#Anti Machine Generation

[technoturian]

Nothing more disgusting than when a successful person in a creative field reveals a "fun new game" they came up with that uses midjourney. Oh fun! You've got a new bit on your successful creative social media venture that requires graphics? And you didn't use any of the money from your successful venture to pay an artist to make it??? Better to just steal from the artist community as a whole??? That's so cool my guy I'll bet YOUR art still has value ofc but no sure midjourney to get engagement with no effort on your part awesome awesome awesome cool awesome.

[maodun]

I dont know where you people are finding or trusting (!!) places like Chuang or Lausan but come on.

1. pieces using terminology like authoritarianism or totalitarianism should at least give you some skepticism, if not in taking them seriously, then at least in having some understanding of how those terms are positioned geopolitics, eg, western imperialist motives in smearing their enemies who have the most power and ability and organization in fighting back.

2. theyre very purposefully unclear in their exact positions or affiliations. say, their funding for operations - especially when it's not just one guy and clearly they're not asking for viewer/follower support. they may (supposedly) seek collaboration with indigenous and anti-imperialist groups and then turn around and either insinuate or openly call china imperialist. unserious. and then have the gall to say they support a revolutionary global leftism

[chemsexholmes]

one thing worth noting in the conversation about whether or not college students have "become stupid" is that the attitude of the general public toward academic study has largely shifted in the past few decades away from education as a moral betterment (and also, implicitly, a status symbol), toward totally embracing the idea that education is the Thing that gets you Jobs. which of course is pushed by policymakers and academic institutions, because how else do you sell academic funding in a capitalistic society? but has created an ethos about education as something you have to drag your feet through in order to get your degree, which makes students feel more inclined to use LLM like chatgpt to complete their work because they fundamentally aren't connecting with the material.

[unfinishedmural]

Soooo, apparently, someone by the name of "nyuuzyou" recently scraped tons of fanfics off of AO3 and posted them to various generative ai database sites. It seems like fics which were only viewable by people with profiles were safe, so a bunch of people are locking their accounts. I don't know if I'll be locking mine yet, but if you've been using AO3 as a guest, you may want to sign up soon. If you do have an account, and your fics were victims of the scrape, you might be able to file a copyright claim. This reddit post seems to have most of the information, including what works were scraped and where the data was posted.

Or, if you don't want to read all that, here's the user's profile on Hugging Face (one of the ai database websites)

[katsdynam1ght]

every time i see people talking about their roleplay with ai i get sooooo annoyed. go online and roleplay with strangers like the rest of us did. improve your writing skills by interacting with others instead of talking to an unfeeling robot. pathetic

[stranded-ziggy]

Tumblr can still be scraped even if you opt out of this particular scraping, your stuff's not safe.

Glaze and nightshade are the best way to go, even for memes.

Don't let these dickwads use our creativity for their benefit.

And yeah, if you support AI you're a dickwad, fuck you, unfollow me.

[tilbageidanmark]

We are many - They are few.

[intervalart]

cool kid(s)

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[sag-dab-sar]

Clarification: Generative AI does not equal all AI

💭 "Artificial Intelligence"

AI is machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and more that I'm not smart enough to know. It can be extremely useful in many different fields and technologies. One of my information & emergency management courses described the usage of AI as being a "human centaur". Part human part machine; meaning AI can assist in all the things we already do and supplement our work by doing what we can't.

💭 Examples of AI Benefits

AI can help advance things in all sorts of fields, here are some examples:

Emergency Healthcare & Disaster Risk X

Disaster Response X

Crisis Resilience Management X

Medical Imaging Technology X

Commercial Flying X

Air Traffic Control X

Railroad Transportation X

Ship Transportation X

Geology X

Water Conservation X

Can AI technology be used maliciously? Yeh. Thats a matter of developing ethics and working to teach people how to see red flags just like people see red flags in already existing technology.

AI isn't evil. Its not the insane sentient shit that wants to kill us in movies. And it is not synonymous with generative AI.

