Spockydog

"get your hands off my PENIS!"

A lovely collection of silk pocket squares I got to complement all my new jackets and blazers arrived in the mail today. I've never actually worn a pocket square before so have no idea how to fold them.

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I freakin' love mustard so I'm definitely trying that.

Chopped onion, a dash of mayo, with sliced tomatoes and black pepper on top. Delicious.

I opened a tin of tuna for the first time in years today. There was barely enough fish for a sandwich. Fucking shrinkflation. I hate it.

State of the comments.

Yeah. I realise that Swift was a bad example. Her fans are cray cray.

Just pointing out a fact. You think anyone cares when Gary Lightbody is mumbling his reasons for writing Run in front of 44000 people in some stadium? I'm sure Taylor Swift had a big ole message n her latest 247 track opus, but really, who gives a shit about her old boyfriend? Yeah, we can scratch our chins and wonder at the artist's demons or inspirations or whatnot, but, frankly, zzzzzzzz.........

Aye. But only C-suite for now. I am actively looking to fill two positions. COO and CFO. I have just engaged the services of a Colorado-based recruitment firm I met at Spannabis.

I hear you, but what about the notion that all art is somehow influenced by what has come before. No piece of pre 21st Century Art was created in a vacuum. Just ask Ed Sheeran's lawyers.

Speaking as an artist, the artist's message is usually just bollocks.

Nile Rodgers and his lawyers are coming for this AI mofoko. ....but I do like the AI funk.

Yes, and how many of the artists making the more "worthwhile art" do so without listening to music to aid their own creating? Not many, I'll wager. And I wonder how many of these artists (and anyone else banging on about Supporting the Artist, frankly) spend absolutely nothing on music, other than their Spotify and Amazon Music subscriptions.* We're to be lectured by these people about about stealing from artists? Give me a fucking break. As with most hotly debated topics, we don't need to look too far to find the hypocrisy. Anyway, in my view, music supersedes all other art forms in its power to move and inspire. Music underpins everything we do. There can be no art without music. Such a shame society seems to place such little value on the people who produce it. * Never had, never will pay for one of these services. Unless you're Taylor Swift, this shit is worse than Napster. New bands, if I like your shit, I will buy it from Bandcamp. Preferably FLAC lossless audio.

I am totally in agreement here. Just as I don't think ANYONE should be allowed to release "lost recordings" and demos from deceased recording artists, Hollywood shouldn't be able to use an actors likeness without coughing up the $$$. As I said upthread, studios abusing this isn't an AI issue, rather it's just another example of the extreme Late Stage Capitalism bullshit we're ALL suffering through at the moment.

Well, I disagree completely. But then again, it's probably fair to say I'm biased to some extent. Personally, without the assistance of ChatGPT, my invention would probably be stuck in my living room forever. It has literally changed my life. I have used this tool to help turn my idea into a company potentially worth hundreds of millions of pounds. And directly because of assistance rendered by ChatGPT, I could be on the verge of doing something really good in the field of sustainable agriculture and crop security. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. People just have to accept that, as with most technological advances, some industries are going to be negatively affected. That's life. That's the way it's always been. And the way it always will be.

OK. Tell me what's been stolen in my whimsical desktops. The likeness of a cloud? Or a Border Terrier?

So you're denying my experience as a consumer of art. You are saying that all the emotions I feel looking at these images are worthless because a computer made them. Honestly, you can just feck right off with that superior art-snob attitude.

Guess what, Scot. I might be an uneducated oik, but one thing I do know for a fact. Neither you, nor anybody else, gets to say that is and isn't art. You might think you do, up there in your thatched Ivory Tower with your wax tablets and phonograms and 20-inch TV. But nobody making this stuff cares what you think.

Scot, here's an experiment.... Q. What is art? A. At its most basic, something you look at or listen to that pleases and/or moves you emotionally. Agreed? Now, look at these. A while back, I was feeling really, really down. So one day I told Dalle I was in need of cheering up, and asked it to create some whimsical desktop wallpapers featuring my dog, Maggie, and her late big sister, Kolo. They affect me emotionally every single time I look at them. Especially this one. Yeah, they are not exactly Caravaggios, but so fucking what. I don't care. They make me happy. So please don't try and tell me that this isn't art. Because only an art-snob would say such a thing. And everyone knows there isn't a more boring person on the face of the earth than a fucking art snob.

Break a leg, man. Hope your dreams come true.

Who said I'm okay with it? As I get older I'm simply getting better at not getting upset by matters that are completely beyond my control. I don't see the point of fifteen pages of Scot trying to squeeze ChatGPT back into its toothpaste tube.

I don't even know what that means. Anyway, look, I come from a creative background. Most of my family are creators. My nephew is an artist straight out of art school. I fully support the humans. But what is the point of this discussion, really? The thread was started by the board's biggest luddite and technophobe. Who, frankly, just seems to want to fight over the issue. He's doing the usual shtick of just ignoring counter viewpoints. He doesn't care about any of these arguments, so why fucking bother. My last word on this. A lot of the problems raised here are not AI issues. They are human greed issues. Simple as that.

What, you mean like they already do when filling up scenes with CG crowds and shit?