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in any case things are almost certainly about to get extremely stupid until regulations and public awareness catch up and i am so so sorry
AI tech being misconstrued is grating but it's understandable coming from artists feeling threatened by it. content protection needs to be backed by actual legislation; maybe "in the style of" prompts should be filtered out unless an author opts in or is in the public domain
i think neural nets are an incredible development and i do not agree with people trying to reduce them to something they're not; i also don't think every fear about them is warranted. but i'm still squarely siding with workers whose livelihood may be at risk
due to the way they function i do not believe art AIs commit copyright infringement when generating images HOWEVER it is absolutely possible to ask an AI to emulate another artist's style without consent or compensation which i think is legally actionable
i doubt a shady company replicating an artist's style would publicly disclose the prompt they used and whether it explicitly mentions said artist but i doubt this matters. if they're outputting your work's look and feel without paying you, get their asses
on twitter back in 2007 you could only say f*ck once a month and you had to make it count
these things need to be everywhere i want to go to the park and just feed them crumbs like pigeons
if you want a taste of the secret hell that is app development, this is a warning that shows up whenever i compile Cookie Clicker for android. thing is there’s no Gradle 8.0. the latest version is v7.5.1. the warning doesn’t do anything. they just put it there to f*ck with you
feel like we've been forgetting the meaning of software. when's the last time you saw a program that was less than a megabyte. software today could crush a small child
i always stick to plans over a long enough period of time. this is why i must never die
app reviewed. policy violation lifted. okay. i'm going to sleep for 55 days. good night
the blissful lapse of time after i upload a new test version to the appstore and it's completely out of my hands until google's automated review systems yell at me for stuff like "our bot clicked an ad in your app and judged that the buttons in the ad are too small"
i've updated our ad plugin to something slightly more current, i'll recompile and try to submit it again tomorrow along with a request for review. i've read about someone facing the same issue who resubmitted their app unchanged which cleared their violation. google what is up
i've made Some headway in solving the issue in that i've been able to determine with some level of certainty that the auto-scaling system i implemented *does not and cannot* interfere with the ad slot. i'm doing everything in the webview and the ad exists in java outside of that
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sorry for talking about big unfun money things rharghgrhh for the record we're totally cool with adblockers i'm just trying to get this mess working correctly i want to update the mobile app with the newer versions' features so bad! but this is like the 3rd roadblock this year
we thankfully do not have all our eggs in one basket but i'm thinking about all the devs who do rely mostly on one app for revenue and how badly these cryptic policy violations can mess up their income
won't even know if my tweaks are compliant until google complains again. worst-case scenario i'll have to roll back the fix and have the layout broken for a number of players like before, which i would very much like to avoid! in the meantime enjoy ad-less cookie clicker i guess
i'm gonna try to fix the issue google has with the cookie clicker app ("no resizing the ad frame", it turns out) but it's gonna involve rethinking the layout fix i previously implemented which, i thought, was already leaving the ad slot alone
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