I don't use AI in my writing. AI, on the other hand, steals my writing to train up on so it can do its work. The recent discourse about how writers use it but pretend they don't pisses me off. If you're using generative AI to write your stories, you are pissing me off. You. Specifically.

There’s no point in celebrating April Fool’s Day when your whole life is a joke.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

You know it didn't occur to me to use a Geiger counter on church property, but now that I've seen the sign.. That's all I can think of!

Roses are red Bunnies are hoppity

frankly, I think this explains basically every instance of thinking something doesn't taste as good as it did when you were a kid.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video slop-making platform Sora.

Hey if anyone has an in on that Project Hail Mary jacket/hoodie that Grace wears at the start of the film hit ya boy up ok?

When you stab a goblin so hard even his blood says ow

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

I put away *laundry* this morning and could feel sweat on my brow, it's bad y'all

Hotel showers

i have an AI idea for investors. i want to buy a house and ay I need you to pay for it.

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Artistic Process in a nutshell.

Anybody less into RPG theory than me is a 5E-only troglodyte and everybody more into RPG theory than me is a fart sniffing navelgazer.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your crotch if you’re using ChatGPT as a search tool. And the rest of you, have a great Friday!

Fuck my stupid screenwriter life

I wouldn't say I'm massively into phones or anything but I sketched this out of frustration bc why are there no modern phones with these features, it would be so perfect and I'm mad the only ones are old and slow

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Heartbreaking: the writers retreat with only 20 slots annually didn't have space

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.” Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

Every deep insight, every cunning turn of phrase, every moment of poetry that LLMs deliver was strip-mined from an actual human being who laid their heart bare in prose. So how do the best human writers stack up against their own plagiarized work?

My desire to stay well informed is constantly at odds with my desire to stay sane.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

If you have the prerequisite knowledge to know that something is correct, you don't need the machine, and if you do not, it can never help you because you can't check it. That's the problem.

Spent the last 3 days looking for my ereader, turns out it was wedged between my mattress and the wall. Not my finest moment. Oh well, been a tough few days. Pratchett time, baby.

whenever i read pieces critiquing the adoption of cloud computing from the early 2000s, it's invariably soundtracked by the jaws theme

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

Gentlemen, I've done the impossible. I've revived a dnd campaign after 6 months of hiatus and had things go off mostly smoothly.

Gentlemen, I've done the impossible. I've revived a dnd campaign after 6 months of hiatus and had things go off mostly smoothly.

oh "the left" is missing out on AI? yeah, i'm a socialist, i'm for humanity. good. no reason to act like this lifeless and error prone tool is going to do much of anything for me or society. from one of my favorite AI critical essays in the last six months: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

LLMs are very much like fast ouji boards connecting with the textual ghosts of the Internet (or whatever data sets they have been trained on). The analogy works on many levels. If demonic forces used them then we would expect to see them implemented universally… oh wait… shit.

So if -- and I write Sfi-Fi and Fantasy, so I'm all about the if -- LLMs were a secret gateway for demonic forces to invade the world, how different would it look? (Starts writing notes for an electric ouija horror movie...)

I’m trying to find that one post that’s like “guys isn’t it weird how AI is bad at things I know a lot about and but good at stuff I don’t know a lot about”’ because that’s basically Bruenig talking about vibe coding.

they should invent a human brain that doesn't catastrophize.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

There’s gotta be some grevious sidhe curse in store for the hallions that fake Irish music with AI. Is it against BlueSky T&Cs to wish their loved ones replaced with lifeless fetches and their wealth turned to worthless lumps of coal? May their teeth fall out and the gentry take their sight.

People who assign the label "slop" to the third similar game in a genre they see in a year would not survive the era of wii and ps2 shovelware

Love the last decade of elected Democrats being like "Oh you thought we were joking? About Donald Trump being a damn threat to democracy?!" and when you're like "Yeah man, I agree, you going to do something about it?" and they're like "What I am going... to... Do about it... is... you give me $20"

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

F*** that nice write-up I got in the Guardian. This is my all-time favourite review of one of my books.

He was bound to drop that scarf in some time zone or other.

Very cool that Congress just renewed ICE's budget with absolutely zero concessions

Oh come oonnnnnn google, I'm doing actual book research here God forbid a fella wants to know the least painful way to get blood for an ancient arcane ritual