"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
A few years ago I learned that to a highly financialised state (eg the UK), a person in debt is considered far more valuable than a person just working and paying taxes.
After reading that, suddenly every government policy made much more sense…
You’d look lovely in a nice brown shirt, Darryl!
Labour taking this as a clear sign that people want more fash in 3…2…1…
Hell yes. I can see that coffee table book in my future, too!
You do make a v good case for rewatching
Mmmaaybe…! I don’t like publicly badmouthing things I personally didn’t enjoy, but I was hate-watching by the end. Did you see it? After a great first few eps, I think they started working under the assumption their audience was not very bright.
Andor was so good! We’ve just been slogging through another big sci-fi series that is agonisingly surface-level (ironic, given the setting), so watching this clip with all the deft characterisation and subtext was like a breath of fresh air after a lift full of farts
40 years ago today we first opened our doors, at our inaugural site on Great Russell Street, opposite the British Museum. Originally dealing predominantly in back-issues, we’ve grown to host all aspects of the culture of comics, weathered the tumult of the industry and settled in to 1 Berwick St.
YES.
Well anyway, relieved to see my MP @sianberry.bsky.social (no relation) has tabled an EDM calling on government to devise a digital sovereignty strategy.
Ask your MP to co-sign if you’d also rather not give Peter Thiel & co your digital front door key: action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-brit...
*Stands back to allow all the people shouting SOVEREIGNTY during Brexit to chime in*
I’m no MI6 but maybe - MAYBE - embedding big US tech giants at the heart of our government, while the heads of those same companies cosy up to a despotic leadership hell-bent on developing a fascist protectionist state…MAYBE that's not such a good idea now, is it.
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Haaaaa! Very good!
Woodrow? How do we know this is really you and not the frog?
DAVE.
DAVE.
HAS WOODROW CROAKED.
Oh no…has anyone heard from Woodrow in the last 5 hours??
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Yea, this. I guess it’s actually quite easy to come up with a horribly prescient plot if you just think “what if the most morally compromised people had access to the best technology and the most money?”
Mutual! 😘xxx
Ah, thanks! God, I hadn’t even considered it with a gen-ai lens…maybe I really am a horrible prophet of doom?
Emma is a *counts on fingers* septuple-threat genius, and I don’t think I’ve ever thrown my money at anything so quickly. This is the show we all deserve to see, and now you can help make it happen!
Feel free to DM me!
And also forward on to anyone you think might be in this particular boat.
(I should add that this is for UK-based creators due to, you know, jurisdiction issues)
Brave New World: Justice for creators in the age of GenAI
In our ongoing commitment to campaign for author rights and interests, we have joined forces with other creator-led organisations to co-launch a ground-breaking report showing the onset of a creative jobs crisis in the UK. buff.ly/wThFNtu
Anybody here having trouble getting sales figures and/or royalties for their comics on ComiXology/Kindle?
Let’s tut this system down! 🔥
Just deleted an angry quote-post suggesting an MP’s policy (using AI to tutor poor kids) was making me reach for my pitchfork.
Elected officials should not be subject to violence or threats or threats of violence!
But I am actually extremely ready to join an angry mob, so.
This government is dangerously incoherent on this. SEND provision is under threat, they're age-gating the internet, but want to push the confidently wrong psychosis machine onto children (while rich kids will still get human tutors, obviously).
JUST INVEST IN ACTUAL TEACHERS.
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