Desiderius Price

41970

If we use the industrial revolution as guidance…. writing won’t die, there’s going to be artisans for centuries to come. After all, we still use shovels to dig holes. Maybe things like user manuals would get better written by AI? I do see corporate greed getting involved. Why pay a script writer when AI will do? Why pay actors when you can deep fake the legends? Only push-back from audiences would stifle that. It will also tank the market...at least the AI generated stuff as it’s not copyright protected (for now), so nothing legally stopping me from firing up the latest napster to share it all. For now, the human written stuff (at least the better stories) will still have heart and soul, something AI can only mimic, so there’s going to be a quality to our generated stuff. For us, AI will, at most, be a writing aid … say you need a custom “mini-novel” or a fake advertisement within your story, or similar; maybe ai-assisted self-editing? Editors might be in more peril than writers. Me? Enjoyment’s in the creation, especially those first drafts. I don’t want AI doing that for me… if it’s doing all my thinking too, why do I even exist? AI has that threat to snuff out the uniqueness to being sentient. Loving the debate, wouldn’t want AI to simply create an “answer”, otherwise, it’d all be 42.

To restore the balance, to stitch this anomaly out of space and time, I must proclaim: 41968!

Yes, but it’s the AI doing the writing. Maybe treat it the same as somebody writing fanfiction on commission? (ie, I’m exploring this question like you are, no definitive yes/no response… yet)

Got no issues with a creator explicitly authorizing AI deep fakes, and I can understand an estate helping a creator posthumously finishing a near-done work. It’s the others, when brilliant idiots get involved, that I start to get concerned TBH. So, is AI generated content a derivative work? yes. Fanfiction… can AI be considered a fan?

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My works have a bunch of nudity, so any fights have good odds of being naked too. In the potter fanfic, it’s easy to some magical wand holsters so they’re never truly unarmed. Still, using a wand, spell, or other magic has a different feel than a naked unarmed woman tearing their opponent apart limb by limb

41960

More seriously…. the obvious ones are, Pro of clothing… armor, pockets for carrying things, concealment, first barrier of defense against something like acid, or a hostile environment Con of clothing… something an enemy can hold onto, restrain and choke. If we take something like a school/cat fight where clothes get ripped off, but neither stops due to the indecent exposure? Flesh would be tougher to grip, maybe they go for the breasts? Certainly, urination or defecation during the match could be used, offensively or for shame depending on the person’s level of control or fear. (Which is more or less the limit of internet “research” videos can direct me…. )

If I based my response on armor ratings in most RPGs, a naked woman ought to be invincible!

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Jefferey, episodes #19 (DC) & #20 (Order of the Pine) have been posted. (#20 was short, so that’s why I made it a double hitter this morning)

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Jefferey, episode #18 (Aniwye), has been posted to both archives.