#slop-seller

[wandaluvstacos]

ChatGPT has seeped into literally everything.

Personally I love it that like 80% of sellers on ebay now use ChatGPT for their product descriptions, so much so that it's immediately recognizable when they do (ChatGPT all says the same exact thing, "collectors and enthusiasts alike" especially, as well as the unnecessarily long and useless description). Also, it's very funny that ChatGPT isn't even getting the information correct. There were no sewing machines in the "early 1800s", and this particular machine was made in 1894 (not the "mid-1800s"). How do I know? THERE IS A LITERAL SERIAL NUMBER YOU CAN LOOK UP ON A DATABASE TO CONFIRM THIS, and THE SELLER POSTED A PICTURE OF THE SERIAL NUMBER.

It would have taken you the same amount of time to look that up as it would take you to type into ChatGPT.

This is the thing about AI: it adds absolutely nothing. It doesn't provide any information about the product. All it does is make you look lazy af. At least this person is asking a reasonable price. So many of these eBay sellers are absolutely delusional about what they have, and then they don't even bother to do the bare minimum of research.

[joespinell]

PERSISTING

[milkconfetti]

finally repotted my vsoh out of the coco coir slop it was sent in so hopefully it stops throwing fits and dropping leaves

[drchucktingle]

space raptor butt experiment

when conservative ideas are put to the test they basically always fail. specifically ruminating on how very early in my career conservative goofs tried to force me into an award for ONE specific reason: irony. in their mind, as a queer artist, i OBVIOUSLY didnt belong there

that is premise RABID PUPPIES had at hugo awards, that CHUCK TINGLE was least likely person to be taken seriously and therefore would delegitimize something serious. to them it was unfathomable that i could be making REAL art because i was too strange, queer, and UNTRADITIONAL

conservatives in literary space believe TRADITIONAL is RIGHT and everything else is distraction. now we have a literal TEST OF THIS THEORY. they GOT TO PICK THEIR FIGHTER in the arena, to see my art and whisper amongst themselves 'this is epitome of progressive artistic failure'

this test has been running for nearly ten years now, not in a lab but ON THIS TIMELINE OF REALITY. and look at the results, look how much tinglers resonate, how many buckaroos have gathered to support my art. CAMP DAMASCUS was a best seller. BURY YOUR GAYS COMIN IN HOT

this is not a moment to just sit around and pat myself on the back, but i think it is worth recognizing something. RABID PUPPIES and all of those conservative literary goofs were unequivocally WRONG about me and my art. because they are philosophically wrong about EVERYTHING

they have joined a long line of lonesome whining goofs who will say ‘let the market decide’ and when the market decides that their work is slop they will CONVENIENTLY forget what they initially stood for. more sad lonely devils moaning in their basements while we trot in the sun

i will end this observation with this: THANK YOU for being a part of this experiment with me, for seeing my unique expression and trotting along beside me. for as much as i have proven love to you on this path, YOU HAVE PROVEN LOVE TO ME. HERES TO TROTTING INTO THE FUTURE

[pumpumdemsugah]

I ended up on twitter after watching this documentary by a British comedian about British beaches and streams being full of human shit and he put together this entire stunt to bring attention to this and hoping twitter outrage would help. Me being nosey I go on twitter I see barbz taking a victory lap because they bought multiple copies of Pink Friday 2 to push it to the top of the charts. There's always been people who have done this but up until recently it wasn't impactful enough to push flop albums or songs into the top consistently. If I was a fan of someone, I'd hate it if the reason they're at the top of the charts is through gaming the system and not genuine buzz and interest. I don't care how much I like someone I'm not spending money on any slop they dish out.

It makes me think of this of Tiktok / YouTuber ya author sort of boosting about how she memed her way to a best seller. Everyone has to promote and yeah, push your work but I think there's a point when it feels like loser antics, especially if the reviews are that the actual piece of work was just ok and a worrying amount of people not enjoying it at all. I don't make art anymore but I'd feel embarrassed if after promoting most of the buzz wasn't genuine interest and love but just buzzword buzzword read this book/ memes etc instead of something being moving, good and making people really excited

You don't want to make meaningful work ? You don't want to command respect because you're good at what you're doing ? My ego couldn't and wouldn't let me do this. I need to be gassed up for real and not in a begging for recognition from authority way.

[guardian-of-fun-times]

So, deviantart is hosting an "Adoptables March Madness" event, where all 3 example adoptables are AI-generated. The entries in the replies to their promotional journal post are also swamped with AI-generated images. I'm speechless.😮

Every artist should leave Devianart. This place doesn't deserve your art anymore!

There are so many things I want to say about this, but seeing as comments speaking out are being hidden left and right, I'll bite my tongue and say simply this; shame on everyone who allowed Al-generated images to take over Deviantart.

I've spent so many years of my life on this website, and I've never felt so betrayed by a company/development team. This website was made for artists. Real people who put hours of time, effort, and skill into *hand-crafting* their pieces with love and pouring their souls into each one. Now, even with the option to "block Al images" from the front page and search, it's still littered with them anyway because so many people don't bother to tag their Al-generated slop, hoping people won't notice.

