#kids learning AI

[presswoodterryryan]

Master Coding: Build Games and Create AI!

By Mr. Fluffernutter Ah, my dear young adventurers, today I, Mr. Fluffernutter, invite you to embark on a journey into a world more puzzling than a missing sock in the laundry, more mysterious than the depths of Alice’s toy chest! It’s a world where you can create your own games, build robot friends, and even talk to computers in their own language! That’s right, welcome to the thrilling world…

[foldingfittedsheets]

My kindle was bought and paid for years ago, but apparently you need to pay extra to get the screen to stop downloading and presenting you new ads. I fucking hate the very principle of this.

Previously they’ve been trashy romance books with women embracing dragons which I didn’t care that much about. It was a vague annoyance.

But now they’re fucking insane AI generated garbage.

This one popped up recently. At first I was like, “Where the fuck is his thumb.” But then other things started jumping out. Like the insane words. “The Sprit”. The gibberish plinth they’re standing on.

In a similar vein

I like to call this one, “Oops all bodies” as the main unicorns are just fused together. They must be fucking either Sleipnir or Shelob cause then you start to see all the extra legs on those monstrosities.

There’s also a strain of Rugged Manly Books

This atrocity popped up. They doubled down on that tricky hand and made it facing both ways just to be safe. Also gave the sword two hilts. Just to be safe. Couldn’t bother to fit the text on the cover or decide where the rest of the sword was.

This title can’t even be deciphered into English. That poor fire is being menaced by the weirdest dagger of all time and the hands once more trying to cover all their bases.

[britezs]

i have no excuse i just wanted to draw glitchrey lol glitchrey by @ginger-rat

[grovesnail]

no seriously if you are plugging your oc lore into chatgpt and reading the ai generated fanfiction it produces you don't deserve original characters and i say this with upmost sincerity and seriousness

[funkle420]

a great way to combat genAI in the future would be educating kids (and teens and college students and all ppl) on art way more.

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

The other day I was having a "struggle day" with writing. Nothing I write is coming out fluid, it is sluggish and stilted. I spent a majority of my time writing outlines, trying to tether abstract images that flicker like a distorted slideshow across my brain to a more concrete tangible form.

But if I was to tell certain people in my life this, their first suggestion would be, "If you're struggling with writing, you should use ChatGPT to help you!"

Pushing past the ethics debacle aside for a moment, I don't know how to describe how much that doesn't help with my plight. As much as I dislike creating a rough draft, it is where the idea takes birth. It's through writing the initial scene where I discover a character's motivation or a facet of the world that never crosses my mind until I begin carving away at its rough edges.

The machine doesn't understand the way I'd take a plot point and expand upon it. The machine can't capture my exact phrasing. Technology hasn't developed enough to take a vague idea sloshing inside my skull and glimmer it into existence in front of me in exactly the way I wanted it to be.

I don't always enjoy the rough draft process, but it is a crucial part of the process. I don't want a "paint by numbers" experience. I want to start with a blank canvas and finish with a nauseating, illustrative kaleidoscope of my innermost thoughts and feelings. I want my hands to be stained by the ink and sweat of my own efforts.

I don't care if I get "lost in the past" for wanting that, I'd rather let my words be unfettered and untainted by the uniformity of what a machine thinks is the most "right" way of phrasing words based on trillions of words unrightfully seized by avarice.

[codgod]

god does anyone know a good alternative to duolingo that doesn’t cost money just to use properly. like i don’t mind ads but everything else i look at there’s a paywall just to get the full course

and i knooow language learning apps aren’t like, the be all end all but they’re good enough for getting the basics as long as they don’t start using bloody ai like duolingo is trying to do

[gojoest]

Agree with you on how geto was more popular with women, its canon too. Since he’s more gentle let’s say, and has that delicate more disciplined character, But how exactly is satoru crazy? 😭 like the only thing I find him crazy is when he fights curses and goes a lil berserk. He seems quite normal except his nerdy and goofy self with how he includes digimon in everything which might shoo women away and trolls people despite not being a child or a teenager XD

when i say crazy i mean he’s going to pick weird topics to talk about bc he’s not into small talk he just quickly wants to find something about a person that will excite him, like have you ever tried killing/burning an insect/bug with a magnifying glass + the sunlight

[halfdeadwallfly]

my sibling's teacher (in high school) is using chat gpt to grade the essays on their tests and they just spent like twenty minutes trying to argue why that was a good thing i feel like im kind of losing it a bit

[presswoodterryryan]

Master Coding: Build Games and Create AI!

