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And yet that effort to make something from AI is trivial compared to the effort required to become a professional artist or photographer. If I commission art from a human, I'm curating and fine-tuning the output by browsing the artist's gallery, deciding which artist to commission based on their art style, deciding on a prompt to give the artist, and revising the output by adjusting my prompt based on the artist's preliminary sketch. Yet despite all that effort, I don't get the copyright for the completed artwork, because I didn't make it.

I wholeheartedly and completely reject the notion that human creativity has any more than de minimis influence on AI art. It's no more a tool than an actual live artist is a tool.

Hahaha, hahaha, no. That is absolutely NOT the default arrangement. Unless otherwise negotiated in the contract, the artist retains the copyright for the produced work and is free to use it as they please, including putting it in their portfolio, making further edits to the work, reusing it for other purposes, etc. The commissioner gets a copy of the finished product, but by default has few rights to use it themselves. Technically, I've personally infringed an artist's copyright by cropping a work I commissioned from them to use as an icon. However, the vast majority of artists don't typw enforce this aspect of their IP rights, due to a lack of resources and also because it would shred their reputation and kill their business.

Explicit transfer/licensure of copyright can be negotiated, but the most artists charge an extremely hefty fee for transferring the full copyright, often double or triple the price of the work itself. Most individual commissioners don't bother as a result, but commercial organizations looking to reuse the commissioned work must negotiate a license for the work in order to avoid a nasty infringement lawsuit.

No, because the human involvement in creating AI art is so little that it's considered de minimis --i.e. so minimal that it's not worth talking into account. All you're doing is putting a prompt into the generator--regardless of how much time and effort you put into crafting the prompt, it's the AI interpreting that prompt and deciding how to convert it into an image, not you. In comparison, when you take a photograph, you're interpreting the scene, you're deciding that the object you're photographing is interesting enough for a photo, you're deciding what should and shouldn't be in the shot, you're deciding the composition of the shot, and you're deciding what settings and filters to use in the shot.

It's like the difference between someone taking a sketch of a model and making 20 revisions/alterations to the sketch before inking/coloring it, and a picky commissioner paying an artist to draw something and asking the artist to make 20 revisions before approving color/lines.

Yeah, like... I'm not on beehaw myself, but if beehaw goes, I'd probably end up leaving myself. One of my biggest complaints about Lemmy in general is the lack of special interest communities. There's politics, porn, general news, technology news (which is mostly complaining about That One Guy), Linux discussion, general memes like you'd see on Twitter or Reddit, and a trickle of more niche memes. There's a complete dearth of content for niche communities like individual games or special interest hobbies, because the userbase is simply too small to support a healthy special interest community. If Beehaw migrates off Lemmy, it will take a big chunk of that already too-small userbase with it, and the problem will be exacerbated even further. If that happens, I don't know if it's worth sticking around.

At the time, the idea of Brexit was still very popular, and Boris campaigned strongly on a promise to "get Brexit done." The UK population trusting Boris to follow through on finally securing a Brexit deal that had consumed the entire UK political discussion for three years and two Tory governments, plus the opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn being insanely unpopular (which, depending on your point of view, is due to him being way too left, a political smear job by the right-wing UK media, or a combination of both), lead to Labour getting blown out in the 2019 election. So... the answer to your question is probably "sort of? Or at least they didn't trust Labour to not muck it up even worse."

Notably, I'm not talking about whether Brexit was actually a good idea to begin with, and the deal Boris wound up negotiating was not even the least-bad possible outcome. Since then, the UK population seem to have finally woken up to the idea that burning literally their biggest bridge for trade and shredding a sweetheart deal was perhaps not very wise. That, combined with Boris resigning in shame over flouting his own lockdown rules, followed by his successor Liz Truss tanking the economy in record time, and a steady drip-drip of scandals and Tory resignations over various "lesser" scandals, put us where we are now.

If discretion is paramount, then your only real option are the reusable bulbs. The linked article has suggestions for making your own saline solution, but I would strongly suggest you remember to use the bathroom first, and also making more than one cup of water--with a bulb douche you will oftentimes need to clean yourself out 4+ times in order to get fully clean inside.

OK, I am going to say absolutely DO NOT use soap and water on your hole. Using soap will cause micro-cuts in the flesh in and around your hole that will cause very uncomfortable problems later on down the line. Trust me. I am speaking from experience on this. If you're going to go for rimming, use your shower head, hot water, and your hand, and the actual process of cleaning yourself out will take care of the rest.

Anyway, if you're going to attempt penetrative sex, I would honestly recommend reading this guide. It's got some good tips for cleaning yourself out safely: https://www.sfaf.org/collections/beta/anal-douching-safety-tips/

Once you've read that guide, a few additional tips:

As for where to buy the equipment, saline enemas can be purchased from your local pharmacy. I personally use a shower shot, which I purchased from Amazon for about 30 bucks. It requires a little setup, but it's seriously not much hassle to install, all you need is a vice grip wrench and some plumber's thread sealing tape. It does require being careful, but I find it's generally a lot faster at cleaning yourself out thoroughly, and frankly it can feel very good in of itself, whereas the hard-plastic narrow nozzles that regular enemas use can make me sore afterwards.

Next, and this is important: Use the bathroom before you try to clean yourself out. Trust me. If you don't, you're going to regret it and there is going to be a huge, huge mess.

When it comes to actually cleaning yourself out, there are two general approaches. The first is to fill yourself up in the tub, and then squat over the toilet to let it out. This CAN BE overall cleaner, but puts you at risk of an embarrassing accident happening while you're walking from tub to toilet. If your shower is right next to the toilet I say at least try this method. The second method is to just stay in the shower and let it all out there, flushing anything that comes out down the drain with your shower head. This method is a lot easier and a lot faster, and avoids any embarrassing cleanups on the bathroom floor. You'll want to keep some bleach-based cleaner handy that you can use to disinfect the bathtub after you're done, however, and if you're short-sighted enough to need glasses you'll want to bend down and maybe even get on your hands and knees to make sure you haven't missed any detritus and it's all washed down the drain. (Speaking from personal experience here.)

If you opt for a shower shot:

• Watch the pressure! I cannot stress how bad an idea it is to go full-pressure with a shower shot, you will injure yourself permanently if you are not careful. Generally speaking, the recommendation is that if you hold the shot straight up the water shouldn't travel more than 6-12 inches or so.

• Be careful with how long you fill yourself up. If you fill yourself up too much, water is going to escape from your colon into your lower intestine. You can tell if this happened by a cramp followed by a sudden flood of... brownian motion... so to speak. To be clear, this can be desirable since it provides a very deep clean that's great if you're going to be waiting a long while before playing (e.g. 4-12 hours) or if you're going to be experimenting with, say... elbow-deep penetration (which... you won't, since this is your first time...) but most of the time it's a hassle that makes a 5-10 minute process take 30-60 minutes instead, or end up with you canceling altogether and telling your partner it's oral only tonight.

• To avoid the deep-clean above, when you fill yourself up with the shower shot, start by pressing just the tip inside with the water flowing, count to 3 (one-onethousand, two-onethousand, three-onethousand), then take it out and empty yourself. Repeat the process a little deeper, and a little longer, but don't go above a count of 5 or 6.

Finally, if you're unsure whether there's any water left over, lay on your left side in the tub--that points the colon downwards and helps any "leftovers" escape. Once you've finished, you'll be cleaned out for a while--generally speaking, with a normal clean-out you're good for 1-4 hours, and with a deep clean like I described above, you'll be good for about 6-12 hours, roughly speaking.

5e (and BG3 in turn) even simplified Vancian casting compared to previous versions. Used to be that you had slots that you prepared a specific spell for. If you had four slots and needed to cast Magic Missile three times, but you used two of those slots to prepare Grease and Fog Cloud, you were out of luck.

Oracle / Microsoft licensing team: 👀💦

Mad Rat Dead is one of my favorite games in years, it's a rhythm platformer on PS4 and Switch. Literally every track in game is an absolute banger!

First, it's important to find an instance that caters to your interests, especially if you have more niche hobbies. Once you're set up, search for and follow hashtags related to your personal interests, and use those to find accounts you like. Use hashtags in your own posts so that people can discover you more easily, and browse users that follow you to see if they'd be interesting to follow back and expand your network out. Keep an eye on the local and federated timeline for interesting posts, which includes all posts from people on the same instance and from all federated instances. Eventually, as you build up a follow list (and especially as you follow highly active accounts) your followed accounts will start introducing you to new accounts themselves through boosting posts.

It's more work since you're building the network yourself instead of having it spoon-fed to you by an algorithm, but it's overall much more rewarding, and lets you tailor your experience to your own personal preferences.

And we're saying that if peeling out knowledge that someone has a right to have forgotten is difficult or impossible, that knowledge should not have been used to begin with. If enforcement means big tech companies have to throw out models because they used personal information without knowledge or consent, boo fucking hoo, let me find a Lilliputian to build a violin for me to play.