terrible horrible no good very bad day

25 - Gael - Arkansas - im Chicken .

[reeftide]

galar top 3 flight and riding gear sets

[sundercr]

[risziarts]

When I was a kid I always thought that Sonic's Pokemon would be Luxray. And I only thought that because of Luxray's hair. At the time I thought it looked similar to Sonic's quills and I found that to be kinda cool lol

[leftoverlight]

beautiful girls named ⚠️ Severe Weather keep messaging me

[aliascanthrope]

i love the ambiguity of zelda and link's relationship. they are in love. they're just good friends. they're married. link just follows zelda around like a puppy and she got attached to him. they're t4t. they're work buddies. zelda is in love with link and hes just doing his job. link is in love with zelda and shes just doing her job. they're soulmates. they're bound together by their duty to hyrule. they're bearding for each other

[hottdoggblogg]

[apas-95]

An NPC has fallen into the toxic sludge in gm_bigcity! Build the airboat, and begin the rescue!

Uh oh, that was RDM! Convince the admin!

New LEGO Garry's Mod®.

Each set sold separately. Background models not included.

[airconditioningbob]

Discord really went from 32 unicode characters + 9999 discriminators (32,000 printable unicode so 32^32,000x9999 = actually incalcuable on most calculators, essentially infinite) to presumeably 32 latin characters, periods and underscores

And at the same time alienated anyone and everyone who doesn't speak a language using a latin alphabet (most languages) and made stalking easier, removed individuality, and destroyed their actually revolutionary username behavior

...to look like twitter.

[tim-official]

all the frothing-at-the-mouth posts about how "don't you dare put a fic writer's work into chatGPT or an artist's work into stable diffusion" are. frustrating

that isn't how big models are made. it takes an absurd amount of compute power and coordination between many GPUs to re-train a model with billions of parameters. they are not dynamically crunching up anything you put into a web interface.

chances are, if you have something published on a fanfic site, or your art is on deviantart or any publicly available repository, it's already in the enormous datasets that they are using to train. and if it isn't in now, it will be in future: the increases in performance from GPT 2 to 3 to 4 were not gained through novel machine-learning architectures or anything but by ramping up the amount of data they used to train by orders of magnitude. if it can be scraped, just assume it will be. you can prevent your stuff from being used with Glaze, if you're an artist, but for the written word there's nothing you can do.

not to be cynical but the genie is already far more out of the bottle than most anti-AI people realize, i think. there is nothing you can do to stop these models from being made and getting more powerful. only the organizing power of labor has a shot at mitigating some of the effects we're all worried about

[tim-official]

this post had over 10k notes and lots of people in replies getting very angry and panicky and threatening imaginary bad actors and begging people not to put their fics into chatgpt. the reply is authoritatively saying "anything that is given to AI it can use it later to draw from." no source! like - i don't know if they save your prompts. they probably do for some other nefarious purposes. but:

these are the size of the training sets used to train gpt-3. as a rule of thumb in natural language processing, one word is on average two tokens. the common crawl dataset alone is around 205 billion words; for gpt-3 they don't even manage to use all of it. this is the scale of the data they need. they are not re-training their model with the little prompts you put in, and even if they did, it's like... a drop of water in the ocean. it's not gonna have an effect on how the model behaves. i think people are, on a gut level, still understanding these models as "collage machines." they're not. they are not borg-assimilating all your best ideas from your fics to frankenstein them back together. they are statistical models. they are compressing gargantuan amounts of data down into smaller (still huge, but much smaller) models of that data by looking at trends and likelihoods and repetitions. i'm not saying you're a great person if you use gpt to autocomplete old fics but even if they were for some reason adding your prompts to their datasets, it's not gonna have an effect. the culture on here about anti-ai stuff has approached, like, mythology - making up shit about what they can do, talking about how scary they are, ghost stories, moral panic. this wild overstatement about what they can do only benefits the companies selling them, and those trying to use them as pretense to undermine labor.

[catasters]

[onlinebeast]

My beautiful baby daughter, %appdata% Roaming .minecraft

[newpokemoncards]

[tagfer]

now if you were playing against your friends, you could play this card and then go take a break to get a glass of water. that’s like, fine, right? however high level play is rarely done in such domestic settings, and that’s when this card gets evil. some people practice the “bad water gambit” in which they keep a slightly warmer than room temp bottle of Dasani brand water on hand to offer opponents when playing this card, because let’s be honest, it’s nasty. Dasani is of course disgusting in general but being just a little warm makes it literally unswallowable. recently though, many people have begun to bring their own ice cold bottles of Fiji as a counterplay.

[depsidase]

[noble-moon]

this is to the guy in the electronics department at walmart who when I approached and said “game” because it was the only word that would come to me, went “yeah” and walked me straight to tears of the kingdom, no questions asked

[aforlorngazeintoyesterday-deact]

we need to destigmatize dropping out of college I am so serious. like dude if u realize that is Bad For You then you can just Leave. I am so fucking serious. just stop. there are other options and you don’t need to force yourself through shit you can’t do and go into debt. i promise you can just Not.

[baileyschnapps]

brb going on a walk to clear my head

[tremblegay]