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I can show an AI image with artistic value.

But, to you? Apparently not.

> Public shaming and rejection are probably the best way to teach people it's wasting people's time and disrespectful

Public shaming is disrespectful. As is the self-righteous "teaching" of something that is ultimately a personal preference. You aren't being forced to read someone's personal blog.

> When I see pictures of food on a menu, I expect them to be real pictures of an example of the actual dish I'd get

I don't get who would think that's a good idea. Like if I order something because the picture shows that the dish has carrots or something and the dish you bring doesn't I'm going to complain.

But then again I can't tell you the number of restaurants that have a photograph of a menu on a website where the original was clearly digital already.

> No way 1/7 people globally use ChatGPT?

Seems at least plausible to me.

Anecdotally: I have 3 coworkers (4 if you include me) out of a dozen who have used it at least twice in the past year.

I was queuing at a return desk a month ago and the employee used an AI to try and help someone who didn't quite know what fitting or some-such that they needed.

Out of my friends, about a quarter of them get some kind of light use out of the various AIs.

Have people moved on from Calibre?

I've been slowly spinning up self-hosted services and Calibre was on my TODO. I haven't even heard of Booklore.

Considering that the GP said

> Being able to put epubs bought elsewhere

I'd say it is in this case.

> Yes yes, greedy fat cat publishing oligarchs treading on the poor put-upon scrappy AI underdogs. /s

The fact that the copyright-mongers are oppressing someone you don't like this time should probably not change your opinion of them.

I think they might mean Word as in Microsoft Word. Just based on the feature list they were describing.

I wish... The best I've found is https://openipc.org/ which is a very manufacturer unsupported way of reflashing certain chips with open-source firmware. It seems very fiddly as only certain SoCs are supported and good luck finding out if a specific Chinese camera has one.

> creating the cracked version of a piece of software is infringement

Depending where you are it might be "DRM circumvention" all the way up to some bollocks hacking charge.

It's pretty murky in places because lots of copyright laws protect DRM but also have carve-outs for personal backups.

I could write a script that could tell you the sum total of red and black pixels.

This is more like asking someone colorblind which shade of red the image is closer to.

Implying that anyone who makes crypto or AI projects is somehow a scammer/abuser?

Yes, because the admins are reasonable. Just like it's possible to find Mastodon servers with reasonable admins.

But the GPs comment blamed Mastodon as a whole for allowing the possibility of admin abuse, which isn't substantially different from HN.