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Definitely not on copyright grounds, since almost all state flags (except Georgia, Mississippi, and soon to be Utah) are old enough to have entered the public domain.

These images, while very intricate and pretty, are not fractals, and actually show a very interesting limitation with AI nowadays. Image generation AI tools such as Stable Diffusion or Dall-E don't actually know the meaning of the words you're using to prompt them, they just have a pretty good idea of what sorts of things pop up if you search for those words.

A fractal is, by mathematical definition, self-similar. You can zoom into part of the smaller detail of a fractal and find the original image, and do the same with the details in the zoomed image, and so on and so forth ad nauseum. Computers are pretty good at making these, once they're given the rules.

What the image generation bot has given you is an image that looks like a fractal, and that's what it's supposed to do. In the same way that large language models like chat-GPT will be very confidently wrong about the information it tells you, and for the same reasons, image generation AI should not be used for important topics that the prompter doesn't already have some background information about, such as generating a map of some place the prompter has never been in preparation for a road trip.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Honestly, I don't see the problem with her answer if she's applying for a minimum wage position. That's pretty close to the answer I gave when I started working at the store I'm at now.

That's a binaural microphone, they're commonly used for ASMR streams. She's currently whispering into the viewers' left ears, via the microphone's left ear.

Any soup is cool enough to eat on a first date. If your date gives you crap about something as inconsequential as what kind of soup you're eating, your date should be discarded at your earliest convenience, because they have shown themselves to be an opinionated twat that will bitch about things that don't matter in the slightest.

One thing the other comments aren't mentioning that is relevant: this wasn't free. A second-level spell slot was expended by someone to make this happen, and since this is your first big quest, it's likely that it was a significant resource investment because you're a low level.

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when there's not a recognised disability involved but just health issue/s (which could be "disabling").

From the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in regards to the ADA:

Under the ADA , you have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.

Essentially, if you are disabled, you have a disability, whether recognized or not. If you are not disabled, then you do not have a disability.

Under this definition, something like asthma, which is fairly common, can be a disability when it comes to strenuous activities, but isn't something that is immediately obvious to someone just passing on the street.

As far as it being ablist to assume that someone not showing signs of disability isn't disabled? No, that's silly. Not believing them if they tell you they can't run a mile because they have asthma? Still no, that's skepticism.

Ablism would be something like planning a company outing, and choosing the location up a tall, steep hill when other options were available, specifically because you don't like the fact that your coworker has asthma.

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.

Maybe it costs less than paying enough for employees to give a shit about shoplifters, so it lowers shrink in that way.

Walmart became one of the richest companies in the US because of stuff like this. There's a whole penny-pinching mentality built into their company structure that I haven't seen at any other retailer I've worked for, and they argue that it's how they keep their prices low.

Because they're trying to make something that doesn't exist. Ai is really good at making stuff that already exists, or even merging traits from multiple things that already exist. It can't create stuff that doesn't exist, though.

So, what the creator does is point Stable Diffusion at a prompt that says something like "Jesse from Breaking Bad, but Russian", point a voice generator primed on Jesse's lines at what he wants Soviet Jesse to say, and point a third one that mimics face movements to the picture and the Ai-generated voice line.

Now he has a picture with a moving face that talks and says whatever dumb shit he wants it to, for minimal effort but all the internet points.

No, the problem is that Santos is both the Queen of Wales and the capital of Uruguay, so there's a level of diplomatic immunity involved.