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I was innocently buying a soda and a Kit Kat bar from a snack shop recently when the cashier said, "Oh, a Kit Kat! That's what I named my cat!" and then launched into An Monologue.
Nobody was behind me in line, which seemed to be a good reason for her to treat me to a five minute retelling of the identification, rescue, and argument over initial custody of Kit Kat, who was so small they thought when they first heard him crying for help that he was a bird and not a kitten in a tree, and is now fifteen pounds of "pure, sculpted lardass".
And I didn't mind, precisely, I wasn't bored or anything, but around the time she was bringing me up to speed on Kit Kat's current status it occurred to me that this woman is a cashier in a store that primarily sells candy bars and beverages. People must buy Kit Kat bars from her multiple times a day. Does she do this every time there's nobody in line behind the purchaser? Did I just have that I Own Several Cats And Will Enjoy Your Cat Stories look about me? Was it the first time it occurred to her that she sold the brand of candy bar she named her cat after? Was she new to the job of selling Kit Kat bars?
The idea that every time she sees a Kit Kat bar she is gripped by the urge, Manchurian Candidate style, to retell the story of Kit Kat the Cat, elevates her from a friendly cashier to a deep enigma. Truly there is no knowing the mind of another.
IT GETS FUNNIER
I was in the same snack shop, which I'm in, like, once a month, recently. I only recognized her because I spent five minutes listening to this monologue in sincere wonder. But I did recognize her, so as I was buying a soda and a Milky Way bar (this time) I said, without thinking about how this would come across, "Hey, how's Kit Kat?"
She looked genuinely horrified and said, "What...how?"
"Oh fuck!" I blurted. "Sorry! You told me about him last time!"
This is still quite cryptic as responses go but she gave me a frankly frantic look of sudden recognition and said, "He's fine! You bought a Kit Kat! I was unmedicated!"
I did not inform her she is small town famous on Tumblr and instead just said, "Glad you're both doing well!" and we parted as confused and mortified friends.
Gosh she's fun. I hope she's there next time. I want to reenact the Spiderman Pointing meme with her.
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Y'all, what Google's doing with their forthcoming mandatory AI portal is not inexplicable. The fundamental conflict of interest of commercial search engines is that they want to keep you browsing the search results for as long as possible in order to maximise their ad revenue, but if you're stuck browsing for too long and never find a result worth clicking through to, you'll just stop using their service. Making the use of conversational AI mandatory means they can at least potentially deliver satisfactory results without ever allowing users to leave Google, and thus capture 100% of the potential ad revenue. This was always the plan.
google's increasing customer satisfaction, you're just not their customer
That's not an accurate framing in this particular case. "If you're not the paying customer, you're the product" is often true, but in practice, commercial search engines also routinely defraud their paying advertisers. Major tech companies don't have customers; they have multiple tiers of suckers.
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there's this account on bluesky that just randomly samples the last reply someone made before getting blocked by the person they were replying to and it's a really good gimmick blog concept. I don't think tumblr data is public enough to make this possible here unfortunately. some samples:
When you get past all the political stuff/heinous crap, there are QUITE some gems on here
my knight said we are “laying siege” tomorrow and i asked how long that takes and he said “weeks, maybe months” and i just think we should have discussed that beforehand becausei packed one (1) apple
there literally isn't a way you can detect "AI generated text" from regular text. it's just text. I could pretend to write like chatGPT and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference because like. there isn't one. it's not Ontologically Marked With AI Soullessness. Trying to ferret out who is "using AI to write stuff" regardless of what kind of stuff it is, is a losing battle, and one in which people will resort to the academic equivalent of hitting the computer with a blunt instrument to fix it.
Ultimately I don’t disagree but there are patterns you can keep an eye out for, such as:
- strange use of idioms or expressions (e.g. “your question has a large blast radius”)
- overly verbose, lots of filler words and too many transitional, connective-type phrases
- overly-acquiescent, just begging to be useful to a degree that’s pathetic and terrified of coming across as rude even when it’s necessary
- circumlocution, too many abstract concepts or talking “around” something instead of addressing the topic directly
- em-dashes, unfortunately
- no stream-of-conscious or true passion. The “rant of love,” the messy run-on flow of praise that you’ll see here on tumblr, is reduced to a grammatically-correct essay
but those aren't reliable and have massive false-positives that will inevitably discriminate against ESL speakers, autistic writers, etc etc, which was the point of the post. and which is a problem you are contributing to.
It's uncanny how much that is just a list of writing styles common among various kinds of neuroatypical people.
The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.
—J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come
I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.
Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.
That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.
"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.
This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.
i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(
the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you
tumblr I swear to god if your ads on mobile keep opening popup webpages because my FINGER touched them while I was SCROLLING because they are SO BIG that they FILL THE SCREEN AS I SCROLL PAST THEM I am going to MANIFEST SNAKES IN YOUR WALLS
if the PAGE-FILLING ADS on your INFINITE SCROLLING MOBILE APP register FINGER MOVEMENT as ANYTHING OTHER THAN SCROLLING I am LEGALLY PERMITTED to HUNT YOU for SPORT
