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@SwimModSponges: You’re ignoring the fundamental point of artifice in its entirety. Art serves no real purpose if it doesn’t offer a unique perspective, and none of this has a perspective in that sense.

I’ll expound on what i said in the other thread. AI as an artist’s tool could be a very versatile and compelling means of expression. The same rules that artists in other media have for depicting someone else’s work apply here. More importantly, it’s the effort one puts into using the AI tool - providing the prompts, explaining how those prompts created the image, and explicitly acknowledging (and paying for) the art used by the AI - that justifies the result being considered art. The problem so far is that AI is being used not for legitimate artistic endeavors but as a novelty. Trump as a clown or Sonic as … pregnant? … certainly owe their origins to legitimate fan art and, even then, they don’t express unusual or unique perspectives. The AI art I’ve seen can at best be described as almost exclusively aesthetic reinterpretations of existing work. That kind of exploration is mostly harmless if it’s traditional canvas and paint (or original graphic design), but it’s highly problematic when using other original work.

Two or three participants?

The only way an AI generated piece could ever be considered true art is if the "artist" who inputs the prompts reveals what prompts he or she used, explains how those prompts were turned into a image that is uniquely from his or perspective, and properly documented where all of the images used to amalgamate the final piece came from and who originally created them. You have to justify the effort put into the work to make it art.

Just a thought, but it might be a good idea to create some kind of theme. I know we're well past the time doing Secret Santa will work, but you could conceivably change this to an "Epiphany" themed secret gift giving if you're still interested.

CR7? Really?

That is what I was getting at: there is distinct difference between the artist and the art. Historically, things that would never have been considered art in the true sense (like a Golden Age statue of Aphrodite) are art now because that's how modern societies appraise them, and whether or not the creator considers himself an artist at the time, he is still that piece's artist. Being an artist doesn't imply he will be able to monetize his work or even be considered talented now or in the future, it just means he had a hand in creating an original piece of art.

Setting aside questions of image ownership, what do you mean by “pros” and “cons?” Art isn’t typically qualified in terms of balancing dualities because, like any form of expression, it’s an endeavor done for its own sake. The art, even art generated in this form, is distinct from the artist and isn’t subject to the economics of artifice that an artist is subject to.

That is certainly a unique experience. Cougars aren’t the killing machines you would expect from an apex predator in part because they’re not particularly large, but schools still go into lockdown when they’re out and about. Most people don’t have the opportunity to encounter a cougar up close to get the kind of community connection.

I mean I’m a huge animal lover so it affects me anyway, but the level of public mourning for a wild animal is unusual to say the least. He even had his own Twitter account. I’m not really sure how to process this kind of outpouring. Is it latent guilt about how Angelenos have destroyed native habitats over the past century? I’m sure that’s a big part of it. But seeing people cry as if he were their personal pet cat makes me think that there’s more to it. It’s really a strange phenomenon.

One of the few Hollywood celebrities that everyone loved, he will be missed. https://apple.news/Ars_tE2ZmTTCj3wnT1qcF7Q

Parsing would be the process of creating sentence trees. In this case, the sentence fragment itself is highly irregular.

It looks like a trap question.

They were too busy being in court saying shit like "Sorry, your honor, I don't know what came over me. Wait, Trump told me to do it."

Waiting to see which end of semester projects squeaked by with a D in “Intro to Photoshop” at Palm Beach State.

Better than mine. The Dr. is a USC grad so he’s cool, but the one hygenist has me convinced my teeth are about to fall out and the other is racist,

Getting stuck at the dentist’s office any time kind of sucks, even when it’s for someone else.

I do remember the stipulation that threads with no responses could be deleted.

In all seriousness, this is an important milestone not some kind of acceleration of a timeline.

They're most likely sending them now that Russia's supply of projectiles is depleted. At this point, anything is going to be an "escalation" given that they're at the end stages of critically low morale, but its not likely to motivate either Russian troops who are still woefully under equipped or Ukrainian troops who haven't had to really concern themselves with air defense so far. It really is just a more direct response to the ever-so-slight increased threat of tactical nuclear deployment, making such a deployment more difficult for the Russians and giving Ukrainians, military and civilian alike, greater peace of mind, once they're deployed.

The lice in her crotch are eating so well, they're occasionally launching expeditions against with the cockroaches behind the toilet.

Pimp Bombs sounds like MTGs nickname for her anal beads.

I’m pretty sure most of SpaceX would love to make him a real astronaut… and leave him in space.

Maybe we need to feature it. I’m in btw.