Oh Data Oh God

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[oddarette]

Yep, I made a frutiger aero soft soap alien… 💧🐠🤍🫧🧼

[ohdataohgod]

So you push down on his tail and the little ducky in his mouth springs out and instead of acid spit its just a whoosh and a bloop of foam soap? Or is it still clear gel?

[unstablecryptid]

Computah makes these old guys start frottin until they see god

[ohdataohgod]

*beepity bloop* *mirage forming in the holodeck*

[nyxettizm]

THEY PROPOSED TO EACHOTHER AT THE EXACT SAME.TIME I THINK IM GONNA BE SICK

[affixjoy]

[girlsjustwannahaveadegree]

Me at least twice a week

[kyleehenke]

hey do you have a tumblr

no sorry

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you don’t have a tumblr 

[rifa]

Realized I have a naked rat and a small piano

Here's Harry banging out the tunes, April 13th 2023

[this-cult-of-dionysus]

give it up for Harry and Neil, folks

[whatiwouldnamethisanimal]

I heard there was a secret chord

That Neil once played and it pleased the horde

Enough to appeal fanartists who drew you

They drew you first then then drew your friends

They animated you in gifs

These baffled rats are banging out the tunes-ah

[scavengedluxury]

Happy Easter. You should have killed me when you had the chance, I promise you will not get another. 

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them

[gean-grey-blog]

My last cat was owned by my friend's Trekkie uncle who passed very suddenly in a car crash. The family just couldn't take him and asked me to possibly foster him until they could. I almost immediately adopted him.

I would set my computer to play a video for him when I left for work. He got mad if it wasn't star trek. He learned to hit the spacebar to pause and start it.

I am and have always been a Trekkie. One time I was having a shit day bc I was in the middle of MCAS starting to kick my butt and I was just crying on my couch. He hopped onto the table and started star trek for me

Then he just stared at me like "did that work?"

And this was his staring face so yes of course it did

But I'm forever amused that I shared needing the same comfort show, with a cat

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

Omg this is amazing

Like learning to pause???

And knowing it comforted you as well???

[gean-grey-blog]

It took him some trial and error, but he figured out pawing the keyboard in the area of the spacebar made it stop and start. And also at my mouse, which he had stolen bc I was paying too much attention to the video, in that picture

He was a very smart and like. Attenuated cat.

[whatiwouldnamethisanimal]

I would name this animal

"Holodeck Support"

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[nerdy-chaos-gremlin]

This made me think of something—if Data makes art, does that technically make it ai-generated art?

[startrekprodigyfan]

Actually… yes! And it’s one of the better character arcs that is explored throughout the series!

Data is always trying to mimic humanity and learn, but often he’s hampered by his programming. People fall asleep at his poem recital, don’t enjoy his music or paintings, and even playing Sherlock became boring… all because he kept defaulting to an algorithmic perfection. Both his poems and much were technically flawless, but they had no soul. His paintings could only imitate other artists styles. And because he memorized all the Sherlock novels he was able to instantly solve the mystery before it even began.

It wasn’t until Data gained the ability to dream did his art and creativity start to become his own thing.

[ohdataohgod]

There were holodeck module writers, people who created popular scenerios to run in the holodeck. Those folks were often considered artists/writers/creatives, themselves. I like to think of group holodeck time as the future equivalent of interactive TTRPGs (Such as Dungeons and Dragons) only with the Computer acting as the GM.

I forget which character wrote which simulation, but they're considered kinda like a Gary Gygax figure might have been considered back in the day.

The issue on that isn't that the holodeck is AI generating everything, because it's actually just recreating what someone else programmed and wrote. But during those larp sessions, the holodeck is still... acting as the GM and doing AI along the way, within a larger worldbuild that someone else wrote.

It would be very VERY interesting if there were a way for a holodeck to be controlled in real time by an actual consciousness. Those sessions would probably be lauded even by folks who don't usually enjoy the holodeck, and would likely be very rare- you'd be in someone else's conscious mind while they are worldbuilding around your actions. Instead of in an ai generated experience. People who had the conscious ability to instantly create in this way would likely be treated like rockstars.

