Hourglass Radio

24 yo, She/her or It/Its, disabled and bedridden most days, buuuut ENGAGED WITH MY WONDERFUL FIANCÉ 🥰! Also I pretend I'm a princess. So, here I will mostly repost whatever I like, from LGBT post to ships I like but mostly memes, and I'm BORED. Been here for years 🛸 The binding of Isaac icon and banner by animatedglittergraphics-n-more !

[thatsthewrongwallcraig]

Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

[redstonedust]

i hate ai generated photos but especially of things that we already have hundreds of actual photos of. why would you need ai generated images of the eiffel tower people have been taking pictures of the eiffel tower since its construction. you have unlimited eiffel tower photos already. why are you making fake ones. for what purpose.

[suomennoksia]

vihaan tekoälyllä generoituja kuvia, mutta erityisesti asioista, joista meillä on jo tuhansia oikeita kuvia. miksi tarvitsisit tekoälyllä tehdyn kuvan eiffel-tornista ihmiset ovat ottneet kuvia eiffel-tornista siitä asti, kun se rakennettiin. sinulla on jo rajattomasti eiffel-tornikuvia. miksi teet feikkejä. mihin tarkoitukseen.

[rylandsgrace]

Guillermo Del Toro on AI "art"

SDCC 2025: Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

Im not much a fan of his pictures but the man is absolutely right

ai slop isnt art cause it was t created by a person, its very simple

[transgenderwaterrat]

anyway hoping that the generative AI bubble pops so disastrously that the tech industry becomes allergic to anything involving it for the next 1,000 years

[thelawfulchaotic]

Gemini had the fucking GALL to get in my email and summarize a 3-line email, taking up more space than the email did visually.

Hit the “thumbs down.” It’s like, what’s wrong??? Was our summary wrong? Were there offensive words? Thank you for helping us improve our AI tools :)

I selected “other.”

Text box popped up. Please elaborate!

Wrote in “I can fucking read” submit comment

Then had to spend several minutes torching all my settings with a flamethrower. Let me be clear: I’m (a lawyer) notoriously picky with my words FOR GOOD REASON (lawyering) so I overwhelmingly reject Gmail’s “helpful” little assistance. My privacy settings were set to “full paranoia” a little less than a year ago when I saw the writing on the wall and knew public defenders could become a target in the future. Better to lock it all down now.

Gemini had crept in there and turned ALL that shit back on. And showed itself by saying “Jane Doe says she’s so sorry for your loss and offers to reschedule for Thursday at 3” over an email from Jane Doe saying “I’m so sorry for your loss. We could reschedule for Thursday at 3?”

Why would I possibly need this. In what universe would I need this. I have eyes and a brain and a reading speed that twenty years ago was measured at 1500 wpm with full comprehension on dense scientific text. Furthermore! If I read a summary, I’m not reading what they actually wrote. If I’m not reading what they actually wrote, I’m not using my own judgment on the words and phrases that they used.

I literally don’t understand why this is helpful at all. This is just avoidance. Using LLMs to write is specifically Not Writing. Using LLMs to summarize is Not Reading. Using them to make art is Avoiding Making Art. Just READ! Just WRITE! I was not put on this fucking planet to not read and not write and not make art! Avoidance is an anxiety symptom and indulging it gives it more power.

If I had an AI to do my most dreaded task, answer the phone for clients, I wouldn’t use it. Because an AI cannot help them. An AI cannot hear the facts of their case, make appropriate noises, be thoughtful and insightful, and then give them a realistic estimate of what could happen in court. I am unique. I cannot be replaced by machine learning. I have style. I have expertise. I don’t hallucinate unless I’m having a really great Friday night and I’m off the clock.

When I need to outsource tasks from my own brain, I give them to people I know can do them and that I trust to do them right.

Fuck, it just sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?? Goddamn Gemini jumpscare right in my own fucking email

[stories-i-guess]

Why on EARTH does ANYONE need this shit?!?! Why is anyone making this?! No one needs a summary of their Email!!!! THE WHOLE POINT OF AN EMAIL IS FOR YOU TO READ IT!!!! I DON’T NEED ANY FUCKING SUMMARY!!! NOT TO MENTION ALL THE COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF OTHER SHIT THAT IS COMPLETELY USELESS TO ALL EXTENTS

[the-forest-library]

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[saigalblues]

genuinely can't understand why people do this. whats the point of picking up writing as a hobby if you aren't haunted by vivid hallucinations of your fuckass characters throughout the day 🙄

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[jasmineandpepper]

Appreciation post for all the beginner artists who work hard despite the AI ​​looming over us. You are fabulous. You are precious. Keep up the hard work, you are needed.

[asterdawn026]

All the appreciation & respect to y'all 🫶

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

The Chief Graphic Designer:

[magicmooshka]

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

[toe-fingerman]

I miss the "rise of kingdoms' style game ads. You know what I'm talking about, we've all seen them. The shitty ones filmed in someone's garage on a $10 budget with awful acting and hundreds of royalty free sound effects. Where the bride will refuse to marry the groom cos he doesn't have 10 million poob points in whatever the latest data mining software disguised as a game is. I fucking hated those ads with a passion when they were all over the place, but now that I'm seeing AI generated ad after AI generated ad, with perfect soulless actors in a billion dollar set that doesn't exist, I'm starting to realize that I actually really miss slightly overweight Gary From Development in a rented pope costume telling me how I can't get into heaven if I don't have a trillion gold in WAR OF EMPIRES: FREE DOWNLOAD. If someone told me a year ago if I'd be making this post I would probably have punched them, but here we are. And those ads aren't even something I like!! What's gonna happen when something I actually enjoy gets erased by the shareholder profit making machine??? At least before the evil capitalist money grubbers had the decency to pay someone to make the ad. Shitty mobile games ads aren't the first to go and the ways things are looking, they won't be the last. And I can't believe I'm saying 'look how good we had it' in the context of mobile game ads, but I miss bob with 20 million power in rise of kingdoms stealing someone's kid. I miss you, shitty ads with talentless actors and corny plots. Please come back.

[skyberia]

at this point i get suspicious every time i see a post that's like a single painting/photo with a caption that's just the artist name and maybe their birth year/the title of the work and i think you should be too. it feels like that's become the default format for genAI image reposts. if they link an instagram or twitter i'd recommend clicking through (or looking up the artist name & going to their socials if they're not directly linked) and just scrolling briefly bc most of the time they'll have Extremely obvious genai images of completely different styles scattered around, something in their bio that says something explicitly about genai, or just some other very obvious tell

[i-am-a-fish]

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being gay online

[meltesh28]

let's hangout together for the rest of our lives or something dude

[meltesh28]

Animated another scene! Also from chapter 4 of deltarune...

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