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AI Policy

A. Overall Philosophy

I recognize the abuses of the companies currently producing the major AI tools, which I agree often crosses the line into plagiarism, and absolutely takes unfair advantage of existing manual content creators; but I also recognize the validity of an enormous number of art forms that rely on repurposing or mechanically reproducing existing content and/or stochastic generative processes: collage (in both the visual and aural forms), Musique Concrete, readymades in the visual arts, "plunderphonics", to a certain extent turntablism, even arguably photography, as well as music compositional concepts used in the fields of algorithmic composition and aleatorical music, such from composers like John Cage, Pierre Boulez, and even the very foundation of modern electronic music with Pierre Schaeffer's Etude Aux Chemins De Fer. A great deal has…

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The Whole Of The Law: Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website address is: https://michaelkupietz.com. It is the showcase website for creative works by artist and technologist Mike Kupietz, the owner and author of this site, hereinafter referred to as "Mike".

I. Mike's Commitment To Your Privacy And Right Not To Be Abused For Commercial Purposes

This site is noncommercial and intended 1.) primarily for Mike's entertainment; and 2.) secondarily for yours. No commercial use of your identifying information or resources is ever knowingly made by Mike. Those information and resources are never knowingly shared with others by Mike, except as necessary to resolve technical issues hindering the proper functioning of this site.

II. Information About Site Functions Coded By Mike.

Much of this site runs on code personally authored or audited by Mike. The guarantees in this section II pertain to that code.

What Information About You Mike's Own Authored Code Collects…

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The Man Is Out To Get Me: Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions

Commencing herewith are the understandings and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms Of Use") to which you must agree to be permitted to access, view, or use the whole or any constituent part of michaelkupietz.com's technology, data, resources, contents, privately-owned intellectual property, visual pages or media, electronic files, and RSS or other author-published data feeds (all hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Site"), whether accessed by michaelkupietz.com or any other domain or means by which any part of the Site may be accessed. You must immediately close and and terminate whatever means you are using to view or access the Site if you do not agree with the Terms Of Use in full.

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