Nope. In fact, if you generate a lot of images with AI you’ll sometimes notice something resembling a watermark in the output. Demonstrating that the images used to train the model did indeed have watermarks.

Removing such imaginary watermarks is trivial in image2image tools though (it’s just a quick extra step after generation).

To be fair, when it comes to stock photos the creatives already got paid. You’re just violating the copyright of a big corporation at that point (if you distribute the images… If you never distribute the images then you’ve committed no crime).

Why stop at “AI-generated”? Why not have the individual post their entire workflow, showing which model they used, the prompt, and any follow-up editing or post-processing they did to the image?

In the 90s we went through this same shit with legislators trying to ban photoshopped images (hah: They still try this from time to time). Then there were attempts at legislating mandatory watermarks and similar concepts. It’s all the same concept: New technology scary, regulate and restrict it.

In a few years AI-generated content will be as common as photoshopped images and no one will bat an eye because it’ll “just be normal”. A photographer might take a picture of a model (or a number of them) for a cover or something then they’ll use AI to change the image after. Or they’ll use AI to generate an image from scratch and then have models try to copy it. Or they’ll just use AI to change small details in the image such as improving lighting conditions or changing eye color.

AI is very rapidly becoming just another tool in photo/video editing and soon it will be just another tool in document writing and audio recording/music creation.

Not a bad law if applied to companies and public figures. Complete wishful thinking if applied to individuals.

For companies it’s actually enforceable but for individuals it’s basically impossible and even if you do catch someone uploading AI-generated stuff: Who cares. It’s the intent that matters when it comes to individuals.

Were they trying to besmirch someone’s reputation by uploading false images of that person in compromising situations? That’s clear bad intent.

Were they trying to incite a riot or intentionally spreading disinformation? Again, clear bad intent.

Were they showing off something cool they made with AI generation? It is of no consequence and should be treated as such.

You jest but this implies everything is fine… Now.

I approve this pedantry because I too am not a scientist 👍

Nah. It’ll be to make them transgendered.

They’re not just bismuth! They’re bismuth and selenium with some oxygen mixed in (to connect those elements together, I think).

The reason I point this out is because this means that not only can the chips of the future perform blazingly fast calculations they can also cure your tummy ache and prevent dandruff!

Once this technology becomes mainstream it’ll be bismuth as usual. We’ll all be getting down to bismuth.

A whole new era of puns is upon us! The product of the selenium.

I think it’s part of a, “stabilizer diet”

I highly recommend not eating your keyboard. The most commonly-used macros probably taste like finger cheese.

Forget small phones… I want bigger phones! Why do we keep making phones that appear to be made to appease people with small pockets‽

Bigger screens are better! Give me a great big tri-fold phone with a week-long battery (as long as it’s under 10lbs it won’t be a problem!). Actually, fuck that: Where are our backpack phones? We used to have them in WW2 and now we have the technology to make them even better!

I want the power to unfurl my monster phone to turn it into a portable 3-monitor gaming rig. Make it run regular Linux too so I can actually automate things and decide where I want to store my stuff (not in Google or Apple’s clouds!).

I dunno. What kind of service can you get with LowG™?

It’s a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.

Oil & gas is mostly consolidated and lobbies under just a few really powerful firms. Wind and solar don’t have a lobbying arm with that kind of power. It’s too dispersed with too many disperate entities that don’t view themselves as being on the same team.

It’s just another way that money in politics corrupts everything. Even though there’s more players in the solar and wind markets the oil & gas industry has a lot more money to throw around at lobbying.

The entire basis for this is the assumption that goods are being transported using fossil fuels. If we transport the goods using electric trucks suddenly plastic starts to look much, much worse than paper or even glass.

Aluminum is much better all around so I’m not sure why it’s lumped into everything else. It’s basically infinitely recyclable and you don’t have to use natural gas or propane to heat it up to the melting point for forming/extrusion. There’s basically an infinite amount of ways to heat things up; even to really high temperatures.

“With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!”

It’s from the alpha

He summons drinks and snacks.

The solution to this is to make breakfast in the afternoon 👍

Any place with screws loose or loose nuts.

Do they really not realize this literally covers everything NOAA does?

It’s like asking an accountant to search for numbers in their spreadsheets and reports.