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I saw a post about pronouns today and how they come with language. I should point out that they come with English and not every language has them. It's actually a huge part of why AI translation is so unreliable, AI has no critical thinking skills and can not properly decide on a pronoun based on context. This includes pronouns like I and you, which obviously completely change the meaning of a statement rather than just somebody's gender.

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The neoliberal theory of technological change relies upon the coercive power of competition to drive the searth for new products, new production methods, new organisational forms. This drive becomes so deeply embedded in entrepreneurial common sense, however, that is becomes a fetish belief: that there is a technological fix for each and every problem.

~ David Harvey in A Brief History of Neoliberalism

The glamourisation of AI by the tech bros (and why the tech bros category exists in the first place - in my opinion)

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Love when someone says artist are no different from AI cause all they do is look at stuff and then recreate it.

Meanwhile said person has looked at SO MANY THINGS and yet! Nuthin.

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this is going to become a cycle. as more "studies" are made by ai, the ai will start learning from ITS OWN WRITING. this means everything will become a copy of a copy like that fucking rick n morty episode. the products getting progressively worse and less coherent, eventually becoming nonsense, until our knowledge a faded lesser copy of the knowledge before. this ourobouros is not sustainable.

there needs to be laws requiring people to say if theyve used ai.

it should be illegal to use ai in something like science. in novels and movies, its stealing, but in science its knowledge that can change lives. science is needed to be carefully performed. this stuff handles human lives. astronauts depend on accurate research to stay alive and healthy. disabled people need real medical science for medication, treatment, etc.

you do not want a robot citing a bunch of words it made itself a few years ago when you're determining how to give someone chemotherapy.

when a human scientist cites their own work, they are discredited for not researching correctly. the same should go for ai.

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nah this gets its own post:

imagine that someone comes up and compliments you on something - maybe it's your hair, your voice, your clothes, whatever. And you thank them and plan to move on. Then they ask for a little bit of your hair and you go, "okay fine, it's not gonna really hurt to give that" so you give them a couple strands. you'll grow more. whatever.

next week they come up to you again with a clone of your body that they can control like a puppet. "I liked you so much I wanted my own version of you so I can see/hear/talk to you whenever I want!" you would react with horror, right?

Art is inherently a personal creation; the things that you feel, the things you have lived through, your emotions and your skills and your past will affect what you make and how you make it. There is a bit of 'you' in everything you make, and the analogy above is what generative AI feels like to me as a creator. And I'm just a writer/artist. My art isn't a direct representation of me. If I was a supermodel or a voice actor or anyone in the public eye, my analogy is even more spot on with how viscerally horrifying it is to watch someone make a "you" that they can get to use to make whatever they want. say whatever they want. be whatever they want.

and then you have to listen to the people who make or use the clones brag about how much time and money they're saving by making all these clones (who they don't have to treat like people and who can't say no) instead of asking you to do the thing you're best at, at enormous environmental cost to create and power the damn things, all so they can make profit with no effort selling a thing wearing your face...

... so, yeah. I get a little mad about generative AI sometimes.

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“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” - A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré

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do i ship these characters or do i want them to form a sketch comedy duo

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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a question to ppl who followed me for art:

putting a cohost link in here in case you want to look at my newer stuff:

For context: I stopped posting art because of tumblr selling its user data to AI companies + the ceo being a dumb and nasty dickhead in general. An old art post of mine suddenly blew up a few days ago, avalanche of likes and reblogs, some of them with tags saying stuff like "i love this", followed by new people following me. It showed me that these people like my art enough to want to see more. I want to thank them for it

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“if you’re working a full time job you should be able to afford to live on your own and have access to food and transportation” gonna be real with you brother. everyone deserves this. Not just people working 40 hrs a week

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Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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Feminist fantasy is funny sometimes in how much it wants to shit on femininity for no goddamned reason. Like the whole “skirts are tools of the patriarchy made to cripple women into immobility, breeches are much better” thing.

(Let’s get it straight: Most societies over history have defaulted to skirts for everyone because you don’t have to take anything off to relieve yourself, you just have to squat down or lift your skirts and go. The main advantage of bifurcated garments is they make it easier to ride horses. But Western men wear pants so women wearing pants has become ~the universal symbol of gender equality~)

The book I’m reading literally just had its medievalesque heroine declare that peasant women wear breeches to work in the field because “You can’t swing a scythe in a skirt!”

Hm yes story checks out

peasant women definitely never did farm labour in skirts

skirts definitely mean you’re weak and fragile and can’t accomplish anything

skirts are definitely bad and will keep you from truly living life

no skirts for anyone, that’s definitely the moral of the story here

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as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

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So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.

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nobody wants to work anymore