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[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[oh-morrow]

Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)

[sentimentalslut]

"very guilty and problematic client" holy copaganda batman

[sentimentalslut]

let’s start parsing who does and doesn’t deserve representation and assign moral weight to agreeing to protect their rights I don’t see how this could possibly go wrong

[anarchistmemedistro]

[onusjott]

This is the endpoint of assigning morality based on ontologies of people. You wind up with the simplest ontology: good or bad.

[madlori]

Getting tired of saying this but

THE POINT OF A DEFENSE ATTORNEY ISN'T TO GET THEIR CLIENT OFF. IT'S TO MAKE THE STATE PROVE THEIR CASE AND DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE.

IT'S TO PROVIDE A CHECK ON THE POWER OF THE STATE TO JUST THROW PEOPLE IN JAIL.

If someone "gets off" because of a technicality that means the state DID NOT DO THAT.

[biglawbear]

Everyone deserves a right to a fair trial and representation. Everyone. Because if you can justify that right being taken away from someone, someone can justify them being taken away from you.

You get human rights by being human.

[atelier-tamamoland]

sixpencee got less hate for straight-up admitting to owning a child slave than I do for saying children shouldn't be treated as property

[atelier-tamamoland]

like i'll say "parents should not be able to unilaterally override their child's consent" and some dipshit will see the word consent and the smoke from the hollowed-out crater that used to be their critical thinking skills will immediately coalesce into a message in my ask box calling me a pedo. no fucking hope for any of you

[atelier-tamamoland]

which I say, by the way, because one of my closest friends was able to be effectively disappeared off the face of the earth and sent into the woods to be sexually abused and tortured into being straight due to parents effectively owning their children as property. if you are a minor your consent simply does not actually matter - whether you get vaccinated, whether you get to go to school, whether people get to hug touch you, what you wear, how your hair is cut, what your hobbies are, whether you get to have friends, and yes, whether you want to be sent to a torture camp in the woods or not - your consent is entirely meaningless because your parents can simply override it, and there's fuckall you can do about it, because you aren't a person, you're just property. the family dog has more protections against being abused than children do

but! if you ever point this out you get called you a rapist

[asterinthesea]

After four months of work, I finally finished my video about the folklore of Selûne within the Forgotten Realms! If you enjoy worldbuilding and fantasy religions this might just be a video for you 👀

[chamiryokuroi]

MEXICO WIN!!! FUCK AI!!!

[lastoneout]

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[aahedandfamily]

Iman, my little daughter, is not just a name she is an endless story of pain She was supposed to run, play, and laugh like other children, but instead she is growing up carrying constant pain in her legs with every step. My heart breaks every time I see her suffering while I stand helpless, unable to ease her pain. I have called out and pleaded with influencers and celebrities to share her story, yet many have chosen silence, as if my daughter’s suffering is invisible.

[aahedandfamily]

I am a father searching for a chance at life for my daughter, not for sympathy… I want Iman to live her childhood, to walk without pain, and to smile without tears. The war has taken everything from us our home, our safety, and our ability to afford her treatment leaving us to face this pain alone. Every day without treatment is another loss for her.

[aahedandfamily]

I ask everyone reading this to take action now… Donations are open, and you can contribute any amount through the campaign link provided. Your support, no matter how small, could directly help treat Iman and save her future. Please don’t leave a child to face pain alone—your donation today can give her a life.

[nepofledgling]

Iman has been suffering from this for a long time now, and needs treatment. She’s very young and still growing so it’s important that she gets treated to prevent it from getting worse. Please help Ahed get help for his daughter. He’s a father of three begging for help for his young children 💔

[ghadaanqar50]

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[werewolfclaws]

i feel like this is a dying art called 'being a good human being' anybody else agree. anybody

[hellsitegenetics]

Happy transgender day of visibility hellsitegenetics and everyone!!! have an awesome creatureful day!!!

