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Joined December 2011
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If the law refuses to recognize human ownership of purely AI-generated expression, why not deliberately use AI to create an expanding library of expression that nobody can exclusively own through copyright?
I propose The AI-Generated Commons
(deliberately share creation)
Generate original characters, creatures, settings, illustrations, and other assets without claiming exclusive copyright over their purely AI-generated expression. Publish them with documentation so other creators can reuse and develop them.
Lets create an environment in which multiple independent creators build entirely different copyrighted stories around the same freely available fictional characters.
Why wait for public domain to drip feed us new content? Lets create that now with a public domain creative commons pact.
The only rule is if a company wants to use anything there they will agree not to trademark anything that prevents use of the creative common elements by others.
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I was trying to explain last night why Zelda Ocarina of Time is such an interesting phenomenon to me. You can revisit your childhood home or return to your hometown, but time doesn’t wait for anyone. The people have changed, the places are different & eventually you have to accept that you can never experience those things the way you did when you were younger. Video games have always felt different. You can return to your childhood games years later & it’s all still there. The same places, the same people, the same music, the same details you remember from childhood. Nothing has moved on without you. I think that’s what makes it so emotional. Life keeps moving forward, but the worlds we grew up in remain preserved exactly as we left them. The real world doesn’t let us go back, but sometimes the worlds we grew up in let us feel like we never had to leave.
Long rant I know but I don’t feel like I properly worded how I felt on stream last night so if you read this whole thing, thanks :) I hope you have a game as special to you as OOT is to me 💚
To avoid that jump from Halloween to Christmas, I propose we create a Thanksgiving mascot to get shows and merch so it's not skipped.
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Wow. Now that’s a Ghostbusters costume!
Source: reddit.com/r/ghostbusters/s/…
🎃 Just in time for Halloween! My take on a Haunted House.
My second short story, Eminent Front, is now available to read for FREE on Substack...Don't forget 😉
A nephew searches for his missing uncle in the last remaining house of a real Pennsylvania ghost town. But some things are better left forgotten.
Happy Halloween! 👻
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As a 40-year-old man, I try to understand why celebrity deaths hit me so hard. I am a grown man. I have built a family and a community I love. Surely the deaths of people I have never met or interacted with shouldn’t affect me to the point of grief.
Today, when I heard of Sir Patrick Stewart’s passing, I realised something. It’s not just the person. It’s the moment they came into our lives.
For us millennials, TV and cinema were a very different experience. It was mass media at its truest.
Today? We live with different algorithms and feeds. My wife follows celebrities and influencers I have never even heard of, recommending Netflix shows that never even pop up on my “you should watch” feed.
But growing up?
Catherine O’Hara was everyone’s mum.
Robin Williams was everyone’s Mrs. Doubtfire and Mork.
Anthony Bourdain was everyone’s guide to food.
Matthew Perry was everyone’s Friend living next door.
Hayden Panettiere was the cheerleader we all wanted to save.
And Sir Patrick Stewart was everyone’s Captain.
We saw them at the same time, on the same channels, at much the same ages.
This grief we feel is a collective one. We grieve the characters we shared our time with, who made their way from screen to heart. We grieve that time we no longer have, and the childhoods we can’t quite recreate for the next generation.
And perhaps the largest grief of all? The feeling that the last pieces of our inner child are fading away with every loss.
These people helped us understand the world. Their stories make up the mosaic of our souls. They shaped our understanding of right and wrong, and of what the world sorely needs right now… empathy.
I don’t know what lies ahead of us.
I just know that I must boldly go.
Let’s, together,
Make it so.
It's official! 🌕
My first published short story, Ask for the Moon, is now live on Substack!
A supernatural horror story for fans of The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, and Love, Death & Robots.
This is the first step toward my upcoming anthology, Ethereal Conundrums For A Sinister Age: Volume 1, planned for 2027.
The first five stories are FREE to read. No paid subscription required. The second one drops on Halloween!
And because I like to be unique, every story ends with a Musical Accompaniment. Look up the song on your device or platform of choice and enjoy a free soundtrack.
If you give it a read, I'd love to hear what you think!
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Halloween party last minute and don't have a costume, just show up naked with a red bag. Your costume? The Porn Identity.
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Miyomoto's response to why AI is good is so eloquent I am honestly impressed.
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I've never commissioned an artist because I've never been able to justify the expense. I've always used whatever tools were available to create things for my own projects. AI is simply another tool in that toolbox.
You're not losing a commission from me. That commission was never going to exist.
This
In art, the thing that matters to me is the creative expression of the artist. If you outsource the choices to an AI, I don't consider this an artist making art.
But if you outsource the *labor* to an AI, but maintain control over the actual creative choices - like, if you have a specific vision and are using AI to translate your imagination to reality - I consider this just as valid artistic expression as using photoshop or digital photography.
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas hands his 21-year-old son a check for $10,000.
"Okay. You're on your own," Kirk says.
Michael looks at the check. "That's great, Dad, but I still have two years of college tuition left."
Kirk doesn't care. The lesson has started. The bank is closed.
For the next 30 years, Kirk Douglas proudly brags to his other children and everyone who would listen: "Michael never asked me for another dime. I gave him that money, and that was it. I made him a man."
He believed his extreme tough love had worked perfectly. Until Michael finally sat him down three decades later.
"Dad, you remember those beautiful, soft Italian leather suitcases you bought me for Christmas back then?" Michael asked.
"Yeah," Kirk smiled.
"Well, I found out that each suitcase could hold exactly 22 kilos of marijuana."
To pay his tuition and survive his father's brutal lesson in self-reliance, Michael became a drug smuggler. He moved product across the country using the exact same bags his father bought him.
Society glorifies tough love. We are told that cutting the safety net and applying maximum pressure is the only way to build true character.
But when you push someone to the absolute edge, they don't always learn the moral lesson you intended. Sometimes, they just learn how to survive by any means necessary.
Feels like AI discussions should be relevant here. People that want original are quick to copy. Same behaviors they abhor in AI they do themselves just watch social media or clout chasers. Stay original because good ideas will always saturate. Keep creating new.
Social media platforms want original content.
But the moment something original performs well, hundreds of accounts copy it.
Sometimes the copies get more attention than the original.
And the algorithm doesn’t seem to care who came up with the idea first.
They’ve built an economy that celebrates originality in theory and rewards imitation in practice.
How is that supposed to encourage creativity?!