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Opinion page 17 Always open to learning more about other people honestly

[catdile]

Hi Apple users, Apple released a fun thing where they take your photos and Siri transcripts and use them to train AI! And they may be automatically turned on without your knowledge, because oh boy they sure were for me!!!!!!!!!!!!

Open the “apps” section in your settings (it’s usually at the very bottom), go to photos and scroll until you see “Enhanced Visual Search” and then turn that shit off. Then go to “Privacy and Security”, scroll until you see “Analytics & Improvements”, and turn off “Improve Siri & Dictation” as well.

​I am an artist with hundreds upon hundreds of my artworks in my photo album. I also have plenty of photos with not only my own face, but the faces of my friends and my family. I do not appreciate that being used to train AI without my consent, and I’m pretty sure it’s the same for others too.

I’m so tired of big companies.

EDIT: I made a mistake this feature isn’t used to train AI, but it does still take your photos to be analyzed by AI. This is a feature that was automatically turned on without notice, giving nobody the option to turn it off or on until they find it themselves.

[rottingsalem]

Can we stop making fun of people who struggled with c.ai, chatgpt, chai, polybuzz, and ai addictions in general. Especially teenagers and young adults. Those apps are literally made to prey on your loneliness and news flash, humans are social creatures. As someone who struggled with an c.ai addiction for sometime, i was and still am a lonely person, and those apps are made to comfort you. When you have literally no one to talk to or vent to, that's your only option, especially if you struggle with any type of social anxiety or social cues or just holding relationships. It's a real issue that should be treated the same as any other addiction. Most of us know its wrong but a lot of us started in around 2022-2023 when ai was still seen as a "haha funny" and now it feels like we can't stop. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[fang3dblog]

I wanna talk about the effects AI has on my brain.

I used to be addicted to AI chatbots, if I didn’t know about the environmental costs, I still would’ve been using them. I woke up every morning thinking about them, I stayed awake and often neglected sleep. I told myself I could live without character ai for a week and be fine, I could not. While out with my family or on vacation I would sneak my phone to use character ai. I would hide in the bathroom to use character ai. It was literally like a drug to me. I wouldn’t even be using it for actual roleplay or story building, I’d do the same prompts 3 times over just because I enjoyed those plot lines. I was utterly dependent on it for my own selfish happiness, genuinely I think if I didn’t know about the environmental consequences I’d be on it everyday all day as I was. I’d pull all nighters talking to characters multiple days in a row. There were points where I thought “I don’t even know why I’m using it, I have nothing to say,”. Everytime I see one of those posts talking about our clean water in a couple years I feel so disgustingly responsible, I know there’s nothing I can do to change that past, but I feel like I’ve contributed so much to get us here. I feel less bad whenever I see people use it without caring though. I’d rather never use it and be known as someone who can’t keep up with the times than ever use it like that again. I don’t think at the time I saw my usage as an addiction, but it definitely was. I remember sitting in the back of the auditorium during theatre class and just using character ai, nowadays I’d be so embarrassed, I’m embarrassed just thinking about it.

[fang3dblog]

Something that’s been annoying me with Heather’s the Musical are the songs “Blue” and “You’re Welcome”. “Blue” was changed into “You’re Welcome” to help get rid of “making fun of SA” even though they do the exact same thing in “You’re Welcome”, sure at the end of the song Kurt and Ram are covered in cow manure, it makes fun of the prospect of Veronica possibly being SA’d and takes away from the reason JD wanted to kill the remaining Heathers as well. In this version the Heathers aren’t ridiculing her and slut shaming her, the entire musical is supposed to be taboo in the first place, “Blue” makes you feel gross, it makes Veronica look weak, “You’re Welcome” feels like Veronica has full control. What I think is most important is how long each person sings, in “Blue” Veronica only has a few lines, LINES. In “You’re Welcome” about half the song is her singing. Coming back to the Heathers, the song “Blue” helps build up Heather Duke’s eventual “Red Heather” status.

Anyways I hate both songs, in my personal life I make fun of both of them. The only good person in this musical is Martha I love you Martha💕

[fang3dblog]

I hate whenever I see those pictures of people being like “Omg… they ate babies?!” “I thought Epstein was a joke!!” with a fugly reaction photo. You aren’t fucking helping. You’re making the situation look like a joke. You’re hiding behind fake disgust to hide the fact you don’t fucking care. Just thinking about Epstein, and what the people in our government have done to children should make you sick.

[fang3dblog]

If you’ve been to the library within the past few years, you might’ve noticed a section called challenged books. Books like Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid’s Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, and 1984. (1) Books akin to Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Hunger Games, and so on tell dystopian stories and are book essentials everybody should pick up at least once. They’ve always been challenged, and unfortunately those challenges will never be going away. In most dystopian stories like The Giver, another challenged book, it talks about the leaders in society very closely watching their citizens grow up, and by the time they’re 12, they’re given permanent jobs, unable to choose their spouses, etc. With how our government is nowadays, we always need to be especially wary, after all, most of the people who run/ran our government within the past 10 years were all there during the Civil Rights movement, had probably seen campaigning for this, and were against it. Claudette Colvin, who, akin to Rosa Parks refused to move from the “White section” passed away very recently. The very act of book banning/burning goes hand in hand with taking over and fully controlling a society. When you see books that talk about the experience of being a minority like Brave Face, Gender Queer, and The Bluest Eyes, being challenged and burned, it gives onlookers the impression that these things are not okay, it’s not okay to be gay, trans, or Black and these people are lesser than. Media centered around these issues are almost always going to be challenged by the white conservative, that’s just how it is, because it is so ingrained in our society that we have to fit into this certain criteria.

Regardless. Banned books have a special place in my heart, they’ll never not have that special place. Everybody deserves an outlet to express their opinions and experiences. The only way we can really educate ourselves on another groups experiences is if we read, and read, and read.

I’d like to know your opinion on this topic too!!

(1) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm