On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by shadowgovt on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:03PM (#39018313)

That's Jerry's "thing." Jerry Holkins has always enjoyed how weird English is and what you can do to someone's brain with a few precisely-chosen words aligned in the right order; it's his writing style.

If he applied his approach to Python coding, he'd be one of those folks who isn't happy until their entire program is a single `do()` method that executes by using decorators to synthesize classes and metaclasses out of thin air, that themselves generate the Python code as strings, that itself gets `eval()`'d to execute the intended program.

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by isoprophlex on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:29PM (#39018690)

Which is all fun and game until you want to get some actual shit done, or in this case, communicate...

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by sudobash1 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:53PM (#39019668)

I think the point is that this is an artistic choice. I consider that paragraph to be halfway between poetry and prose. It's not the style of writing that you would want for most forms of communication, but if you think of it as being akin to a bit of poetry, then perhaps you will find it more acceptable.

I for one really appreciate seeing language being used so artistically. (Though if I was reading a technical spec, product description, legal contract, etc... absolutely not.)

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by Kye on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:42PM (#39018844)

They're into their second half century doing this. Would they have made it this far without being a little weird? Maybe, but it's hard to A/B something like that. I understand it well enough after following the comic that long.

It's not for you.

(this is a reference to an ancient Penny Arcade bit: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/the-adventures...)

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by SllX on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @04:13AM (#39025290)

> It's not for you.

> (this is a reference to an ancient Penny Arcade bit: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/24/the-adventures...)

Thank you for posting this. I remember it, had forgotten it, and re-reading it after completely forgetting about it is almost as good as reading it for the first time. It still holds up 20 years later!

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