#the algorithm got to me guys

[eze-3]

You are what you eat

It is 1am and I git my daily doodle done I am going to pass out now gnight say it back

[theamericanfriend1977]

been watching any instagram reels lately?

been getting a lot of these on my feed recently

[vesperaink]

in the midst of finals but like slammed by the need to make baller art for making baller art's sake

[evansbby]

I cannot believe the wicked games Drabble was 5000 words long like basically a full ass fic and the low amount of notes it got…

[threefuckencrowsinaleatherjacket]

Idk why we’re acting like brain rot is a new gen z thing when this has been on tumblr dot com for decades

[mylittleredgirl]

watching “tao of rodney” and it’s genuinely criminal that they wrote a backslide of his character after this (especially after “mckay and mrs miller” earlier in the season) like!!! this man has fundamentally changed!!!! he has had the most genuine respectful kind moments with all the people he cares about! the fences are mended!!! he has shared love and been loved in return! and learned not to be a dick!!! don’t forget that lesson rodney!!!!!

[diwns]

ik for a fact the moment i bought the ps5 that it'd be my dead sims era

[cockyhorror]

I went to a club on Saturday and in the crowd this girl collapsed on the floor behind me so as I'm helping her friends carry her out they're like "one sec" and start filming?? maybe im just 25 and boring but your sis needs medical attention not a snapchat story

[sindumpster]

Accidentally logged into my old mistake blog and only notifs I had gotten in the past year were for that one post with almost 1K notes

And I remember absolutely hating it and now I have the reminder that I really don’t crave that kind of attention anymore

[vampmilf]

i didnt even participate in anything esc this year but literally wherever i go my recommended feed is full of käärijä and bojan and im glad everyone is having fun but i literally can not tell if they actually have a thing going on or not. like some of the videos or pics i see i think theyre edits and then the comments are like "so cute when he posted this in his story" like congratulations to the newly wed couple i guess

[phantomrose96]

So I tend to put on a youtube video most nights to fall asleep to (laptop on a shutdown timer.) And lately, my recommendations are a lot of videogame speedruns or videogame hidden facts.

Last night I pulled up youtube and got a "I played the 10 worst wii games ever" kind of video. ~30 minutes long. Fair enough! Show me the terrible wii games.

I'm paying attention for the beginning, since hey I'm still awake. And maybe like, 6 minutes into the video the guy starts going into heavy detail about how to pirate and copy wii games.

And I'm like, shit, bold, considering this video has 500,000 views. Bravo and all that.

The terrible wii games go on. I fall asleep.

I wake up to the sound of like... mechanical grinding?

Look at the laptop. There's a guy in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals, going "hey don't mix these dangerous chemicals."

I'm like, "Oh, the video ended. And the algorithm put me on... chemical mixing Youtube I guess."

I look at the video Title. "I Played The Worst Wii Games Ever Made"

....Oh.

It's still the video.

So surely he is... mixing chemicals to clean off an unplayable wii disk? Trying to touch up the lone copy of some forgotten game bought off ebay?

No...

He's just.

Mixing chemicals.

I hover over the video sections.

The 10 worst wii game sections have ended. He played them all.

The last 10 minutes is just dedicated to... him in a hazmat suit mixing dangerous chemicals.

....????

I fall back asleep.

....

I need to go back and check this video to make sure I did not imagine this all in a half-asleep stupor

[geekate]

I'm so dumb hell yeah

[mx-paint]

stupid comments on TikTok will really have you thinking about how everything is by chance

[kirbyddd]

????

[gemharvest]

Does anyone wanna get a tasty burger with me.

ACTUALLY gonna make my own post. Can you guys stop blaming TikTok for every single thing you don't like. This isn't to say TikTok hasn't bred bad behaviors or toxic environments BUT half the shit y'all say isn't even the fault of/ unique to TikTok. You guys seem to foam at the mouth over it being a shortform video app but lust for the days of Vine again and its fascinating.

[were--ralph]

why exactly do you dislike generative art so much? i know its been misused by some folks, but like, why blame a tool because it gets used by shitty people? Why not just... blame the people who are shitty? I mean this in genuinely good faith, you seem like a pretty nice guy normally, but i guess it just makes me confused how... severe? your reactions are sometimes to it. There's a lot of nuance to conversation about it, and by folks a lot smarter than I (I suggest checking out the Are We Art Yet or "AWAY" group! They've got a lot on their page about the ethical use of Image generation software by individuals, and it really helped explain some things I was confused about). I know on my end, it made me think about why I personally was so reactive about Who was allowed to make art and How/Why. Again, all this in good faith, and I'm not asking you to like, Explain yourself or anything- If you just read this and decide to delete it instead of answering, all good! I just hope maybe you'll look into *why* some people advocate for generative software as strongly as they do, and listen to what they have to say about things -🦜

if Ai genuinely generated its own content I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it, however what Ai currently does is scrape other people's art, collect it, and then build something based off of others stolen works without crediting them. It's like. stealing other peoples art, mashing it together, then saying "this is mine i can not only profit of it but i can use it to cut costs in other industries.

this is more evident by people not "making" art but instead using prompts. Its like going to McDonalds and saying "Burger. Big, Juicy, etc, etc" then instead of a worker making the burger it uses an algorithm to build a burger based off of several restaurant's recepies.

example

the left is AI art, the right is one of the artists (Lindong) who it pulled the art style from. it's literally mass producing someone's artstyle by taking their art then using an algorithm to rebuild it in any context. this is even more apparent when you see ai art also tries to recreate artists watermarks and generally blends them together making it unintelligible.

Aside from that theres a lot of other ethical problems with it including generating pretty awful content, including but not limited to cp. It also uses a lot of processing power and apparently water? I haven't caught up on the newer developements i've been depressed about it tbh

Then aside from those, studios are leaning towards Ai generation to replace having to pay people. I've seen professional voice actors complain on twitter that they haven't gotten as much work since ai voice generation started, artists are being cut down and replaced by ai art then having the remaining artists fix any errors in the ai art.

Even beyond those things are the potential for misinformation. Here's an experiment: Which of these two are ai generated?

ready?

These two are both entirely ai generated. I have no idea if they're real people, but in a few months you could ai generate a Biden sex scandal, you could generate politics in whatever situation you want, you can generate popular streamers nude, whatever. and worse yet is ai generated video is already being developed and it doesn't look bad.

I posted on this already but as of right now it only needs one clear frame of a body and it can generate motion. yeah there are issues but it's been like two years since ai development started being taken seriously and we've gotten to this point already. within another two years it'll be close to perfected. There was even tests done with tiktokers and it works. it just fucking works.

There is genuinely not one upside to ai art. at all. it's theft, it's harming peoples lives, its harming the environment, its cutting jobs back and hurting the economy, it's invading peoples privacy, its making pedophilia accessible, and more. it's a plague and there's no vaccine for it. And all because people don't want to take a year to learn anatomy.