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"No one is angry about games not containing gen AI" is such a hell of a good point. It is incredibly off-putting to many customers, an absolute deal-breaker, yet there is no flip side to that, no consumer base clamouring for it, no demand. They can only try to wear people down into accepting it.

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The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

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while it may not seem like it to someone scrolling by with a cursory look, what i am creating is not ‘ironic’ nor a ‘get rich quick scheme’ and it is certainly not AI GENERATED. it is a genuine expression of my heart and my beliefs about sexuality and art and love and freedom and curiosity and joy

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

My jaw dropped, this is 😘👌

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The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter. They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

We need to understand that, too. There is no "reform." Either poorly trained people with no impulse control can murder people on the streets while we watch, or we have a democracy. The two are antithetical.

Listen to me. Might does not make right. The wrong side does not have a good point because they will put a gun to anybody's head. That's just more of what makes them wrong. Any person who has escaped domestic violence can tell you that you can't compromise with someone who likes hurting you. Stop.

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This whole section really.

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Hilarious. My bank can just do a stop payment at my request though. That's free. That takes 15 minutes on the phone. And it actively harms them because payment processors do NOT like when you get a stop payment order placed against you. What you do with this information is between you and God.

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time." people: that sounds bad. why? "It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry" people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

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CBS, ABC and Disney should get the full treatment Target got. They are anti-FreeSpeech & openly pro-Fascist. Boycott them. Destroy their bottom line. See how long they can survive just MAGA viewership. Time to put your money where your love of the Constitution is. Do. Not. Support. Them.

This is state-sponsored media shit. Absolutely, shocking, insane dictator overreach

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

i think about this tweet every single day

This is an absolutely deranged thing to say about a proponent of political violence and unfettered gun access who died from getting shot.

i just...why is everyone explicitly saying political violence is bad and uncalled for after this specific event involving a conservative and not with regard to what is and has been happening bc of these fascists for quite some time now with the same level of fervor & condemnation

What an expertly called shot

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

More reasons to be anti-AI

*80 percent* drop in mail to the US because Trump is taxing every single small package anyone might want to send someone here

I'm preaching to the choir here but the vast majority of contractors in the business are just underpaid employees, not people hired to do a specific amount of work in a specific amount of time.