The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.

Stealing another artists work when they have very loudly and publicly stated they do not support you stealing their work does have a personal impact.

You just don’t see artists as people.

‘corporate’.

From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.

Those are two different sites (.si and nyaa pantsu) due to an almost comical amount of drama between the admins of the former nyaa torrent site. Land might be a mirror of one of them but the other is an entirely different tracker.

Nyaa.si/nyaa.pant.su would be the original versions of that site, and usually have most things.

He’s insane. See being insane like this isn’t just holding a belief radically different from commonly accepted knowledge, but failing to provide proof or evidence that can be independently verified.

If he could provide proof, even bad proof, it’d be fine. But since he couldn’t even understand why a side character would get paid less than the leading role and fumbled the marvel bag so hard it’s unlikely he’d ever be able to provide proof.

Incorrect, the barrier to entry for the government is much lower in China than say, the US or ‘democratic’ states. China doesn’t arbitrarily kill citizens, their police aren’t even armed. What does happen is they’re arrested and sentenced to education and reform, which does include how to redress complaints. All public workers are unionized in China, and there is no barrier nor suppression of private unions in the private sector.

The state in China objectively isn’t the capitalist class they don’t own capital. With public ownership of the means of production (in any public sector industry) it is by definition socialist. By every definition socialist.

Your confusion on this matter comes from the fact western sources do not publish how the Chinese government works or how easy it is to become a member and participate. The state equals the people, anyone can join he government and take on the boring admin work, there are checks at every level to reduce corruption and no one person ever has absolute power. Technically “the evil dictator Xi Jinping” could be ousted with a single vote, or multiple lower regional votes. The same is true for all positions. Appointments are democratically placed, so corruption is minimal. 400 million people would have to be unified and absolutely corrupt for the state to be corrupt. And that’s really hard to do. The US can’t even get 100 million people to agree to any single thing.

China is still communist even if they allow non essential industries to engage in capitalism. The entire point of dengism is to prevent ussr syndrome and avoid collapse and temptation due to stupid shit. Over 60% of the economy by GDP including all essential services, is owned by the people. The private sector exists solely to grow technological and industrial capacity, and is shrinking year by year.

So independent no country in earth recognizes it as such, not even Taiwan.

That’s a fine ideal to strive towards, an communism, including the Chinese government hopes to get there some day.

‘recognize’ is a weird word for ‘delude’.

China raised more people out of poverty than any other government in history, and certainly more than any non government group. The amount of good they’ve done is truly amazing, with absolute minimal harm when honestly compared with their western counterparts.

Would it be better to not have any institution and have automated luxury gay space communism? Sure. But we’re never getting there from a western society.

There was a shitty f2p MMO called GunZ online once upon a time. It was so badly programmed that glitches literally became the primary gameplay loop.

I loved it. For those few that could get into it, it was a unique heaven of fps and fighting game that filled a void an over caffeinated teen with nothing but hyper focus and time didn’t know they had.

Also just ridiculously horny people.

So your belief is the UN has never brought up the uighur genocide. Just to be certain how far you’re doubling down.

Two seconds of googling gets you the report the UN published. I swear westerners are getting dumber and more lazy by the day.

So you yourself are saying the UN never made a report on the claims made by the US about the uighur people?

I’ll accept that. Good work on agreeing there was no uighur genocide, little one.

Went full maga-level ‘lern inglish you foreigner’ just from me pointing out your mistake?

I did think you were European but at most you must be German based on how you act. Either that or American, you all tend to blend together after a while.

In any case don’t you have some brown people to bomb while pretending to care about these Muslims?

Correct, the correct interpretation is that a report the UN published, when compared with the public knowledge of us prisons is nothing special.

As in you, the reader, do the comparison to come to a conclusion, instead of having people feed you what options you should have.

I know the Americans banned critical thought in schools, did that extend to your country as well?

…i never claimed there was. I know English isn’t your first language but I thought all you westerners had to learn it properly.

No UN report has ever found sterilization or organ harvesting happening in Xinjiang. Ever. At literally any point. There were unsubstantiated claims of that from the same people saying the suicide bombers were justified.