The shooter is dead.
I honestly could not give less of a shit who's training the models. I'm not gonna boycott C# because it was developed by Microsoft. There are open source implementations of generative AI that make use of freely-available models.
What part of "transformative" did you not understand?
If I traced an artwork or copied GPL licensed code into an non-GPL one, my ass would be beaten by others on the internet.
If I gave you an arbitrary image from Midjourney and all of the training data from it, I doubt you could match it to the "source art." AI images are usually transformative.
In other news: water is wet and bears shit in the woods
Even if it had a metal barrel, the forces from firing a bullet would probably tear the gun in half. The gun is made of plastic, and presumably, the hinge it uses to fold in half is also made of plastic.
I paid 20 grand to be poor
Yes. It's so garbage I wrote a master's thesis on how shit it is. If I didn't have over 1,000 hours in the game, it would have been substantially harder to do this.
I worry about people getting methanol poisoning from shoddy distilling.
I think you'd be short a few fingers if you tried firing a live round from that thing.
It's all well and good until you end up like the US or the DPRK. Any clown fiesta can be touted as "democracy" as long as the people doing it don't have any meaningful resistance to doing so. Objective truth is a myth in the real world.
If you were directly impacted by the rampant transphobia, racism, sexism, etc. present in many red states and in his supporters' rhetoric, you would probably have less sympathy for him and others of his ilk. People like him use the state to kill people or ruin their lives.