Fine, as long as you agree to prosecute also all companies that produce software to work with images (or generate them without using AI), every company that produce software that can be used to create 3d models and then the renderer that get these models and render them into photorealistic images.
Then you need to go after everyone who produces plugins fot these softwares. And then you need to go to every open source software that do the same thing and every person who contribute to them.
And maybe even hardware vendors that sell graphics tablets for drawing.

Sometime it seems that, especially with AI, people think that the solution is to ban the tool and not to punish who use it to do something illegal.
True, AI make it extremely easy to create such horrific images but AI is not the first tool to do so, it make only faster. Back at the time there were entire Usenet groups dedicated to fake nude/xxx images of persons, both celebrities and normal people, but we have not banned internet, we simply prosecuted (when/if caught) who created the images.

Yeah, that these images are repulsive, but prosecute the companies that make tools that can also generate them was like to prosecute a phone company because someone use a phone to plan and commit an homicide.

yeah, yeah, whatever

Nowhere did I say the US is the world, it’s just the model for the rest of the western regimes.

That’s what US like to think. In reality US was the model, now not anymore.
Outside US no one has thought of the US as a role model for many years. It is a story the US tell themself to think they are better.

Liberalism is literally just fascism when the going is good

Honest question: would you like better to live in places like China or North Korea then ?
And I repeat myself: if you think that liberalism is just fascism when the going is good, you don’t understand a thing and you should read some history books.

They get permission when they do it professionally or as a company. Else it is a crime anyway.

Only if you have a written authorization from the company you try to attack.
Else they are nothing better than a criminal hacker.

Oh, they can. After following the same path every other country that want to join.
And after giving up to all their previous privileges…

" to expand Alibaba into a finance" is not intrinsically a crime in a country which allows pedo oligarchs to own everything and rule over the working class

It is not a crime in any free country. It is not that the US is the world, you have a very narrow view of the world

Jack Ma was punished because he wanted capitalists to start having control over the economy. Calling that courage reveals what you stand for.

Oh yes, think what you like but the facts are that Jack Ma was punished after criticizing the Chinese govern for stiffling innovation.
Like everyone that has too much power (or is too much succesfull) in the country and became a risk for Xi Jinping.

Enjoy living under pedo oligarch regime that fits with your fascist ideology. Your conception of freedom is literal fascism.

Funny, I live in a country that experienced real fascism and to think, like you, that fascism is a real thing now make me smile.
You people who call fascist anyone who don’t think like you would were the first to be “removed” in a real fascist regime.

But hey, feel free to call fascist everyone and think that capitalism is the problem, while using something that was created in a capitalist society, by capitalist people working for capitalist company…

" to expand Alibaba into a finance" is not intrinsically a crime in a free country, so if China is really a free country, why Jack Ma was paid for something he don’t yet did ?

Jack Ma was punished because he had the courage (or stupidity given the situation) to criticize Chinese estabilishment for stifling innovation and economics, then Xi Jinping retaliate and Jack Ma went off the radar (only to be remerges after Xi Jinping “rehabilitated” him)

So yes, to me China is a regime. And if you think my intellect is not up to your idea of quality, you are free to move to China and to live in what I suppose you consider a better country.

This is what the US wanted, Europe taking more control over their defence.

Buying more US weapons, not developing their own… Read the fine prints for hell’s sake 😜

It is a way, but here people is happier to just stop new infrastructures (solar/wind farm, new rail lines, new public transportation routes and so on) and then to protest because the problems these new infrastructures should solve (or alleviate) are not solved, if not make worse.

I can kind of see why some NIMBYs don’t want wind turbines near their homes (don’t get me wrong, it’s still bullshit)

Well, I would understand if the wind turbines is built in their garden, I honestly would not want it. But it do not make any sense when they don’t want wind turbines 20/30 miles offshore.

but why would anyone complain about solar?

I honestly don’t know, I only see this happen.
For example near my city a planned solar farm project is on the verge of being halted due to an appeal by a residents’ committee over some legal technicality stemming from the fact that there is a commercial premises nearby and that this would transform an agricultural area (which is not actually in use) into an energy-generation site.

And yet these are the very same committees that complain when the power cuts out in summer because too many air-conditioners are running…

I think that in the end these committees just want to stop things just because… now they target solar and wind farms and new subway and trains lines, before they targeted cellular towers (only to then to protest because they were not able to use their phone) and in the future they will target something else.

True, but I am afraid that the definition of “they act shitty” in China is very different from the one in the US.
Jack Ma paid because he criticized the regime, not because Alibaba was failing.

The difference is that now Apple has its fan base and their products are not a niche anymore.

Hobby project coding is solved.

Not if you want to build something more complex than the usual todo manager or likewyse simple software in my experience.
And even in this case it output just something taken from examples around the internet, so it is not writing code, it is just better at finding the (hopefully) better examples.

Theoretically true but pratically false.
For some stupid reasons (primary NIMBY syndrome) people do not want solar and/or wind farm near their houses.

And the problem with solar and wind is that it is not assured that they produce when you need it.
Not that they should not be used, everything that reduce the oil needs are good, but you really cannot base everything on them unless you are able to build a single grid for Europe since stastically speaking in a continent there will always be some places that generate more than needed when other places are not generating enough for whatever reason.

If there will be a sufficient request, someone will built them.

Forcing young people into a uniform serves no useful purpose at all.

You are looking from the wrong point of view, it has a purpose: to level the children to avoid that the “rich” kids look down on the “poor” kid that cannot (or does not care) have the last trendy outfit.

I was in such situation back at the time, I was in a private school that have many rich kids and while I almost never cared about what I was wearing and thankfully I never had any problems, in other classes there were incidents caused by a rich kid bulling a “poor” (relatively, the school has a price that keep out trully poor families, so the poor was only less rich in this context) kid for the outfit.

And seeing what kids wear to school nowday, a uniform is the lesser devil in my opinion.

Also, wearing a school uniform sometimes build also a sense of appartence that is not a bad thing.

You know what ? Both are true. The Left is not more able to communicate to their traditional voter base and this void was taken by the right.

The media have their part of responsability, true, but in the end if the Left say nothing, what the media could tell about them ?

You are right, but just look at what happened here in Italy.
To not let the Right win, the Left put together everyone else and once they won the elections they were stuck in their decision process because there are so many voices wanting something different that they cannot decide on nothing, so next election they lost bad.

So yes, winning the election does not means you will govern but the alternative could be even worse: you are not able to do anything and when you inevitably fail you have served your opponent a perfect way to win.
Here in Italy most of the people who voted for the Right did it because the only thing that come out the Left was something “the Right (meaning, Giorgia Meloni) should not be allowed to do this and that”, nothing about what the Left would have done.
And the worst thing is that they are doing it again.

True, but this is not a thing you can try with a European country, you would need to kidnap too many people at basically the same time.