papersak

I log on every few months contemplating whether or not to do an art backlog update. When the AI announcement went up about everyone consenting to usage in the algorithm by default or whatever, I drummed up a "well this is my last journal post ever!" entry in my head. But I thought, no this is absurd. There are people paying for this site; they HAVE to do some sort of backpedal else this site is going to implode on itself anyway. And uh, looks like they did? So that's nice. Still stupid they even thought a significant chunk wanted to donate all their intellectual property once held dear by this site. I think that's what this whole debacle boils down to. It's always so interesting to watch divides between artists and programmers, as someone who dabbles in both. I've seen AI recognition algorithms in their earlier (maybe not earliest) stages, and most of the uses are all the same: you feed it zillions of examples and eventually it figures out what's what. Art AI has to be similar, but