The show today was above average, and "theater kids" continues to be a useful frame, but then there's "the world is a stage", so...
There was a discussion about how to compensate copywritten material that AI trains on, which is an interesting problem.
I'm allowed to read something and then tell others what I've read. If I were a savant, I would be allowed to recite verbatim what I had read. At some point though, when I've gathered multiple people and am profiting, it becomes illegal to recite what I've read.
Seems like AI will have to distribute a portion of the profit it generates with the sources it uses, or otherwise bring income to the author of the copywritten material.
SA speculated that AI art won't catch on, because it's the story behind it that is inspiring. I tended to agree, though I'm among the few weird people that don't care about stuff like that. When I sit down for a meal, it does nothing for me when the waiter tells me the wheat was harvested in Ukraine, the wine grapes were hand-picked in a French village, and the beef came from California. I just want to eat the food, which hopefully tastes good. I don't tell people the journey of how I fixed their computer, I just fix it and give it back.
That's my long way of saying I think AI will undermine the profit of artists and authors first. I have to admit that I don't care much. Artists often annoy me because they're so narcissistic. Musicians don't like to play the songs that everyone else wants to hear, because they write for themselves and occasionally produce something others want to listen to, and that usually isn't among the songs they like the most. Bands that could be super entertaining playing cover would rather bore everyone with their objectively inferior music. Among other musicians, they talk about the unsophisticated taste of audiences.
Then there's the other side of the industry that is organized by a guy that has a formula for organizing a boy band and writing music that is designed from the beginning as a consumer product.
Anyhow, I'm fine listening to music that sounds good regardless of where it comes from.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
Does that explain the chaos a #887? Because that's something that would make nine days seem like eight months.
Nickname the kid Space Monkey.  |
3 daughters under 6 is chaotic in the morning, especially when mom leaves at 6am and I've got to get one of them ready for school, feed the rest and change diapers, and get ready to travel to a customer site.
I got the kiddos to myself again this morning, and witnessed the youngest crawl forward for the first time.
The days are long and the years are short.
All the kids are named monkey. Oldest one I call "baby girl" since she was my first baby girl. Middle I call Liberty since that's the name I gave her. Don't have a nickname for the baby yet other than baby.