#AI is going the same way

[spectros]

So more info in this:

There's a thing in survey analytics called a Net Promoter Score.

The score is divided into three categories:

People so enthusiastic that they are actively spreading the word of how happy they are with the company ("Promoters")

People who are neutral

People who are annoyed and will probably shit-talk the company ("Detractors")

And basically the point is to use the score to gauge how a company's reputation is going. So Promoters - Detractors, because if there are more people shit-talking than promoting, then the company sounds worse.

The thing is: if something is bad enough for you to mark at or below the middle score, you're probably going to complain about it to someone. But if something is like a 4/5 you're probably not going to your friends like "oh hey look at this thing I bought / let me tell you how neat this interaction was".

As a result, the Promoter score is the veeery tip top, and the Detractor range is pretty wide.

So in theory, if a company were to do a genuinely great outstanding job, they would get a great reputation. But with constant cost-cutting all companies really aim to do is to charge more for less, so they aim for industry-standard at best.

And instead of accepting that industry standard is always going to be a 3/5 by definition and result in a bell curve, they just kinda toss that responsibility on minimum wage workers and fire people to make it look like they're doing something.

I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”

[fisherrprince]

Instead of writing a fanfic like a normal person this oneshot turned into two separate, contextless things,

[casualavocados]

…It's nice. You're so noisy. […] Actually, it'd be better if we died together. That way, neither of us would have to suffer the pain of losing the other, right? Shut up.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 13

[turtleblogatlast]

Unironically think that each of the bros (+April) don’t actually get how impressive their feats really are so they just do what they do and on the off chance someone comments on those feats they all react like:

[aeolianblues]

I don't like that the dev community picks on people who are most fluent in Python, when the ChatGPT-using "vibe coders" are right there. At least Python babies are coding. Bully the non-coders instead.

[daisy3ds]

the parallels between these two episodes are making me a little insane

[eiffelradio]

i feel like there’s a good chance 4th period behemo would be in computer science. i think after managing the 2nd period servers for so long it started to grow on her. and she has some sort of craft hobby on the side like sewing or sculpture or crochet or metalworking or all of them. and YES she likes putting contraptions in her creations. imagine that girl on tiktok who made a ratatouille robot to pull her hair for a costume but 1000x more complicated. you can’t take her to halloween parties because she makes everyone else feel bad about their costumes.

[doom-dreaming]

take my humble offering of various low-quality halo character textpost memes

Ferrets under the cut

and as a gift for @poisonheadcrabsalesman

[yaoiadderall]

just saw somebody say using gen ai to shit out a song for them was “no different than using a vocaloid” and it took everything in me not to dare them to go say that to literally anyone who has made a song using a vocal synth ever

[cosmogyros]

Straight up in tears from Jesse Welles' latest song (posted two days ago). We are so lucky to have artists like this guy out there ❤️

Will the Computer Love the Sunset

Some nights I tell the sky our story And I don’t have to say a word Words are useless in the cosmos Words are stupid and absurd

Some nights I tell the stars our story How we raised intrepid generals Taught them to fight for paper money For invisible lines and minerals I tell a tale

Will the computer love the sunset Will we midwife our demise Can it calculate my love and Will it know how to be kind u can't jus rewind

some nights I plead into the skyland some nights I scream into the void some nights I feel like I'm a man other nights I'm jus a boy

in between the time between the time between the time I'm gettin u don't find out much of nuthin ain't that sumthin guess that's the fun in livin

some days I talk to the horizon I do my damndest not to swear some days I plead with the horizon it don't even know I'm there I sure do care

some nights I tell the sky our story I promise her we do our best I think that I might die from laughin at the infinite jest I need some rest

in between the time between the time between the time I'm gettin I don't find that much of nuthin ain't that sumthin guess that's the fun in livin

in between the time between the time between the time I'm gettin you don't find out much of nuthin ain't that sumthin guess that's the fun in livin

in between the time between the time between the time I'm gettin you don't find out much of nuthin ain't that sumthin guess that's the fun in livin

[taraxippos]

I will say I think at least 75% of the time someone describes art as having 'a human soul' its shorthand for 'a positive quality of sincerity/passion/human imperfection etc that makes art engaging' (which is a sentiment you can by all means disagree with and is not a good argument for why a technology shouldn't be allowed to exist, but is generally not being used as a Spiritual argument), rather than 'I believe in an immortal soul which is metaphysically imparted into artwork created by human hands and imbibes it with Good qualities, and therefore art made otherwise is a Evil'.

