People really do not appreciate the skill required to translate even passibly accurately let alone WELL and it's deeply annoying

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

The year is 2035. There are three game studios left. Each one produces a game every 10 years, killing 250+ developers in the process. They all accidentally make the same game because they used genAI in preproduction. They sell 500 million units each, missing quarterly targets. Everyone is laid off.

I'm fully entering into my 'I have a complaint for the manager' era. Becoming a penpal of axa travel insurance complaints. My capacity for 'no, actually I don't understand how you came to this number please do explain' is near infinite.

A hero, someone we can all look up to

I just hate that we'll all spend the rest of our lives questioning whether a photo or video is real or not. The tech industry has permanently fucked the internet and I will never forgive them for it

If you need a timeline cleanse, please enjoy Marcia and Brutus doing a rare DOUBLE BLEP

Only reason it’s not more widely known is because the industry is so bad for writing jobs right now, even seniors won’t risk burning bridges. Like even I took a moment to consider whether this might bite me down the line.

anyways be kind to your creatives and be a bit forgiving with us if we don’t seem as cheerful as usual and crash out every now and then- we’re all collectively having a rough one since idk 2021 or so 🫩

As ever, to mistake creative writing for a text generation problem is to fundamentally misapprehend what it is, what's challenging about it, and what's *interesting* about it.

Really liked reading this from @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, who asks, isn't it exhausting to just feel like you're going insane every time you go on the computer youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

This is very good advice. Spread your bets on which of your favs sucks. Because one of them definitely does.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.

🧵 If any of you are responsible for this, here's some advice: This isn't how you honour creators. This is theft. And this isn't how you hone your creativity. This is theft. Learn how to impersonate people and do your roleplaying that way. Because this? IS THEFT. caibotlist.com?search=daisy... 1/4

The absolute entitlement of these cunts deciding it's just fully all right to steal anything up to actual human voices will never stop getting to me Like, we used to write fairytales in which this sort of thing was an indicator of a character being irredeemably evil and now it's just mainstream

I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.

Hey @rustyquill.com can you sue these fucking freaks or something please?

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

the good that you do persists in this world

There’s a reason TERFs carry out their petty little lawfare via employment tribunals and not by calling the cops - they rely on obscure workplace health and safety legislation almost as old as I am to bring these lawsuits because toilets aren’t actually restricted zones.

It fits with something @antonyjohnston.bsky.social was talking about AdventureX – putting characters in positions where they make bad decisions. It's harder to pull that off with the player character specifically, but I think these timers are aneat way to that work – keeping the player off balance.

There are a lot of things that make me mad. Like. A long list. But fake AI videos of wild animals doing cute things that animals do in fact do, make me so unreasonably mad. Should this incite the most rage in my heart, of all the horrible things going on right now? No. But here we are.

Crows DO slide down roofs, why would you make a fake video showing that? Because you want ATTENTION, but guess what dingus, nobody cares about YOU for posting that fake video, they care about the crows. You are a boring hack stealing valor from the crows. BOOOOOOO!!!!

There's danger in the dark, but at least we're giving you a lantern. Here's art director Toby Cook with a look at how we're creating light and shadow in our upcoming rural life sim, Mandrake.

My first attempt at a basque cheesecake. It’s almost 2kg of dairy so uh, that’s protein, right?

It's only a tiny thing in this, but Peter Serafinowicz isn't his "own brother-in-law", he's his *ex* brother-in-law, and part of Glinner's awfulness is how he seems unwilling to accept that his wife is no longer his wife. It's scary, frankly.

Absolutely showing off here, but the boring gym has become a lot less boring now I get to feel awe/dread as George’s bar bends slightly under the weight.

placeholders should be so bad you can't miss them or so adequate it wouldn't matter if they shipped. terrible or legally unusable assets which blend in are liability and sign of negligence also these placeholders rule

The problem with the BBC being the nation’s finest engine for soft power, is that people have realised that they can easily exert hard, nasty, cruel power on it, and bend it out of shape. Empathy, curiosity and compassion shouldn’t be problematic qualities that need silencing. Seems they are now.

We watched both the Accountant movies over the past week. They certainly have Problems, but I had an unabashedly enjoyable time with them.

"i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" i would. that's the point of having a worst enemy. grow up and hate people like an adult

A thing that delighted me today. Yes, travelling to do tech support is annoying, but it's a treat getting to raid my parents' house for relics of the past. I didn't really know any of my grandparents - one died before I was born, the rest before I hit my teens. ...

It was hill sprints this morning. @babelfishwars.bsky.social looks surprisingly happy.

Please send me strength. Today, I travel to my parents’ to assess a blue screen of death. They think I’m an IT genius. I’m not. This may be painful.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Hmm?

This is great. I love hearing post-mortem style stuff in general, and this is a great perspective to come at it from.

I love books but is reading really doing all that much for you if it hasn't taught you not to characterise systematic societal issues as personal moral failings

FINAL HOURS. Our African Animated film is at $78,000. So close to the $85K Nigeria Research Trip stretch goal: bit.ly/croc-dance-ks Let's finish strong! #animatedfilm #projectwelove #Nigeria

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

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I really wanted to write a blog where I imparted sage advice about how to live with the constant suspicion of AI without letting that suspicion erode your soul, but uh... well

Being a British parent is so weird bc you're actually worried about paying the sky high rent/mortgage & getting GP appointments but the entire press keeps telling you you're worried there's a trans person or immigrant nearby & the vat on Eton means there'll only be two skiing holidays this year

the fucking Calibre e-book manager has gone AI slop calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

if you're into AI "advisors" and find their insights helpful, may I non-ironically recommend seriously considering: tarot - connection to your subconscious - therapeutic or confessional as need be - patterns of meaning - self-determined takeaways - no need to google facts afterwards

I am also not nick dot harkaway dot author at gmail. God, this is annoying.