Interesting, though I can’t read the word above “socks.”

It’s actually both; they are using the data for ML: Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

they all have trouble with it.

Then the next step is to make this user-friendly!

It had a giveaway on Android, and I think iOS, 5 years ago. It’s certainly one of the most creative minimalist games out there, but I just couldn’t figure out how to get up to higher scores.

It’s fine for me on mobile, and I’m glad that the “I” has horizontal lines. So many scammers adopt fake usernames by using an “I” (capital “i”) instead of an “l” (lowercase “L”) and vice versa.

Okay, finally, this makes more sense; I think you mislabeled the post as “cause and effect” when you’re really talking about ownership of property. Now this we could talk about endlessly, since it’s been such a hot topic with AI’s copyright-dodging.

A good ethical example I think of is Adobe InDesign (if I recall correctly), which only trains its “AI” models on content that is specifically AI-crawl-approved. I personally think the only other ethical approach to “AI” is open-source models like Meta’s Llama. All others are thievery.

Another example of endless debate is publishing houses or boards of companies, particularly of AAA games, as in how much money middle and upper management and the C-Suite should get for the hard work done by the developers. It’s been tearing apart the video game industry over the years on an exponential basis.

Generally speaking, though, for physical media like the artwork you describe, the workers get their dues, though probably disproportionately (especially when it comes to apparel made overseas, phones…). This stuff is very relevant in today’s politics with the tariffs going on; while they’re unpopular and could certainly be executed in better, alternative ways (like providing subsidies to make things at home instead), overseas workers in China, India, etc. are tremendously, objectively overdue on their wages.

given the option to claim ownership, to assert that narrative where I profit, even though that narrative isn’t really relatively strong, I will.

So you don’t care to help fight this mindset and right wrongs?

But you’re the one positing a claim! The one making a claim is obliged to back it up, not the readers…

Um, if you punch me, I’m gonna be in pain. That’s a directly caused effect, so how is that “specious?”

But you seem to be talking about something money-related, so an example of what you mean would be very helpful.

But you’re not even willing to provide an example of what you mean…

How so?

the game makes it seem like sci-fi writers

What? No, it’s just Mio. Still, the dialogue is somewhat tropey; I hope it stays ultimately better than ITT.

Update: Okay, wow, it got way better once the characters really start opening up about their personal life struggles.