Since Active Distribution have ceased to be active on this platform, I thought I'd mention that the book 'Their Wars Our Dead: Anarchist reflections on anti-milirarism since the invasion of Ukraine' is now available.
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I love that they prompted AI to make the Stalin killing a serpent picture, but forgot to add some symbols to their snake to clearly designate it, so they just slapped some pngs on it instead of just prompting the AI again, which would have taken less time.
Look I can see where this earnestness comes from but you really gotta sever this infatuation with small business. They're businesses, they're not your friends, they're interested in profit. When the it comes to the crunch, their interests will frequently differ from yours.
I think it very much is a bubble and investors vastly overestimate its actual uses. I believe the dust will settle and a few actual uses will find their way as integrated into our regular lives, some of these might be artistic ones.
My feeling is once the actual uses are settled the evangelism will cease. Actual use cases for it are still being worked out. It's use in art is obviously contested as it's A) crap B) a violation of copyright, but I think this will pass, as the art advocacy is just a front.
One way or the other regulation is coming, and these bigshots lobbying for its implementation in state infastructure are in for a nasty shock when either states whole heartedly reject them or demand fines over data breaches and leaks.