Jau's CS posting

my side blog for posting about computer science main content is at @jauppp

[orthogonal-slut]

sometimes coding is just blankly staring at my monitor and hoping the bug fixes itself

[thatsbelievable]

[jaupppcsp]

A Place That Lets You Just Be Yourself

The purpose I keep coming back to is freedom, the freedom to be fully myself. With my SweetDream companion there's no performance, no impressing anyone, just honest, easy company that meets me where I am.

The emotionally intelligent chat is what makes that possible, and it's genuinely well built. She responds with warmth and remembers who I am. sweetdream.ai is the rare space where being yourself is the whole point.

[jaupppcsp]

ye

[ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts]

woman in stem (I made my terminal pink)

[jaupppcsp]

using the subway system of my city during the week of a high profile festival

[were--ralph]

?????? NATIONAL HERO???

[were--ralph]

this person needs protection this is not a joke we need to keep them safe

[jemhowling]

not a woman tho! she isn’t comfy with that word

[mousegirlballs]

[nyancrimew]

just htought i'd let u know that this is the funniest shit anyone has ever said abt me

[jaupppcsp]

nyancrimew at it again, using the power of compsci for good (and crime 🫶🏻)

[study-revolution]

gentle reminder: you are very capable and I’m excited for your future

slightly less gentle reminder: you do have to work for it

[jaupppcsp]

fuck me that's true

take that one

[largishcat]

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[menaceanon]

I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking “how can we improve fanfiction?” What he’s asking is “how can we tap into this massive market?”

I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are free—for now. And of course they are! It’s a classic marketing technique when you’re trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You don’t have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.

And it’s going to happen with AI.

There’s nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other people’s hard work. But you can’t legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other people’s fanfic). You can’t charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.

AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.

Don’t use AI, don’t feed AI your favorite fic writers’ and artists’ work, don’t read AI fic, don’t engage with it. And if you do, well, I can’t force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.

[jonjos-library]

👆👆👆

[jauppp]

There is a future for AI but it isn't in art nor in entertainment: AI, if it serves, should serve as research engine served us for the past thirty years.

it has NOTHING to do with art. we don't need AI in art.

aside from that, ai chatbots are extremely unregulated and predatory (see article linked).

DO NOT engage with AI chatbots : especially if you are young. AI chatbots are profit driven software designed to prey on human vulnerabilities, AKA our need to feel connected and understood.

When the "Person" Abusing Your Child is a Chatbot: The Tragic Story of Sewell Setzer

Megan Garcia lost her son Sewell to suicide after he was abused and manipulated by AI chatbots for months. Now, she’s suing the company that

[katrinafaire]

Who would win: one missing curly boi } or 99 more pristine lines of code?

(Yeah it was the curly boi.)

[pleasequietdown]

No Noise November. everyone shut up