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John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

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so a Blorbo is a type of spiritual chew toy, i gather

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Greetings am raccoon.

My wisdom for you: Do not eat trash or the rats that are eating the trash. Instead eat berries and rats that eat berries.

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filtering down ao3 results from 14000 to 6 based on a single tag is foul. im sorry none of you are as enlightened as me ig.

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i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

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I’m starting to think more about how constructs are constructed for a purpose, and how this is expressed in Murderbot. constructs have a set of core priorities. “instincts” if you will. and this seems to be across the board, from constructs to bots (including high level bots like ART) to systems.

MIs and constructs have a purpose, and that purpose is usually people-oriented in some way shape or form.

along this thread, i believe pack-bonding, or a coded affinity for social ties, is a built-in failsafe for most machine intelligences (MIs). basically, if you make the powerful sentient machine care about its people, make it social, it’s less likely to turn on them.

what I’m getting at is that Murderbot’s self-destruction is something ingrained. it can’t really fully see or come to terms with its self-destruction because its function *is getting hurt (and even dying) for clients*.

The “this is how I win” threads in Exit Strategy and Network Effect come to mind. the ultimate “winning” or satisfaction or purpose, in Murderbot’s mind, is to die killing a particularly nasty threat. To sacrifice itself. That Murderbot2.0 says this is especially damning wrt a programmed purpose.

I also think about the moment in Network Effect when Murderbot says it's guilty about having Thiago and Overse help it with a plan. To its mind, it has no worth if it’s not fulfilling its function. I mean, its guilt about this starts with Overse and Thiago insisting on accompanying MB in checking out the space dock: MB pushes back, but then it finds out Pin-Lee also wanted it to be safe by including that stipulation in its contract, and then the cherry on top is ART telling Murderbot that it can't lose it. It matters to all of these beings that MB remain whole and alive. and Murderbot is *so* confused by this. Murderbot's genuine confusion about being cared for by all these people is overwhelming to it, it literally doesn’t make sense on a fundamental level.

like the implications that it’s loved and important to these people—that its function is secondary to its personhood, that its people would rather be in a little more danger than have it endanger itself unduly—is *really* hard for it to reconcile.

like! this can’t be overstated. it was created to protect people, and self-sacrifice is so deeply a part of it that it’s very possibly in its *code*. i mean, even if it’s not literally coded into it, its experiences (its early treatment), have shaped its beliefs around what its function is. it shapes the behaviors it finds tolerable to fulfill its function.

like how do you deprogram someone from being self-destructive when its literal purpose is self-destruction?

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baby i could treat you so good you just have to get past my strange and off-putting demeanor and my kubrick stare and my inability to behave like a human and the 40 layers of icy fortress walls i have up and answer my riddles three

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i keep thinking about that one blogger on here who mentioned applying to 80+ jobs and still not getting a single callback

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​i’m such a fake idgafer everything bothers me tbh

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my divorce themed wedding

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When the illness you have causes symptoms

This isn’t the gif i was looking for but I’m kind of enamored by it. Die white boy

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can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

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fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun

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