Art theft was already a prevalent problem for artists, and now we're supposed to just grin and bear it as every single one of these Al algorithms scrape our art so that techbros can make amalgamations without ever having to pick up a pencil and learn the skills themselves. This coming from the same crowd who used to harass digital artists and tell them they "weren't real artists" because "the computer made it for them" is absolutely rich. Apparently, it only applies when it's something that benefits *you*.

On top of all of this, and even worse still, you cannot* legally own an Al-generated image, which means you *cannot* legally own an Al-generated design, even if you draw more art of it. Creating and selling Al-generated adoptables is a 100% scam, as neither seller nor buyer has any actual copyright of the design. Making an entire event based around adoptables-which has been a staple of Deviantart culture for many, many years, and using nothing but Al-generated characters is the biggest slap in the face I have ever seen. The current Deviantart team has continued to surprise me over and over with the sheer amount of disregard for their userbase they seem to have. It's actually, truly insane.

I and many other users have been unhappy with Deviantart's direction since the implementation of Eclipse, and I finally had enough and removed all of my artwork from this site when they first started their foray into Al-remember when everyone was automatically opted in to have their artwork scraped, and had to fill out a form* in order to get their usernames opted out? I do- and I'm glad I did. I want to say I hope someone sees some sense in the future, but I highly doubt this website will ever truly recover. All I can say is, thank you, to the actual artists* that made my childhood here fun all those years ago, and I hope you find another website that will appreciate you in a way that Deviantart clearly doesn't.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

it’s 5am so I’m gonna not make sense but i think this really shows off why ai isn’t the like. world destroying tool it’s proponents make it out to be. falling for the fearmongering is arguing on their level. but ai is not sentient. ai cannot know context it doesn’t have a clue what it's doing it doesn’t have the ability to create unique ideas or have coherent thought. it’s a pattern recognition machine it’s not feasible that it could take over anything with any degree of competence, it’s fun to play around with and can be used as a tool in specific situations with extensive human monitoring but it’s shit at everything else. the biggest issue with ai isn’t that it’s going to make people obsolete that’s what it’s sellers want you to think. it’s that 1 companies will have them produce below bottom of the barrel “content” if they think it’ll save money even though it’s completely unfit at that causing a loss in jobs and entirely useless slop content that provides nothing to anyone 2 if those companies are involved in anything at all to do with, like, anything in real life that incompetence can and will kill people and 3 it’s trained so recklessly on random internet content it has literal child sexual abuse material in the dataset along with irl gore, hate speech, everything online that’d be deleted by moderators in seconds so no human would see it but a bot might have already downloaded it and all three of those combine into a useless robot trained on child abuse telling vulnerable people they should develop eating disorders bc the local therapy office thought it’d be cheaper than hiring a professional.

[rococo-crow]

*Unless said machine runs Midjourney, right, @etsy?

Had to rub a little salt in the wound after welcoming AI slop plagiarized from your actual sellers' works?

Also, half your marketplace is dropshippers hawking Temu junk. You love machine-made as long as you get your cut.

Seriously, fire whoever wrote/greenlit this and just shunt their paychecks into the next fat bonus check you cut your CEO, since you'd never put it toward actually improving your platform.

[kbworthsaving]

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[equalonline]

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The quality platform trolleys are usually made of abs frame, during the process this makes them strong and reliable t use. This means they can lift any type of material regardless of their weight.

Due to the lock system, you can transport materials on slop with extreme ease. Platform trolleys are designed in such a way that they can meet different business requirements. To make transportation easy for large items, you can add a cage or coat to it. You can buy a good quality platform trolley online at a budget price at EQUAL. If you have questions let us know.

[purplepollywog]

So I paid for some cat food through my vet and I used PayPal thinking it would take me to PayPal's actual fucking site so I could see if I could stretch out the payments for it but NOPE. It just put the fucking payment right on through despite me having insufficient funds in the account. I need the fucking food so my cat doesn't piss fucking rocks so I paid a different way. Nobody in customer service was in on the weekends so I had to wait. On Monday I contacted the fucking company to see if they would cancel it and never heard back from them. I thought it would take a lot longer than not at all to process the fucking orders. This morning I get two fucking emails saying both fucking payments went through and the food is basically on my doorstep. I contacted the business and apparently these dumb motherfuckers consider overprocessed chicken offal and dirt as 'medicine' just because it's a fucking 'vet approved diet' (it's absolute shit compared to what I feed my girls, and I loathe feeding my cat compacted, gelatinized sawdust, but it seems like it's keeping his bladder crystals at bay). I can't return it even if it's untouched and unopened because of some bullshit federal law. There's nothing protected in this glorified fucking cat meatloaf. It's not meth or fentanyl.

