"Hot take: the standard opinion held by almost all major religions for thousands of years and used for massacres, colonization and genocides; and still used by religious people to justify all these atrocities and to harass others minding their own business is normal and good actually"

When you're generating Ghibli style pictures using AI from a multi-billion dollar company that trained its AI on stolen art without compensation or even consent from artists, idk deep in denial you have to be to say that what you're doing is somehow honoring or celebrating the artist(s).

Me this morning:

"Hmm, I should open the curtains so that the potted plant in my room gets more sun"

"Wait, it's Sunday. What if it just wants to relax and not put in work to grow today?"

"Oh, wait, it's a plant, it doesn't have the concept of weekdays"

With alt text - Nemik's manifesto from Andor