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Plot twist this is all happening because Azzy doesn’t want to admit that he’s dropping out of college

............YOUNG MAN

you are supposed to be at colleg

not doing some weird pantomime of your religion's prophecy with your sibling, a girl who was slamming said sibling into a locker like 2 days ago, a weird doppelganger of yourself and your fucking father

....also everyone do themselves a favor and listen to "hopes and dreams" sped up a bit faster then what youtube allows, its litterally "black knife"

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This is what I expected to happen, based on what happened with photography following the rise of the camera phone

we should expect to see a more competitive market where less people are able to make it as artists, but those that do will be markedly better at a baseline

The existence of generative AI is actually making me more of a...not hater, but more exacting in my demands for art (at least that Im paying for or devoting significant time to), I think.

Really raising the bar on "replacement rate".

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The appeal of ChatGPT and others, to me, is that it’s a different perspective; its writing is universally bad, but it can occasionally elaborate on an idea, which you yourself can then build on to make actually good. but generally, it’s just rubber ducking? With elements of “if I don’t follow through and finish what I’m talking about, then it isn’t “lying” like it would be if I was talking with a real person”

I was wondering how long it would take to go from "AI art doesn't mean you have to stop drawing lol" to "you are morally obligated to use AI or the fascists have won." I realize it's mostly a reaction to anti-AI moralizing, but it seems like the opposite of likely to get skeptics to try the technology.

I think that's somewhat unfair to the thrust of the article.

But after playing with Stablediffusion quite a bit I think the actual reason artists don't embrace it is because it's not actually that useful to most kinds of artistic practice. It's actually fairly difficult to exercise any fine grained control or guarantee consistency between outputs.

And to be honest, many of the ways of doing so are dependent on, well, already having a certain degree of more traditional artistic skill.

There are use cases, but like if you stop and think carefully, like, imagine you have been drawing a webcomic for several years using photoshop. Where is genAI going to fit into your workflow, just as a practical level?

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as a cis guy, when presented with the "99% you get a ton of money, 1% you turn into a girl" it honestly would be dumb to not hit that button until it breaks. like ok now i have 100 bajillion dollars and gender dysphoria. big deal. i have all the money in the world to turn me back into a guy. like with that kind of money i could have obama do me a phalloplasty. he wouldnt be able to do it as he isnt a surgeon but the point still stands

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kill every single person in the world regardless of their character or political alignment

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hospital

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How long was it in there?

i saw a girl on tiktok who put her salt lamp in the dishwasher and didn’t realize it would dissolve, and it’s been on my mind for like 3 days

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much less alarmed by the 'cognitive impact' of LLM use than I am by the fact that so many people apparently believe your brain can atrophy or permanently lose function in the space of four months because you used fancy sparknotes to write a couple of essays

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this heat is crazy

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there r real teens out there who think discovering nirvana is a special achievement 

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In 2023 Koichi Tani, chair of the National Public Safety Commission for Kishida’s Cabinet, chose to keep eating unadon despite then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida being sent a pipe bomb

i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

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I’m so mad that a t4 bacteriophage actually looks like that and that it’s appearance isn’t made up

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wha t if oregon trail was called wagon age: oregons

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I am pretty sure that the motivation for the villain of some shitty horror movie Phelan Porteous reviewed was that “he was forced to act as a girl as child” and then he became a necromancer or something, and I think that I know of at least one other necromancer or horror villain or something who read to me as being a trans guy, so??? I don’t know, might have been some other villain-type thing, he was just death-related in a way where I connected him to Nagisa Shiota or something

i think trans people need more fun stereotypes. so many groups get at least one that is like, offensive but also kinda baffling, like "gays walk fast" or "germans are obsessed with efficiency." all we get are like "evil sex predator" shit

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insect orders often end in -optera, meaning wings. for example, the order chiroptera is a group of large bugs commonly known as "bats"

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saw a hardcore biker-looking uncle rocking this fit earlier????????????????

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Fandom Problem #9018:

"Harry Potter is a badly written series anyways" Okay and?? Like it's good that we're able to talk about the flaws in her work more openly, but going on and on about how HP is bad/problematic every time we talk about her anti-trans behaviors is just distracting from the problem.

Like, HP could have been perfectly written. It could have been free from those problematic elements, free from her un-thorough understanding of systematic racism, etc. And guess what? It still wouldn't change the fact that shes a raging TERF who actively donates to anti-trans campaigns. People talk about how bad it is to have your Hogwarts house in your bio or wear HP merch even if you got it years ago or even to pirate the books/movies because "it tells the companies that HP is still profitable" (which I'm pretty sure defeats the purpose of piracy but w/e), wouldn't that stuff still be just as bad even if HP was good?

That's the real concept of "separate the art from the artist". It means recognizing that good people can make bad art, and bad people can make good art. That one's fictional creations does not inherently translate to what they actually believe IRL. Sure, it is debatable that the problematic elements of HP don't represent JK's actual views is debatable, but how good or bad HP is as a story doesn't change how important it is to boycott her products/the franchise/whatever.