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Chris Ayotte
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Sorry for your loss 💔
June 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I was wondering why my neighborhood is covered in a smoky haze this morning. At first I thought it was Canadian smoke but it doesn't smell like maple syrup.
June 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reposted by Chris Ayotte
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Generative AI companies have stolen from everybody with the implict belief that nobody would actually have the balls to sue them for doing so, and as a result have acted with a blatant disregard for copyright law. They thought big corpos would want to pay them. They were wrong.
Midjourney’s four levels of paid subscriptions range from $10 per month to $120 per month. Subscribers can receive a discount of approximately 20% on monthly pricing by paying for an annual subscription. Image generation requires processing time on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), and Midjourney’s different subscription levels come with different amounts of “Fast” GPU time. According to Midjourney, it takes them approximately one minute of GPU time to generate, reproduce, and publicly display (and/or distribute) further copies of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works. 77. What Midjourney calls its “Basic Plan” costs $10 per month and comes with 3.3 hours of Fast GPU Time per month. This allows Basic Plan subscribers to receive roughly 200 images per month. The more expensive the plan, the more Fast GPU Time the subscriber is allocated, and the more images that subscriber can receive. All subscribers can purchase additional Fast GPU Time for $4 per hour. 78. Additionally, subscribers with a “Standard Plan,” “Pro Plan,” or “Mega Plan” receive unlimited “Relax” GPU Time. An image generated using Relax GPU Time, which Midjourney refers to as “Relax Mode,” does not cost the subscriber any Fast GPU Time, however, the generation is placed into a queue based on how much the subscriber has used the system. Wait times in Relax Mode can range up to ten minutes per job. 79. Copies of the images generated by Midjourney for its subscribers are also publicly displayed on the “Explore” page on Midjourney’s website. Midjourney’s Explore page is a prominent feature of its website where Midjourney advertises the images that its Images Service has generated. The Explore page is a means for Midjourney to promote its Image Service, attract subscribers to the Image Service, and encourage them to use the Image Service, thereby generating more money for Midjourney 2. Midjourney consistently and accurately reproduces, publicly displays, and distributes copies and derivatives of characters from Disney’s Star Wars franchise to its subscribers. In response to the simple request (often referred to as a “prompt”) asking to see “Yoda with lightsaber, IMAX,” Midjourney accessed the data about Disney’s Copyrighted Works that is stored by the Image Service and then reproduced, publicly displayed, and made available for download further copies of Disney’s Yoda, as shown in this screenshot
June 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The Cranberries?? I love them but seeing them listed was a record scratch in my head!
May 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Wow those cats are AWESOME! The one on the back of the couch is staring so intently!
May 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Nice!
May 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM