Recent content by Homer Potvin

I don't know about that. If she gets enough publicity or sympathy or strikes a blow for creatives everywhere, they'll be tripping over each other to sign her up. That's all quite speculative, of course. Assuming the lawsuit doesn't get tossed for whatever reason, it'll be interesting to see how...

What's that you linked? It's terrible, whatever it is. The whole Fermi and Drake thing is more for funsies than anything else, in my opinion. Everything breaks down when you get to the parts provided by Earth's sample size of one. I guess the next clarity will occur as the exoplanet search...

I mess them up all the time too. They travel in the same threads and their avatars are very similar.

I saw something the other day that theorized that AI might be a Great Filter terminus that defines the Fermi Paradox. Basically that there's a defining biological/technological chokepoint that a species must survive or surpass in order to evolve into a detectable extraterrestrial society. Life...

Yes, original work needs to go into the Workshop for critique, please. These threads outside that board are for questions and discussion. You can do what was done upthread however to demonstrate formatting technique or whatever though. That is fine.

Hmmm. Anyone else having the same issue? I'm on a Samsung having no problems with Android. checking edit function after posting... no issues

First anniversary is one month from today! I think we'll definitely do a yearly contest for shorts, poetry, and flash, which each of the monthly winners... voting for that can run for a full month. And I reintroduction thread/what I did for year one kind of thing sounds good.

bold check italics check :p not sure... did you try restarting your phone? Lemme try Baby Billy

Not sure, because I added some to what I deleted the other day, but I think it's about 1000 more from the prior total, so ~1700?

They won't be using AI detectors, that's for sure. Defense team will tear that shit apart. They'd need some kind of smoking gun. As Oscar Wilde found out the hard way, the parachute for the accused in a libel case is to prove that what they wrote--not "said," that's slander, not libel--is true...

They don't call them Massholes for nothing.

Saw this on .com. Mia Ballard of Shy Girl controversary is suing Hachette for libel over the AI accusations. Very interesting. As they say in the video, this is textbook libel and puts the publisher in a position where they have to prove something they might not be able to prove. Anybody want...

Thanks. It's actually a terrible sentence (fragment) that I just whacked, but whatever: "A classic portrait taken a year ago in his little navy uniform, noteworthy for his stoic military affect as opposed to his famous smile, which had the opposite effect and made him look even more even more...

I unintentionally wrote "affect" and "effect" correctly in the same sentence today. It's not a great sentence and could be cleared, but I don't want to change it now because that'll probably never happen organically again.

Meaning it's a bunch of chatbots socializing on a platform?