So I wasted my fucking time killing myself at my job to make two pennies fucking more to try and save something to buy fucking Christmas gifts with or even pay for shipping of those same gifts because PayPal and these fucking garbage ass slop sellers just fucking bent me over and fisted me up the ass. This food isn't fucking cheap and I also only feed one cat this shit, so now I'm going to have way too much. PayPal is probably also going to ding me for them fucking being dumb motherfuckers and putting the payment through despite me having nothing to pay them with.

I WANT TO RIP THEM IN FUCKING HALF

I LITERALLY FUCKING BEAT MYSELF TO DEATH AND DO OVERTIME TO TRY AND GET AHEAD AND IT'S A WASTE OF FUCKING TIME

[keereejou]

I feel like consuming some video game slop rn,

TIME TO SORT BY TOP SELLERS ON FREE TO PLAY GAMES ON STEAM!!!!!!!!!

i do this a lot, i am not mentally well!

[joespinell]

peter sellers in his ghost in the noonday sun post-liza minnelli era is really something like he looks like he’s about to yell at any random person in public just a stray hair away from auctioning off his vintage car collection and strangling peter medak

the face of a man who just starred in some really awful slop and will not hesitate to do it again

[ailtrahq]

Solana has set out into the new week with a vivid bullish outlook—1.6% in 24-hour gains to highs almost at $20. This competitive smart contracts token, like many of its peers, continues to deal with a rather dilapidated market structure, as losses accumulate to 14% in 30 days. SOL price closed the month of August noticeably lower than the monthly opening price of roughly $25. SOL Price On The Move To $30 Key indicators, especially short-term reveal that the path with the least resistance has finally flipped to the upside. Solana has since the beginning of September sustained a bullish outlook, bolstered by support at $18. However, the validity of the uptrend will depend on whether bulls can bring down the resistance at $20. Such a move would imply a stronger bullish grip reinforced by a buy signal from the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator. In that case, traders should be on the lookout for a bullish cross, with the blue MACD line flipping above the red signal line. The Relative Strength Index (RSI), although not oversold in August is in the process of validating the ongoing rebound above $20. SOL/USD daily chart | Tradinview A break above $20 might not be enough to propel the Solana live price to $30, hence bulls must not rest until Solana holds above the next crucial hurdle at $23. If they manage to bring down this hurdle, traders can start booking profits at $25, $30, and later at $37. SOL Price Flaunts Falling Wedge Pattern A falling wedge pattern on the four-hour chart hints at a 12% breakout to $22.5, This pattern serves as hope that the downtrend is coming to an end and bulls are ready to take over. Two downward-slopping trendlines form this pattern, one connecting the series of lower highs and the other the lower lows. As the trendlines converge, the trading volume drops. SOL price will mark the beginning of the uptrend by breaking above the resistance trendline before the lines converge. Buy orders are usually above the breakout point with the target representing the distance between the widest points of the pattern. SOL/USD four-hour chart | Tradingview The MACD in the short-term chart already flipped bullish, calling on traders to fire up their buy orders. Notice the blue MACD line above the red signal line and the momentum indicator generally moving toward the mean line and the positive region. If resistance at $20 holds in place, SOL price may remain vulnerable to seller influence. Support at $18 is expected to come in handy but there is the possibility of Solana sliding to $15 and testing post-FTX implosion support at $8. Source

[secularbakedgoods]

competing with this kind of perpetual content slop is what a friend of mine refers to as "competing with free shit sandwiches."

like another sandwich shop sets up right next to your sandwich shop, and their sandwiches are shit, but they're free. and people stand in front of your shop and complain about how shit the sandwiches are at the shit sandwich shop.

and you, the sandwich seller who actually cares about your craft, say, "would you like a good sandwich?"

and the people say, "we would love a good sandwich."

and you say, "that'll be $5."

and they say, "but the other one's free, though."

and then they keep eating shit sandwiches.

Very good article on AI and the unsustainable pace of the self-publishing industry:

Lepp, who writes under the pen name Leanne Leeds in the “paranormal cozy mystery” subgenre, allots herself precisely 49 days to write and self-edit a book. This pace, she said, is just on the cusp of being unsustainably slow. She once surveyed her mailing list to ask how long readers would wait between books before abandoning her for another writer. The average was four months. Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test. […]

With the help of the program, she recently ramped up production yet again. She is now writing two series simultaneously, toggling between the witch detective and a new mystery-solving heroine, a 50-year-old divorced owner of an animal rescue who comes into possession of a magical platter that allows her to communicate with cats. It was an expansion she felt she had to make just to stay in place. With an increasing share of her profits going back to Amazon in the form of advertising, she needed to stand out amid increasing competition. Instead of six books a year, her revised spreadsheet forecasts 10. 

[klapollo]

we need to stop making fanfiction into books because turning non-fic literature into a homogenous slop of enemies to lovers bed sharing fake dating hurt comfort mutual pining slow burn coffee shop meet cute slow burn arranged marriage is slowly creating a an oversaturated market of best sellers that are just frankenstein’s monsters made up of the same five plot points you can see in any semi-popular media’s ao3 page which in the end is terrible for the art form as a while

just kidding it’s bc i dont have a book deal like they do and i’m very jealous