By Mr. Fluffernutter Ah, my dear young adventurers, today I, Mr. Fluffernutter, invite you to embark on a journey into a world more puzzling than a missing sock in the laundry, more mysterious than the depths of Alice’s toy chest! It’s a world where you can create your own games, build robot friends, and even talk to computers in their own language! That’s right, welcome to the thrilling world…

[unwilling-king]

Not that it matters to me whether you (yes you specifically) have morals or whatever, but if you willingly use (generative) AI for literally anything, you are at best, very poorly informed and a little bit stupid. Alternatively, you know that you could do better, and, like a dolphin, you are simply evil anyway.

Giving people the benefit of the doubt, name something you use (generative) AI for, and I will provide the alternative/s that will not only Actually tell you the truth, but which will also not aid in killing literally everything ever in the process.

(No shade to basic predictive text systems here, or to AI being used to identify images,,,, barring the massive ethical violations of data training,,, but this post is specifically about generative AI like openAI and the such)

[incorrect-zombieland-saga-quotes]

Ai: "How exactly does someone accidentally set a lemon on fire?"

Junko: "Microwave for 40 minutes..."

Ai: "Why were you microwaving a lemon?"

Junko: "I read boiling lemons helps cover up bad smells and I wanted to cover up the scent of burnt orange but didn’t have any pots."

Ai: "Did you burn an orange too? How?"

Junko: "...microwave for 40 minutes."

[gracetheacefromouterspace]

As someone who is pro artist and believes in a significantly more regulated tech industry in general, I do find it funny when people are like GenAi is not actually intelligent!!! It’s just a bunch of statistics!!! It just copies the training data!!! They’re lying that it’s actually AI!!!! My homies in Christ, that’s what all AI is like from the most basic classifier to neural nets, trained statistics machines to make decisions. That’s,,, literally our current definition of AI

[yvesdot]

It's amazing that you can go back and watch the original Kids React video that got me into VOCALOID at the same age as the children pictured and see the exact same arguments that grown adults over a decade later use to react to AI art.

"People actually go to see this? But she's not real!"

"So the computer is singing and people like it. Robots are going to take over the world!"

"I dunno, I think people should actually sing! Not let the computer sing!"

"Machines shouldn't be pop stars!"

"Maybe [the benefit of having a fake singer] is that you don't have to pay the real singer?"

"They're kind of taking a spot that can be filled by a human"

"I'm sorry to all those singers out there; you're gonna get replaced"

"Lady Gaga is gonna be gone" (cue Miku opening for Gaga)

Don't worry though gang the moral panic is right THIS time. You know it's right, because it's happening right now! VOCALOID is fine because its popularity has grown and it has become normalized as its own unique art form, but AI? That could never happen! It's new and scary and Thomas Edison is out there right now flying on broomsticks and cavorting with the devil!

[mayordeas-clone]

saw a take that peeved me in the vocaloid feed on bluesky but i don’t wanna be confrontational there + my thoughts are too powerful for a 300 character per post thread so im making it tumblr’s problem

due to my intense vsynth brainworms this is going to sound incredibly pedantic and annoying which is why i am posting it here okay here we go

the post was sort of a ‘callout’ of a creator who uses synthv for covers of fnf songs or whatever. the general body was like “they write their own lyrics but they make the vocals using ai with a program called synthesizer v” (the implication being, “this person is an ai-using fraud, don’t support them”)

