This alternative Trump totally looks like he could be leader of the UK Conservative party.

I always find it weird when guys refer to girls as “females”. I can’t help but read it in a Ferengi voice.

“Females and finances don’t mix. Rule of Acquisition 94.”

How do you know it’s spam, though?

[email protected] might have nothing but the best intentions.

The big difference between the US and China is that China is often close to the bottom of the supply chain.

America doesn’t have the infrastructure already in place to supply the raw materials and basic essentials to manufacturers.

Until this is the case (and I’m phrasing it optimistically but the reality is it never can be the case), all manufacturers have to pay extra just to have access to the things they need to produce their goods.

This cost is passed on to the consumer.

Like another commenter pointed out, there just isn’t a domestic supplier of many products. Crucial rare earth metals and various other minerals just aren’t available. Heck, to my knowledge, there isn’t even a domestic manufacturer of light bulbs anymore.

Without putting anything in place before implementing these tariffs, he’s guaranteed that prices will go up on almost everything.

I agree with this entirely. I personally use AI to help me do things that I don’t have the time to do “the old fashioned way”.

I can draw, paint, sing, sculpt, etc, and I enjoy doing all these things very much. But I don’t have time any more - I have a full-time job, two kids taking up most of my time, and Long COVID means I’m asleep for almost all of what would be left over.

I’ve used AI to help me bring 2d art, music and 3d models into this world that would otherwise be trapped in my head.

Took me a while to pick it out of the image!

Here’s the deets in case it helps anyone else:

• 4 cans normally £4.35
• 3 cans yellow-stickered to £4.59

FWIW, way back when, I spotted a similar thing in my local Sainsbury’s. A pack of 4 apples cost more than buying four loose apples. I tweeted about it jokingly on a Friday, and to their credit they replied, and when I went in on Monday, the price had been adjusted.

Ah, thanks for that!

I was genuinely interested because I used to lecture when the AGNs first started appearing. Ironically enough, I used to point out to the students how you could tell photos were generated (mismatching ears shapes, asymmetrical glasses, oddly shaped jewellery etc.).

Seems like I need more exposure to the comic art side of things!

I don’t agree with your take, sorry.

To say that an artist should have exclusive control over a style is dangerous.

Every time there is a big upheaval in an industry, it affects people’s jobs in that sector. Henry Ford’s investments in automation, put a lot of small car manufacturers in a tricky position. It also led to cars being affordable for most American households.

I’m not unsympathetic, in fact I’m more than a little aware that AI will be taking over my sector, the software development jobs, within a couple of years (and unlike art, I can’t see any market for “hand-crafted” code!).

But, the genie can’t be put back in the bottle. There’s no possible positive that comes from “calling out” AI art whenever you see it. It doesn’t help artists - if anything we’ve seen artists having to go out of their way proving their work isn’t AI.

Come on, that’s not true. We just want to “re-educate” you guys

Human artists train using other artists work. Every avenue of human endeavour is based on what came before.

My own default style shares similarities with Barbara Canepa and Rumikp Takahashi. Why? Because, as a teen, I used to copy their stuff, trying to “unlock” the parts of it that I like.

If I was to directly copy an image, and say it was my own, then that crosses over into stealing. But that’s not what has happened here. And unless you get very specific with the prompts, it’s not likely to happen.

Shocking truth:

Humans can make all art made by AI.

Humans can make all calculations made by computers.

People use tools to achieve their goals more efficiently. It’s the way it always has been. It doesn’t mean there’s no value attached to it.

Incidentally, for all of the “this is AI” brigade, what are you picking up on? I’m not picking up on any of the classic tells. Aside from the closed fists in the first and last image, where I’d personally go for an open hand, I don’t see anything obviously amiss.

I don’t know what to tell you. When it comes to school shootings, it’s politics all the way down. There’s a reason that the US is the only developed country selling bullet-proof gear in the back-to-school section.

• Question is about explaining terrorism to kids.

• Kids go to school.

• School shooters famously also target schools.

• Kids are aware of terrorism due to the constant threat of a school shooting.

Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it’s closer to half my life.

Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time…

Can personally attest to Denmark having loads of English speakers.

I encountered exactly one person in my travels there who did not speak fluent English.

I’d learned a little, so I tried to use Danish to order things, ask directions etc, and everyone replied in perfect English.

Yep - this is the case in the UK too.

It literally took a second to confirm that this is the case in dozens of countries around the world.

Wikipedia: Prohibitory Traffic Sign

Are the books any good? If so, then I don’t see a problem.

Unless…

Are they plagiarising other books? If not, then I don’t see a problem.

Unless…

Have people lost their jobs because of this? If not, then I don’t see a problem.

If it’s just a content creator using technology to help them create something of value, that otherwise would not have existed, then surely this is a good thing.

AI isn’t inherently bad. It’s just a tool.

Maybe this is an Eng (UK) / Eng (US) issue.

You’re arguing that “every place” must mean shops.

I absolutely didn’t read it as that, I assumed they meant “other parts of Canada”. I mean, Canada is a gigantic country with tons of regional accent, dialect, even language differences.

Might be best to chalk it up to a misunderstanding and move on.

Genericisation. It happens all the time!

Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK).

Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.

Back to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” definitely threw one of these 🖖