AnimalsDream

I don't know how it compares, but I've been meaning to give Zettlr a try. The thing about notes apps is, to me at least, few digital tools are more personal. For some people it's their diaries. Because of that I would consider privacy to be such a critical feature that I would never even consider using a proprietary app no matter how many bells and whistles it has, or how many people swear by it.

I love Godot even though I still lack the skills necessary to actually make a game.

If I remember correctly, Blender began it's life as a closed source commercial product, but then later went open-source under new stewardship.

I guess that would beg the question, how much is it worth to you pay extra to not have additional spyware in your home? Or as others have said in this thread, there is at least one brand of television that still sells dumb tvs.

Simple solution I use: Fuck television sets, get a computer monitor and basic speakers instead. A display should do only one thing and do it well.

Yeah, I'm sorry but none of this seems to add up. I read the book you linked, the entire thing, and I didn't really learn anything new from it. In my own searches I've found a number of competing image generation systems, most of them just use Stable Diffusion - including Horde, which makes sense as it is open-source and readily available. But others have their own solutions, and some even use their own datasets. I've also done other searches and found a variety of instructions on how people can put together their own datasets. Between all of the options, it seems pretty clear to me that even now it is entirely possible for people to use these AI tools without ever needing to come into any contact with "stolen" (ie., copyright infringed - it's not theft) artwork.

But I'm not going to link to any of these things because I don't want to endorse or promote anything without taking sufficient time to be really sure that they are in fact ethical, which honestly I'm probably not going to do at least for the time being, since I have no need to use any of these anyway. But yeah, ethical ai art is entirely possible, no copyright ever needs to be infringed, and this is something anyone can do today if they're inclined to make the searches and assemble free source images themselves.

When you say, "However what you’re hypothesizing cannot exist, due to the nature of a diffusion model. The source that the images are generated from, all of that was stolen in 2021. It was illegally scraped.", are you referring to Laion-5B?

Pinta has become my favorite image editing tool. Every other one I feel like I have to fight with in order to do anything (looking at you Gimp), but Pinta is so easy and intuitive it's a joy to use.

Right, that was always my understanding too, but I do know that there are also anti-circumvention laws that play a more direct role in the jailbreaking scene. I'm just not up-to-date on what's going on with that these days.

No offense taken. It is still a strawman though, because regardless of the realness of what I'm talking about, they're still referring to something different and then attacking that as if it is the thing I'm talking about.

I haven't looked into it too much, because I don't bother to use these things myself. But if I remember, there are some systems that are open-source, can be run locally, and then a person could train those systems on only public domain and freely licensed works. That is the kind I'm talking about, so bringing up the systems I'm not talking about is just a strawman.

No, it's not. Why are you like this?

Sacrilege.