Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

So, I need to vent.

I've had four different people send me AI art in the last week, and I want to ask you, personally, to do me a favor.

DO NOT MAKE AI ART.

It might be a quick and dirty way to generate what *feels* like new art, but it's actually not. It's trained on art generated by real artists, using datasets that are often merely scrapes of online content.

That online content is often scraped with little to no regard for copyright. In short, AI is often trained by stealing art from real artists, then copying their ideas and styles in the process.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists

https://medium.com/@rwblackwelsh/a-i-art-is-theft-c5aabc198f31

If you want art, be it a photo, or more traditional art, there are three options.

1) Buy the art - commission someone to make it for you. Buying the art doesn't have to be monetary - it could be a trade of something you have for something the artist wants, but the important thing is that you BOTH AGREE to exchange something for art.

2) Do it yourself - You are more creative than you think.

3) Use freely-available rights-cleared art under the latest GPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

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Low Quality Facts, high quality cats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzsmv6B8aY

The worst chess bot in the world played a hallucinating large language model. Wacky hijanks ensued. I was laughing so hard.

My mom bought a lot of cauliflower heads because they were on sale and she put them all in the basement cuz it's cold, but because I guess she didn't find a lot of cauliflower sized spaces, they're just kind of everywhere, on top of shelves, next to some books, on a table, etc... today she told me to get all the cauliflowers and take them up but she didn't tell me where she put them all, so I'm in the basement with a box looking for cauliflower on every bookshelf, table, floor, behind things, just making sure I didn't miss anything, and I'm like "years of playing hidden object puzzles really prepared me for this"

"fuck you, do it scared" is getting a lot of mileage for me these days

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I don't know why restrooms are so fucking hard.

Solution for restroom problems via politics when your business doesn't have the funds/space to redo it:

1. Put up a Round Bathroom sign with a man, woman, child inside it on all restrooms. If people seem confused, a nameplate that says "Unisex Bathroom" should straighten it up. If not, you got smart customers.
2. Install a door lock (one sided with a service pin release in case someone locks themselves in and doesn't respond), and sufficient amenities for any biological need for anyone at any age.
3. There is no step 3.

Men who need to go and the traditional 'Men's Room' being occupied can simply use the other one. Women don't need to rush while using an empty men's room in fear that a man is waiting when she's through. If there's baby stations, any bathroom can be a family bathroom if you lock the door. Bathroom has a tampon dispenser and a 'men can' next to your toilet? If you don't have the associated parts, simply ignore them.

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Wow, that's so interesting.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

It's a good question, really