#I want off this boat

[lordadmiralfarsight]

Yeah uh, I saw an article on AI in French (my birth language) from a local Management big name professor, and that issue is spilling out of art real fucking fast. The tone of the article was so very peppy and eager and happy, and ... and all I could see in my mind's eye while reading the article was the loss of jobs, the displaced people, the perspectives for abuse and totalitarian things, the sheer fucking dystopia springing on it's AI-generated own in my mind's eye.

"Oh, AI will allow to build an emotional profile of the candidate using everything they've posted on social media!"

Girl, it's not gonna be limited to social media, it's going to be the biggest automated violation of the right to privacy EVER conceived, and that emotional profile is going to be used for discrimination. You'll have preconceptions saying the people with the blue dot in that particular part of the graph are better in accounting or management, and everyone with a blue dot elsewhere is gonna be shit out of luck.

"AI will help locate who's going to get into a burnout and then they can be sent to rest!"

No, not in the real world. AI will help to keep these poor fuckers on the edge, just on the edge of a burnout, until the AI determines there's nothing else to squeeze out, and then they're gonna get kicked out. Or pushed to the brink until they do something drastic, and then the company can fire them without paying a cent or even demand compensation for any damage incurred during the nervous breakdown.

And of course, the drivel about "mindset" and "stay ahead of the curve", usual shit. Thing is, mindset can't do shit when you are so exhausted from doing your job, fending off proposals to replace you with AI and struggling to follow everything that's evolving, all at the same time.

What truly drove home just how dire this is going to be, was a small little line, listing some - just some - of the works AI will be able to take care of. Among them was website creation. I know website creation. I studied up to a Master's degree with the perspective of having that as part of my job. And now AI will do that. But I put this in perspective with where I live.

I live in a small-ish city in France. Around 20 000 inhabitants. You can easily find one or two dozen local companies that make websites and offer associated services. Count somewhere between 30 to 60 people in the business in that small city. Maybe slightly more.

They are all fucked.

Website creation? AI. SEO? AI. Content creation? Yup, AI. Website updates? Yeah, you can AI that too. In short, there is not a single one of their activities (of the activities I was planning to do) that can't get AI'd. They are all fucked. One SEO AI service can put a thousand local SEO teams out of a job. Easily. That's actually a conservative estimate there by the way. The reality will be much, much worse.

Now add translation. And accounting. And marketing soon enough. Secretaries, administrative personnel, graphists...

And so, there I sat, contemplating the horror crawling out of my imagination, wondering just how many people would be hit. Well, I wasn't the only one wondering.

Yup, you read the title right. 300 million jobs. That's the USA and Europe only, by the way. If you take the entire world ... it's gonna be worse.

So, artists are taking the brunt of the shock right now, but it's gonna get worse. Way, way, way worse. Oh, the economy will be great, truly amazing even. Economies of scale and productivity multipliers galore, fantastic! But ... what about humans?

Because yeah, if you care about the economy's numbers going up, AI will be amazing. But is that really the end game we want? In short, what is more important? Humans, or the Economy? Actual people, or spreadsheets?

I know what is more important right now to the people in power, but I feel that question will be asked in much clearer, starker and unescapably bleak terms very soon.

“AI generated art won’t hurt that many artists, see, photography didn’t kill painting!” Except it actually did greatly reduce demand for painters, and the thing is, AI generation can also replace a great deal of photographers.

“They’ll still have to pay artists to further develop the generated work”

MOST of the jobs available to illustrators are just static images. AI generation has already rendered them heavily obsolete. “It can’t replace the human imagination” Yeah it can, people are already mistaking AI images for creative original works. *I* am mistaking AI images for creative original works that would have blown me away at one time.

“A lot of what it generates can look fairly plain and derivative“

Literally what most employers want. Look at how many video games have the same classic dragon design or how much advertising has deliberately generic anime style characters.

“It draws from existing images, so it isn’t even really generating anything new” We’re talking about tens of thousands to millions of images for some requests. There will be some that you can trace back to a source but the vast majority are impenetrably distinct, at least as much as any human artist drawing from general inspiration.

“It looks bad though, it’s full of weird mistakes when you look at it closely” That was only true for a few months, tops; almost every generator can now produce character art indistinguishable from the quality of a professional and the nature of algorithmic learning will continue to improve the process forever.

