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Unfortunately, a number of flooded properties were located outside the FEMA designated flood zones - even the 100 year+ zones. And they were located higher than the flood lines by something around 10-12 feet (in Ashville, NC).

I really hope a lot of changes are made coming out of this disaster.

> I26 north I40 west are impassible and may be that way for months.

The latest I've heard is they're expected to be fixed by Sept 2025. So just shy of a year.

Not the entire image, but parts created by inpainting. Which is admittedly a hot mess of red tape in potentia. But it makes sense from the point of view of copyright having been created to protect people's ability to make a living from IP.

The magic wand is different IMO, because it's not creating any imagery.

For completeness sake, Adobe does not appear to have taken Google's lead in this.

Thank you for the info. It's still going to run afoul of the copyright office's interpretation of who owns copyright for AI generated materials, but I'm really glad to see them doing something ethical with the model creation.

Nothing from the OP or the original AI Artist was about using Adobe.

That said, were the images used by Adobe actually licensed for AI training, or was an existing overly broad license aimed at "showing this in an online gallery" interpreted by lawyers to include AI training? Because that latter option is being done by a lot of corporations (including Google) to make "ethical" AI models.

> This argument is going to lose merit soon.

When midjourney and all other models built upon copyrighted work they had no license to disappears (and any models which were in turn trained on the output of Midjourney et.al.), perhaps.

> Adobe's models are 100% trained on works they own or license the copyright to.

I have to ask, was the license broadly interpreted to include AI training, or was that part of the original license? Because the former is what Google is doing right now with their video AI and scraping youtube.

It's about who created the work (book, painting, code, etc). If it's a human, then it's copyrightable. If it's an AI, then it's not. That's the stance the copyright office has been taking, going so far as to grant partial copyrights if a human substantially changes portions of an AI generated work.

This is backed up by how they have granted copyright to an AI generated and human edited book. The human only gets to get copyright on the parts they "significantly altered".

There was a news report on it awhile back that was interesting to read.

Last I heard, nothing generated by an LLM can be copyrighted. Copyright is for protecting the intellectual work of humans, not computers.

The closest I've heard is a LLM generated book had portions of the book copyrighted by the "Author", but only the portions where the author had significantly altered the LLM generated text.

Yes.

Or rather, it should get the same copyright consideration as all the artwork that went into building the models.

So still yes.

Ask them how much they'll sell commercial rights for.

Remember that FOSS is the exception in this economy, not the rule.

> now we have a healthy distrust of pictures we're not sure where they came from.

Respectfully, we only wish this were the case. There are, right now, AI generated images and videos of a presidential candidate in a disaster area. People want to believe they are real. And so to millions of people, they are real.

People do the same with faked nudes. They will believe in those nudes because they believe that women are inherently sinful (huzzah for "original sin") and absolutely would do such things.

Oh, and Photoshop never had a dedicated app (or 100 dedicated apps) for creating nudes from regular photos and/or videos. It took a skill a scant fraction of a percent of people had.

It's not as if we have no idea how to make use of AI in programming. We've been working on AI in one form or another since the 70's, and integrated them with our programming workflow almost as long (more recently in the form of autocomplete using natural language processing and machine learning models). It's already completely integrated into our IDEs, often with options to collate the output of multiple LLMs.

What further implementations of integrating AI and programming workflows have LLMs shown to be missing?

IME: I will either get a repeat of something already written (this happens all the time with java getter/setter boilerplate if the class isn't the one I'm currently working in), or I get some junior level attempt at what I ask it to do. The second case is the best case, and it still requires a code review with a fine toothed comb. For example, it loves to suggest plausible looking but non-existant methods on popular libraries.

It's one of those things where a language aware autocomplete will often save me more time, because it doesn't try and second guess me.

As you inadvertently pointed out, AI improvements are not linear. They depend on new discoveries more than they do iteration. We could be in either out of jobs or lamenting the stagnation of AI (again).

> why didn't math disappear when calculators were built?

Because you can see a child using a calculator.

> Why didn't teaching go out of fashion when TV was invented

Laws (which put students in classrooms) and a lack of TV use in classrooms. TV use in classrooms was generally driven by the teachers.

> "ChatGPT is different than anything that has come before, and will change everything"

It's effectively undetectable when used, unless you have students write essays in your presence and on paper. That's what makes it so much harder to counter than previous aids.

WRT writing large essays on paper - it's a skill that's not useful and is thus not emphasized in any class - a trend that's existed longer than ChatGPT. Reversing it now would impact all grades, and face major pushback from parents.

Helldivers was published by Sony, which created some issues as Sony tried to force a PS account login on all users, regardless of their platform.

So yay ArrowHead, but they're wedded to the same devil that's pushing ads on their platform.

I have several of his prints from the original Ukiyo-e series. The prints are incredibly interesting in their own right, since they use inks with very low opacity.

They're amazing pieces of art, and well worth collecting IMO.

I have to be honest, I search for files about once a year. Tops.

Now then in the browser, I start typing a URL and it's auto-completed from my bookmarks (and/or history). Even the most casual users do the same, just using search results instead of bookmarks.

The idea is fairly sound, but it relies on a bookmark usage pattern which I think is becoming more uncommon.

DEI is a replacement word, especially when used in the phrase "DEI hire". It's a replacement for Black, more specifically "N**r".

It's been really weird to see "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" become a hate word.

Well, that's one potential interpretation of the word woke. It's amazing how much different the definition is.

But that's why I put my definition into my comment, so we don't have to argue over definitions in order to discuss the assertion made by the parent.

As a side note, the "token black man" has been a thing for decades, if not longer. This is nothing new, but it sure makes a great talking point for gathering angry people.

At least a portion of the DEI officer job decline was caused by major investors becoming intolerant of DEI. I don't personally have a causal link for the change in investor's minds, but it happened at about the same time that fighting against DEI became a republican policy.

And for what it's worth, DEI's environmental cousin - ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) - reporting for investors is still going quite strong.

> Remember COVID, the lockdowns, the suppression of dissent?

This occurred under Trump during his first attempt to "poke the establishment in the eye."

> How about the left that used to be opposed to war yet now seem to support continual escalation of the Ukraine conflict?

Because 1) we're bound by treaties to do so (we promised to protect them if they dismantled their nuclear arsenal, which they did). 2) The Ukraine is, according to pretty much everybody with knowledge on European politics, acting as the first line of defense against Russia. It's why so many European countries are also supporting the Ukraine.

> The danger of Russia is directly proportional to how much money can be made from it.

The danger of Russia is there's a dying megalomaniac with nuclear codes and a desire to conquer Europe no matter the cost to Russia.

> I’m not voting for the party that supported school closures, coerced “vaccinations,” and funding endless wars.

So, you're not voting for trump? Again, all of these happened under his watch as president, and many were backed up by his executive orders.

> anyone that has faced two assassination attempts

By his own party, by people who voted for him in the past.

How will caring less and less about the injustice and intolerance experienced by people help in fighting injustice and intolerance?

This data would be of much more interest to your health insurance company. The ultimate preexisting condition pricing guide.

Mostly a US concern, as usual.

I'm fine with the buy terminology. When I buy a car, I get fixes for manufacturing defects for free. Day 1 bugs are similar defects.

I'm afraid that the connotations around rent (namely monthly payments) would only encourage the worst publishers to only go further.

He's also lucky the chimney for the boiled helium was working properly. Otherwise he (and perhaps some of his comrades) would be dead from asphyxiation.

The quenching process isn't exactly something they practice.

Hours, perhaps. They can shut the power off and that alone will de-energize the coils without touching the helium. Then it can be turned back on. No damage to the MRI, though the damage to the officer's ego might still be unrecoverable.