What's "so special" abou this is that Getty is one of the largest single copyright holders in the world and they know the licensing status of every piece of media in their collection, so any AI trained on those images is guaranteed liability-free for their clients."

the monetization schema is bullshit - it looks like the tiktok model where there's a giant pool of money split between all the creators every year with the size of that pool determined by "business growth" (ie in a way that prioritized the business and hands the remains to the creators) PLUS bits of the youtube model of constantly shifting goals and targets to keep planning ability for its creators at a minimum - but if you want to know why this AI that rips off artists is "better" than the rest, that's why.

ARS' spin is fucking gross, nothing in the actual article says anything close to what that headline is implying.

AMD should simply go to i11.

And here I was hoping that Microsoft taking over the market for 'Slack' would mean that those guys would go back to working for Tiny Speck and they would bring Glitch back online.

Do it, Stoot!

I have a Max IIci in my collection. It's also chock full of National Instruments data acq. cards and the original version of LabView.

Apple has never been capable of a clean rewrite. The culture there isn't capable of 'inventing' something that big, and NIH is the holy gospel. They tried to write a new preemptive multitasking OS to replace the hoary old pascal-based MacOS when MacOS 9 was growing long in the tooth. Pink/Taligent was a disaster. They failed so badly that Jobs had to come back and take over with the Unix derived workalike from NeXT, which notably was developed OUTSIDE the Apple fogzone.

It's really a pity they didn't go with BeOS instead. That was some fresh new design, again from people who had escaped the Apple fogzone.

Nicholas Tesla died in poverty.

True, but 'brick and mortar' electronic components have suffered the same way as other retail. DigiKey has almost anything you could imagine wanting and they ship fast.

One Plutocrat says to another: 'One of your plebes is annoying me.'

After the Tesla bankruptcy, maybe Kim Kardashian will licence 'Elon Musk' to be used as the brand name for a line of perfume.

He probably hired Pinkerton to find out who the 'troublemaker' is. Plutocrats stick together so his next move was to sidle up to the fink's boss.

To my way of seeing it, Musk's move is really creepy. It's one plutocrat talking to another plutocrat about the uppity 'help' needing a yank on the leash.

I think I know why the Mac is foundering. All the most slavish and loopy people who used to worship the Mac have switched over to Tesla.

The cultishness is amazing. With Apple you were a 'hater' who likes 'IBM' computers. With Tesla, you're a 'shorter.' An Emmanuel Goldstein projected up on the screen for the 2 minute hate.

For awhile I worked for a company that had one division that was a tier 1 supplier to General Motors. A new CEO of the overall company was put into place, and he discovered the whole kickback scheme that the head of Automotive was engaging in with GM. Head of Automotive got canned. The rest of Automotive 'flipped out' because that was apparently how you do business with GM.

I'm so glad I don't work there anymore. My job was in a test lab evaluating parts for, yes, GM, and it really didn't seem like honest work. Totally irrelevant tests to be 'by the book' and hiding glaring flaws. At least none were safety issues, thank goodness.

How humiliating it would be to be of the millineal generation and have people like you as peers.

The mini-consoles have full games. The fact that both are now available for regular retail prices is sort of a laugh at the people who paid huge markups for them from scalpers.