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About me!

Intro time! Call me Lav, or whatever, it’s just my fake internet name anyway. This is a mixed fandom blog (interests listed below) to share my thoughts and writing. Personal posts are tagged #lav rants

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Interests (on this blog): NINJAGO, Ever After High, Stardew Valley, Pokemon, writing, mental health

Pronouns: she/her

Identity: Woman (cis)

Sexuality: lol idk

Age: Adult

Nationality: American (ethnically Asian)

Chronically and mentally ill! Woohoo

Declaring myself the queen of #raincloudshipping (Vania and Bentho) because I've written over 40k words about them

Some rules:

Occasionally NSFW (no images, just text), will tag!

This is a safe space for kind people of all identities and backgrounds! :) No homophobia/racism/sexism/any other form of discrimination

Do NOT feed my writing to AI/bots

Thanks for checking out my blog! :)

#about me

odyver

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

odyver

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

odyver

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

Edit: AI here is referring to generative AI, rather than closed models or custom made LLMs trained on internal datasets

Edit" "tumblr is not the best place to do data collection" "most biased sample group" yup. cool. good.

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evil-baker-and-storyteller

"less inclined" dude I wouldn't visit a museum at all if I found out they were using Gen AI

apatheticfluorescence

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

headspace-hotel

Shakespeare is like this

insufferablepirate

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

leylila

PointCrow’s villain arc in Last to Leave Sinnoh

Compilation by me :)

Thank you, Scott from Ninjago

#ninjago scott #ninjago #tomodachi life #tomodachi living the dream

asooffa

hey so..... who wanna see cole plushie be real? CUS NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!!

pledge now and if we reach 100 supporters then he gets to exist 🥹🥹 hope you guys like him!!

find him on my store here!

#ninjago cole

starlightshadowsworld

Man it must’ve been so weird for CA Cupid to be from a world that’s all be yourself! Embrace your flaws! No matter what you’ll always be loved for who you are!

And then go to a universe that’s like fuck your individuality! You will conform to the role you were assigned to! Any deviation from the script and you’ll die alone and unloved!

Let’s all take advice from Maddie Hatter of Ever After High

#tomodachi life #tomodachi living the dream #ever after high #maddie hatter #raven queen

deceasedcardinal

My mom pointed out to me that I covered my mouth while speaking to the barista and spoke quietly, so I cried on the car ride home because I didn’t remember it that way and I thought I behaved perfectly neurotypically

I cried harder once we were home because I thought about how unfair it is that I can’t just be myself / act naturally / act the way I want to in public. Social norms dictate that we act a certain way in public (i.e. speaking up, looking people in the eye, generally being pleasant) so we have to or there are consequences. It’s unfair for me and of course all other neurodivergent people, and it hits me sometimes and I cry about it but then I just have to move on.

#lav rants #personal #autism #neurodivergent

mabbbish

im cooking with ingredients expiring 2017 and no gas !

#i’m here for this #they have been together for 30+ days on my tomodachi life island and haven’t proposed (a record)#greenflower

rnismatch

literally i dont give a fuck about prom unless registeel is going

bogleech

good news!

bogleech

Wait you said prom

#suggestive #but hilarious

lavful

No more daily updates but

here’s all the couples who have gotten together on my Ninjago Island

in reverse chronological order

lavful

Relationship updates!

most are sad

Sora and Euphrasia did want to get married at one point but I didn’t want them to be grown ups so I said no. Same with Robyfyre

Unfortunately Sora broke up with Euphrasia, Arin broke up with Percy, and Vania broke up with Bentho. That last one was a long time coming, she was “Not getting along” with him for ages while he was “In love” or higher.

While these breakups are sad, it opens up possibilities for new pairings! Soon after the first two breakups, Phrasia fell for Arin, who has been her Ultra friend since the beginning. Sora also fell for Jordana, and a couple days later, vice versa. Frak also has a crush on Phrasia, so we’ll see how that plays out. Vania almost immediately caught feelings for Skylor. Skylor has had crushes on both Vania and Bentho in the past and is now Ultra friends with both, so that will be interesting.

As for the rest of our couples, the married ones: Lava, Jaya, Pixane and Jadewolf are going steady. Constant up and downs but no fights. Lloyd and Brad have been at “Wants to marry!” for ages so idk why they haven’t asked. Robyfyre are chilling. Scott gave up on his crush for Morro.

lilithsaintcrow

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

jenroses

pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome. This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.

sniperct

tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus

definitely-zen-browser

#across all chromium browsers

THIS IS NOT JUST CHROME!!!

If you use Opera, Brave, Helium, Vivaldi, Arc, Yandex, or god forbid Edge, this affects you too!!!

fluoresensitives

Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

castrolle

wait how does AI use slave labor? Do you mean the human works that are stolen and not credited or compensated? Because technically under capitalism everything is exploited but there are varying degrees

postillfastill

Aside from the scraping, AI tech companies, including openAI/chatGPT, have outsourced training their models to countries in the global south, specifically Kenya in openAI's case. These workers are working in sweatshop conditions for less than 2 bucks USD per hour. I'm on mobile, but if you search 'openAI Kenya slave labor' and related keywords, you can find multiple articles about it.

almostdefinitelydying

Training AI takes a heavy toll on Kenyan workers, who say they earned $2 an hour to label and sift through gruesome content for American com

danieyells

I think about this so goddamn often. Even the good uses are trained on slave labor.

Wambalo and other digital workers spent eight hours a day in front of a screen studying photos and videos, drawing boxes around objects and labeling them, teaching AI algorithms to recognize them. Human labelers tag cars and pedestrians to teach autonomous vehicles not to hit them. Humans circle abnormalities in CTs, MRIs and X-rays to teach AI to recognize diseases. Even as AI gets smarter, humans in the loop will always be needed because there will always be new devices and inventions that'll need labeling.

Humans in the loop are found not only in Kenya, but also in India, the Philippines and Venezuela. They're often countries with low wages but large populations — well educated, but unemployed.

The pay for humans in the loop is $1.50-2 an hour. "And that is gross, before tax," Wambalo said. Wambalo, Nathan Nkunzimana and Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan were employed by SAMA, an American outsourcing company that hired for Meta and OpenAI. SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

It's destroying the environment. It's taking advantage of people who're desperate. It's traumatizing them for dollars an hour--if they're lucky and they aren't denied their pay for no reason. I think about this a lot, that these people were made to look at awful and disgusting and illegal things for the sake of training these stupid AI.

"I looked at people being slaughtered," Wambalo said. "People engaging in sexual activity with animals. People abusing children physically, sexually. People committing suicide." Berhane Gebrekidan thought she'd been hired for a translation job, but she said what she ended up doing was reviewing content featuring dismembered bodies and drone attack victims.

[...]

SAMA says mental health counseling was provided by "fully-licensed professionals." Workers say it was woefully inadequate.

It's just absurd and disgusting and infuriating. Yes the good applications are worth humans working on. It's not a bad thing--if the people employed to do the work are compensated appropriately and cared for. But so many of the uses are just unnecessary.

It just. Sucks. And all they'd have to do to make it suck just a litte bit less would be to pay people appropriately, give them access to the counseling needs they have, treat them like human beings worthy of respect and care on a basic fucking level. It wouldn't resolve the environmental issues or the fact that people are thinking less and less for themselves in the name of getting all of their answers from gen AI but at least they could do one thing to make it a little less The Worst Thing Ever.