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I'm packed tightly with hundreds of people to go through airport "security". What am I being secured from? If people actually wanted to kill a whole bunch of strangers, we're sitting ducks.

@skanman lol, same! I was about to write that yesterday but didn't think anyone would get the reference. I remember loving that movie!

@skanman I'm sure! It's just hilarious to me.

Lists of professions on financial services applications are so random. One I'm looking at has maybe 50 options, one of which is "Arms/Ammunition Dealer".

@atomicpoet Hopefully many years pass before she realizes she's has independently invented this concept

@atomicpoet LOL! Did you tell her that male strip clubs already exist? 😂

@neilochgaming @jomc To be fair, most of the people I'm thinking of aren't turning a blind eye. I think a lot of people are simply using the platform on their own terms for what it provides them, and the value proposition hasn't changed yet. And a lot of people who fit this bill who I follow are straight up opposed to the ElonTwitter project. I just try to recognize that I'm someone with less than 2k Twitter followers and I'm not a leader in any community, so I have less at stake by migrating.

@lyndonhood @mykola Yeah, I'm faaar from a defender of the current IP regime. But attribution seems like table stakes for a fair system.

At the end of the day, we're basically talking about a new front in the struggle for how to conceptualize intellectual property, in which the works that a derivative work sources from become increasingly obscure to the author, let alone consumers.

@jomc I also think people with large followings tend not to understand how alienating Twitter is to normal people. It's a fundamentally elitist place.

I'm a big Chris Hayes fan, but I'd guess that aside from the legitimate harassment I'd expect anyone of his profile to experience, to at least some extent, his experience is probably dominated by being the life of the party and welcome in every conversation.

Twitter's metrics-in-your-face UI and engagement-boosting algorithm give well known people vastly more clout in discussions. It's one place where Mastodon is already better.

@atomicpoet @whatabouttheken Ah yeah, I remember learning about the SACD oversampling approach in grad classes, too. Hearing Floyd in any sort of surround has got to be amazing!

I find some of the arguments compelling about how AI art plagiarizes the artists whose works the models are trained on.

But I'm also reminded of the controversy around sampling in hip hop, which gave marginalized people a way to create new art, changing the entire music world.

I think of Peter Gunz and Lord Tariq's hit Deja Vu. It sampled a Steely Dan song, and Donald Fagan and Walter Becker won 100% of the writing credit for Deja Vu in court. That doesn't seem right to me, but it's unsurprising the way the courts ruled against the Black dudes from the Bronx. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_Vu_(Uptown_Baby)

It's not exactly the same though. Samples in music can be identified, but the training source material in AI models might not be, let alone the contributions of specific pieces to a given generated output.

Cc @mykola

#ai #aiart #generativeAI #gpt #stablediffusion

@atomicpoet @whatabouttheken I haven't. My listening habits are way more pedestrian than my knowledge, haha. I took a class in grad school on spatial audio, and it turns out there's way more to it than 5.1. (I honestly thought going in, what more is there to say?) But turns out 5.1 is really designed specifically for cinema. Have you ever looked into Ambisonics?

@janedoi@kolektiva.social This is also how I feel. I think that in some cases, it's also vested interest. A lot of people have invested years into building a solid following and community. But I agree that trying to occupy Twitter feels like a lost cause AND also ignores the possibility of having something significantly better.