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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

For one, AI datasets often break copyright law, frequently appropriating from artists. Executives are also trying to use it to eliminate the jobs of artists, and I feel it’s wrong to try and obsolete something people love doing.

In addition, they take a lot of power, not helping in the way of the needed changes to follow climate goals.

Clarification: Copyright laws can be annoying, and I don’t always agree with them. However, it also protects smaller artists. I think there are many cases where piracy is totally fine, though, like if a company vaults an animated streaming show and gets rid of all other ways to watch it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I am an artist, but I find it helps me make better art. Faster too.

But all my work is copyleft and I give zero shits about so-called "copyright infringement"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"It doesn't affect me, so if it affects you, fuck you, I don't give a fuck."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Nah, fuck people who try lock up information in copyrights without copyleft.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Normal people boycotting AI models will not stop executives from being hostile to artists.

Especially people who would have otherwise not paid for art.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

No, they will just hire artists who know how to use AI too

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

oh noooooo not the copyright infringement!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do break copyright law every single day of my life. And so far the only harm I've done is avoiding Disney a free pass to kill my wife.

Also I've make AI images with Stable Diffusion self hosted on my N100 server that takes way less energy than a normal computer being turned on for hours using Photoshop, so I saved the world by doing AI images instead of manually painting them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I fail to see how is traing AI on publicly available images hurting small artists?

You don't have to write if you don't have time, link to explanation is good for me.

I basically use generated images in places that would not have any ilustrations before. There is no budget. When I have money for an artist I hire an artist.