“Employers will pay extra for a human touch” They already avoid doing that at every single possible turn that they possibly can and are already willing to sacrifice an enormous degree of quality just to avoid paying union wages alone.

Guys, please just accept that AI art generation IS going to ruin the market for the majority of illustrators and concept designers. A lot of industry professionals have switched to it or just given up.

Human artists absolutely do have valuable creativity that can’t be replicated but that has never ever been what the industry looks for. It looks for marketability alone, and marketability most often means broad, inoffensive, flexible appeal; exactly what this technology produces in an infinite, infinite volume to pick from.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Daddy, don't go.

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[squidcandy]

i couldn’t get this specific interpretation of the clip out of my head so i tried my hand at something more animatic. ish

[theethoslab]

Absolutely losing my mind over Scar’s stream today

He was already talking to Etho while catching ocelots

Joel logs in and Scar immediately asks if Etho wants to go visit him

We get so many Etho lore crumbs (although he doesn’t fully confirm anything except having stubble and trying to get rid of 2 extra house generators)

They hang out for like 2 hours doing nothing hut chatting

Eventually Scar leaves but forgot that he left his ocelots at Etho’s because he was so excited about boat boys that he never brought them home

[shootingstarrfish]

i love when my wife tries to kill me

[featheredcritter]

gojira

[storfulsten]

hhhm

[kaeyachi]

One of the probable reasons as to why Kaeya didn't arrive on time for Crepus and Diluc when they were attacked was because he, and the knights with him, had no vision, and thus, cannot use a teleport waypoint.

Him receiving his cryo vision when he was supposed to get scorched by Diluc was genuinely the biggest slap to the face given to him by Celestia. It arrived just in time to save HIM.

Even now, the vision only heals and shields him alone as a manifestation of his desire to keep living from that fight... but he can't use it to help others.

[starfilledsea]

both black sails and the terror no longer being on hulu is discrimination against girls* who are obsessed with men being doomed by the narrative on a boat

[spacedlexi]

so often i see people try to downplay violet and minervas relationship like it wasnt Real enough or was some Inferior Romance that her relationship with clementine could Never compare to, and i find it so annoying and boring

she LOVED minerva!! and its okay that she did!! she was her first love!! childhood best friends turned girlfriends!! seeing her being so heartbroken and miserable about what happened to minnie, how deeply and desperately she missed her, hugging that bed frame so pathetically. but clementine makes her CARE again. makes her LOVE again. slowly violet becomes comfortable with the idea of opening her heart up to people again, after trying so hard not to because the pain of losing people she cared about was too much to bear (especially when she blamed herself for them being gone)

then she learns minnie didnt die. shes falling in love with clem while grappling with the fact that minnie might still be out there??

then she meets minnie in the woods. but minnie has changed just like she has. theyre both different people now. and slowly violet is forced to come to terms with the fact that the person she loved so deeply isnt that person anymore??

violet at the beginning mourning minerva and blaming herself, to shooting her to save clems life. she LOVED minerva once, but she doesnt like the person she is now. and shes not gonna let her hurt anyone else she cares about. shes done mourning her by the time they get to the bridge, only crying out for tenn

like idk i just find their relationship evolution to be so interesting and sad as shit. the fact that they once loved each other so much and it has now come to this?? but violet makes her choice and she Chooses clementine, because she admires and loves clementine, probably similar to the way she used to admire and love minerva if the way she talked about her is any indication

i just think "i never thought i would ever feel this way again" is way more interesting than "wow minnie Never made me feel like This"

[boltlightning]

some of my favorite bits from keira knightley & jack davenport's audio commentary for curse of the black pearl. happy almost 20th beloved film

[swedenis-h]

Sofia & Katya breaking up..?? 😨😨

Inspo (X)

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Andor is like if they made a political drama that was so good that most of the time you didn't even remember it was set in space opera universe

[frogcabbage]

Lucius for the entirety of this season

[illarian-rambling]

Damn, what if I reworked Starbreaker to be exclusively in Anarac's pov instead of trying to balance 5 new povs in one book?

Thoughts?

[windsweptinred]

He just wants his chair, fluffy slippers, a good book and to be left alone in peace. But nooo..... Why couldn't he have been an only child?