Some Gay Nerd

Hobbyist artist and general nerd. He?/They?/It? (gender is confusing), 25

[exceedinglygayotter]

He is casting spells at you

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[rainbow-demoness]

I think it deserves pointing out that it doesn't just reproduce or amplify existing bigotries: it can fabricate them out of whole cloth, without even needing any bigotry in the input dataset. This is because, as a technology, it is inherently severely conformist: anything that is unusual, it will flag as likely wrong.

Man with a husband? Even if every person on earth sincerely feels "love is love, some men have husbands and I love that we are diverse like that", the software will still see that the majority of people with husbands are women, and mark "person with husband is a man" as "likely wrong". This will happen to any minority, because any technology that calls the most common thing "correct" and everything else "incorrect" is, inevitably, inherently, violently anti-minority.

It's not enough to get rid of widely held bigotry or filter it out of the dataset, even if we could do that. The flaw is in the tool, and we have no reason to believe it can be fixed. The only solution I can see would work for sure is if none of us ever used it again.

[smokingrozanov]

me about any album I’m listening to at any given moment: holy shit. This may be The Album of All Time

[theknightlywolfe]

When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.

[homunculus-argument]

Top 10 branches of science ranked by how bad it would suck to be killed by them (from best to worst)

Physics - probably the nicest just on the grounds of how fast that's gonna be. Like if you're a goner before any of the other sciences can get to you, you probably don't even have time to feel anything.

Biology - the most standard default way of dying. Most of the time it sucks but not badly enough to warrant you its own wikipedia page.

Geology - one of the oldest OG classics. Rock hits Og. Og is gone.

Psychology - slow tigers are chasing you.

Zoology - fast tigers are chasing you.

Sociology - idk me and the rest of the angry mob agree that you had it coming.

Chemistry - this is a hard one to place because there's a lot of variation. But anyhow you're getting undone on a cellular level.

Mathematics - how the fuck did you even do that.

Cosmology - why the fuck did you even do that?

Theology - what the fuck did you even do?

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[dailycatsblog]

[the-upper-shelf]

Some Pokesona sketches!

[crownedcupidd]

obligatory separation for zygarde

had some fun with these! zygarde was done a while ago i just never got around to doing the others til now yveltal is still up there as one of my favourites. awesome bird

[polka-o-dolka]

Rift in the sky

[polka-o-dolka]

i love my big time dog!!!

wish they added the phone camera in PLA and have that feature where the pokemon smiles at you when you point the camera at them. kinda like that feature in SWSH camping cuz like... wdym you have a PHONE... you basically use it the whole time in your whole adventure.... and not have a camera option???

bonus:

[quikyu]

Oops.

[breikka]

Climbing

[pokemonarchive]

Hisuian Zorua (2022) - Card Sleeves © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK

[bogleech]

Dinasars

[yansurnummu]

trad goth zerith came to me in a vision