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Father’s Day just isn’t the same without a Dad.

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New tradition.

ANOTHER ONE THIS YEAR!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS THE 13TH!!!!

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Remember, Honor, Respect, Gratitude for all the soldiers buried in unmarked graves and buried at sea 🇺🇸🙏🏻❤️

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I see your point. Thank you for your input on this topic. It’s nice to see how much you care about the “soul” that all forms of art needs, which…yeah is becoming more irrelevant in our largely consumerist society. Sorry if I came off as callous in anyway.

Of course we’ll have to consider the possibility of true art created by truly self aware artificial intelligence - but that’s probably going to be a while.

Is it weird if I think that the recent influx of VI (Virtual Intelligence, since Open AI isn’t true Artificial Intelligence because it’s not autonomous) algorithm generated content should be used as motivation for artists and writers to really “step up their game” so to speak?

You know, really show that they can create content better than the algorithms can?

What do you think?

Not weird but I think ultimately maybe a consumerist way to look at it?

I don’t feel like I have to compete with AI. It’s pointless because I have a soul and AI doesn’t. I don’t have to prove I’m better than AI because that lack of soul and lacking humanity comes through in AI-generated poetry, stories etc. If someone feels AI can compete with what real humans create, they maybe need to sharpen their own senses a bit? That’s at least how I see it, but maybe I’m biased.

I admit that I grade a lot of papers (between December and April) for a performing arts course I lecture, and that I can meanwhile often tell what’s AI-generated even without using the tools we are now supposed to use (both plagiarism- and AI checkers). Maybe it’s not that obvious to other people, I don’t know. And of course we also have to be careful because at the end of the day, some of the advice out there how to “spot AI generated text” is also silly: People are now afraid to use the em dash, for example, because someone decided it’s a “dead giveaway.” I used em dashes in my writing all my life, and the hell will I stop using them. At the end of the day, AI learns from us, and it’s disheartening to see that people who write quite succinctly now often get accused of having used AI. And these often come out roundabout the 60% AI-generated mark if you run them through a checker, and as a human writer with a keen sense that’s been built over years and years of reading and writing, I can still tell they’re not (and I guess that’s exactly the point). But there are really things you learn to spot, and funnily, the main giveaways for me are (apart from a few things that are style-related) are lacking inner cohesion and often the sheer amount of someone’s output (and I’m saying that as someone who writes A LOT, but the quality fluctuates). Which brings me to the most important part of your question:

The problem here on Tumblr is exactly that: People are one step away from seeing artists and writers as content machines, not as human beings. A human being can’t churn out “content” day after day, several times a day, and never dip. There will be fluctuations in quality and amount of output. And it’s inhuman to expect that from us if I’m totally honest. But some creators on here (and not just on here) probably feel they need to do this to stay “relevant”, I don’t know? It certainly points to the wider problem that I’ve criticised and written about a few times in the past on here:

Many people aren’t willing to do the work anymore that makes fandom a community. The work to create is carried by a few in every fandom, and we should never forget that people do this in their spare time and are, by and large, not getting paid for it. The rest often only want to consume, consume, consume. They don’t even interact meaningfully—they give a like and an empty reblog if they feel generous. Neither holds any real thought.

They love fandom content until they get bored of it and then move on. It’s all become replaceable.

So become the artists and writers. And I, for one, refuse to compete with AI to prove myself or provide people with “content” until they’ve reached satiety.

Art is humanity, not content. It’s connection. So is fandom. I know I’m constantly harping on about it, but I feel it’s important to keep on doing so, because if we don’t, we will lose what’s important about it. We’re already halfway there if you ask me.

Back to AI: It strips away what’s important: The actual act of CREATING. And it also kills reasoning and critical thinking skills, and that’s a fact. I see this with students who rely too much on it on the regular, and it’s extremely dispiriting.

AI and the algorithm never can be better than humans at creating art because it doesn’t feel. And that, and sharing these things with other humans and understanding what they mean, is the point of art. Not churning out more and more content until we’re all sick of it like someone who had too much cake.

And part of that is acknowledging that humans are not machines. That means giving us grace and time for our creative process. We need to be allowed to make mistakes and create imperfect art, too. We don’t have to strive to be better than AI because we already are—even if we’re just starting out.

I don’t have any solutions to the greater problems at hand either, but I’m fairly certain that stepping up our game to create better content than the algorithm isn’t it. Because by mere design, we already are better— we understand what it means to create art in the first place, and we do it from a place of emotional connection.

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Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!

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You get the idea

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I know.

I’m glad you agree. Take care of yourself and the people you love my friend.

I just wanted to thank you for being a friend.

The world needs people to show more kindness to each other, especially now.

Thanks again.

Anytime. You can never go wrong with human decency

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Happy 20th Anniversary, Garo

"GARO" 20th Anniversary Project

20th anniversary film to be released in theaters in fall 2025

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Spreading the word for my friend.

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Just gonna get my feelings about the allegations against Neil Gaiman off my chest.

Hope these can help you like they helped me.

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Posting this because it's my Birthday today, and I think we all need something funny right now.

Sorry I'm not on Tumblr as often, I'll try to post stuff when ever I can.

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What?

I ran out of ideas.

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If you've seen the movie, you'll know it totally makes sense for me to post this the day after Groundhog Day.

in honor of Groundhog Day. Six more weeks of winter don’t sound so bad when you got a Rubicon Wrangler.

I’m sure Bill Murray and Phil wish Twiler a Happy Birthday too.

please upload before tomorrow and did you get my last submission?

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I'm not gonna lie.....it's been tough.

This year my family lost my father. It I'll never be the same without him/

And of course so many terrible things have happened this year, words can not express how much it all hurts.

Not to mention I have my own fair share of regrets. Regrets I know I'll carry with me to my grave.

But because of all that's happened, the Los Angeles Fires, You Know Who being sworn into office again, we need to remember what Dr. King taught us now more than ever.

Hatred is never the answer.

Hope is the answer.

Compassion is the answer.

Love. Is. The Answer.

We are in this together, and I know we'll get through together.

It's what Dr. King would have said, and I know it's what my Dad would have said too.

Here a list of major charities helping in the relief efforts for the wildfires in the Los Angeles area --

I'm certain there are more, so be sure to look for them too.

Because if I didn’t submit this today, I’d be doing something very wrong.

Nothing else to say, other than to try to listen to his words a little closer now.

And happy birthday Betty White.

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A game that’s basically Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy meets Dark Souls/Elden Ring would be straight up fire though.

What should it be called?

Lily getting worked up about Kingdom Hearts vs Dark Souls is giving Disney Adult that is mad her husband doesn't want to go on vacation to Disney World for the ninth time in a row. And I'm saying that as someone whose favorite game series is Kingdom Hearts.