Stained Glass Atlas (https://stainedglassatlas.com/) - working on mapping/documenting as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. No fancy tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). Anyone who knows of great stained glass in their local area is welcome to come add to the data set!

Read the history of just about any political revolution in history. Eventually, those oligarchs at the top find their heads in the guillotine.

The irony of someone using AI trained on stolen copyrighted art to generate "art" and then wanting to copyright said "art" is hilarious.

Yeah, but does it have CarPlay yet? It's a complete deal breaker despite Rivian being essentially the only company who offers a BEV pickup truck of a reasonable size.

I don't think it is accurate for the opposite reason. If my wife and I made what the "living wage" was for two working adults, we'd be living with her parents. It is laughably low for the cost of living in this area.

It's a simple cost/benefit analysis that (rightly) causes the massive AI backlash. For the average Joe, non-tech worker, the cons of AI are:

* Higher electricty bills.

* 5-6x cost of RAM, GPUs, and other computer components

* Data centers popping up in their backyards

* An internet inundated with slop

* Slop beginning to infiltrate the video game industry and other creative industries

* AI being used to justify gutting entry level jobs for a generation already screwed by larger, long horizon economic forces

* Grok enabling the creation of revenge porn and CSAM with seemingly no repercussions

* Massive IP theft on a scale previously unheard of

* Etc.

The pros of AI are:

* It can summarize text and transcribe audio decently well.

* It can make funny pictures of cats wearing top hats.

* ???

Not to mention that the LAST place I want an all-consuming, privacy-destroying data beast is anywhere near my health data.

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

4. Designating the original or traditional form of something that has a digital or computer-mediated counterpart.

5. colloquial (chiefly humorous). Esp. of a person: unaware of or unaffected by computer technology or digital communications; outdated, old-fashioned.

In a perfect world, AI would be used to reduce the amount of work humans must do, to free up their time to make more art. Not used to replace human expression with soulless slop generated from art stolen from other artists.

That's why there's less backlash against AI that writes code and more backlash when the video game industry uses it for creative assets.