#optimiser

[virtualgirladvance]

[saeruth]

Living Room - Contemporary Living Room

Living room library - mid-sized contemporary open concept light wood floor and beige floor living room library idea with white walls and a concealed tv

[catiaadao]

Wallpaper Bedroom in Paris

An illustration of a small transitional master bedroom with green walls, a light wood floor, and wallpaper.

[kyomi-shi]

Contemporary Living Room - Library

Mid-sized contemporary open concept living room library idea with white walls and a hidden tv has a light wood floor and a beige floor.

[lihvamay1990]

Library - Contemporary Living Room

[atlasmagazine]

Bedroom (Paris)

[keferon]

Now you know the truth

[segimaru]

Guys? I've just noticed that my Scar is missing something...

🍙❌

[emptyjunior]

You don't understand I Need varric as a constant companion cause I need him to think he's finally found a sane, logical effective guy to follow and then I am going to make my PC go absolutely sopping simpering blushing in love with that old man necromancer, just giggly and attempting to woo a senior citizen and varric will just slowly put his face in his hands as he realises it happened Again, he's following a little freak Again

[blubberquark]

Auto-Generated Junk Web Sites

I don't know if you heard the complaints about Google getting worse since 2018, or about Amazon getting worse. Some people think Google got worse at search. I think Google got worse because the web got worse. Amazon got worse because the supply side on Amazon got worse, but ultimately Amazon is to blame for incentivising the sale of more and cheaper products on its platform.

In any case, if you search something on Google, you get a lot of junk, and if you search for a specific product on Amazon, you get a lot of junk, even though the process that led to the junk is very different.

I don't subscribe to the "Dead Internet Theory", the idea that most online content is social media and that most social media is bots. I think Google search has gotten worse because a lot of content from as recently as 2018 got deleted, and a lot of web 1.0 and the blogosphere got deleted, comment sections got deleted, and content in the style of web 1.0 and the blogosphere is no longer produced. Furthermore, many links are now broken because they don't directly link to web pages, but to social media accounts and tweets that used to aggregate links.

I don't think going back to web 1.0 will help discoverability, and it probably won't be as profitable or even monetiseable to maintain a useful web 1.0 page compared to an entertaining but ephemeral YouTube channel. Going back to Web 1.0 means more long-term after-hours labour of love site maintenance, and less social media posting as a career.

Anyway, Google has gotten noticeably worse since GPT-3 and ChatGPT were made available to the general public, and many people blame content farms with language models and image synthesis for this. I am not sure. If Google had started to show users meaningless AI generated content from large content farms, that means Google has finally lost the SEO war, and Google is worse at AI/language models than fly-by-night operations whose whole business model is skimming clicks off Google.

I just don't think that's true. I think the reality is worse.

Real web sites run by real people are getting overrun by AI-generated junk, and human editors can't stop it. Real people whose job it is to generate content are increasingly turning in AI junk at their jobs.

Furthermore, even people who are setting up a web site for a local business or an online presence for their personal brand/CV are using auto-generated text.

I have seen at least two different TV commercials by web hosting and web design companies that promoted this. Are you starting your own business? Do you run a small business? A business needs a web site. With our AI-powered tools, you don't have to worry about the content of your web site. We generate it for you.

There are companies out there today, selling something that's probably a re-labelled ChatGPT or LLaMA plus Stable Diffusion to somebody who is just setting up a bicycle repair shop. All the pictures and written copy on the web presence for that repair shop will be automatically generated.

We would be living in a much better world if there was a small number of large content farms and bot operators poisoning our search results. Instead, we are living in a world where many real people are individually doing their part.

[rhyzzzzzz]

Docm77 (featuring Emotional Support Bdub)

[hehearse]

Hearse I think u might be becoming my very own Kim dokja. Your art is so goooood, every one a masterpiece. THE COMPOSITION IS EVERYTHING, YOUR COMICS, YOUR SHAPES, YOUR CONTRAST AND VALUE AND THE LINE like brooooo I wish I could be like you and make amazing orv art like that 😭😭 and everything is stuff I’m into

well I FOR ONE haven't died even once YET so i am beating your kim dokja allegations-

BUT. all i can say is be very normal about everything you like and treat every unexplored or difficult thing as a challenge? drfsgresg

cause how it goes is you (well, i) have an Idea. a haunting one. but -one art is not enough to express it fully. -writing fic is very much not your (mine) forte. -drawing in full color would take too long (i am so very impatient) so you (i) need limited colors and fast style without much prep work. heavy shadows can hide a lot if you are brave enough, hiding faces is also fun and can be a challenge (to show emotions through something else), cutting bodies into sections. for the lack of a better wording. is also f.. fun........ hm.

ANYWAY. JUST HAVE FUN AND LOOK AT IT AS A PUZZLE? just gotta solve it to let all the demons out.

[jitterbugbear]

an uneventful evening

[svampira]

aura

[redroomroaving]

A bit of Klaus performing with the silks, my circus husband 💛

(we've decided to give Klaus a few more jobs around the circus, because he is a man of many talents, even if he is a truly terribly optimised sorcerer with wizard stats who fights with a dagger)