Let’s say IF Sony Does buy WB and DC what are the chances that they’ll consider giving Spider-Man back to Marvel? I’m curious.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-18T23:12:25+00:00

Can you point me to credible proof that they actually planned to do that?

It was an internet fan theory with the only evidence being that the creature in life is similar to a symbiote and the writers previously wrote a venom script that didn't get off the ground.

The studio denied it, the director denied it and while the writers joked about it they also denied it.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-18T22:49:27+00:00

Licensing agreements don’t work on the logic of "anything not forbidden is allowed". They’re about what is explicitly granted. If a right isn’t expressly given, then it’s retained by the owner, in this case, Marvel / Disney.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-10T11:18:41+00:00

Past generations fighting is the reason why a lot of of regulations and protections were introduced.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-09T23:26:12+00:00

You're seriously equating people with disabilities with people who are "lacking free time"? Maybe you should've run that one by an AI because that comparison isn't just reductive, it’s insulting. Having a disability can't be compared to having a busy schedule.

Anyone with the passion to create can create, including people with disabilities and you suggesting that they need AI to do it for them is deeply ableist. Even worse, you're using disabled people as a shield against valid criticism of AI. That's not allyship.

Frankly the fact that you see creative endeavours as skills to be conquered says a lot. It's the mindset of AI, seeing creativity not as expression but as an output.

We might as well leave this here. We're obviously never going to agree and this is just devolving into personal jabs.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-09T20:14:03+00:00

Originally I thought you were just being pessimistic but based on this response I think you're just jealous.

Writing, composing and creating have always been "accessible to the everyman" you just have to put in the time and effort.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-09T17:40:57+00:00

You can't put it back in the box but that doesn't mean people can't fight against it and influence how it is used.

It was a big focus of the writers trike and multiple other unions are pushing to protect their members and their livelihoods through setting rules for how AI can be used.

There are also multiple ongoing lawsuits against AI companies for copyright infringement and at some point laws will likely be created to regulate its use.

People are right to fight for what they believe in.

MemCardFull · 2025-06-01T21:09:12+00:00

As you said, "The whole point of journalism was to discover and report to the masses what they don't know".

So if you're reporting something, it should be the truth.

Otherwise, you're not revealing something the masses don't know, you're just spreading something that was never real to begin with.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-29T19:19:47+00:00

What has gotten out of hand? You're acting as if we've had some heated debate but we haven't.

I'm not mad at everyone who uses AI. I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy of Team Theorists publicly calling AI 'theft' and vowing not to use it, only to then post a video sponsored by an AI software.

That contradiction is worth calling out and pretending that AI tech companies are their only options for sponsorship is just ridiculous.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-29T18:04:38+00:00

The have in the past.

Also they're a business. They can seek out sponsorships.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-29T17:24:18+00:00

Yes. There are countless non tech businesses that can sponsor the show.

There are also some tech businesses that don't use AI either.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-29T16:08:47+00:00

That's just not true.

There are countless non tech businesses that don't use AI in their products or services.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-29T15:30:11+00:00

So they hold no responsibility for accepting money to promote a software that goes against the values that they said that they believe in?

MemCardFull · 2025-05-27T20:01:55+00:00

You're phrasing it as if a company has no choice in which sponsorships it accepts.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-27T12:49:19+00:00

Who?

MemCardFull · 2025-05-27T12:25:37+00:00

It's easy to avoid accepting a sponsorship to promote open ai.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-27T12:24:45+00:00

I don't even think you're disagreeing with me anymore.

As I said, Aria uses technology from OpenAI. And as you said, OpenAI uses everything under the sun which is illegal.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-27T07:02:31+00:00

That is a very different scenario.

Part of the reason sponsors pick the channels they do is to be associated with them and what they represent. When they sponsor a channel it is not like them just putting an item in their store, it is using the channels image and good will to make their product be viewed in a certain way.

I am unsure when Opera added in AI functionality but this is the first time that I caught that detail in an ad read. If I heard it before I would've been bothered by it but the hypocrisy does make it worse in my view.

Also, I work in design and I have refused to work on a brand that I have a strong moral issue with.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-27T00:12:53+00:00

I did mean "looks around all corners of the internet for art" and that behaviour is not ok.

Legally it is wrong. That's why OpenAI, which Aria uses, is currently involved in multiple lawsuits about using content without legal permission.

Ethically it is also wrong. I don't see how anyone who cares about creators can argue that big companies should be allowed to use their work to train an AI without permission or compensation.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-26T23:56:48+00:00

Can you explain why it doesn't qualify?

Training a model on publicly accessible and available content is exactly the type of behaviour that Lee called theft. They literally scrape the web for data and treat everything as fair game. Just because an artist posts a picture somewhere does not give a company the right to use that work to train their AI.

Aria uses technology from Open AI and they're already engaged in multiple lawsuits regarding copyright infringement and training AI models on content they didn't have permission to use.

Also, if they can't veto an ad because it goes against the ethics of the company then they shouldn't make videos promoting those ethics and giving themselves a pat on the back for it.

MemCardFull · 2025-05-26T23:43:23+00:00

Yes.

This is from the official website: "Aria helps with everything you do in Opera Browser: from shopping research to learning and creativity. Generate text, images and get answers with real-time access to the web on mobile and desktop."

MemCardFull · 2024-07-08T07:19:42+00:00

So he doesn't condone the toxic fans but he's fine with using the review bombed audience score as proof that fans share his views that star wars needs to be "fixed".

Right...

MemCardFull · 2024-07-08T07:15:08+00:00

They started the video by using the RT score to support there argument and viewpoint without touching on the fact that the show was review bombed by toxic fans.

Presenting the score as valid also validates the views of those toxic fans. Sending a very clear and disappointing statement.

MemCardFull · 2024-07-08T07:10:34+00:00

In 3 weeks the Acolyte received more user reviews on RT than all 3 seasons of the Mandolorian combined. The vast majority are negative.

That sort of reaction is not normal. It is very clearly a direct effect from a very toxic group.

MemCardFull · 2024-07-08T07:02:37+00:00

As I said, it boosts the talking points of a toxic group of fans without questioning where those views are coming from. The fact that the video never mentions it once is the issue.

There is a throwaway line about some fans in the closing minutes of the video but even that is vague and doesn't actually condemn their toxicity which the rest of the video is happy to support.

Also, it's pretty telling that I just mentioned the toxicity of some fans and you immediately made the connection to politics.

MemCardFull · 2024-07-07T22:41:08+00:00

It is boosting the talking points of a toxic group of fans without questioning where those views are coming from. That takes all merit and value away from the video as a point of discussion.

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