[rosesgray]

CHER (1991)

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[theinternetarchive]

I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

[birdsareblooming]

it's been like 2 years. i havent touched it. never needed to. "you don't really have a choice," are you so swift to forget the recent past? Bitch i still use itunes to download mp3s to so i have them forever and any song i want, then my sister burns them to CDs. When boycotts rolled out my other sister got no thanks to scan what products we shouldn't buy. i still use corded headphones not because "its older" but because it's easier. a fool criticizes those who buy candles 200 years after the invention of the electric light until the power goes out. become ungovernable. you are not immune to propaganda. you've never had Chatgpt forced upon you, the only thing forced upon you is the idea that Chatgpt is forced upon you. why claim you need something today that you didn't need yesterday. little bitch.

[teophan]

[route22ny]

Elevated Redbirds coming around the bend on the 4 line in the Bronx; this shot was taken from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium in the summer of 1992.

[dailyflicks]

[itsclydebitches]

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

I think this is an incredibly important post for a lot of reasons. You have to write a bad book in order to learn how to do something. You have to suck at playing an instrument before you can improve.

Struggling is part of the process, and I've had a lot of people argue with me that it shouldn't be who fail to see the point. When you replace an composer with an AI music generator, an artist with an AI-generated image, or an author with an AI-generated fanfic, you are missing out on the critical, fundamental experiences humans need to learn and grow. You are robbing yourself of essential skills you need as a person.

AI is not like a calculator, or a synthesizer, or a prompt generator. It's not a tool to aid in your process of understanding or creating something. It is replacing your ability to learn things, and that is going to do so much damage if you let it.

[exquisite-peculiarity]

I've even seen a discussion about how this will affect professional careers going forward. For example, in software development, junior developers are brought on to work on projects with experienced senior developers. If you give the junior developer jobs to AI, no one gets practical work experience, and when the senior developers retire, no one will have the skills to take their place.

Generative AI is no replacement for human creation, because it is short sighted. Without experience we can't grow.

[noodles-07]

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

[sapphicllove]

[fairycosmos]

honestly theres always been something really wrong with me but whatever

[isabelladjanis]

LESLIE CARON An American in Paris, 1951

[anneofgreengaybles]

my favorite character on Yellowjackets is Nat (adult and teen both) for many reasons but one of the biggest is because teen Nat handles wilderness power struggles the same way I handled power struggles during childhood playdates which was literally just opting out of them

Like there were so many times I would be at a friend’s house and we would disagree on what to play or how to play it or who got to be what character or wear what costume or whatever the fuck and they’d do that thing of saying “it’s my house and you’re going to do what I say 😡😡😡” and my response basically every time was “okay well then I’m gonna call my mom and tell her to pick me up because I’m not having fun anymore” and the friend would always look at me like 😮😮😮 like it had literally never occurred to them that that was an option I had and it was always so funny

Teen Shauna is like “we’re all staying in these stupid fucking Canadian woods for no reason at all except that im a raging power hungry wannabe despot narcissist” and all the other girls stand there like her word is god and Nat is just like “well actually no we won’t be doing that because it’s dumb as shit and you aren’t my boss, you’re literally just a teenage girl like me” and I relate so hard to that mentality

[anneofgreengaybles]

8 year old me when someone tried to bully me into doing what they said when I was over at their house

[parkchanwoohoo]

Cool how someone can wax rhetoric about their incompetent partner being unpleasant but I'm suddenly the asshole for being like, idk sounds like you're with someone who sucks. "You don't know them like I do" okay!! Notice how there's no way I'd know that since you haven't shared anything positive!

[parkchanwoohoo]

The bulk of heterosexual humor appears to be "joking rant about real grievances" and the expectation is you join in with your own (gendered) horror stories and when you're like "I don't have this issue and maybe you shouldn't either," you've broken an unspoken rule about joint suffering

[twocozy]

keep it green!

[aletheyass]

art nouveau really slapped and served and they were so right about florals and curves and unconventionality and originality and being inspired by the shapes of nature and wanting to incorporate fine art into home design and rejecting the compulsory conformity of mass manufacturing like every time i see an utilitarian square bricks and metal building i want to kill myself immediately

[fairycosmos]

sharpay was right: this is not what i want. this is not what i planned. and i just gotta say. i Do Not understand

[stevenrogered]

AGATHA ALL ALONG 1x01, "Seekest Thou the Road"