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I’m not gonna trust the headline of an article with an AI image from a place called epicenter.works.
I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.
I wrote an email service: https://port87.com
I write free software: https://github.com/sciactive
I’m not gonna trust the headline of an article with an AI image from a place called epicenter.works.
A giant douche who’s a convicted felon and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in American history.
The driver will work fine, but it won’t update to the latest one in the future without GE. (Windows update might update it, but they’re always several versions behind.)
This is great news. Shipping X11 on a system that doesn’t need it is a big waste.
It’s because the same people who wrote the code usually write the docs, and people who are really good at writing code usually aren’t good at writing docs. It’s two different skill sets that usually don’t coincide.
Case in point: my own documentation for https://nymph.io
I know it’s bad, but I don’t know how to make it good. The code, however, is pretty good. It runs my email service.
Open source projects also aren’t very good at attracting people who both want to volunteer their time writing technical documentation and can.
I’m really sorry that whoever tried to educate you failed so miserably.
So your “friend’s” unethical business hired unethical workers and now you’ve come here to ask for advice on running your unethical business without paying anyone. Got it.
I feel like a lot of the issue is that software engineers used to be subsidized by both investors propping up unsustainable business models and extremely invasive targeted advertising, and both of those things are either phasing out or being legislated away. A lot of the tracking and advertising practices that kept services like Facebook and Gmail free are illegal now (rightfully so), and investors are starting to realize that not everything is going to become profitable just by having an app.
I think the solution is probably two fold. First, I think the government should invest more into open source software. A lot of the work that keeps the internet running is done by unpaid volunteers. And second, I think we need to go back to paying for services. Giving away services for free because you use them to spy on your users is just an unethical business model. It’s profitable, but so is child labor.
You are not a good person if this is how you want to get through life.
Your “friend’s” business is very unethical. Maybe your friend should think about what they’re doing with their life, and quit doing this.
Maybe just write the academic works yourself, then they should pass.
Yes. I think the question was should it be labeled as “photoshopped” (or probably “manipulated”). I don’t think it should. I think those labels would be meaningless if you can’t event change the aspect ratio of a photo without it being called “photoshopped”.
I literally described to you what people mean by “photoshopping” in the comment you’re responding to. Can you really not tell that I know that? Also, dropping the r slur will definitely help get your point across, right? You’re really living up to your username.
There are absolutely different levels of image editing. Color correction, cropping, scale, and rotation are basic enough that I would say they don’t even count as alterations. They’re just correcting what the camera didn’t, and often available in the camera’s built in software. (Fun fact, what the sensor sees is not what it presents you in a jpeg.) Then there are more deceptive levels of editing, like removing or adding objects, altering someone’s appearance, swapping faces from different shots. Those are definitely image alterations, and what most people mean when they say an image is “photoshopped” (and you know that, don’t lie). Then there’s AI, where you’re just generating new information to put into the image. That’s extreme image alteration.
These all can be done with or without any sort of nefarious intent.
You don’t have to open photoshop to do it. Any basic editing software will include a cropping tool.
A lot of photographers will take a photo with the intention of cropping it. Cropping isn’t photoshopping.
The label is accurate. Quit using AI if you don’t want your images labeled as such.
Just buy a Roku and never connect it online. They work just fine without an account or internet connection. You can even tell it to always go to the last input it was on when you boot it.
I like how the code has ASS in it.
Yeah, I read their about page. I wouldn’t trust them as a lone voice on something, but if other groups come to the same conclusion, sure. But mostly, I don’t trust articles with AI image headers. It makes it seem like the article is written by a bot.