Stonewall

Musician and instructor in Charlotte, NC
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[Stonewall @HankStones]

@dcourtne @MisterCiv The key that helped me was realizing there is a template: Triangle twice (on PS) for DB's, Right D-pad twice for LBs, Left D-pad twice for DL. Once you get quick at that it's just a matter of selecting the person and making the desired adjustment.

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@SanzoneBrandon @SwiftYouTube_ Rookie premiere prices can get out of control toward the end. Seems like $4-5M in the bank not a bad idea to help lock em down

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@SwiftYouTube_ Def is looking good boys

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@TheTrueVanguard "Rise from your grave!"

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@leegitness @Gutfoxx Received LS after logging in just now! Didn't have to do the event twice

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@leegitness @Gutfoxx I didn't get him after completing the event and was bummed, but then I looked him up in the catalog and saw it showing you have to beat the event twice. Still bummed

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@DieHardxBigBlue @Zirksee How you getting those accuracy boosts?

[Stonewall @HankStones]

Go ahead and Jump Juno 🎶

[Stonewall @HankStones]

It appears we have a jazz cat on our hands today 🎶

[Dr. Angela @AngelaInBold]

We had to add another paw print to our mantle this week. 💔

From left to right
Blitz (2013-2021)
Ozzy (2009-2024)
Lucy Diamond (2009-2023)

It's been a rough 3 years...

[Dr. Angela @AngelaInBold]

Tired: measuring relationships in standard units of time, such as months or years

Wired: measuring relationships in non standard units of time, such as "lifetime of a car battery"

[Dr. Angela @AngelaInBold]

I may have made a mistake. I went to a skating rink on adults only night, thinking it would be better than when there are a ton of kids around. But guess who is really good at skating? Adults who go to a rink on adults only night.

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@JohnCMcGinley Mandy Moore was great too!

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I’ve resigned from my role leading the Audio team at Stability AI, because I don’t agree with the company’s opinion that training generative AI models on copyrighted works is ‘fair use’.

First off, I want to say that there are lots of people at Stability who are deeply thoughtful about these issues. I’m proud that we were able to launch a state-of-the-art AI music generation product trained on licensed training data, sharing the revenue from the model with rights-holders. I’m grateful to my many colleagues who worked on this with me and who supported our team, and particularly to Emad for giving us the opportunity to build and ship it. I’m thankful for my time at Stability, and in many ways I think they take a more nuanced view on this topic than some of their competitors.

But, despite this, I wasn’t able to change the prevailing opinion on fair use at the company.

This was made clear when the US Copyright Office recently invited public comments on generative AI and copyright, and Stability was one of many AI companies to respond. Stability’s 23-page submission included this on its opening page:

“We believe that Al development is an acceptable, transformative, and socially-beneficial use of existing content that is protected by fair use”.

For those unfamiliar with ‘fair use’, this claims that training an AI model on copyrighted works doesn’t infringe the copyright in those works, so it can be done without permission, and without payment. This is a position that is fairly standard across many of the large generative AI companies, and other big tech companies building these models — it’s far from a view that is unique to Stability. But it’s a position I disagree with.

I disagree because one of the factors affecting whether the act of copying is fair use, according to Congress, is “the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work”. Today’s generative AI models can clearly be used to create works that compete with the copyrighted works they are trained on. So I don’t see how using copyrighted works to train generative AI models of this nature can be considered fair use.

But setting aside the fair use argument for a moment — since ‘fair use’ wasn’t designed with generative AI in mind — training generative AI models in this way is, to me, wrong. Companies worth billions of dollars are, without permission, training generative AI models on creators’ works, which are then being used to create new content that in many cases can compete with the original works. I don’t see how this can be acceptable in a society that has set up the economics of the creative arts such that creators rely on copyright.

To be clear, I’m a supporter of generative AI. It will have many benefits — that’s why I’ve worked on it for 13 years. But I can only support generative AI that doesn’t exploit creators by training models — which may replace them — on their work without permission.

I’m sure I’m not the only person inside these generative AI companies who doesn’t think the claim of ‘fair use’ is fair to creators. I hope others will speak up, either internally or in public, so that companies realise that exploiting creators can’t be the long-term solution in generative AI.

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@joshuameltzer1 @pianobook_ Great sound and pretty progression, definitely cinematic! Reminds me of a marimba with something tinkly on top (almost like flicking a glass), and some kind of lower bass sound. The reverb really carries it too and gives it a subtle pad feel in the space between notes.

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@matthewharnage I can vouch for the Steelcase Leap. I used it at my former job and liked it so much I bought my own to work in the studio. It's held up for about six years now without any problems or breakdown of the seat cushion. I know the search is tough!

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@TomoJustFunky Excellent fretboard coverage from this angle, but hard to see right-hand picking. Guitar is a difficult instrument to film in vertical orientation. Sweet chords & tone as always!

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@RyuSoundworks Crispy chicken tacos are pretty good! I think you can get with either chipotle or an avocado ranch sauce

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@jgmusic What kind of boom arms are you using? I haven't found anything that can hold the weight of my large diaphragm condenser and stay in the same spot!

[Stonewall @HankStones]

@jgmusic Do you like the slim blade trackball? I've been using one for a few years, but am still considering this original one bc the wrist rest looks comfortable.