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[justnoodlefishthings]

"Coca-Cola made an AI ad!"

"McDonald's releases AI Christmas commercial!!"

Don't care didn't ask plus here's a beautifully animated ad for a French supermarket that was made by actual artists

[dailyclassicart]

Eglon van der Neer - "Judith (detail)" (c.1678)

[elexuscal]

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.

[lierdumoa]

I think of an art teacher I had once who said he used to be terrible at drawing hands until he bought a book with 100 pictures of hands shown from various angles and drew each hand in the book 10 times. Magically, after drawing 1,000 pictures of hands, he wasn't bad at drawing hands anymore.

The reason OP could bullshit a decent essay in a 30 minute bus ride is because OP knew how to write and craft a well-reasoned analysis thanks to a childhood full of writing and critical thinking practice.

Feel like I'm transforming into one of those reddit assholes, but this genuinely is just a "skill issue" and you really do just have to "git gud."

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

To be clear people did still cheat before chatgpt. People copy-pasted their homework questions onto Yahoo Answers and copy-pasted the answers into their assignments without really reading them. People paid their older siblings to write their essays for them. People found online versions of similar essays and submitted them as their own.

But everyone knew that this was cheating. If someone got caught, they would be in trouble. They wouldn't openly tell their teacher "yeah I didn't have time so my sister wrote it -- efficient, huh?" If someone in a parent-teacher meeting had said to a teacher "it's not fair that you won't accept this essay that I wrote and put my child's name on!", everyone would agree that that parent had lost the fucking plot. The kid writes their own essay, that's the point of the essay. To teach the kid and to allow the teacher to assess their knowledge. The teacher doesn't set these things because they really love spending an afternoon grading fucking essays.

Using chatGPT for your essay is the same as having your mum write it for you, if your mum isn't very smart and sucks at research. "Oh but I just get chatGPT to do the draft and then edit it myself" do you think that if your mum wrote your essay and you went in and changed some of her writing quirks to be more like your writing quirks it suddenly isn't cheating? Write your own fucking essay, or at the very least acknowledge that you are cheating your way through school.

[sedoretu]

I’m reading The Deviants War: The Homosexual vs The United States of America and the entire point of gay pride as a concept comes from police raids on bars, clubs, public restrooms, etc where gays were humiliated and outed in the newspapers (sometimes with their addresses!) and had careers ruined and lives upended by being associated with perversion and vice squads and all that and they responded by going “no I’m proud” and took that pride to the streets in defiance of the huge mechanism of shame that existed to oppress the gay community into obscurity and so the fact that people are now trying to apply conservative dogma to pride parades to make them “safe for children” or in other words “safe for people with oppressive conservative values” is simply insane

[sedoretu]

To phrase this more clearly: “public indecency” laws were the primary tool for brutally enforcing gender and sexual conformity, so applying a “public indecency” lens to pride parades of all things is a slap in the face of everyone who ever suffered under gender & sexual oppression and took their anger (and yes their pride!) to the streets. If it makes you uneasy or uncomfortable maybe you’re not on the side you think you are!

[xaoca]

[televisionenjoyer]

It sucks so bad being an angry cryer. no one talks about this. makes me so mad. which makes me cry more

[cosmonautroger]

[quill-of-thoth]

This bird experiences a world that we can barely interperet

[catchymemes]

[cloevr]

this is stuck in my head now

[bigyoshienergy]

here we are this joyous day

SpongeBob big guy pants okay

[warmfuzzyphoto]

[neckkiss]

everyday.

[partydrugs]

[senatortedcruz]

I really had no idea how good I had it when I was an unemployed alcoholic

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

the power of a bowl of rice mixed with some fucking bullshit cannot be overstated

[fruitjuiceandlaugh-blog]

[casket-of-beauty]

[fillerocaille]

Como conservatory sunken garden

[shooting-stars-andsatellites]

Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.

[puppygirllaika]

in addition: Trying to avoid ever doing these things will cost you in ways you cannot comprehend until you stop and accept this.