Gen AI isn’t an author and there is definitively no good AI art because it isn’t art. Art requires intent. Hope that helps.

Separating the art from the artist has never been about avoiding the moral complexities of supporting bigots and fascists (financially or just keeping them in the Zeitgeist). It is that authorial intent is not relevant to personal interpretation (aka death of the author). So yes, you can separate the art from the artist but that’s an entirely different thing from what is being argued here.

If you want to argue as to whether their works should be consumed at all - paid for or not - we should absolutely not be separating the artist from the work. There is little value in them that can’t be found elsewhere and capitalists see the enduring popularity of „that fucking book“ and keeping forking over money for the IP, whether people pirated it or not.

I went to the Farina Cologne shop (the factory that developed the first Cologne) in Köln where they do tours with the guide in period costume pretending to be the founder. I wasn’t expecting much but it was genuinely fascinating and the guide was very charming and witty.

Making it as unambiguous as possible

If only we had a way to communicate with machines in a reliable, deterministic and unambiguous way.

Inclusive or.

And you don’t seem to understand…

Takes too long in the oven.

Australian spiders don’t make as good Fryders as NZ ones but beggars can’t be choosers.

Sure I don’t get any retirement or healthcare benefits, but look at all the company scrip I get for the sloppy autocomplete that is stealing all my groundwater no matter how many times someone says „closed loop cooling“.

Unfortunately it’s the best option in Germany after Google threw a tantrum over privacy laws here. However OpenStreetMap is getting better.

Who is the Asterisk in this situation?

Yup, that’s why I left that job. Was sick of being berated by clients. Now I work in the games industry… I may be a masochist.

Nude readings tax, psychic and advice.

I’m sure the magical consequences fairy will be along any minute now to address that.

One of my old jobs had me trying to turn the word salad our business lead told our clients into web apps. It’s truly amazing how someone can say so much and yet so little while convincing people to pay money for it. I ended up just having to best-guess what their business needs were on my own. That experience was honestly valuable in seeing through the blather - Jensen Huang with DLSS 5 the other day was a good example.

To shoot things press the shoot button.

Most of the queer characters in Life is Strange are bi, which is really not that silly.

This guy is clearly speaking from a place of technical ignorance. It can’t do any of that because it’s a screen-space post-processing effect that only works on final pixel colours and motion vectors. It does not have depth, material, or lighting information. It is purely a generative AI filter and in the demo gets so much wrong with the lighting and material properties. There’s one scene from the Hogwarts game where it turns a cast-iron cauldron into flat ceramic or plastic. It makes up reflections that are effectively screen-space because it can’t „see“ detail off screen and overrides actual RT reflections with them. It’s bad for faces and bad for backgrounds.

They already have the RTX Remix stuff but it’s a manual process because at least back when that technology launched, people at NVIDIA realised it needed a lot of human intervention.

Unless you’re a Berliner, but then you have to wonder why your baked goods are talking, and why they insist on being called Pfannkuchen instead.