Getting focused on that wording as the sole basis to make snide jabs about spirituality is only a little less silly than seeing someone go "god forbid xyz" and responding "Ummm actually god isn't real and thus can't forbid anything☝️🤓"

[loathsomespider]

the new defunctland is mostly about animatronics but it's also really obviously a proxy battleground for generative ai, and it's mostly pretty reasonable since it focuses in on labor relations and not "divine creative inspiration" and petty intellectual property landlordism

but since it is a proxy battleground for generative ai, it kind of leaves the obvious answer to the question "why would anyone ever make an animatronic that moves and acts like a person when you could use a real person instead" - that is, "because it is fucking cool" - mostly unexplored, which is like. weird, right? is this weird to anyone else

[grimark]

current internet pet peeve is that people on tumblr

seem to be extremely bad at recognising the obvious tells of AI-generated aesthetic images of buildings/interior design/landscapes/craft projects that couldn't possibly exist, yet also

immediately jump to claiming AI for any image that seems a little fishy but in a way that's not necessarily AI generated, when a more plausible explanation might be "good old fashioned photoshop" or "surreal art piece" or perhaps even "a funny thing someone made as a joke."

[dinoswordsb]

Thoughts on the popularization of devaluating humanities degrees as "my silly little degree" while presenting STEM degrees as more worthy of attention and recognition

well i feel it can be summed up in the simple phrase of "thats bad" but ill try to say saomething even slightly intelligent bc i do have A thought on this which is that, and water is wet, but a lot of people just fucking do not value art in any way or at least not in a way they should. im gonna talk out of my ass a little here but sometimes it feels like so many people take stem and art and separate them in the way that stem is intelligence and art is emotional. or something akin to that. and therefore art is not as valuable, because it doesnt have a tangible effect on "forwarding society" if that makes sense? liek when you think of inventions youre thinking doohickeys and gizmos right. stuff you have to weld together or code. i almost went on a huge tangent about capital and the culture formed around optimization and entitlement but im not gonna do that thats not what this is about. anyway basically what im getting at here is people seem to overlook the way that they interact and engage with art and 1. good art requires intelligence you have to hone your craft to make something the best it can be thats no different here. progress, actual genuine progress in society, is forged from passion. these two are not as separate as people like to think 2. on top of that theres the obvious aspect of like, the starving artist theres money in stem and not in art and therefore art is not as valuable. but who the fuck did you guys turn to when everyone was on lockdown in covid. theres a reason streaming blew up. why do you think propaganda posters exist why do you think that logos exist at all art affects you in the real world even if you dont think of it that way. theres a reason there are classes on all of these things that getting a humanities degree ALSO takes years of study. It's not easy and theres a lot more that goes into it than people think i was literally thinking abt this this morning bc something i never think about when i write is the way what im saying reads like how the words sound next to each other or the flow of it not consciously at least but that is a whole technical aspect of writing that takes practice and skill and contributes to the final product and its so subtle it might go right under your radar sometimes. i guess all this to say is it feels like people brush art off bc its more thought based more emotion based and they typically only think of art as paintings and visual mediums in museums when the reality is its so much broader than that. they think anybody can do it which anybody can be an artist. its true and that is a hill ill die on being alive gives you the right to be an artist. but that doesnt negate the effort and the years and years of practice and teamwork behind something like a movie a novel a show a fucking youtube video your favorite song. its art! all of it! and innovation is creativity! idc what anyone says like thats just how it is art and science will always go hand in hand they belong together and frankly it feels ignorant to try to separate them, which circling back to the actual point of this, is what feels like is happening and people are trying to drop the "less profitable/useful" half of it.

[syluses]

Me when the caleb mischaracterization

[yuseirra]

Okay so I read onk ch 154 and kamiki literally SAYS Ai was the girl he was willing to sacrifice his own life for. The phrasing is EXACTLY like that. That really lines up with what's being mentioned in Mephisto and Fatal about giving lives and all. Those must be HIS songs and I'm getting this idea that he still means what he says

Because, just when would he have thought about having to "sacrifice" his life for Ai? I don't think thoughts like that would've crossed his mind in the past when they were still young and together, there wasn't a need for something as "dire" as sacrifices then. It must be something that's came after

When they were dating, Ai was the one that was older and SHE was the one who's protected HIM. It looks like she was the one who had more control over the relationship too. She was the one who's probably made the sacrifices(with the breakup being one too, from her point of view) so what circumstance brought kamiki to say he was willing to do that for her? (Though, I get how he'd be like he'd be able to give anything for Ai, it can be inferred that he was that attached to her) I'm sticking with my earlier guesses that he's actually doing that now and it has something to do with the gods (his name IS KAMIki + hikaru(light), right?)

Even Aqua's never said he'd give his life away FOR Ai's, did he? For her cause, and revenge, maybe, but Ai's already someone who's passed. I think the songs are really onto something. They sound too.. strong.. And a bit murky for it to be entirely from Aqua's perspective. It's going in even further than what's normally considered healthy, aren't they? It's about someone who's hopelessly lost and seeking for love. That's how Ai thought Kamiki was like too, she thought he was lost and needs saving.

Fatal's lyrics are too close to this guy's mental state, I just can't unsee it, seeing that new chapter having the same kind of stuff the lyrics are saying!! Makes me go this has to be it!! I think this should be it!! He's ACTUALLY thought about giving his own life for Ai at some point confirmed!! So shouldn't there be some things that leads up to/stems out from it?

I might embarrass myself later with these theories I'm throwing out later but I gotta say.. Try listening to Fatal and Mephisto picturing it's kamiki that's singing it, it clicks.