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Well, I'm singing the "please fill out this form for my insurance company" song if I get robbed, mugged, in an accident. In the case of the missing kid, it depends. Sometimes they'll mobilize if the family's a "good family" as far as they know, but a lot of times they'll just tell you the kid ran away and not look. So I might be very well singing the "please do a video on this" song to the true crime community on youtube.

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The ruling is ABOUT the simplistic use of AI. Right down at the bottom it says that a human using AI tools is still a human author. Thaler tried to copyright the AI as the author, and himself as owning it due to work-for-hire. The Judge said no. Because if you just put a prompt in and get art out, you are not a creator.

Your examples are all of a human using automated tools to make art when the ruling specifically states that a human using automated tools is an author. The work is only non-copyrightable when AI is the author.

The precedent is of a freaking monkey taking a picture, for asimov's sake. Honestly, photographers do not deserve the shit they're getting piled on them in this thread.

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@hglman Also, I'm hurt. I gave you a distinct example of the use of AI as a tool to assist an artist in that comment so that I could COVER the use of AI as a tool rather than having an AI as the author and you say my argument only covers "simplistic use of AI."

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@Phoenixbouncing Soldiers are more strictly regimented than regular police, I think. Hell, if you fuck up just a little as an MP you are out of that career field. Unfortunately, it's because of a STRONGER hierarchy and if the leader goes bad they all go with him. Which is why when there's war crimes it's usually a whole unit committing them.

Of course, there's also the aspect where the Law of Armed Conflict forbids anyone in the armed forces from doing things that civilian police forces do all the time, like using tear gas.

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@Stamets I choose to believe thre was someone else by this name who wasn't an idiot. They mean the 22nd Century Elon Musk.

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They know they can expect him to back them up, which I guess counts for a lot. Glares at Archer

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I'm in IT too. I'm a network engineer who grew up wanting to be Scotty and ended up B'Elanna.

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He got to be a Captain in Star Trek Online, at least.

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@echoplex21 I love the DLC, they are just crazy nightmare mode.

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Scratch is from the end of the original game, but I did hear that Sam Lake confirmed in a tweet that American Nightmare is canon.

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@Katana314 Pretty sure that's Saga Anderson from the FBI. The co-protagonist.

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The texture on those walls just makes me shudder.

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See, now I think early Lwaxana is key to understanding Betazoids. It is a society of telepaths and empaths, and as a result they have an EXTREMELY strong sense of self that can actually lean into the narcissistic, they don't understand boundaries, and they do not have that filter that lies between thought and speech because everyone can tell what everyone is thinking anyway. They are so aware of people's feelings that they don't feel a need to cater to passing comfort, knowing that annoyance is just a thing that happens and will pass and that it's better to focus on the more important hurts--which is why she goes out of her way to counsel Alexander and Odo but just rolls her eyes at Picard's discomfort.

This really strong sense of self is so ingrained in the species that even Lon Suder, who doesn't have these abilities, is still such a strong personality that he TAKES OVER Tuvok during a Vulcan mind meld, and Tuvok is no slouch in telepathy.

I think it was an amazing idea to portray a telepath or an empath like this, let alone both, and it indicates a unique and interesting society in the Federation. Star Trek has a (criminally underused) race of telepaths that is unlike any other race of telepaths and that is all because of Gene Roddenberry's Auntie Mame joke.

I mean, just stop and think about what Aunties and Moms can be like. Now stop and think about them in a matriarchal culture where men are still traditionally masculine and women are traditionally feminine. Now consider them in a culture where NOBODY CAN LIE.

That's the key to Betazed. Nobody can lie, so you may as well be yourself even if you're annoying and overbearing.

Going by Lwaxana, Lon Suder, Tam Elbrum ("Tin Man") and even Deanna Troi when she lets her Betazoid half out a bit, Betzoids are an extremely impulsive and hedonistic species but also the premier telepaths of the Star Trek Universe and that is just unlike any other portrayal of telepaths but it still makes so much sense when you think about it.

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Yeah, Riker probably gets a rebellion roll everytime Troi's mother is around.

I wonder if there's a category for "The Captain COULD get some tail if he had better taste in women."

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The one you made me think of falls under "Data takes over the ship" and "The holodeck has a malfunction"

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Where does "Troi's mother comes to visit" fall?

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There are two kinds of Star Trek fans: those who love Lwaxana Troi and those who are wrong.

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Mine keep getting caught on stuff if I don't clip their claws.

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Well, just about every world is a dystopia with only one climate.

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It occurs to me that the Star wars universe just might not have weathermen.

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Never surrender!

Shit, man. We didn't even need to burn down Atlanta this time.

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