This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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This is from the summer www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

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I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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The themes of Joseph Heinrich‘s report are old evolutionary anthro grievance stories (“Let’s hear it for Derek Freeman!!”) and conversations with a number of anonymous colleagues, all of whom conveniently agreed with him. He seems to have avoided talking to anyone who might have disagreed.

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The Vanderbilt Report masquerades as a 'disinterested' inquiry into the supposed corruption of scholarship by politics. It's actually a compendium of various personal grievances that the authors have accrued over time with their fields, which they blamed on a made-up bogeyman called "postmodernism."

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