I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can’t simply afford to market themselves without it.

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It’s an incredibly ironic stance to take

No?

The way you are speaking it’s as if they mean to close down the whole thing. There is a whole rest of the world for them to operate in. Sure losing the US market would be a huge detriment, but the owners still might rather have it everywhere else, than keep it running in the US in someone else’s hands.

Windows 11 made my girlfriend’s laptop so slow, even she asked me to install Linux, and she is not even a techy type.

Does it seem to you that people are becoming more likely to verify sources?

Nevermind, like I just said before, how exactly do you verify fake porn with the source? Who is going to be volunteering their intimate pictures as reference? Or, do you really think all that it takes to avoid all issues is for the victim to say “that’s fake, it’s not me”?

Frankly, that sounds like pure wishful thinking to me.

This is a consideration that a lot of people are glossing over. Schlubby dudes might not even be affected to it at all. It’s not going to be widespread for everyone.

But it doesn’t. Nobody who is harassed or has their prospects undermined because of AI fakes is helped by repeating that. Especially because as the technology advances the only way to verify its legitimacy will be to compare it with real intimate pictures, which the person cannot show without being exposed to the exact same treatment.

It also doesn’t help that gossip can do all that harm as well so the point is moot.

Trying to point out that this is illogical and that nudes shouldn’t even be such a big deal is an uphill battle against human emotional, social and cultural tendencies. It would take much more than some offhand comments to affect it at all, and I wouldn’t count on that shift happening before the harms of AI fakes spread.

Wild that since the rise of the internet it’s like they decided advertising laws don’t apply anymore.

But Copyright though, it absolutely does, always and everywhere.

It’s work to do anything, but we routinely see small indie studios managing to release player-hosted games just fine, while large studios don’t bother. Even though it also costs them more to run all the servers on their own. So I’m not so sure it’s just a matter of saving costs.

They would never have such expectation if they simply allowed players to host it to begin with. This used to be the norm, until companies figured out that it’s easier to control, monetize and force obsolescence to push players into a newer product if they are the only ones hosting servers.

Well, when companies are cutting off people’s purchases and wiping works from our cultural history, a little bit of disregard for the law that is complicit with it is pretty much necessary.

Say, it’s through copyright violation that we can still play games from Mario Maker 1 even though the servers were shut down. People figured out how to copy it even though they weren’t allowed to.

If this is wrong, maybe the law should be fixed to provide a proper path.

We “all helped” as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn’t choose the choices we didn’t have.

Hell, even then there’s still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.

As someone who’s neither chinese nor american I want nothing more than these countries to keep their hands to themselves. I don’t like China doing it, and I don’t want the US doing it because China does it. Are y’all gonna hand a piece of your companies to every country they operate in? I’m guessing “no”.

Well, of course. They aren’t banning Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. That’s exactly how they want it.

Who knew firing most people keeping it running would have negative consequences 🤔

The movie industry can’t bother to provide and preserve the movies they make, they should shut the fuck up.

Haven’t I been hearing that since the rise of computing and the internet? And it’s probably been around even longer. Seems like this sort of stuff only gets going when a lot of workers start putting up a fight.

But hey, maybe 41% jobs lost might be the tipping point. Because people aren’t just gonna sit on the sidewalk and starve.

Cool evasion bro. You’re sure dedicated to the nuance you are calling dead.

Now even using quotes and specific sites isn’t guaranteed to get what you are looking for…