Though I think the original was just that.... I can't remember how humans invented/got access to holodeck tech. But the original might have been mind controlled, not computer controlled??

Experts help me out I'm only here for the android and his AI generated algorithmically perfect rizz, I don't know everything about the show anymore.

[kittyoverlord]

There was that one episode were Gordi challenged the holodeck to create a Sherlock Holmes Mystery that Data couldn't solve, so that version of Moriarty became sentient, realized he was a computer simulation, and escaped the holodeck.

Ultimately the lore as I understand it is, plot reasons aside, the holodeck is an extremely complex but limited algorithm/code.

There's multiple episode that deal with people falling in love with a holodeck person only to realize that it's limited to what exists in the code.

Data tries to understand humor but the holodeck can only create imitations of old comics, it doesn't understand the core of humor.

That's just what comes to mind, but I haven't seen all of trek so I may be missing something.

[startrekprodigyfan]

One of the most common complaints about Star Trek I saw growing up was “why don’t they use the holodeck more? If you were living in that time period and you could just make anything you wanted anytime you wanted and live out fantasies forever, why aren’t more people addicted to the holodeck?”

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

And that’s the fact nobody wants to deal with generative SLOP.

[nerdy-chaos-gremlin]

This made me think of something—if Data makes art, does that technically make it ai-generated art?

[startrekprodigyfan]

Actually… yes! And it’s one of the better character arcs that is explored throughout the series!

Data is always trying to mimic humanity and learn, but often he’s hampered by his programming. People fall asleep at his poem recital, don’t enjoy his music or paintings, and even playing Sherlock became boring… all because he kept defaulting to an algorithmic perfection. Both his poems and much were technically flawless, but they had no soul. His paintings could only imitate other artists styles. And because he memorized all the Sherlock novels he was able to instantly solve the mystery before it even began.

It wasn’t until Data gained the ability to dream did his art and creativity start to become his own thing.

[ohdataohgod]

There were holodeck module writers, people who created popular scenerios to run in the holodeck. Those folks were often considered artists/writers/creatives, themselves. I like to think of group holodeck time as the future equivalent of interactive TTRPGs (Such as Dungeons and Dragons) only with the Computer acting as the GM.

I forget which character wrote which simulation, but they're considered kinda like a Gary Gygax figure might have been considered back in the day.

The issue on that isn't that the holodeck is AI generating everything, because it's actually just recreating what someone else programmed and wrote. But during those larp sessions, the holodeck is still... acting as the GM and doing AI along the way, within a larger worldbuild that someone else wrote.

It would be very VERY interesting if there were a way for a holodeck to be controlled in real time by an actual consciousness. Those sessions would probably be lauded even by folks who don't usually enjoy the holodeck, and would likely be very rare- you'd be in someone else's conscious mind while they are worldbuilding around your actions. Instead of in an ai generated experience. People who had the conscious ability to instantly create in this way would likely be treated like rockstars.

Though I think the original was just that.... I can't remember how humans invented/got access to holodeck tech. But the original might have been mind controlled, not computer controlled??

Experts help me out I'm only here for the android and his AI generated algorithmically perfect rizz, I don't know everything about the show anymore.

[overseer-picard]

black undershirt my beloved

[salientseraph]

Data with different hair lengths because he can grow his hair at will and it is ABSURD to think he never experimented. Unfortunately, he most definitely defaulted back to his shorter hair due to efficiencies sake,, but data you're so beautiful c an I braid yuor har,,,

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[ohdataohgod]

This is Red Camry. If you'd targeted the white Rav-4 that keeps changing speeds in the slow lane ahead I'd already be outta your way.

[abbycadoodle]

would you do qcard...... the silly old men..... If u want to ofc!

fave ship dynamic fr (rabbid omnipotent guy and annoyed human), tysm for your request :)))

[ohdataohgod]

BUENOS PENIS sounds like an island "discovered" by spanglish colonizers like

[the-unflappablewolf]

Who would you trust more?

total stranger in a star trek shirt?

total stranger in a star wars shirt?

Voting ended onFeb 25

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

[ohdataohgod]

Trek: To go to a place far away.

Wars: Killing lots of people who are also killing people.

[slipng]

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