It's part that but also since my novel will be my first real novel release, I thought it be a good idea to get my name out there some more with some short stories prior to the novel release which I will probably push into March. No sense releasing into the new years drought^^

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Also gentle reminder to microsoft and co: Your PAYED software is on the internet too :)

Ergo either your models always have to be free and you cannot earn money from them and it's a doomed business model OR what you use is not inherently worthless and you owe billions in licensing fees to potentially millions of people at infinitum. That's why this shit boils down to a scam.

Also riddle me this AI bros: If all the art and writing on the internet is inherently worthless and free and that's why you can use it to train your LLMs for free, then why should anyone pay you morons for your models? How can you your models produce value from something with supposedly no value?

It's not a problem of artistery versus mass produced soulless horse shit, that is the least of our problems. It's a problem of thievery. Nothing more nothing less. These companies are by and large thieves and anyone paying for these tools is complicit in it.

What I care about though is that multi-billion dollar companies steal the work of others to train their slop slings to earn billions of their contraband to replace the same people they steal from. That is the problem. It's a scam, a long con.

Long rant: Honestly I don't even see the problem with what you folks mention. One gander at the horseshit that has been running on TV for the past 20 yrs tells you that there is a vast section of Humanity that doesnt give a shit if there is any emotional or meaningful depth to anything.

awesome! *eno has no idea what any of those words meant* x3

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