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It's hard for me to imagine any system as flexible as Lemmy communities NOT operating under centralized control, outside of notional attempts at democratic procedures held by the community owner themselves.
Hm yeah on second look the images aren't as comparable as I expected. I just saw the general composition in the thumbnails and assumed more similarity. I do think they probably prompted the original artist in the generated work, though, which kind of led to my thoughts in my op.
AI can absolutely produce copyrighted content if it's prompted to. Name drop an artist in Midjourney and you will be able to prompt their style - see this list of artists and prompted images. So you can just tweak the settings a bit to heavily weight their name, generally describe the composition of the work you're looking to approximate, and you can absolutely produce something close to their original works.
The image is wrong because the original artwork is not stolen. It is part of a dataset by LAION (or another similar dataset, basically a text-image pair where the image is linked at its original source). To train the imagegen, its company had to download a temporary copy, which is exempt from infringement by copyright law. There is no original artwork somewhere in a database accessible by Midjourney, just the numerical relationship generated by the image-text pair it learned from.
On the other hand, AI can obviously produce content in violation of copyright - like here. But that's specifically being prompted by the user. You can see other examples of this with Grok generating Mickey Mouse and Simpsons characters. As of right now, copyright violations are the legal responsibility of the users generating the content - not the AI itself.
There's a small, relatively low value market of commissioned online art that has been and will continue to be impacted. People who may have paid $50-60 for a (furry) OC will start going to AI image gens as the process becomes more refined and allows them to add detail to the end result without much effort.
Same - I'm here more for the promise of a better experience rather than the better experience itself. Still waiting for the tipping point where niche topical communities have more than 1 post every 3 days.
Not trying to start shit, but some of the people in this thread need to realize that if they replied to people here like they replied on reddit, they'll eventually get banned from instances too. And instance owners will exercise way more discretion than a website with a TOS.
2 hours after he left an Anesthesiologist I didn't know came to check some PCAs, so me being me, started asking questions about the device and given that I'm thinking about studying medicine I asked about it and he told me where he studied, what he did afterwards, started showing me the documentation anesthesiologists use.
Are you being considerate of the doctors' time and attention? They have work to be doing. As in this example, he came in to check PCAs. Sometimes people can even volunteer information (like showing you the documentation anesthesiologists use), but maybe because they feel socially compelled in that moment to do so even when they should be on task.
Another possibility - maybe your boss is trying to maintain cohesion between nurses. You seem to have a fairly low opinion of the other nurses. Separating yourself and trying to speak only with the doctors kinda demonstrates an intentional division with new co workers that is liable to lead to larger problems working together down the line. Maybe he expects you not to respect their judgment calls, or to put doctors in a tough position by saying, "doctor x told me we do things THIS way" when that process is all-but-on-paper owned by nurses.
I know you're viewing your situation as learning, trying to get smarter, intentional curiosity - but I don't really think that's the problem your boss has. Maybe if you accomplished this in a different way, he wouldn't complain. Your boss definitely doesn't want you to be dumb.
I thought that was the Sims intended playstyle? You mean to tell me the developer didn't intend for me to make a family of 8 of my friends, then trap them in a house until each of them dies one-by-one Hunger Games style? Then build a glorious mansion for the final one?
Completely right OP, and this is worth repeating as MUCH as possible. More than almost any UX or intake changes, Fediverse will only grow if their experience of the community is good.
Unfortunately, some people have never caught a vibe in their life and it shows lol. A single person with a bad attitude can completely tank your experience in a small community, versus a 20,000 person subreddit where usernames are basically indistinguishable.
Technically anyone can spin up an instance centered on whatever dark and inhumane topic. That's the reality of an open network. That's why defederation and whitelisting are such important tools as Fediverse grows. You don't actually want access to every last bit of information on the network.
Yes for sure. We're noticing they've passed the inflection point of the enshittification cycle. Fewer valuable features rolling out, more monetization and ads than ever. I wager we have 2 years before it's surpassed by some other platform with better overall service.
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In addition to niche political audiences, Lemmy is full of tech professionals who have probably integrated AI into their daily workflow in some meaningful ways.