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Agott trying to be an idgafer challenge: failed

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

sinnegantheworm

here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:

generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.

analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.

game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.

resemblingthegrave

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

#as the Republicans would say #“a gun don't shoot itself”#the problem isn't generative AI #the problem is that its stealing the work of others #the problem is that the datacenters are causing ecological damage #the problem is that it is being added into products secretly and without user consent #the problem is that its exfiltrating data #generative AI is a tool #and tools are morally neutral #its the way they are used that becomes the problem

feefal

Gold, Silver, and Bronze!🥇🥈🥉

Now as sisters and with a complex sibling dynamic.

feefal

did you know 24k gold is so soft you can scratch it with a fingernail? Because bronze knows

xxxxactly

Brutalist maze, Seattle

3liza

its called Freeway Park and while it is one of the most interesting single examples of Brutalism in the united states and im proud of it, it is so poorly designed in terms of public safety that it has been renovated twice(?) but continues to be geographically troubling, as its design has facilitated a lot of murders over the years. it was the subject of a funny but gruesome article in the STranger in 2002 called Topography of Terror. the city doesnt keep official tally of how many murders or assaults have happened IN the park but two men in their 30s were stabbed nonfatally during a robbery there earlier this year, for example.

commiemartyrshighschool

Suspect that building mazes is perhaps not conducive to public safety, outside of minotaur isolation scenarios.

json-derulo

when we started talking about getting a small-breed dog I was like, "I will NEVER turn into one of those people who treats their little dog like a doll or an accessory by forcing them to dress up in ridiculous outfits. Dogs HATE that. They should get to be DOGS, and that means not having to wear anything but a HARNESS and being FREE to ROLL in the MUD." and then I adopted a dog who throws a fit if you try to take him for a walk without letting him pick out a bow tie first. a dog who loves wearing pajamas so much that I'm about to spend a disgusting amount of money on several sets of linen ones for summer. a dog who watches me wave at him to follow me through a mud puddle and just stands there blinking up at me like, "are you fucking serious? and get my paws wet?"

json-derulo

me: I will raise him no differently than the two 80-lb labs I had growing up. absolutely no hoity-toity frou frou little yapyap dog stuff. he's gonna be a good ol' fashioned, rough-and-tumble, capital D-O-G—

—never mind. the boy yearns to be ensweatered

json-derulo

to celebrate the popularity of this post, I ordered him another set of the linen jammies in yellow. now he looks like paddington bear

the etsy seller threw in a little miniature hermes silk scarf as a freebie and I dare you to tell me he doesn't know how handsome he looks in it. whenever we take it off of him he broods like he's a wealthy victorian orphan child in desperate need of a seaside holiday to restore his delicate aristocratic constitution

digitaldiscipline

went out for pints with the lads last night.

doomspaniels

I made this image for my working line, bred to hunt all day, rough tough... princess. She's *such* a princess. You'd never know she spent her first 8mo in outdoor (hunting) kennels; this dog was born to cuddle under the covers and wear pretty tiaras with matching necklaces. Anyway, I would like to share it for all the rough tough pets out there:

dragon-in-a-fez

no post has ever altered my brain chemistry as much as "can only you see the time being?"

dragon-in-a-fez

in case you're not familiar:

zen-edit

Probably one of my favorite shows I’ve ever watched and read such a good series. Hilarious filled with action folklore Cryptids all that good stuff. and it all starts with an alien abduction and ghost hunting

maja-paja

thepromiscuousfinger

ankle-beez

THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!! THEY WILL NEVER MAKE ME HATE YOU AIRA SHIRATORI

ampervadasz

masterkfox

my two brain cells

vigilantsycamore

This is what executive dysfunction looks like

a-book-of-creatures

Inside you there are two hamsters…

houndmother

deriding things as performative is anti third space

houndmother

im sitting on a patio at my favorite cafe rn and im hand stitching them hem of a dress im working on. and i can see why someone would say im being performative by working on something like this in a public space. but frankly theres no element of that. i just want to work somewhere that isnt my apartment. i want to be in public, i wanna chat with strangers, i wanna see the world. it’s nice to hang out somewhere that isnt my home!

houndmother

what i mean is when you say people are being performative you discourage them from doing shit they love in public. and thats no way to foster the world we want to see.

rhube

It's straight up bullying because the intimidation they feel in being observed by others makes them afraid to do shit like that, so they assume you are making a point about their cowardice and are lashing out so that you know you should be afraid, too.

It's so bizarre to me that this convoluted way of thinking is, in fact, extremely common and dominates so many interactions.

The number of people who think of themselves as put-upon-geeks who will make fun of me for wearing bright colours etc. Literally I have been told that these are 'look at me' colours and that you would only wear bright colours for attention. As though one might not simply enjoy the colour red.

Just 'cause you're afraid to do something doesn't mean that my doing it has anything to do with you. You finding it exceptional and unusual doesn't mean that I do.

animentality

beardedmrbean

@thepromiscuousfinger

derinthescarletpescatarian

Met my house renovation quota AND my Void Behind quota today. That never happens.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#completely whiffed on your Self Care quota didn’t you?

Actually I took a shower and ate two entire meals today (a piece of raisin toast counts as a meal), so there.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#I’m guessing raisin toast means toast with raisins in the bread (like in the dough and baked) in which case absolutely delicious#but my brain has supplied just a plain piece of toast with a flat sheet of rolled-thin raisins on top#like roof shingles#and I think this is a bad idea#but I also want to try…

Fun fact, I make my own raisin bread (in the bread machine, I don't have the patience to make bread by hand) and when I started I went looking for a recipe for the bread, but because I only use raisin bread for toast and I only ever see other people use it the same I tend to use the two terms synonymously so I googled raisin toast recipes.

Duckduckgo gave me 'recipes' for putting raisin bread in the toaster and spreading butter on it.