This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.
I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.
My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.
I’m so sad to see so many panicked posts about google docs when the original inflammatory post has been debunked and retracted.
Google is ONLY talking about publicly available data. Stuff that is in your drive DOES NOT COUNT as publicly available.
There are SO MANY companies that use drive and docs for proprietary information who would have MANY lawsuits to bring if it was discovered private drives were being scraped.
Now, I’m not saying NOT to swap writing programs because google docs is pretty pants as an actual word processor, and also, never ever have all your stuff only in one place, but I don’t want anyone to freak out that their writing isn’t safe.
Anyone know of any Skyrim servers I can join that are more fandom oriented? Could also be a general Elder Scrolls server too, was just curious since I’m replaying the game again.
listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
When does Ralof find out he's the dragonborn? At Helgen? Which faction does he side with, or is it neither? Does he have friends/companions? What are their relationships and how did they meet?
So there’s a lot to go over. Ralof (and by extension Hadvar as he’s along for the ride in this au) finds out he’s the dragonborn in the usual in-game way, which is when he fights the dragon at the Western Watchtower. However, unlike in the game, Ralof isn’t able to use his Thu'um yet, he just knows that he absorbed some kind of energy from the dead dragon. He finally believes that he’s the Dragonborn when he goes to High Hrothgar and the Greybeards confirm it. Much to Hadvar’s dismay…
Shock of all shocks, Ralof actually ends up joining the Empire. It’s a very long story for that one. But it’s mostly decided based on several quests in-game, how Ulfric STILL wants Markarth in Silverblood hands despite knowing what the Silverbloods did to Ralof in Cidhna Mines, the way Ulfric reacted to the Dossiers Ralof found in the Thalmor Embassy, and this thing I headcanon regarding Dragons and Dragonborn which Ralof comes to fully understand after a philisophical talk with Paarthurnax. Basically, Ralof came to the conclusion that, in the end, the Empire truly are the lesser of two evils and that Ulfric wouldn’t be able to make a good High King. This decision actually comes to emotionally haunt Ralof for a long time, for several reasons (One of which being that Ulfric and him were kind of a thing…).
Funny enough, I tried my damnest to feasibly put Hadvar into this AU as a pseudo companion. Hadvar in the beginning was trying to capture Ralof, ended up being dragged into helping Ralof, until after the Greybeards confirmed that Ralof is, in fact, the Dragonborn. And at that point Hadvar pisses off for a while. His journey thru this au is also all over the place and wild. He eventually has to quit the Legion (they’re trying to arrest him for desertion and treason for helping Ralof) and he ends up becoming a Companion. Which, then he ends up turning into a werewolf… because of course. I said it was wild. Of course, eventually, Hadvar and Ralof meet back up and they sorta kinda start this whirlwind romance cause oh no they realize their feelings for each other yadayada. Ya know, the usual 50k slow-burn plot you’d expect.
