#and we're gonna have to cancel a few people's grandmas too probably

[savefrog]

how to explain to people that while we DO need to desperately dismantle AI’s capitalism-driven rise to prominence in many professional areas especially art because of how it will be used to replace artists in exchange for cheap content and on the back of uncredited artists that came before, and how things can be said about supporting the ai platforms that enable this

that simultaneously using Dall-E mini or Bing or whatever once to make a cat at some nebulous point is not like. It is not like. He did not just shoot an artist point blank out in an alleyway 😭

#this was on a post about Hank Green LOL #LIKE WHO THE FUCK KNOWS HIM AS 'the guy who generated a cat picture once' #like thats a COMPLETELY new one to me!!! #but regardless of who #this is like 'bots are a huge problem online...so everyone who made a silly 'a spongebob quote a day' bot must be shamed' #like the former is true...but the latter is not like. a moral offense bc its disconnected from the issue with bots #and if we want to go into the ethics of this #like i have no idea what example theyre even talking about so i have no idea if its even a locally hosted or self-trained ai #in which case training data could be controlled and it wouldn't have an impact on the power consumption issue w common platforms #something could be said about promoting ai art on a platform but. idk when this happened. was it to demonstrate something. etc. #are we talking 'look how tech has progressed lets demonstrate' or 'haha funny cat' or 'ARTISTS ARE OBSOLETE DONT PAY FOR COMMS' shit #the conversation around ai art is complex and has not always looked the same like back when dall-e mini first came out #like EVERYONE was dicking around and making like. JRPG Seinfeld #including people who now have anti ai art icons #and thats because it wasn't a clear threat yet. the conversation was totally different then #if we're writing callouts for everyone who has ever generated an ai picture of a cat we're gonna be here for a while #and we're gonna have to cancel a few people's grandmas too probably #wayneradiotv is on the guillotine for using an ai image generator to Increase Gender #like...idk it's just pointless and is not the way to actually stop issues around AI #but also just impressed someone on tumblr only knows him as 'the guy who ai generated a cat once'' #dullblogging

[rustycottoncandy]

FUCKING GOD todays been such a piece of shit I can't

.

GET THIS.

I FALL ASLEEP AT AROUND 1AM WITH STRUGGLES, THEN WAKE UP AT 5-5:20AM TO REMEMBER THAT I HAVE TWO EXAMS I HAVE NOT STUDIED FOR.

IT TAKES TWO GLASSES OF HOT COCOA FOR ME TO WAKE UP A BIT AND EVEN WITH THAT I'M STILL TIRED AND FOR SOME REASON I SEE STUFF WEIRD, LIKE EVERYTHING'S LESS BRIGHT. MY SIGHT'S FINE NOW THOUGH.

THE MOMENT I ARRIVE TO SCHOOL I REALIZE THAT I'VE FUCKING LEFT MY NOISE-CANCELLING EARPHONES AT SCHOOL, GOOD JOB, ME.

IN THE FIRST. FUCKING. CLASS. THERE'S ALREADY PEOPLE SCREAMING AND OMG WHY THE NEED TO MAKE SO MUCH NOISE. ALSO I'M EXHAUSTED AND WORRIED ABOUT THE TWO EXAMS.

NEXT CLASS, I'M TIRED, AND IT'S EXAM TIME. THE WORDS IN THE PAPER SEEM NONSENSE TO ME AND STRESS RISES. I MANAGE TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS BUT PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH TO PASS. I CRY. THE TEACHER CONFORTS ME (This teacher is very kind btw), AND STILL WITH THE THOUGHTS OF ME BEING FUCKING USELESS I MOVE TO THE NEXT CLASS.

TURNS OUT THERE WAS HOMEWORK FOR THIS CLASS BUT I HAD NO IDEA, THOUGHTS OF BEING A BAD STUDENT INTENSIFY AND SO DOES TIREDNESS. ALSO MY HEAD HURTS.

RECESS COMES! I THINK ABOUT EATING MY SANDWITCH BUT NO. GOTTA MAKE A MASHUP OF ALL THE PAGES IN MY NOTEBOOK THAT HAVE TO DO WITH MATHS, SO GOODBYE, EATING.

LIBRARY. I'M TIRED AND DIZZY.

NEXT CLASS COMES, ENGLISH TIME. THIS ONE GOES WELL EXCEPT I STILL FEEL EXHAUSTED, HUNGRY AS FUCK AND MY HEAD HURTS FROM TIME TO TIME.

MATHS, EXAM TIME. I TAKE MY RESCUE DROPS BEFORE IT SO THAT I DON'T CRY AGAIN. AT THIS POINT I'D RATHER BE BURIED UNDERGROUND THAN THERE, MY BODY LITERALLY CAN NOT KEEP ITSELF UP. I CLOSE MY EYES FOR A FEW SECONDS A COUPLE OF TIMES AND ONCE I DO ALL I CAN, EVERYTHING THAT'S LEFT LOOKS LIKE INK ON PAPER TO ME AND I CAN'T PROPERLY THINK. I REPEAT, I'M EXHAUSTED. I BITE MY TONGUE A COUPLE OF TIMES TO KEEP MY EYES AWAKE BUT THEY KEEP GETTING CLOSED SO AS A LAST RECOURSE I FUCKING CREATE SMALL WOUNDS IN MY FINGERS WITH MY PENCIL JUST SO THAT MY EYES STAY FUCKING OPEN BECAUSE I CAN'T. HEAD HURTS TOO.

NEXT CLASS COMES, I PROBABLY FAILED MY EXAM. AT THIS POINT ALL I WANNA DO IS PASS OUT OR DIE, I NEED ENERGY AND FOOD. I'M SO FUCKING HUNGRY, MY HEAD HURTS, AND EXHAUSTION HAS GOTTEN ME COMPLETELY.

SCHOOL ENDS.

I GO HOME, I EAT, AND HOLY FUCK IT FEELS LIKE HEAVEN. I'M AWAKE NOW AND THE HEADACHES HAVE BECOME SMALLER. I CAN'T NAP YET THOUGH CAUSE WE'RE GONNA LEAVE HOME SOON TO TAKE MY GRANDMA SOMEWHERE SO INSTEAD I'M WRITING THIS.

FUCK TODAY.

#my stuff #vent