The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.

Stealing another artists work when they have very loudly and publicly stated they do not support you stealing their work does have a personal impact.

You just don’t see artists as people.

From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.

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Every work from home person and every corporate end point will be upgrading; simply due to legal liability for the corporations. That alone is hundreds of millions of pcs and laptops getting thrown out (because anyone in IT knows no corpo is going to pay the extra hours to recycle properly).

Average users with no liability? Plenty will stay on win 10 until their use case no longer works, i.e. when steam dropped win vista compatibility, but plenty will be scared enough to upgrade.

The weird part will be seeing who sidegrades to a tablet in the corporate environment. Many android tablets can do everything needed for office work, and don’t have the same security cross section. Most app front ends are electron anyway these days so its not like x86 is needed.

The currently largest single source of ewaste in the world should be criticized at every turn.

Got it, fish are racist confirmed.

Sure thing lib. Stalinism, the thing that nearly solely killed fascism, is fascism. You’re welcome on behalf of stalin, by the way, for killing nazis when you people wouldn’t.

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Most right wing voters, right now, practice community level communism, or at least a communal sharing economy.

But you gotta understand that for more than a hundred years now a huge amount of tax payer and corporate money has funded the single largest propaganda campaign in world history, associating the words socialism and communism with every single bad thing that could be described using literary, visual, or audio mediums.

Add this to a society that was already made up of some of the most religious and socially conservative (read shame oriented) people in almost world history, and you have a permanent brainwashing switch that gets flipped on mere mention of specific words.

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PTB but what did you expect?

You went to an instance that explicitly supports the us government and explicitly defines the us government s current state propaganda as absolute truth. Don’t do that if you don’t want to be banned for disagreeing with us propaganda.

Those are two different sites (.si and nyaa pantsu) due to an almost comical amount of drama between the admins of the former nyaa torrent site. Land might be a mirror of one of them but the other is an entirely different tracker.

Nyaa.si/nyaa.pant.su would be the original versions of that site, and usually have most things.

He’s insane. See being insane like this isn’t just holding a belief radically different from commonly accepted knowledge, but failing to provide proof or evidence that can be independently verified.

If he could provide proof, even bad proof, it’d be fine. But since he couldn’t even understand why a side character would get paid less than the leading role and fumbled the marvel bag so hard it’s unlikely he’d ever be able to provide proof.

The country that heavily invested in science and technology, much more so than any other nation in history, is going to lead the world in those fields?!

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YDI. Maybe stop embodying the idea of ‘scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds’ for a few days and you might see why your actions even alienate relatively normie communities.

You can send a cease and desist for any reason to anyone at anytime.

But they wouldn’t be able to win in court, the eula of both games explicitly allow using their IP in mods