#ethical creativity

[shisasan]

i’m still amazed how often AI written poetry is mistaken for human work. the problem isn’t that machines write, it’s when people pretend they did.

[qwgramblings]

Satire? Is it really?

If I need to check on a blog's about page to see whether or not it is satire ... I'd question the effectiveness of it as satire.

Especially because those moments when I don't know it's satire are a triggering slap to the face no less because I've seen all of those comments played seriously elsewhere online. How am I supposed to know the difference unless obvious exaggeration is in play, which it isn't, always? It's not like I haven't had people tell me, in complete seriousness, ridiculous things to my face!

How is this kind of satire (its status as satire not readily obvious) doing anything to help the community it's meant to reach if even one member of this community endures that slap to the face before realising this dialogue is meant to joke/illuminate, not hurt? You know how much I don't need to read serious-sounding hurtful comments about my sexuality, my gender, my pronouns or my mental illnesses?

Can we start a practice, as content creators and curators, of openly and clearly designating anything meant to be satirical if there's even half a chance it could be taken seriously? A note in the header or sidebar? Something where newcomers can see, straight away, what this blog is about? Surely that's better than hurting already-vulnerable people?

I'm writing this because I made the mistake of clicking on a queer blog Tumblr recommended and got a page full of hurt before I found enough information to deduce that it was, in fact, satire.

(And I'm tired of the 'well, it's satire' justification after I've been fucking triggered because there were no content warnings or sufficient labelling of this blog's satirical intent.)