I think short term, yeah, I think so. Medium term and I think we’ll see a bunch of model collapse or people will get tired of the same story line repeatedly so it won’t be profitable (or won’t be regaining the money they thought they’d save on actual creative folks). Long term, I have no fucking clue if they’ll get around the fact that training AI on AI makes it even weirder.
Depends on how you count it. Northern Marina Islands were annexed in 1986 but they were a territory under our jurisdiction from the 40s and I don’t know much about the history of the place before that. If you’re talking about overthrowing a functioning government and taking the land, maybe Hawaii? McKinley was probably the last big expansionist.
That’s if you don’t count puppets. We’ve got and have recently had a few of those as well.
To add to this, political speech (much like online discourse) benefits from flattening.
Nuance (I enjoy guns and am pro-gun but I think there should be controls in place to make it more difficult for people who are likely to kill to obtain them) is harder to argue against and harder to make stick in people’s minds.
Reaper, Studio One (although we’ll see what Fender does to it, we all remember the Gibson Cakewalk fiasco), and Bitwig are all native. Kind of depends on what your workflow is and what plugins you’re using. Yabridge is workable for a ton of stuff and not difficult.
Yeah, I thought they just made the claim to tank Kenvue so Kimberly Clark could buy them.
Not always true (never long enough is true, I mean the other part). I can attach to an animal but what I don’t want is to be put in charge of its wellbeing. That’s a lot of work and responsibility. I hated every second of that growing up when we got animals and suddenly I was in charge of their care and feeding even though I never asked for a pet.
So I can love your dog/cat/rat/horse/whatever. You may find us both snoring on the couch together or heading out on adventures or I may bring it a treat/toy on its birthday. But I do not want to be the guy making sure it’s alive.
There’s already mystery music out there. Small circles of folks putting things out that they don’t expect or want people outside the circle to hear. I’m a nobody and I’m part of two different groups who share music with each other, build on each other’s works, try genre mashups and new shit that may never get done again, many times because it’s a mess but sometimes just because it was a fun one time thing.