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Erich

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  1. I don’t consider myself a collector at all, but I am surprised at what I’ve accumulated over-time. The reasons are varied and many, but I have several un-fired guns. Like @Links2k, I bought some in pairs. Or multiple guns at the same time with specific intentions, but life and priorities seem to have their own idea about my plans. maybe have at 20 right now I have yet to fire. A couple I bought more than 10 years ago. I never intended them to sit, but I never intended to get old and start losing my hair either.
  2. $100 to eat a stick of butter If anyone remembers that one.
  3. Adding 1 more 13 round mag, total of 3 mags. Considering removing trigger and lowering or puttng on GB. Great package as set up though, if you've got a standard Hellcat this is your step up !
  4. Hellcat RDP with Springfield's aluminum body Wasp red dot (always on), factory extended threaded barrel with adjustable compensator. I have a standard hellcat and can attest that the comp makes a noticeable difference. Excellent condition as shown. The installed Powder River Precision Trigger kit makes is a huge improvement over stock with less reduced travel, smoothed pull, and a crisp break @ around 4.5lbs. Comes with original box and accessories. 11 and 2 x 13 round mags (total of 3 mags), optic cover plate if you want to remove the red dot, and thread protector if you don't want to run the comp. And or course the original trigger parts, if you want to return to stock trigger. $675, no trades please. Chattanooga area.
  5. Rugers great little carry / pocket+ gun in excellent , near new condition. Pro versions do away with the thumb safety and magazine disconnect safety of the standard LC9S. A Powder River Precision trigger ($90 upgrade) has been installed. Smooths the action, shorting up travel and bringing the trigger to between 4lbs and 3 3/4lbs. Full reversible and easy swap to return to stock trigger if preferred. Comes with origin for control parts , Original box and 1 magazine. $300 no trades please SPF Chattanooga area
  6. Erich

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    As the fear and anxiety around these grew last year, it had prompted governments to intercede. While the international agreements rely on voluntary participation, Europe has moved forward with legislation. Love or hate the democratic process, the direction is clear and it will just take us longer. They will end up filtering and restricting the foundation models AI draws from. Much like how social platforms restrict content. Leading up to an election year, timing and how much influence end products will have is unfortunate. As much as I loathe censorship and its usual effect on free speech, this is one of the items that may be appropriate to reach out to representatives to express concerns if you want to see something happen in the US sooner than later. I work in an industry that has seen high adoption. Businesses feel compelled to use AI when their competitors are using it in an effort to stay competitive with productivity / potential cost savings. Employees read that as job loss. The fear was palpable for some. Its limitations are noticeable and it gets things wrong quite a bit. In part due to use of stand alone internal deployments and use. Business will not use the platforms in the public sphere for privacy and security. This should limit bad actors from injecting wanted content into local instance's foundations. Big should. As end users, and realistically we will all be using it whether you know you are or not, being aware of the abuses now may be a good thing. I expect images and end products will eventually all be tagged with metadata or some form of ID such that it will be transparent that what you are looking at is the product of generative AI. Some socials do it already. Kind of surprised they arent all doing it for marketing purposes since this is really all about subscription $$$ now.
  7. Erich

    Meet Sora

    That’s totally fair. I appreciate it and apologize for pointed statements, and the very poor word choice in the first comments that caused this. It’s really too bad that thread devolved. Several pages in the beginning were very imaginative and interesting. I don’t understand the fascination with that one person.
  8. Erich

    Meet Sora

    It absolutely does not. Your quote substitutes words to fit your false narrative,or you read in what you wanted for your own purposes. the P word was never mentioned until Chuck brought it up and you are capitalizing on it. For background, the image generator in question is not suppose to be able to use famous people. Calling one out by name would not get that image. But as it was 'learning' and people were teaching it nicknames, others could then use them. I was specifically referring to, and I said, seeing how the controls will be circumvented. In no instance did I see a port image produced. They had her doing a number of various things. but not pornographic as that is not allowed. It would be fair to say some were sexualized in nature, but nothing you could not show in public. Based the its later development, I am curious what it can do with video. I was joking about the ARFCOM instances as it is somewhat known effort, I didn't know the comment would be modified / twisted. I know what I meant. If you dont want to believe it, fine. I'd say support it with other posts since there would be others if its is what you claim. The idea, if it was a porn person you'd pass doesn't follow. You are saying they dont deserve dignity and they are subhuman or TS is better than them. I dont agree with that. I will dignify your last. You are off base and misrepresenting a joking comment for your own reasons.
  9. Erich

    Meet Sora

    I'd agree with that last statement. The controls that are / will be added are meant to prevent it. Want to be clear I am not promoting "porn", rather I am curious what some will do and what they will do despite the best efforts of the developers. Its how it evolves going forward. This idea of what is porn is too easy to trip over and there is a great deal of subjectivity to it. There will be mis-steps, but in the end it will end in a better place. I think the problem many have is how realistic some of these may look. It does not matter its fake, its just to close. In my mind I know its fake so I don't weight it heavily. Not to the point of having an impact on mankind. But I can respect some will see that differently. Photoshop is an example of something that has been around that allows this kind of thing, worse with real images. It has no bounds except the skill of the user. I bring that up as an example of the limited damage it has done. There is a parallel here. Tool vs person Bad actors taking something and doing a bad thing to have it censored or banned. Sound a little familiar.

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