D’oh! Good find, I had it wrong.

Image AI is cool as fuck and I refuse to pretend otherwise.

The dolts charging money for “commissions,” or even just bragging about something they allegedly created, will be a blip for these few short years. The tech will become another tool anyone can use so long as they have a few free gigabytes… which is already a bit like saying, so long as they have a few free megabytes.

If there’s any unavoidable AI tells, when someone sketches an image but has Photoshop finish it for them, we’ll come to spot those as readily as we spot gradient fill or the oil-paint filter. They’ll be a sign someone did some, but not all, of the hard work. Big whoop.

If there are no tells - if more training lets an overworked graphics card churn out exactly what you describe, as surely as a human artist might - that’s gonna be fantastic for expression. And it won’t prevent anyone from painting with actual brushes and canvas.

The video versions of this stupid GPU trick will allow any weirdo to turn their original script or sordid fanfiction into an actual movie you can watch with your eyeballs. The characters don’t need to look or sound like any specific real actor. It’s gonna get wild.

All those poor OCs, dead forever! No human can ever draw them again now that AI ate them!

NFTs were a straight-up scam. The wire mother of wire fraud.

The only reason crypto almost-sorta-kinda works is that nearly anything works as a medium of exchange so long as it’s fungible. Which is the F those Ts were N.

A fun exercise that nerd-sniped me last year: recreate The Matrix’s “code rain” effect.

This is where I’d humorously link that maniac who wrote a program exclusively using MOV, of any amount of quotation or clarification could convince a modern search engine that “movulator” does not, in fact, mean “modulator.”

Interesting placement height.

Someone heard “early hominids” and thought “early hobbitses.”

I’m a little surprised he didn’t get the rubber hose part of rubber hose animation.

They should all have noodle arms.

They fact they can “allow” anything is the problem in full.

Possibly from DOS. It’s a real-mode operating system.

Jesus fucking Christ, you people insist everything would be better for the bad guys.

Debatable.

Went to a bar, took a shot. I myssed.

tic

Hoot hoot.

How WarThunder was funded:

CIA guy: “So y’know how Wikipedia became a trustworthy source of obscure information just by weaponizing pedantry?”

NSA guy: “I’m listening.”

ARM gaming doesn’t end well for ARM either. RISC-V is creeping up on their embedded market, and gradually appearing in dork-oriented laptops and twee low-end desktops.

P2P, and shamelessly rehosting popular content.

Won’t make those content creators happy… but it’s the best way to get users to show up, which will attract original content creators.

That is some 1980s shit - like giving devs forced nicknames, to prevent other companies from poaching them.