D should be Dookie.

Atoms lettuce break the iceberg.

No, “your sick” makes perfect sense because it will become their sick when that employee brings it into work. Everyone can have the sick that way 👍

Something tells me the police investigating this will move at a snail’s pace.

If the cost of using it is lower than the alternative, and the market willing to buy it is the same. If the current cloud hosted tools cease to be massively subsidized, and consumers choose to avoid it, then it’s inevitably a historical footnote, like turbine powered cars, Web 3.0, and laser disk.

There’s another scenario: Turns out that if Big AI doesn’t buy up all the available stock of DRAM and GPUs, running local AI models on your own PC will become more realistic.

I run local AI stuff all the time from image generation to code assistance. My GPU fans spin up for a bit as the power consumed by my PC increases but other than that, it’s not much of an impact on anything.

I believe this is the future: Local AI models will eventually take over just like PCs took over from mainframes. There’s a few thresholds that need to be met for that to happen but it seems inevitable. It’s already happening for image generation where the local AI tools are so vastly superior to the cloud stuff there’s no contest.

Her problem is she cited the wrong bible!

Clearly, she should’ve cited the real bible that has the true word of the gods in it. Not that atheist Christian bible!

Remember: If you don’t believe in my gods, you’re an atheist!

I hope the SCOTUS justices aren’t using 3-strikes-you’re-out ISPs! All it would take is three random DMCA takedown notices and they’d lose Internet.

You jest, but if conservatives have their way, you’ll soon have to verify your ID by uploading a video every time you visit the site (if not logged in). Even for non-adult content!

Because the reason for the ID isn’t to “protect the children” or anything like that. It’s about control. Conservatives want the power to decide what people get to see and ID verification systems are just a small part of that.

This is fowl play!

It’s because economists haven’t got the memo yet that informs them that smartphones have been recategorized as, “durable goods”.

It’s good to know that incompetence is still the guiding principle of the Trump administration 👍

Let’s look at the logic here: If we don’t expect troops to defy illegal orders, that means some commanding officer could order his troops to kill the president 🤔

That’s illegal but… The Trump administration thinks orders should be followed no matter what.

Doesn’t matter: Nobody uses right shift for anything but pinball games!

I’m in the camp of, “if it’s good, why should I care?” However, I’m all for transparency! Passing off AI-generated music as human-generated is fraud. Be honest!

There’s a LOT of grey areas though. If you’re a vocalist and you’re using an AI-generated background? How’s that any different from pressing “play” on a sequencer or even an audio file (of some sequenced or drum track)?

If you’re a lyricist, the actual music isn’t as important as the lyrics. Does it matter if they used AI to generate the music or should every lyricist be forced to pay someone to make the music for them or master an instrument (or sequencer)?

What if you’re trying to translate your music into a different language and use AI to translate it? Is that AI-generated music? You can give your whole damned song to AI and it’ll convert to a different language in-place without having to re-record it. It even uses your singer’s voice!

To me, it’s incredible technology and it’s enabling artists of all kinds to do cool things with their music. It seems rather paternalistic to suggest someone’s creativity doesn’t “count” if they didn’t sweat or spend years practicing to create it.

Related: Every Fn key on a keyboard is a missed opportunity! That’s not fun at all!

No. They’re off the old block.

To summarize:

• The Republicans have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they’ve thought up so far is an even bigger handout to Visa and MasterCard as well as other rich/incredibly profitable/unnecessary middlemen companies that handle Health Savings Account plans. Note: The more money you make, the more money you save via HSA plans!
• The Democrats have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they’ve thought of is to extend the Republican band-aid known as Romneycare the Obamacare subsidies which will only slightly delay the inevitable, on-going collapse of health care in the United States. AKA the death spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)

What should be illegal is patents like this!

In the future, local AI models will solve this problem! Then parents will be complaining about how hot the toy is and it’ll get recalled because little kids everywhere kept getting “GPU burns”.