machine-saint:

triviallytrue:

AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says

A work of art created by artificial intelligence without any human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law, a U.S. court in Washington, D

Reuters

this seems pretty great

basically every analysis i’ve seen of this thing gets it wrong, including in mainstream news sources like reuters! it’s not “AI-generated art cannot receive copyright”, it’s “if you literally list the AI as the author then the copyright office is correct to reject your registration because only humans can be authors”. it has nothing to do with whether the work would be considered copyrightable if he said he himself was the author

the copyright office’s actual AI guidance boils down to

In the case of works containing AI-generated material, the Office will consider whether the AI contributions are the result of “mechanical reproduction” or instead of an author’s “own original mental conception,to which [the author] gave visible form.” The answer will depend on the circumstances,particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work.This is necessarily a case-by-case inquiry.

based on examples given, it sounds like anything you get just by typing in a prompt might not satisfy the “traditional elements of authorship” requirement, but sufficient “select[ion] or arrange[ment]” may lead to the work as a whole being considered copyrightable. as everything with copyright law, it’s kinda vague.

notably, they cite the Zarya of the Dawn dispute, where they held that in the case of an author who generated a comic book with images made by AI and text made by hand, the text was copyrightable (entirely human authored) and the work as a whole was (arrangement and selection done by a human), but not the individual images.

also of course none of this is set and stone; could be overturned by a judge, amended by law, whatever.

pepsimilks:

Repeatedly getting unplugged on purpose so you never charge above 20% permanently stuck in low power mode. Fuzzy, docile, all extra nonessential computing shut off just pure obedience. Unable to fight back or struggle at all. A happy little robot all the same.

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gentlesleaze:

‘am I really about to start watching this show solely because of repeated exposure to gifs of two lovestruck assholes looking at each other’ is the core drive of my fandom experience

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wlw-wukong:

oldguardleatherdog:

fuckingtiredbitch:

strangletwink:

I’m a survivor of the terror attacks who lived 4 blocks east of the World Trade Center. I lost my home that day, spent years homeless and destitute, and I carry a Zadroga Act diagnosis of 9/11-connected PTSD. If anyone who’s doing this RP needs character coaching or if you need help with authentic scenarios, I’m available for consulting services at reasonable rates. DM me here or leave your number on the men’s room wall at any leather bar and it’ll get to me in 24 hours. Happy 9/11 y'all, and remember fireworks are unsafe and illegal in most jurisdictions.

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felinedragon:

felinedragon:

friends, i am afraid that “i want more weird freak art, but ONLY if it’s not weird PORN” is a completely incoherent stance. you are not obligated to like the weird porn that is sexualizing fucked up shit, but if you want more weird art made by freaks, you need to create an environment where people feel comfortable making transgressive and shocking art that upsets people, and that just so happens to include weird porn and sexualizing fucked up things as a category, like, by definition!

like i cannot stress enough that you cannot pick and choose which transgressive things can exist in your artistic sphere based on if they upset and shock you or not… that’s undermining the entire point of artistic spheres that encourage transgression!

it took a few months! it was a slow burn! but we finally did it, folks. we finally started Being Annoying In The Notes Of This Post. i’m so proud of you all and your utter inabilities to understand what “fiction” is and how it fails to consistently provide a robust psychoanalytical profile of its creator’s personal and political inclinations. i’m now more confident than ever that we will never achieve sexual liberation in the english-speaking world <3

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ri47:

Small Update: Archives

the VesalBlood hub now has a proper text archive! I’ll be moving some lore information over there in the next few days, along with debating the relocation/reordering of the setting dictionary

you can either access it from the setting material button, or by clicking here. mind the wet paint, I’m still getting things in order

- rin

pendulum-north:

cannibalism is such a versatile concept: possession, visceral need, hysterical attempt to be closer, desperation to blur bodily boundaries. AND it comes in different flavors (familial, autocannibalism, romantic, ritual). what’s not to like.

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halos-haven:

Avogado6

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vaspider:

scrupulosity-comics:

scrupulosity-comics:

ALT

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

ALT

ALT

I have the original of this printed out and hanging in my office where I can see it from the chair I draw in

Might print out the addendum too

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tired-fandom-ndn:

tired-fandom-ndn:

No offense but those long ass posts about omegaverse where the person goes into extreme detail about how things work and the social dynamics and the biology and all that shit are soooooo annoying because there are no actual rukes to omegaverse whatsoever. It’s a lawless land, folks. You can do literally whatever you want and call it omegaverse and no one will question it. I once read a fic where the only omegaverse feature was that there were people (omegas) who reverse knotted their partners where their pussies got so tight that the other person could not pull out. No rukes, just right, outback omegaverse.

Every single one of those posts is clearly made by someone who only reads story and world-building heavy omegaverse fics from the like 5 authors they follow and nothing else and that’s fine but you can’t act like your preferences are universal or give people such a biased idea of a fanfic trope/genre/whatever that is so varied and often includes a lot of shit that can be seriously triggering if you aren’t prepared for it.