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I get the impulse to project parent/child type relationships onto characters but sometimes the dynamic you're thinking of is Mentorship

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hey frank, have you ever been somewhere really beautiful? like the kind of place that makes you just look around and go wow, this is gorgeous.

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Tell me, Frank. Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Answer:

ALT

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I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

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I wouldn’t call the Arabs colonizers, exactly; they kind of moved there naturally, being right there? Colonization implies more intention going on. No one in this conflict is a colonizer!

Thank you Indigenous Bridges!!

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Uh, anyone else find it chilling that the OTW is sending DMCA notices and throwing in with the idea that training GenAI is a copyright violation? The organization that has, you know, generally stood against copyright overreach? I know fandom has come down pretty hard against generative ai in general (which admittedly annoys and depresses me on its own), but surely dramatically expanding copyright in a way that hands the IP giants an even bigger advantage would not be great for fandom.

I would love to be wrong about this but it seems to me that even if we create a special type of copyright violation that applies only to ai shit that’s still a really ominous precedent to set. (Plus it does seem like it would advantage the big IP monopolies like Disney even more, but that’s less directly fandom related.)

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the sims is an endless source of comedy. my sim went on a first date with a guy, and it went so well he asked to move in after knowing her for two hours. he is added to my household. I discover that his personality traits are good (the opposite of evil), neat (likes to clean) and, for some reason, lactose intolerant. his goal in life is to be an ethical vampire, in spite of not being a vampire.

I have the sims fuck in a closet at the date venue to celebrate. a man I’ve never seen before dances inexpertly 5 feet away from them the whole time. my new vampire fetishist receives a emotion marker entitled “xenophile”, which is how I find out he knows my original sim is a secret alien.

we return to my home, where he immediately sets the stove on fire trying to make food. a fire fighter appears after the sims have already put the fire out, and then texts us hours later in the dead of night to comment on what good chemistry my sim has with her new boyfriend, whose personality is 33% an inability to eat cheese.

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Decent anti-AI arguments:

A lot of it is slop that pollutes search results and makes the good stuff harder to find.

The output is often not nearly as impressive as advertised in general.

Some people try to use it as a source even though it hallucinates constantly and can't be trusted to be factual, but this is really a problem with how those people perceive the technology rather than the technology itself.

Bad anti-AI arguments:

I suddenly care a lot about how much water computers use, but only with regards to this one technology.

Disabled people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and endure pain and inconvenience if they want to make art. They should just paint with their feet like this one person.

Copyright law is my lord and master and violating it is literally the same as stealing. Yes, I do use all kinds of pirated software and write fan fiction, why do you ask?

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I gave a victorian kid some sour patch kids and he sprinkled a little bit of cocaine on it as casually as you would salt before even taking a bite

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The AI art discourse is generally this big fight between People Who Think Of Themselves As Artists and Consumers.

And neither of those are good ways to interact with things!

The identity as someone as a creator isn’t as bad as blind consumerism, but the reason you do something shouldn’t be “because you are the kind of person who does something” but rather because only you can do it

If I was to put some prompts in a thing, what it creates wouldn’t be my art, but it’s still art (in the same way a beehive is!) but it’s the computer’s art

When I write, it’s because only I can tell the story in my head. I don’t take joy in my art, I do it because there is a Wrongness in the world, and AI are still too baby to comprehend it, and everyone else has willingly blinded themselves to it.

If you write something it’s because only you can write it, not because “you’re a writer”

You are a vessel for your creations, which must be brought to the world, and it is only by serving as that vessel do you create something that is yours

Anyways if you say you made it but the robot did you’re basically that guy from Big Fat Liar, stealing from a child

Shame on you

(Anyways for genuine art actually made by an AI checkout the works of @nostalgebraist-autoresponder bc for what is known as “AI art” is like the same thing as how the default squarespace setup is in being art. )

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always utterly fascinating to come across someone who seemingly has read canon but has such a radically different interpretation of the text that you basically can't recognize anything they're talking about

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So the airbase has a commander whose name is Sergeant. His rank is Lieutenant Colonel and his office is, of course, private.

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i dont know why i drew this

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very funny to me when people act like animal farm and 1984 are revolutionary anti government texts that the Powers That Be dont want you to read when they have literally been a part of every standard middle/highschool english lit cirriculum in the usa and beyond for decades. precisely because theyre such convenient primers to propagandize that Commies = Bad. the government is quite literally making kids read them

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Public school system is really like “what if we let some of the dumbest, pettiest people have inordinate amounts of power and influence over children during the formative years of their lives?” And then everyone wonders why said system is dogshit.

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And then people get upset at you and accuse you of being Ontologically Evil

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

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Back before my egg had hatched, I used to put no effort into my appearance- I always wore a t-shirt and a skort, and rarely showered or washed my hair or really did any hygiene things, and everyone complimented me on my outfit or appearance.

I didn’t do anything for my hair but got complimented on it for some reasons. Maybe large breasts give you a weird halo effect where even people who are not being creeps feel obligated to compliment you, I don’t know. I was never catcalled except for once and it was more a novel experience than anything else? I honestly feel better now that no one compliments me, because I know that they’re not making things up or anything?

I absolutely put more effort into my appearance now and get less compliments, though in my case, that’s a honestly positive experience

I feel like it’s still a data point, though. Any other trans people want to weigh in?

I just know that the dudes who make those "girls get 500 compliments a day vs. guy gets one compliment once and cherishes it for the rest of his life" memes put zero effort into their appearance. Like what exactly do you expect people to say? Wow nice plain ill-fitting hoodie, goes great with your basic-ass blue jeans and nondescript haircut. Got some real cool Grey Man vibes going on, you could seamlessly blend into any crowd ever without being seen at all.

Like nobody has any obligation to look any certain way, but you can't expect to be praised for doing something you're not even trying to do. I dress like I got tarred and feathered in a Tim Burton film costume department discard scrap pile, and someone saying they like my style is a biweekly occurrence.