I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I've been using and following Obsidian's development since 2020 and I really appreciate the way your company supports the open source community!
The content aware fill on Photoshop can do the same thing, actually, there are many AI based solutions to remove watermarks and a considerable amount of them are free to use.
Watermarks is no more a stopper for people who don't want to pay for images. Here is an opportunity to inventing new ways to protect stock images.
And most people are thinking on ChatGPT like it couldn't evolve. Like it was statically attached to its current state. They are not considering its astonishing potential to evolve.
It's just the beginning, just like the internet on the early 90s. Give it 30 more years and we all gonna be AI dependants, like we are on the internet. On the near decades the future generations will not be able to just imagine life before AIs.
I would suggest you to place a donation regressive counter with the price that takes to make the website run, let's say 100 USD, everytime someone make a donation the value updates until it reaches the donation goal of the month.
There's a famous quotes from Bill Gates that is "My children will have computers, yes, but before they will have books. Without books, without reading, our children will be unable to write, including their own story."
On my personal experience, ChatGPT is a precious tool to refine knowledge and thinking, but it depends on how it's used.
The same painting brush can be used to paint Monalisa or a meaningless blurred thing. It depends on how it's used.
To use ChatGPT and other AI tools properly, we need to build a solid foundation of knowledge and critical thinking skills at first.
Then triangulate the answers given by the AI with other sources, our own previous knowledge along with new evidences through experimentation.
Since the brain urges for cognitive relief, most people will be lazy, while just a few will extract the true potential of ChatGPT.
Indeed. A person can be bad at math, but really good on play musical instruments or to guide himself through a unknown city. That requires a certain level of intelligence. But I think there's no human that is intelligent on every aspect, maybe some exceptions like Da Vinci, but most people are good at some tasks while other people doesn't. The human intelligence seems to be distributed throughout the population. This creates an illusion that human intelligence is general.
I've found ChatGPT sober and neutral in politics, it you conduct the AI to an unbiased point of view through your questions. I've presented my ideas of building a multidimensional political model with many dimensions instead of a single axis political spectrum. It not only gave me answers out of the mainstream thinking, but it helps me to refine the model using some mathematical and philosophical concepts.
I think that search engines like Google are unbeatable to find content that we already know about. On the other hand, those lists are great to discover what we don't already know about, such as new topics, etc. Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.
At least Laika server for a noble cause. What I think is terrible is the fact that Soviet Army tied up bombs on dogs and let the run after enemy tanks on the WWII. Humans sometimes acts disgustingly.