Stolen photos from here... amusingly, they are not making french fries there, but chopping potatoes, so the images are actually incorrect. You'll have a bunch of fried potato chunks. https://gingerdivine.com/how-to-dice-potatoes/
Google Generative AI in this example fails the "reasonable human" case, i.e. If I went to the website owner and said: "I'm building my own website about cooking. Can I copy all your photos and instructions on chopping potatoes over to my own website, where I run my own ads, for free? Also, I'll need all the rest of your recipes and photos, too." the answer would be: "NO WAY".
@mjausson I've worked in the technology industry all my life, with startups, software, etc. and there seems to be a fundamental disconnect between the people building these tools and respect for the human energy (ie. intellectual property) required to produce what their tools are stealing or modifying. The use of those photos is emblematic of that attitude.
@ai6yr I have an old decluttering/organizing-related blog on Blogger. I think I'll recreate the few posts I really care about on my current home site (which uses Wordpress) — my annual tributes to my mom on the anniversary of her death may be the only ones really worth keeping. And then I can delete Blogger. (That'll also solve the problem of having some links to Twitter on that blog.)
As I try to disengage with Google, that'll leave me with only a gmail account, which is only there as a backup in case something goes wrong with my regular email. I can probably find an alternative to that, too.
@jeridansky Sadly, Google has the entire inventory of my life (via email and what not). They actually know more about my life than I do (or did... their search index is going to the dogs). I went to school with someone who became a big celebrity, had the same circle of friends, and DID NOT REMEMBER THIS until I googled them when they died and found a picture of me with them.
@ai6yr Yes, me too. I got started in the industry back when it was called "new media." 😂
I see lots of this attitude, particularly here in Silicon Valley. Back in the day we blamed it on Napster. But the attitude was prevalent long before Napster and still is. Just because you can take something, doesn't mean it's OK to do so.
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