if ur in the community or like have a little bit of an idea of how ai is associated with synthv specifically this is a nonsense uninformed take (the ‘ai’ training is used for autotuning/cross language synthesis/some other shit idk but the point is it’s not the type of ai that like, writes the melody/lyrics for you and is voiced from random samples from unknowing providers but i’ll get back to this later)

ai is mentioned on synthv’s website (also vocaloid’s much to the detriment of news articles that report on hatsune miku) so it’s a common misunderstanding, whatever. it would be nice if people actually looked into the ways ai works in vsynth at least a little bit but in an age where artists are on the defense against the ai boogeyman i guess i sorta understand the knee jerk reaction to assume the ai in vsynth software like synthv is the Bad kind. annoying, but nothing new.

but i think what made this post rotate in my mind to the point of crystallizing into unnecessary rage is an add-on that was like “i just prefer my music to be sung by real people!” followed by “by the way, vocaloid isn’t ai, so no you’re not bad if you like hatsune miku music”

ohhh man this actually did piss me off a little cuz wow way to really shout to the heavens that you have no damn clue what you’re talking about

firstly, i COMPLETELYYYY understand that the premise and general sound of vocal synth music is not for everyone. the computerized words, the unrealism, or even the fact that it’s not an actual person singing, like whatever that’s fine i get it. but like you can’t go around and be like “by the way vocaloid [aka hatsune miku] is chill don’t worryyyy” bc that line of thinking from my understanding doesn’t really make sense? miku isn’t a real person either 😭😭 her latest release even uses ai! (at least i think it does cuz vocaloid 6 has ai support but idk i guess that doesn’t matter) does she just get a free pass cuz she’s an internet darling?

miku is a piece of software where you write the midi for her vocals and input the lyrics so a slurry of samples recorded by saki fujita can be played back in an in-character singing voice. synthv is a piece of software with similar character voice databases where you do the same thing, write a midi and input lyrics so a database’s voice samples put it all together to sing back. the inclusion of ai in this process is to streamline the workflow for the user to automatically work out the pitch transitions between notes to save on time manually tuning, creating a more realistic playback. this ai, perhaps merely the inclusion of these two letters in the proximity of synthv’s marketing, is what makes synthv both Significantly Different and Inferior to miku.

the lack of ai with vocaloid (as far as op knew, cuz need i remind you vocaloid as of its 6th installment uses similar ai to synthv lol) making it Better than synthv sent the implication, TO ME, that op thinks that the ai used in synthv is the type that like, takes samples from other people without their permission to create the voices (then leading to the “i just want my songs sung by REAL people” aka not sung by dubiously gathered samples). i recognize this means of creating ai voices to impersonate other people and make them say things they should not without their knowledge or permission is CERTAINLY bad but like that’s not how any of this works if we’re talking synthv (you could argue this applies to those utau banks that make voicebanks for like sonic the hedgehog and shit but those usually sound like ass and are about as convincing as a sentence mixed youtube poop). maybe that’s not what they meant (i don’t wanna dig up the post cuz i don’t wanna be bothered and it’s probably gonna piss me off to the point of starting something which i don’t want) but based on my understanding of their point this is like. wholly untrue. in fact synthv voicebanks (particularly those from eclipsed sounds whose terms of service are free to read on their website) have special terms specifically designed to protect the voice providers of their databases BECAUSE of the extra realism in their voices (terms such as, “you can’t credit any voice work done with Solaria to Emma Rowley [her voice provider] or anyone else besides the software itself” in the case Solaria is used to say something objectionable and cast it on Rowley, that would be a breach of the terms and might even get your license revoked). shit like that is likely what people who are afraid of ai voices expect to happen but there were contracts signed to protect and inform the voice providers of what their vocal likeness is being used for + compensation paid to them for their work providing vocal samples SPECIFICALLY for this product. and ofc miku is the same. ITS THE SAME. BUT MIKU IS A FUNNY INTERNET MEME SO SHES FINE. GRRRRR!!!!!!

[hotshotsxyz]

microsoft word. babe. what the fuck are you talking about