.

It will never surpass the original

I think you don’t watch, play games et similia… originality is a luxury nowadays. Why do you think Netflix cancels every single serie that isn’t a hit in the first few months? Cause they can. It is cheaper and lucrative to cancel what doesn’t work and re-iterate on the same shitty formula until the crap sticks on the wall. And it works, they do it, and they do it now.

Also copyright should never forbid someone to write in the style of someone else. How would you even proove it?

It’s already happening. Before, humans used to do the exact same. Why is it be different now with AI? It’s just more and faster imo.

This is quite easy actually, while it’s hard for technical things. Taking inspiration doesn’t mean copying. Modern “AI” doesn’t think, which means anything it does is a copy.

We are already reaching, if we aren’t already, a Fahrenheit 451 level of entertainment, “AI” will surely put the final nail on the coffin.

“AI” are a beautiful thing, but in our current society, where profits is everything and people are nothing but a number, they are the scariest shit ever

It is likely that we will reach a point where these ML things will recognise patterns across creative works, see what sell and use them to make similar stories using those same patterns.

Which is clear they will sell more since they will be cheaper, faster to make thus flooding the market with engaging-but-unoriginal stories.

Imagine: a GOT in space, a GOT in fantasy, a mix between Star Wars and GOT, and so on. And they will always sell cause GoT is engaging, but none will be original but a soulless copy of the original GoT (for which Martin won’t see a buck).

Tbf, i think it would be better to ban this kind of “AI” - like ChatGPT, or the ones for the art et similia - from “producing” creative work - at least creative work to be sold - but capitalism gotta capitalise I guess.

EDIT: to be fair right now the main concern is about copyrighted creative work, but probably it’s the easier to ascertain if it’s been copied or not: take for example programming code, there are very few ways to know if a copyrighted code has been used and it will probably show how copyright is SO dumb and fallacious for technical and whatnot fields

They are scared for the future, not the present. And considering the growth speed, it’s a warranted fear

Yeah, it’s obvious this is about the grain (or)deal. It’s so unnerving of Ukraine to pull this shit tbf, and kinda dumb too since it’s quite obvious that pissing off people who are giving you resources isn’t very smart - to say the least

Isn’t it safer for her to flee the country?

I don’t think I ever heard of a case where somebody has been condemned for piracy in Italy; I also know plenty of people who torrents/stream, yet none who uses a VPN to do so.

In Germany though, afaik, they are quite insane with their anti-piracy laws.

Short to do list on how to actually achieve privacy;

• use Linux;
• use hardened Firefox;
• use Steam;
• use protonmail or something similar;

Easy, right? Desktop-wise, achieving privacy is quite easy tbf

Then you see the mobile hell-scape:

• install grapheneOs (unless you are lucky, you won’t be able to use your banking application, and the process is not beginner friendly);
• do not use apps that are a privacy nightmares;
• do not use Google play or Google related services (you lose the YouTube commodity);

The last two points lead you to basically not use social media (Lemmy and a few other alternatives excluded, but they are far away from the mainstream). Then there is another problem: to keep contact with other people, you have to use privacy-nightmares apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.

So yeah, privacy isn’t dead yet but it’s heading that way (unfortunately); which obviously doesn’t mean people shouldn’t do anything about it, it’s just sad

The star destroyer is kinda right tho

“Well no problem, they can’t run without root privileges!” -/home left the game

I don’t think it would fix any of its faults tho

Here what you did:

• take a word used within a community to refer to personalised desktop environments;
• strip its context;
• add a completely different context;
• ask if using that word, with a completely different context, is racist;

Which is weird af

dude, you need a break from the internet

What’s the context?