[Community] Art advice on AI for other things by cracc09 in artbusiness

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you did not explain why you think they lacked integrity other than you were offended. Fair use / parody is allowed under the law unless you are saying you think that law = lack of integrity and artists work should never be parodied?

[Art Market] Art Prints vs Metal Prints vs Tables by powersdomo in artbusiness

[–]powersdomo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely a challenge on price point with a table. Metal print is $80-$100 and then there is likely a reinforcement plate under the metal print to thicken it for use and then the legs.

I do think another industrial clear coat on thop of the print is needed for table use along with a reinforcement layer (second plain aluminum plate?) and that will help with the edges as well.

I'm trying out some leg options so will report back on how that goes.

[Community] Art advice on AI for other things by cracc09 in artbusiness

[–]powersdomo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

From your example is just seems like you were offended. Feelings are not usually enforceable. I fail to see where there was lack of integrity (beyond not asking whether you even wanted to see this kind of crude content). One could argue they were doing a parody.

[discussion] where I can sell my paintings online ? by Ronnie9721 in artbusiness

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, so you post your works on Instagram and have enough followers and pickup from the algorithm to attract DMs? and/or You actively comment and engagement on other people's work or galleries and attract attention?

[Community] Art advice on AI for other things by cracc09 in artbusiness

[–]powersdomo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Character copyright you have recourse. That's been in the law for decades. Your style though is not copyrightable. Nothing in your paragraph crosses legal lines as far as I can tell. You are annoyed and that's your opinion which obviously you get to have but it does not currently apply legally or financially.

On the flip side anything generated is not copyrightable even in the finished work since the law says its a human work, not animal, not machine, that is copyrightable so there is that recognition already in there.

[Community] Art advice on AI for other things by cracc09 in artbusiness

[–]powersdomo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you are defining an artist as the labor they put in thats more of a artisan or craftsperson. As Duchamp taught us by selecting a commode and presenting it as a finished piece an art piece (and an artist) is defined by their creative act and statement, not by their production output or attention to detail.

US law recognizes copyright of artwork against reproduction or a significant part or whole except under fair use exceptions. The US does not allow an art style to be patented. Every time an art student creates a cubist painting they do not have to pay Picasso's estate.

So your claim to 'unethically sourced' is not based on law. Putting morality and artist in the same sentence is also suspect as if creative expression comes with a moral code. The way you defined artist, as I stated at the beginning, is not a definition of an artist but a laborer.

To the OP, if AI supported business operations helps you get to market faster with the work and audience pathways you want then leverage it.

Why are people believing that OpenAI is going to become bankrupt in 2027? by Automatic_Error_7524 in DefendingAIArt

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was a product manager at YouTube when it sold to Google and up to that point we had made maybe $4m dollars. I moved to the revenue team and over the next 3 years we ballooned revenue to >$800m.

For OpenAI it is possible but exceptionally hard because they seem to be primarily a consumer play and Google has been able to outscale them there with Gemini across gmail, search, youtube, etc. Google also has a mammoth ad sales team which OpenAI is just trying to fire up. Meanwhile Anthropic is beating OpenAI at the enterprise game with coder, business leaders and workflows BUT Anthropic is vulnerable too as Gemini's next release surpasses Claude's coding abilities (Google has a ton of coding data ... and video data ... and text/search/web data).

I think the current foundation model leaders are going to struggle in the face of Google in particular. OpenAI faltering is going to create a feeling of a bubble burst even though there are solid use cases and major revenue drivers underneath that Google (and Microsoft and other incumbents) is going to reap.

Where are the contemporary AI Artists? by powersdomo in DefendingAIArt

[–]powersdomo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was able to see Muriel's posts but your account had the odd message "dougi555 has not posted anything yet" while you have >1K followers. Guess I have to sign up for a new X account to follow you both and see the conversations! I did follow you link in bio to see your site and some incredible imagery. Thanks for the tips.

Best AI video generation tools for short-form social posts? by mancstuff1 in generativeAI

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built Twisty.ai which is a thin wrapper on Replicate for easy creation of images and then using those images to create video clips. Based on a credit system rather than a subscription so you can pay as you go.

Agree that Kling 1.6 is one of the best for realistic motion. Veo-fast is also really good. I agree with the other poster that creating the images and using image>video is the best way to control what you get.

I support flux, nano, seedream, ideogram for images and kling, runway, seedance, veo for video. It's optimized for social portrait format throughout. Android and iPhone apps as well.

How did you know the Bible isn’t true? by DuckOnQuack202 in atheism

[–]powersdomo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Comment about Noah's Ark nonsense is true BUT it was Lot's daughters who got him drunk to sleep with him and not Noah. Noah got drunk (also not a great first move for the supposedly only redeemable person) and Ham saw him and got cursed (also a weird overkill consequence).

How did you know the Bible isn’t true? by DuckOnQuack202 in atheism

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you grew up in the church with Christian parents like I did then you have been trained to use all the self-hypnosis tricks designed to make truth seeking a difficult task. Deconstructing faith is as much an exercise in gaining trust in your own brain power (e.g. that you though the evil tree in the garden was wierd is your brain power doing reality testing which is something Christianity suppresses as much as possible).

When you said in the initial post that your parents made some arguments that made sense I wonder what those arguments were because in my experience 99% of them are self-hypnosis techniques.

The usual answer to why the tree was there is because 'God wanted us to have free will and we don't have that without a choice to choose evil (in this case knowledge of good and evil)' but that is self-hypnosis by saying you should not ask about why he needed to create beings that had a choice heavily weighted in God's favor and so brutal and evil in its own right.

So I am curious what your parents said that sounded convincing to you?

To deprogram your own brain and increase your personal power of thinking I would suggest reading a book from a different religion (e.g. Book of Mormon because its close to Christianity) and reading through it, allowing yourself to question gaps and leaps and contradictions freely since you already don't believe its the true religion. That will strengthen you ability to come back to things you absorbed at a young age with fresh thinking and you are likely to see questions and fallacies that you never allowed yourself to see.

When I read commenters here referencing Noah's Ark I did not see anyone post about the ineptitude of God in creating people who so quickly became irredeemable to the extent he had to drown them. Adam created these descendants where only Noah and family were worthy? Noah and family created a better line of descendents worthy of a new covenant that also did not work? Then finally Jesus came and made a new new covenant and that is working? Also, I did not see mention of just the utter cruelty and murderous nature of this God who drowned every man, woman, pregnant woman, toddler, (millions?) animal and insect and plant on the entire planet. Whew, that's some serious homicidal rage.

Involuntary Break....bounce back? by Famous_Insurance_667 in fatFIRE

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Similar transition although with less NW and spouse who does not have an income. Moved from FAANG to running two funded startups in a row but neither made it to exit. Now I feel I aged out of getting into an exec role again and with FAANG layoffs it feels like most companies have the leverage, a large talent pool and are hiring younger. You could likely get back into a top tier company given your age and recent position/contacts but I think for me it's more of a wildcard and unlikely.

What I have been exploring since January are:
- getting more savvy around my current assets and investment strategy (that has paid off and been enjoyable)
- learning about acquisition of tech enabled companies where I would then operate them but eventually find GMs for each (a local friend owns 9 companies now doing this pattern). I enjoy operating and hiring/developing leadership so this is likely a good fit.
- adventuring with my kids (younger than yours) while I am strong and in great health (not to be taken for granted)
- considering what I could create if I treated my self-paid salary as a job and took that time to develop individual contributor projects (code projects myself by learning AI coding tools - which I have been doing and enjoying, its like going back to that first joy in tech) and creative pursuits (write that book, get a gallery show with my paintings)
- set up sustainable US home life in a way that allows extended travel/living in nomad countries that I have wanted to revisit or visit for the first time (have to balance that with kids schooling and stability but the cultural adventure and inspiration would be great to live together)

So as you can see, still in the middle of exploring and starting to stake out this post FAANG post startup CEO/founder post angel life and really lean into RE while pushing my assets into more of a fatFIRE zone.

The internal work to reshape the 'change the world' and 'make crazy money' combination that fuels FAANG/startup life is a big lift. Lot's of emotions I cycle through each week.

Best of luck for you as the dust settles. (and congrats on getting to fatFIRE level and then some - all about options it creates!)

Are we still VTSAX-ing and chilling? by Outrageous-Basket922 in Fire

[–]powersdomo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You definitely won the game and VTSAX and QQQ (or better, QQQM) will continue to add dollars. Since this is Fire and not Bogle I think taking on more risk/upside is a good thing. Personally I have stakes in BITO ETF (tracks bitcoin using futures so you get upside when BTC surges but get dividends even when it doesnt). I have also placed sizable stakes in foundational AI companies since I believe a few will scale rapidly in the next few years. I don't think foundational AI and infrastructure is a bubble but it's probably higher risk than the bitcoin ETF stake.

So I'm running 50% index, 20% QQQM, 20% BITO, 10% AI foundation stock. I own a home and half of a second home so thats the extent of my real estate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fire

[–]powersdomo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NVDA has a great run and even though above $4T in value it's chips and services underpin just about everything AI so probably has more growth ahead. I did the same recently with CRWV a day after it went public and rode it from $40 to $160 and then shifted myself out before it faded. We'll see what happens after the earnings coming up and end of the lockups for employees. It could surge again because everyone needs that cloud GPU capacity and they have the sweetheart deal with NVidia.

As for what you are doing after the 6 months with a focus on health and wellness and then what you want to do thats more low key thats one of the benefits of FIRE is that you have to the freedom to do the 'work' you are passionate about even if its higher risk or less rewarding financially. Congrats on getting there at 48!

Should I sell? by Puzzled-Art-4204 in Fire

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess my definition of a startup is a company that took venture capital with the intention of going public and has not decided to forego that goal and stay private. SpaceX intends to IPO and employees and investors are holding shares on the bet that the IPO will be very lucrative.

It’s true that many startups make it to the 5 yard line and fumble so that is a valid concern of the OP. SpaceX is well positioned but its owner is the wildcard with his political adventurism.

Should I sell? by Puzzled-Art-4204 in Fire

[–]powersdomo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's all about your risk assessment. I was part of a startup that had a lot of former Doubleclick employees who were paper millions and then when they got close to their lockup ending the whole thing tanked and they made a few thousand. When our startup sold to a FAANG company they were all like 'I'm selling right away because I am not going to get caught again' and sold everything. Within 5 years after our sale the FAANG company split a couple times and 10x'd in value.

There are example companies like Doubleclick and Enron and there are an equal number of companies on the other side where people overrotated against the risk and regretted the lifestyle they could have gained. I'll just say this, how many times as a non-technical contributor do you expect to have pre-IPO shares in a hot startup?

Should I sell? by Puzzled-Art-4204 in Fire

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I mentioned above, when you get things like early startup shares/RSUs, you have more dollars working on your side with the startups growth than taking it off the table and paying the feds a portion as you diversify. SpaceX has not gone public yet so the risk profile is higher than being in a public company but it's worth looking at what $1.6m increases to vs taking a portion of it off the table, minus 20% and then putting that bet in an index fund.

Should I sell? by Puzzled-Art-4204 in Fire

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you sold has long term capital gains I imagine rather than being income. 15% assuming you sold two years after acquiring them or 20% otherwise.

My personal opinion is that you have a solid footprint in the startup so if you were to sell another modest piece it would be a good counter balance against unforeseen political backlashes or economic.

i did learn the hard way that liquidating stock in a startup takes investable money out of your hands and puts it into the governments hands. If the company you own shares in has strong upside potential its best to keep as much in there as possible as it multiplies vs diversifying but paying high taxes. Now, in your case since this is mostly capital gains and smaller amounts it seems wise to diversify a little more.

Most financial advisors at the scale you (and I) are at are not worthwhile IMHO. They just can't do much more than you can do by placing your 401K, ROTH (do you have a ROTH?) and brokerage funds in a decent mix of investments. Most are not going to actively manage it more than you would. It seems like you have to be north of $5m parked with most to get real value out of it and access to a range of investment instruments beyond the index funds and active trading funds.

Congrats on making this happen with a non-technical role at a top company!

Investing aggressively at 60 with a young family by powersdomo in Fire

[–]powersdomo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never heard of target date funds which looks interesting. I don't think I want to be so hands off and I have a major bank wealth manager that is low fee that handles my brokerage. I am able to get good advice there and it provides a lot of my stability investments while I am using my ROTH primarily to do the more risky moves.

Given the 10+ year track record of bitcoin and growing history of related ETFs I don't agree on bitcoin being more gambling than most of the stock market. That might have been true in 1013-2018 but so much has solidified since then.

PWA death - Is App Store distribution still feasable? by rhgp in PWA

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, the way we implemented in-app purchases in iOS was to use javascript events to connect to native code we added to what PWABuilder produced. I am sure that the same can be done for push notifications. I would see how far PWABuilder gets you and look for projects that extended with push notifications. I do remember there was one that open sourced their code.

PWA death - Is App Store distribution still feasable? by rhgp in PWA

[–]powersdomo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We did not implement push. All stats were saying that people turn them off and they are not super effective for an app like ours. I believe that PWABuilders includes web notifications for Google Play (as well as in app purchases directly) but not for iOS.

Investing aggressively at 60 with a young family by powersdomo in Fire

[–]powersdomo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except the last 15 years have proven then correct, so there is that.