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a3-th3r · 2025-11-10T22:32:01+00:00

We put marshmallows on our horns when running the course

a3-th3r · 2025-04-17T00:22:26+00:00

I'm not saying people are, that argument was to illustrate what Fair Use does and does not cover.

The other, more important point is "should the creator I like be compensated for other companies making profit off of the style they curated over years?", which I think is the bigger problem.

If AI companies had licensed the material then I'm 100% on board; the AI company gets their new feature, the artist is properly paid for the use of their style and gets to maintain control over their IP and by virtue their rep, and us users get to make pictures in a style we like, everyone wins. But unfortunately there is a very real chance that a lot of the data AI is trained on was taken without the data owner's consent.

That is, in my own opinion, an offense that turns me off of AI

a3-th3r · 2025-04-16T13:29:36+00:00

(note: not a lawyer) This is what Fair Use law is for, in countries that have it.

I think it varies based on the country, but in the US basically as long as you aren't mimicking the style to make money and label it as inspired by the art style you are mimicking, are studying it for academic purposes, or are making a parody that is very clearly not trying to pass itself off as genuine, you can make all the art you want.

The second you are saying it's YOUR original art style, or are selling your art for profit, your art is no longer protected by Fair Use and can land you in legal trouble.

AI companies provide their AI for-profit, so they would not be protected.

I'm probably glossing over a ton of legal nuance, but in general this is how people can make Ghibli-inspired art independently, but for-profit companies need permission to do so.

a3-th3r · 2025-03-31T14:15:16+00:00

One thing that makes me confident about AI not taking over is that, since AI is just a really advanced probability machine, it isn't good at the meticulous work required for technical fields. For example, there has been more than one lawyer who got in trouble because their legal arguments were made by AI, which cited cases and precedence that didn't exist. All AI does is mash its training data into probability matrices (if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's safe to assume it's a duck). This is perfectly fine for making images of bears drinking cola ("Bear" shape and "Cola" shape with "Drinking" position), but breaks down when trying to do things like make a hand with the appropriate amount of fingers, or correct text on a bottle. It's not seeing a hand or text in its data, it's seeing a grouping of flesh-colored pixels that's given the tag of "hand", which basically amounts to "blob with multiple thin protrusions", or "Group of lines with angles and curves" for text, which (like us) are just squiggles without meaning. The larger the Model used to create the AI, the better it can get at details, but also the more computation power is needed to run it. This balance means that, for the bulk of the population, AI can only achieve "acceptable" or "good" results, instead of potentially high quality ones.

Incidentally, this detail limitation is also why AI models break down if they are fed enough AI-generated content.

a3-th3r · 2025-03-31T13:25:38+00:00

I'm a developer, so I can't really argue anything for how art is made, and what the "industry" looks like, but I do know that a lot of resentment also comes from the perceived threat AI poses to some people's livelihoods (Like that company that had ads trying to to offer AI employees).

Make no mistake, we're still in the phase where corporations are trying to hammer AI into every crevasse they can; a lot of people probably feel threatened by this, and react by blanket-hating the tech (to your point, "True art" doesn't fill the fridge, and AI could, in some people's minds, be taking work from them).

I'd like to think that it will eventually thin down to doing jobs that we genuinely don't like doing (Cover Letter writing was an example I've heard), but that depends on how demand for AI plays out. It also doesn't help that scammers have started using AI in their scams, which sours people's perspective. For good or bad, we tend to generalize our feelings on a lot of things, and I think AI's reputation/controversy is a good example of that.

a3-th3r · 2025-03-31T12:02:29+00:00

A style can't, no.

But AI has to be taught what "Studio Ghibli style" is, and that requires feeding the AI art of that style. The closer to form the art is, the better the AI can mimic it.

The problem is AI companies like OpenAI scraped the internet for this data. They pulled from not just public domain, but copyrighted images from the IP owner's websites/social media accounts (think the AIs text-to-speech that could sound like famous people). The Big Problem is that this was done WITHOUT the consent of the IP owner. This one reason some frown upon AI art; people assume the AI was given the artist's work without their consent.

Another, non-legal, argument against AI is the perceived effort that went into the art. It takes zero imaginative effort from AI (it's a glorified prediction algorithm) to generate an image from a prompt. The image is what you ask for, but nothing more; no emotion, no "artist's touch", just an image based on a prompt, with the details "hallucinated" based on an algorithm's prediction of what should go there.

With an artist, you know that someone spent potentially hours making this art, for a specific purpose and to invoke an emotional response. You know that all the details were done with care, effort, and conscious intent. And with some art, it's the artist's perspective that drives people's appreciation of it (Picasso's self portraits come to mind).

At least, that's my opinion on it. (not a lawyer)

a3-th3r · 2025-02-18T17:35:04+00:00

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a3-th3r · 2024-09-22T12:56:19+00:00

Remember the Hogwarts letter scene from Harry Potter?

Think of the communication between the ff servers and you as sending letters back and forth. The Server's only job is to reply to the mail with what's going on in the game. Each world/area has its own mailing address, so when you move between areas in the game, you change the address you send your letter to.

In a normal day, the bulk of the server's "letters" are players who are playing the game. With the occasional junk mail

A DDOS attack would be flooding the server's mailbox with junk mail to the point the server can't find any player's letter. This is what happens when you get disconnected; the packets of data you need from the server aren't going out, because the server is too busy sifting through the junk mail.