💭 Generative AI

Generative AI does use these technologies, but it uses them unethically. Its scraps data from all art, all writing, all videos, all games, all audio anything it's developers give it access to WITHOUT PERMISSION, which is basically free reign over the internet. Sometimes with certain restrictions, often generative AI engineers—who CAN choose to exclude things—may exclude extremist sites or explicit materials usually using black lists.

AI can create images of real individuals without permission, including revenge porn. Create music using someones voice without their permission and then sell that music. It can spread disinformation faster than it can be fact checked, and create false evidence that our court systems are not ready to handle.

AI bros eat it up without question: "it makes art more accessible" , "it'll make entertainment production cheaper" , "its the future, evolve!!!"

💭 AI is not similar to human thinking

When faced with the argument "a human didn't make it" the come back is "AI learns based on already existing information, which is exactly what humans do when producing art! We ALSO learn from others and see thousands of other artworks"

Lets make something clear: generative AI isn't making anything original. It is true that human beings process all the information we come across. We observe that information, learn from it, process it then ADD our own understanding of the world, our unique lived experiences. Through that information collection, understanding, and our own personalities we then create new original things.

💭 Generative AI doesn't create things: it mimics things

Take an analogy:

Consider an infant unable to talk but old enough to engage with their caregivers, some point in between 6-8 months old.

Mom: a bird flaps its wings to fly!!! *makes a flapping motion with arm and hands*

Infant: *giggles and makes a flapping motion with arms and hands*

The infant does not understand what a bird is, what wings are, or the concept of flight. But she still fully mimicked the flapping of the hands and arms because her mother did it first to show her. She doesn't cognitively understand what on earth any of it means, but she was still able to do it.

In the same way, generative AI is the infant that copies what humans have done— mimicry. Without understanding anything about the works it has stolen.

Its not original, it doesn't have a world view, it doesn't understand emotions that go into the different work it is stealing, it's creations have no meaning, it doesn't have any motivation to create things it only does so because it was told to.

Why read a book someone isn't even bothered to write?

Related videos I find worth a watch

ChatGPT's Huge Problem by Kyle Hill (we don't understand how AI works)

Criticism of Shadiversity's "AI Love Letter" by DeviantRahll

AI Is Ruining the Internet by Drew Gooden

AI vs The Law by Legal Eagle (AI & US Copyright)

AI Voices by Tyler Chou (Short, flash warning)

Dead Internet Theory by Kyle Hill

-Dyslexia, not audio proof read-

[battleangel]

FREE PALESTINE MOVEMENT FAILED

What Hasnt Worked

•Calling Congress members

•Calling Senator

•Signing online petitions

•Attending marches, protests & rallies

•Sharing, resharing, commenting posts online

•None of the above has led to an official arms embargo or permanent ceasefire agreement.

The Ongoing Genocidal Issue

•Per Lancet, 200k Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israel in the genocide since last October including over 40k children.

•Over 20k Palestinian children are missing with many of the missing children being trafficked into sex trafficking rings.

•Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians remain buried under tons of rubble which will take years to clear.

•Forced starvation & famine perpetrated by Israel continues in Palestine with millions of Palestinians at risk of dying of starvation.

•Winter has arrived in Palestine & Palestinian civilians — including infants — are freezing to death in tents without electricity, heat and some are even without blankets in single digit temperatures.

•Multiple Palestinian infants — some only days old — have died of heart attacks due to the constant, severe, relentless, maniacal bombing by Israel.

•There are images & videos of injured, wounded & dying Palestinian civilians being devoured alive by dogs & cats who are themselves being starved by the genocidal Israeli occupational forces.

•The last functioning hospital in North Gaza — Kamal Adwan Hospital — was besieged by Israel two days ago.

•The doctors & patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital were forcibly evacuated — including critically ill patients on oxygen support & nebulizers.

•The patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital were told they would be evacuated to another hospital via ambulance.

•There have not been reports yet of what happened to the doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital but the Director of the hospital has been detained.

•Israel did this to another Palestinian hospital only a few months ago — Al-Shifa Hospital.

•It is clear that the IOF will follow the same playbook with Kamal Adwan Hospital — the doctors will be detained, arrested, abused, & tortured — then some of the doctors will be killed & the remaining doctors will be released.

