

that’s not stealing, that’s copying. you’re in the wrong comm to be calling piracy stealing.
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that’s not stealing, that’s copying. you’re in the wrong comm to be calling piracy stealing.


I fucking hate gen AI art and it has made my life more difficult in many ways… suddenly it infests shit in a way it shouldn’t
seeing as how using genAI even during development is still rare enough that it makes the news, I can’t imagine it’s been as big of a problem for them as they make it seem. this sounds more like a smaller publisher taking a popular public stance for the PR.


creators get paid for views.
that’s not exactly true. creators get paid for ad impressions, not for views. a client like Freetube or Libretube does not view any ads, so the creators do not get paid.
this is why some frontends and browser extensions allow you to allowlist certain channels, so that they get paid for your watching their content.
It seems way too harsh. Shit, I’m American, and if I was in his position, I would have done the same. I got zero loyalty any state, let alone to a government that treats people the way the terrorist government of the US does.