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[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Not to mention that real high quality astrophotography by NASA and ESA is more often than not under free licenses. Literally the last case where it's necessary to generate something.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly, makes no sense to me

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] embed_me@programming.dev 5 points 5 hours ago

Moral laziness

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Absoutely. It takes like 5 seconds to get a real photo.

But I have considerable downvotes on my original comment. Maybe bots. Maybe AI bros who need to see the light and that their tech is based on the death of IP law.