•The infants at Al-Shifa Hospital were left behind by the IOF and there were subsequent videos & images of the deceased infants decomposing corpses.

•It is obvious the same fate awaits the now forcibly evacuated doctors & patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital.

Effective Activism?

•What is effective beyond current BDS (Boycott Divest Sanctions) strategy targeting Chevron, AXA, Siemens, etc. — which has not yet worked?

•As Israels genocide continues unabated, unimpeded & continuously funded by & with weapons provided by the United States.

•Over a year into the onslaught, Israel continues to expand its genocidal aggression to include Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) — North Gaza, South Gaza, Rafah, West Bank, East Jerusalem; Lebanon; Syria; Yemen & Iran.

Suggested Actions

Action #1: Mass Strike

•Suggestion: A general strike in the United States where 3.5% of the working population or 11 million Americans strike.

•Action Item: Sign the general strike card:

https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYrjr4EPUbi7STRSXWejtl9t9axeG70svJcfMCLULy-4OvrHdOWS3EKUBk_aem_0wjAyUoBvXmGBEUR8rVtrA

Action #2: Suing US Government for Genocide

•Suggestion: US citizens in all 50 states follow Californias lead & file lawsuits against their respective state governments for providing “Israeli military aid to support the genocide in Gaza” which violated the constitutional rights of their constituents by using their taxes “for the unlawful purpose of complicity in genocide.”

•Action Item: Read the lawsuit below, track its progress & determine if you can file a similar lawsuit in your home state.

COURT: N.D. Cal.

TRACK DOCKET: No. 3:24-cv-09213 (Bloomberg Law subscription)

Where does pro-Palestine movement go from here?

•We have all been doing the same exact things for over a year with exactly zero results & extremely minimal “wins”(Maersk, cities divesting their bonds, etc.) — but no official arms embargo & no permanent ceasefire agreement.

•Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians have been slaughtered, starved, literally scared to death via heart attack due to relentless bombing, shot at point blank range in the heart, head & stomach including children & infants, burned alive in tents, buried alive in mass graves, tortured in detention centers.

•Children & infants butchered, women murdered, men slaughtered, disabled & elderly civilians ran over by tanks…

•It isnt enough to share & reshare images & videos of the genocide, tweet your support for Palestine, call your Congress members & Senators, sign online petitions, attend rallies marches protests & die-ins — we have all been doing exactly this day in & day out for over a year yet there is STILL no official arms embargo & no permanent ceasefire agreement.

At a Year Plus — Whats Next?

•Along with continuing BDS (boycott divest sanction) efforts as they have been proven to work in the past against the apartheid government in South Africa in the 80s & 90s —

•Along with signing the strike card & striking if you economically & financially can —

•Along with researching the possibility of filing a lawsuit against your elected state officials in your individual state for voting for funding for Israel which violates our constitutional rights as United States constituents as it is using our tax payer dollars “for the unlawful purpose of complicity in genocide” —

Dont Just Reshare Videos — Think

•Lets also ask ourselves what else we can do in this moment beyond just resharing videos on Instagram & Twitter.

•We need to do everything in our power to bring about an official arms embargo & permanent ceasefire agreement.

What Can We Do?

•Share this post. Comment this post with your own ideas. Tag pro-Pali accounts in the comments.

No Complacency During Genocide

•Palestinian civilians continue to be burned alive, buried alive, shot at point blank range in the head heart & stomach, tortured, traumatized, starved to death, repeatedly forcibly evacuated, relentlessly bombed, endlessly humiliated, threatened, intimidated, coerced, gaslit, imprisoned, subjugated, repressed, cut into pieces, dismembered & literally devoured alive by starved dogs & cats.

•We cant allow ourselves to fall into a complacent repetitive lull of “watch reshare retweet wash rinse repeat”.

•What can we do to actually bring about an official arms embargo & permanent ceasefire agreement?

•We have “raised awareness” online, marched, protested, rallied, died in & birddogged — it hasnt worked.

•We need to do more.

•Comment. Share. Think!