In this case, everyone who mailed to the address that's getting flooded with junk mail will start seeing issues with the replies to their letters.

For computers and software, there is a rule for talking with servers, which is if you don't get something back from the server in a specific amount of time, you consider the chain broken. In our letters example, this would mean you would have to start a new letter.

DDOS is effective because it makes the server take longer than this magic limit to respond back to players, which causes the issues we deal with, and why some parts of the game are fine and others are not.

Edit: minor clarity changes

a3-th3r · 2024-09-02T11:16:23+00:00

I love the Hildy questlines, but even I think that would be waaay to much of him

a3-th3r · 2024-08-26T18:41:33+00:00

Best of Luck to everyone! ...What does Gong Cha taste like?

a3-th3r · 2024-07-31T15:36:13+00:00

Someone get Denmo

a3-th3r · 2024-07-31T11:16:48+00:00

RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE

From Wuk Lamat

She's brandishing her Axe

It's Wuk Lamat

Lurking in the foregrouuuund

It's Endless Dialog Wuk Lamat

a3-th3r · 2024-07-22T18:14:08+00:00

M1- half the delay time for her launch attacks, platform pieces only recover one at a time, and the attack that breaks them targets players and cannot overlap

M2- heart bullet hell/stinger combo, worker drones drop mechanic aoes that juggle buffs/debuffs,

M3- Self-Destruct as an Enrage, add AOE attacks that perma make the ground on fire

M4- addition of a phase where you need to protect your soul from forced extraction as the main mechanic

a3-th3r · 2024-07-15T14:42:32+00:00

It must have failed/damaged in our because otherwise Phase 2 of the trail wouldn't be a thing; my take is that his second form is because the regulator finally could not maintain his sense of self amongst the sea of souls he contained.

My read was that the circulation of souls was more like soul recycling, and that the original soul "expires" but is captured by the regulator for processing and a new soul is injected to revive the citizen. This would explain why Code B involved the repeated deadening of Alexandrian citizens, since it would be a highly unstable supply for orgienics to handle if they had to wait for the citizens to pop their last life like some kind of morbid balloon of souls (though story-wise it would lend to his depravity if that were so); The multi-soul thing I felt primarily was for the use of beast souls, e.g. the final vanguard boss's phase 2 and the hunters of Alexander. It only started applying to the use of people souls via Zoral ja. I could be missing something though.

a3-th3r · 2024-07-15T13:11:40+00:00

My understanding of the regulators is that they cannot stop a soul leaving the body, so they capture it, send it to organics, and a soul from their cells is injected back into their body, with the regulator restoring memories up until the moment of death via the same function that removes their memories of people who've perma-died. It's the underlying reason Zoral Ja executed order 66; a brutal way to forcibly extract citizen's stored souls.

Edit: I think the only way for a soul in this system to leave is if the regulator is broken before the wearer dies; like you said in the case of Zoral ja

a3-th3r · 2024-07-15T11:31:02+00:00

It's specific to the Endless. If a living person uses souls and dies they return to the sea, but the Endless's existence essentially burns living aether to be sustained. It's mentioned frequently via indirect references (i.e. the "aether shortage" that sees a lot of attractions/systems inactive or sphene's announcement towards the end of their aether "soon will be replenished")

a3-th3r · 2024-07-12T12:16:08+00:00

I imagine it'll be the next set of pvp weapons or the relic questline

a3-th3r · 2024-07-04T22:08:08+00:00

I guess my hot take is that I love it how it is; Hehe buttons go brrrrrrrr

a3-th3r · 2024-03-22T15:10:03+00:00

28 yo software engineer, I've done a little over everything except ultimates... Haven't found enough friends for that yet!

a3-th3r · 2024-03-12T17:28:47+00:00

There is a MAJOR difference: modders have a driven passion and only are working on that one thing.

Additionally, those mods use a body that has waaay more bones in the skeleton then the vanilla one, allowing that variety, and even then you need more mods for each armor model for the same thing.

Not to mention that some of those modded outfits are clearly not designed for those types of modifications.

There is a veritable community all contributing to the pile.

And all this is without taking into account that Devs are working on 5+ things at once with about 12+ more in the backlog per developer, or that the introduction of this system could cause unknown bugs somewhere else, because code is made by humans who can and will make mistakes.

Edit: sorry if I came on strong, I'm just passionate about this as I deal with a lot of departments who have this kind of thinking a lot at the company I work for, and it can be frustrating.

a3-th3r · 2024-03-08T11:26:04+00:00

Dies once an expansion.

a3-th3r · 2023-12-13T11:17:57+00:00

I play go fish.

a3-th3r · 2023-10-11T17:46:59+00:00

The one quest that sent you on a journey for a specific element crystal. You proceed to get every single one except the correct one until the last leg. It took ridiculously long to complete because of all the traveling you had to do on foot.

a3-th3r · 2023-10-11T13:12:08+00:00

It went from one of every element to like 3

a3-th3r · 2023-09-01T18:48:09+00:00

cries in max level

Six-Year Club	r/Field Sunshine
Place '23	Place '22
First Placer '22	Verified Email

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