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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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dduane

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The wild thing about the whole “we’ll pay you for one day’s work to scan you and use your likeness in anything we want forever” is that they aren’t even offering the same licensing expectation you would give to a font.

(via @Coelasquid on Twitter)

geektasticjustine

This is now happening to writers as well. Publishing companies are now adding a clause to their contracts that will allow them to sign one book, and then scan it into AI to reproduce similar books with no compensation to the author. 

This isn’t the future. It’s here now. And if we don’t stop it, it will continue. 

irisbleufic

Is there a comprehensive list of the publishers engaging in this activity?

rhube

No, I think because contract negotiations are happening right now it's all very sensitive. But Maureen Johnson said that she new a Very Famous Author who is as we speak arguing about it because they don't want to sign a contract with that in it.

She says she will say more when she can, but can't yet. See thread starting here:

Authors: we need to stand up with the actors. AI is ALREADY HERE in our work. I just spoke to a Very Famous Author who has to remain nameless for legal reasons. They are held up in a contract negotiation because a Major Publisher wants to train AI on their work.  — Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) July 13, 2023ALT

The implication though is that major publishers are doing this, and if a Very Famous Author can't say no to it, the rest of us will be screwed.

See also the actors who did not even have being scanned in their contracts, but we're forced to do it anyway. I don't have the tweets saved, but one extra said she only got out of it by feigning illness, and one member of crew admitted he was charged with rounding up actors and forcing them to go to the scanning booth.

Things are alextremely underhanded and bad.

irisbleufic

I hope the naming and shaming of said publisher (or publishers) can happen sooner than not, because that’s extremely disconcerting.

prismatic-bell

So I have absolutely zero inside intel. This is a guess. A semi-educated guess, but no more.


I would be willing to bet cash the author is either Stephen King or Mercedes Lackey.


Both have large back catalogues spanning several decades (fifty for King—yes really—and three and a half for Lackey, although she writes like a woman possessed and has released over 140 titles). Both are cornerstones in their genres—horror for King, fantasy for Lackey. Both have spoken positively of fanfiction (including King indicating he’s written it, pointing out that he’s written stuff directly set within the Cthulhu mythos), which is definitely a hill where this battle is going to be fought.


And both are elderly.


King is 76. Lackey is 73. And King has the physical damage one might expect of someone who spent several decades as an alcoholic and chain-smoker who also did coke, and then like a decade after getting off all the junk got hit by a car. Both are pretty well-to-do and can afford the best of medical care, but how long do you think they both have left? Ten years? Fifteen? Maybe twenty, for Lackey (I’d love to believe Steve has it in him, but I don’t see him reaching 96). How much of that time will they be writing?


And once they’re gone…no new books. No new “by bestselling author Stephen King,” no more “by Damon Knight Grand Master Mercedes Lackey.” The golden geese, so to speak, will be dead.


I kind of hope it’s King. Because holy shit, when he’s finally free to speak, the fur will FLY.

Source: twitter.com
goodokolachampagne
beemovieerotica

I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

elodieunderglass

👍

agua-writes
silverskulltula

listen hobbit pussy could be mediocre (doubtful) but even if it was it's still followed by a 17 course homecooked meal and the kind of weed that would make sauron scared. lithe beautiful immortal elven pussy has no power compared to the simple, hardworking hobbit. and it goes without saying that you cannot handle dwarven pussy.

fieldbears

Every time I see some deep cut Tolkien post on Tumblr I think back to how Stephen Colbert basically admitted to having an account and said we'd never find him. And depending on the nature and quality of the post I am looking at, I will hope that that is Mr. Colbert. Anyway this is a 12/10

strange-aeons
coolkaius

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