#ai for ts

[zuzsenpai]

I'm honestly so furious right now. I work in a video and photography department for a large healthcare organization. We're a department of 9, plus an intern. We're under the "marketing" umbrella, though we do a lot more than marketing for the network (for example we also make patient and employee education videos/photos/animations).

Yesterday the social media department (also part of marketing. We supply photos and videos for them to post) posted an AI generated image on our company's instagram page. It was a photorealistic AI image of a baby, used to promote our pediatric cardiology service line. The image is so ridiculously obviously AI, it makes me want to puke. It's uncanny, too smooth with zero skin texture, the eyes are messed up, and the "baby" literally has full eyelashes on one eye and none on the other.

I'm livid because it's like... what the fuck do they need OUR department for if they're going to be using AI now?

To our knowledge, this is the first time they've done this. I get that there's an "argument" to be made that it's incredibly difficult and time consuming to set up a photoshoot with a real baby, and they wanted something fast and easy because the marketing service line directors are constantly on social media's ass to push out abhorrent amounts of marketing content on social media. This culture will never change. We've tried to explain that people don't like seeing constant mediocre ads for healthcare service lines when they are on social media. But the higher ups won't listen to that AT ALL. So... AI generated gross ass baby it is (I cannot stress enough how creepy this "baby" looks).

But it's a slippery slope. Because first it's a baby. Next it'll be a fake orthopedic surgery patient because who has time to find a real patient for our photographers to shoot? Never mind that people on social media actually DO like seeing real patient stories. Next it'll be a billboard on the highway with AI generated doctors because who cares to know what their real doctor looks like, right? This is making me so mad for the photographers in my department who work so fucking hard to shoot and edit stunning, quality images. Their jobs will be relegated to event photography until someday an unmanned robot can set up their own camera and do that too (they probably already can?).

Recently one of the service line directors in marketing asked me to use an AI voice for an animation I'm making. I had to put my foot down and say that we have three fantastic local voiceover artists who we use for these kinds of projects. One of them is a retired gentleman who went to school with my dad and is always extremely happy to get work from us. Sometimes I think these marketing people just want to use AI because it's trendy.

I understand that there are other industries and individuals who are already being massively affected by AI to a much larger and much more detrimental degree. And that my problems are largely me spinning out of control. I figured AI would hit us eventually, and there's really nothing I can do except continue to put my foot down about the voiceover thing. I can't do much for the photographers, sadly. I'm too nervous to get mad at social media, though I really wish I could at least point out how disgusting that baby looks. But I'm worried that I'm going to be some sort of pariah if I voice my opinion on it. I already get paid peanuts and there's really no way for me to advance my career here. So being the "person who shits on social media for using AI" might be detrimental to me in the long run. I really DO want to advocate for our photographers, but is it my place? Idk, it's complicated.

[fraterrisus]

Here's the other thing that bugs me about AI chatbots:

If you've been looking at all the factual inaccuracies that these things put out and thinking to yourself "Well that's just a temporary thing — clearly they're going to work on improving the engines until they stop lying / learn to distinguish fact from fiction / only say true things..."

Consider this: it is advantageous to the companies producing the bots for the bots to lie to you, and for you to learn to believe them (or at least be confused about whether or not you should believe them).

Because it's much easier to sell you things that way. And that is the entire point.

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

I was about to make some post about NFTs and AI art conglomerating into some unholy discoursezilla.

But the I remember it kinda sorta already happened with the Voiceverse/15 debacle

[fraterrisus]

absolutely using "cat farts" to refer to dumb-ass AI output from now on

“French is such a beautiful, romantic language.”

“Cat, I farted.”

[mhin-t]

finally, a finished piece!!! version with just the line art + ref linked under the read more

-> link to the reference here <-

also i know his nails don't actually look like that, but they do. in my heart. trust me.

[danger-bird]

Guy can't catch a break🐦

[thiefkingyall]

I hardly noticed Ais, dw...

[maboroshiiro]

Ais doodle/wip~ the initial plan was to do this in watercolor, lets see how it goes...

[dreamingkitsunewrites]

✬'Look at me'- how the TS LI lift your chin✬

A/N: this is my first work for this fandom! Hope someone will like it!🖤

✬Preference✬

✬Vere:

"Why so shy all of a sudden? What is it? Can't even look at me in the eye now?"

✬Ais:

"I'm right here, little sparrow, right in front of you...why don't you look at me?"

✬Leander:

"Eyes up here... Let me see those beautiful eyes of yours"

✬Kuras:

"Look up... open up with me,please. Tell me what's wrong"

✬Mhin:

"Let me see you. Don't ever hide your face from me. "

My 𝔗𝔬𝔲𝔠𝔥𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔳𝔢𝔡 materialist here

[dreamtydraw]

The shop just reopened ( yay ) ! I’m finally able to show the new designs I worked on, my favorite being this little series with the touchstarved character !

The stickers are available alongside their bigger version on my shop : Here

[dawnarrii]

Doodles

I asked the deities from Instagram what their hearts desired and I drew them what they want >:DD

Some of my favorite ones I did;

Left; Vere&Ais Right; Mhin&Ais babysitting a duckling

MhinxKuras with a bonus comic(Kuras being too tall for Mhin's phone that it disconnects his earpod)

Carving and giving their heart out to Kuras or Leander

Literally just Mhin(and more Mhin)

[angeloferidia]

Hey girl, I deliver more ts textposts upon thee

[fraterrisus]

assembled friends, I present to you your new AI powered "search engine":

It probably doesn't need saying, but this is basically the endgame for the utility of search engines. Things had been going this way for a while, but at this point you no longer have access to the actual content on the web; it is 100% filtered and repackaged for you. Not only will it be ads-first, you'll be lucky if you get any non-ad data out of it.

No, I don't have the better answer here. The fact that Google search worked as well it did for as long as it did was always a miracle / clearly a loss leader. But it does make me think of a few things.

There was a point about a decade ago at which the W3C was trying to figure out what to do about DRM standards for playing media over the internet. The big media companies (and, to some extent, the browser companies) were basically threatening to pick up their ball and go home and invent an Internet Two that they could control via their own standards. Instead, W3C caved and agreed to publish web standards for DRM, as a way of keeping all that content on the actual Internet.

To this day I wonder if we'd have been better off if we'd let them go. CorpNet would probably look a lot like the modern web does, all surveillance capitalism and advertising, but you'd be able to watch TV and movies there and stream music.

Would the "other" Internet have died off? I kind of doubt it. Enough current browser tech is open-source that something would still exist. Given the IndieWeb movement that's kicking up these days (examples: Mastodon/ActivityPub, the re-emergence of personal websites, RSS feeds that never actually went away) I more or less expect the Internet would have carried on as-is.

Social media, of course, would have been caught in this really interesting middle ground; see also Cat Valente's excellent rant. Maybe "we" would have figured out how to support services we cared about some other way (don't say "micropayments"), and sites like Dreamwidth (or Tumblr) would have survived just fine. Or maybe all the payment processors would have abandoned the old 'Net and we would have been forced to find another way. Like I say, I don't have the answers.

It's just that, these days, I don't have a lot of hope, either.

[salad-juice-enjoyer]

There is a lot to unpack here, but let's just throw the whole suitcase away (into the ocean)

[eniiart]

A small Ais and Vere fanart 👀

And also a little lame animation~

[mintjeru]

hot girl summer 🔥

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