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Lover of knowledge, medievalist, avid reader, writer, and Pittsburgh native.
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this is bringing me such peace

The meme of a sad guy and a happy guy on a bus looking out the window, but in this version both windows are showing beautiful autumn scenery and both guys are smiling
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Isn’t this what they did to prisoners in “Demolition Man”?

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Landlords use RealPage to jack up rents, often with the majority of units in a city using the software, allowing it to raise rents in unison - leading to FBI raids and a criminal investigation Turns out RealPage is the brain-child of Harlan Crow, most famous for taking Clarence Thomas on vacations

FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow's RealPage rental price fixing
FBI raid on real estate company linked to Harlan Crow's RealPage rental price fixing

A tip of the hat to David Cay Johnston, who opened his interview on the Mark Thompson Show yesterday by noting a story that, so far as I can tell at this time, has been completely blacked out of the n...

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Via Vincent Proce on Twitter (@vproceart) some hope vs the Ai glut (repost to add alt text)

Text: Artists Against Generative Al.

Posting this on behalf of a member who would like to remain anonymous:

I'm an art director and supervisor for a large studio. The studio heads had the bright idea before I started to hire prompters. Several bros were brought onto the film project. I absolutely hated myself for not quitting on the spot but stuck with it because it's mercenary out there. Have a family to feed etc. I decided to use this time wisely. Treat them as I would any artist I had hired. First round of pictures of a sweeping Ariel forest landscape comes through and it's not bad. They submit a ton of work and one or two of the 40 are ok. Nearly on brief. So first round feedback goes through and I tell them about the perspective mistakes, colour changes I want, layers that any matte painting would be split into. Within a day I get 5 variants. Not changes to the ones I wanted but variations. Again. Benefit of the doubt I give them another round of
Text: the doubt I give them another round of feedback making it clear. Next day it's worse. I sit there and patiently paint over, even explaining the steps I would take as a painter. They don't do it, anomalies start appearing when I say I want to keep the exact image but with changes. They can't. They simply don't have the eye to see the basic mistakes so the Ai starts to over compensate. We get people starting to appear in the images. These are obviously holiday snaps.

"Remove the people"

"What would you like them changed to?" "... grass. I just don't want them there" They can't do it. The one that can actually use photoshop hasn't developed the eye to see his mistakes, ends up getting angry at me for not understanding he can't make specific changes. The girl whose background was a little photography has given me 40 progressively worse images with wilder mistakes every time. This is 4 days into the project.
Text: I'm both pissed about the waste, but elated seeing ai fall at the first hurdle. It's not even that the images are unusable, the people making them have no eye for what's wrong, no thicker skin for constructive criticism and feedback, no basic artistic training in perspective and functionality in what they're making.

Yes the hype is going to pump more money into this. They won't go anywhere for a while. But this has been such a glowing perfect moment of watching the fundamental part fail in the face of the most simple tasks. All were fired and the company no longer accepts Ai prompters as applicants. Your training as an artist will always be the most important part of this process and it is invaluable. I hope this post gives you a boost in a dark time.

(A pic of text reads 'this machine kills Al' above an arrow pointing to a pencil)
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Looks like it’s time to run this past a few state bars and get them to opine that using DocuSign breaks privilege. Losing the lawyers will kill their business.

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it's extremely telling that mourning 1200 israelis killed on october 7 is understandable to the atlantic but mourning the wholesale destruction of gaza and its people is not just strange but vaguely despicable

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Lover of knowledge, medievalist, avid reader, writer, and Pittsburgh native.
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