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Closest match: Bithynia leachii genome assembly, chromosome: 1 Common name: Leach's Bithynia

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[asterinthesea]

Who's gonna tell him 'no'? i

[asterinthesea]

Still figuring how how I want to draw the Simon

[kabaks]

“Loneliness epidemic” this and that. You’re in a machine that produces loneliness brother. What about the loneliness machine

[kabaks]

Not to be like "the orientals don't experience loneliness" because of course we do, and it's not like capitalism doesn't exist here, we're speedrunning it even and it's shit to be sure. But every time I come back home and spend enough time here to readjust I'm struck by how hostile north america is wrt sociality in many little ways. The built environment, the valorization of car travel at the expense of public transport, the sterilizing regulations around what you can and cannot do in public spaces (& the apparent pleasure regular people get out of strictly policing these spaces), the massive "convenience" industry built on the idea that you never have to leave your house if you have enough money to pay to exploit the underclass, the "work from home" white collar fantasies, the "I never want to talk to my uber driver, five stars if you don't say a word" shit, everyone and their mothers on their little "mental health" walks with their noise cancelling headphones, not to mention the circle jerk self therapy talk that sells people the fiction that you can "fix yourself" in total isolation, the paywalling of friendships, people referring to their therapists as their friends..I feel like it all adds up. The loneliness is not a bug it's a feature. Is it any surprise then that tourists from such places holiday "over here" and can't stop going on about how "lively" and "chaotic" cities are in a way that's almost fetishizing normal ass human behaviour and the friction that exists as a basic part of life

[kabaks]

It's almost like the eradication of any and all discomfort is not only exceedingly profitable it's also increasingly isolating

[hopelessly-devoted-to-the-disco]

So like… in my sickly very sleepy state last night I just decided to have fun with the lasso tool and doodle stupid little versions of the htf cast from memory…

Don’t ask me why the colors are very much off, I’m pretty sure it’s cus my phones brightness was low and I have a blue light filter that kicks in at night

[hollowboobtheory]

if you are a game designer and you force me to kill wolves AND you have them make sad puppy noises I'm killing you

[choicelessflope]

see this never happens in spider solitaire for windows

[clowngirlpony]

Think again

[hellsitegenetics]

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Closest match: Trionyx triunguis genome assembly, chromosome: 20 Common name: African Softshell Turtle

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[foolishorluffyswife]

[hopelessly-devoted-to-the-disco]

oh boy 3am time to post more ponies!!!

These horses are actually making me be semiactive golly gee. Anyways as always, details under the cut & the previous installations in the horse saga are here, here, and here.

Nutty is honestly probably the most straightforward any of these designs have been so far. It’s that fuckass squirl!! But a horse!! I did give him fun little markings though, I love a good spot or two. Also he does still have the lazy/googly eye, it’s just hard to tell because my default for that is to have it look to the bottom left which uh. Ended up being a subtle difference with the expression I used. Oh well :p

Sniffles is a surprising hit for me, especially since I didn’t know what species to make him for the longest time. Ended up making him a zebra cus honestly, nothing fit him to a tee and I wanted to try designing a zebra! Since they were mostly explored in the comics I’m not too familiar with what exactly is going on with zebras but their culture seems very similar to the pony culture shown in the show so *shrug* At most, it just makes this particular Sniffles design more black-coded (going off the zebras I know from g4 n g5) which I’m 100% fine with, the htf critters can be any race to me. Anyways all that talk beside, remember when I said I liked markings?? Yeah I have a lotta fun, I love doing all the silli swirly stripes. And the cutie mark was fun! Yea zebras have those, they just tend to blend in with their stripes more. It’s just a little flask pouring, Sniffs is still into chemistry, maybe alchemy/potions if we want to get more magical horse show with it. But yeah he’s cute! Also I don’t think there’s any ants who hate him. Ngl I forget about the ants when plotting stuff with these critters

Mimes a Kirin who just decided to stay mute after the species’ starring episode was over. I’ve always headcanoned Mime to be moreso voluntarily mute and just uncomfortable using his voice over charades/sign. I’m ngl, I forgot to incorporate the black n white from his sweater into the horse color palette but honestly, I don’t know where I’d put it! I’m quite satisfied with him. The one detail of note I gotta bring up is that the stuff on his flank is makeup! Kirin’s don’t get cutie marks but he looked to bare so I said fuck it, and gave him some little shapes. Mayhaps he wished he had a cutie mark or somethin idk, I’ll have to think on that

Flaky is a dragon so I could translate her dandruff into shed skin/scales! It’s just as mildly gross but slightly cooler! Also uh. I know there’s an episode in like season 8 or 9 where Spike molts and it’s like dragon puberty but I didn’t watch the last two seasons so I don’t know all the details. I don’t want to curse Flakes to eternal puberty so uh. I’m just ignore that and say they still just shed skin normally too. Wahoo. His bodytype is kinda based on a mix of Smolder and Ember so I guess that kinda implies Flaky is more of a teenager with the body type but 1. I didn’t really wanna do the big giant dragon body type it didn’t fit, and 2. I already kinda situate this squad of four as young adult/college age kids in my brain when I do plot stuff with the critters so it fits.

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy