I think you’re confused about who got hurt by the scheme. Billion dollar streaming platforms fucking over artists don’t need to be defended.

This is a decent truism.

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I’m not partitioning my system, I’m getting a clean slate.

Likeness shouldn’t be copyrightable, and copy shouldn’t extend past a couple decades.

From my end, it’s more to do with the fact that my parents’ advice has been consistently bad and so have their life decisions.

It’d explain a lot, actually. 🤔

I was remembering an ad that I saw yesterday(?), so either I mis-remembered, mis-understood, or mistook the ad mentioned in the article for the one I saw.

Regardless, ty for letting me know.

Okay. I’m a transhumanist. I like AI, automation, and the abolishment of involuntary labor as well as obligatory adversity. Even I thought this ad was super fucking creepy. How the fuck do you justify sending your daughter an auto-generated letter? Now, not only do you not care enough to do it yourself, you’re lying to her about it.

If I made my thoughts known about this development, I’d be permanently banned from lemmy.world.

Honestly, that’s pretty much what I expected. It’s just an incestuous mash up of pre-existing data. The only way I could see it working is by expanding specific key terms to help an AI identify what something is or isn’t. For example, I have a local instance generate Van Gogh paintings that he never made because I love his style. Unfortunately, there’s a bunch of quirks that go along with that. For instance: Lots of pictures of bearded men, flowers, and photos of paintings. Selecting specific images to train the model on “Van Gogh” might make sense because of the quality of the initial training data. Doing it recursively and automatically? That’s bad mojo.

Yes, exactly.

Pedantic Mathematician here.

If it failed, then it was a heuristic, rather than an algorithm.

Clearly, that’s the most important thing about this post.

You’re welcome.

These are my thoughts exactly; piracy is preservation.

When it comes to computers I’m an average nerd.

The main problems you may run into with snaps is the same problems you will run into with flatpak, appimage or docker.

This means nothing to me other than “there are some things that are more complicated with Ubuntu compared to Mint”.

I’m saving this to note down that the flavor I’m most likely to want is “Cinnamon”. I didn’t really understand the rest, but thank you!

I’ve been vassilating on it for a couple years, actually. I was going to do it when I built a PC (I just had a laptop for college) but then my parents bought one for me while I was in the middle of figuring out what parts to get with my sister’s help. It’s probably my fault for telling them about it around my b.day, tbf. 😂 I used a partitioned system that she helped set up for me 10 years ago or something like that, but I wanted to make one that was just a Linux PC, and for the past few years the idea of installing Linux on my current computer just never occurred to me because my plan became obsolete. The brain is a funny thing.

I may look into Ubuntu if I have time this weekend. How does it differ from mint?

I’ve heard about it, but nothing of substance.

Saved. I’ll look at this Sunday if I have time (I’m making that PCM developed by NightHawkInLight to use for a few planned events).

Ty very much!

How does that compare to mint?