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[maeamian]

Becoming deeply radicalized against the idea of crewed Mars missions, y'know how the Rovers keep sending back better and better data what if instead of that we made an even bigger one and devoted nearly 90% of its capacity to holding a guy in a bubble on top of it instead of sending back useful data, but wait! They'll eliminate like a half hour of latency and also almost certainly contaminate the landing site and possibly the entire planet, so it's not all downside.

[d3cay1ngst4tic]

can people just learn to create something born out of their own mind rather than waste their asses on gen ai?

[randomfanner]

ya know sometimes I am worried people might begin to think I use ChatGPT or some shit for my fics because I update insanely fast. like I post 3k to 5k chapters almost daily. I just finished a 4k chapter today And I want to be very clear I don’t and never ever would. Gen AI can suck my dick.

I just wear wrist bracers and suffer with carpal tunnel… also do literally zero editing.

[redflagzsys]

i've been seeing a lot of people shit on catholicism and the catholic religion lately, so i wanna take this time to make people aware that we are catholic. we were born under the catholic church, my family is catholic, we believe in Virgin Mary and Jesus and stuff.

i'm not totally religious like go to church regularly and pray every night and before dinner type religious, but just be a good person and believe type of religious. i don't care if you don't believe in the catholic religion, but using someone's religion as an attack on their character is a dick move. just because someone is a bitch and also catholic or christian or whatever religion doesn't make the entire religion bad.

it's like running into a gay person who's also a bitch and saying "all gay people are bitches!!!" no??? yet i see so many people make that conclusion about religion

if you don't like the new pope, then that's fine, i honestly don't like him either and i miss Pope Francis everyday, but don't use it as an excuse to shit on the entire catholic religion. there's several good catholics out there who don't deserve to be grouped with others.

[37-feral-raccoons]

comp sci majors who also hate generative AI reblog please I need to know some people in my field are sane 😭

[xjulixred45x]

¿Adora sigue siendo she-ra en tu au de adora general galra? Y si es así ¿como encuentra la espada?

Hola hermana! La respuesta en español está abajo! Yep, she's still She-Ra, but in her own... peculiar way.

We all know that Lotor and his generals, while they conquered planets, left them independent, Adora grew up with that in this AU, so it wouldn't be crazy if, at some point when Adora is older, they arrive to Etheria.

Many aspects of Etheria remain the same, the war with the Horde, Hordak, Shadow Weaver, etc. but without Adora as we know her, some aspects change.

For example, Catra becomes dependent on Ronnie, Rogelio and Kyle instead of Adora, to cover up her disasters. She is more favored than in the original universe and that made her an even worse person. A backstaber in a nutshell.

When Lotor and Company arrive, they make a deal with the revolution/Angela that in exchange for partial control of their planet, they would get rid of Hordak. Here Adora meets Bow and Glimmer just like in the original, but with her new personality it will take a long time for them to trust her.

Anyway, when they have to make a coordinated attack with the rebellion, Adora goes with Ezor and Zethrid to wait for their signal, and while she's bored, Adora wanders around the forest a bit and BOOM, she sees the sword.

This Adora probably didn't even think about the possibility of the sword being magic, she just saw an ancient relic and wanted it for herself.

Adora took the sword with her into battle and fought very well! However, when they returned to the Bright Moon base, Angela noticed that something about the sword was... unusual. So she called Bow's parents to examine it.

And, indeed, it was She-ra's sword.

I like to think that Adora only figured out how to Transform into She-ra when one of the generals was in danger (most specifically; Narti) and that instead of screaming "for the honor of Grayskull" she screams "victory or death"

Her She-ra outfit looks more like the one from season 5 than the one from the first seasons. And she has her sword in physical form because she likes to fight even without transforming.

Lotor will probably decide to study the heart of Etheria and LightHope on his own (finding some way to dismantle it) and you can bet that Adora is ready to kick some Horde ass.

And nope, Adora from this Au is not with Catra. In fact I think she would kill her but that's a topic for another post.

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(ESPAÑOL)

¡holi! sip, ella sigue siendo She-Ra, pero a su manera...peculiar.

todos sabemos que Lotor y sus generales si bien conquistaban planetas les dejaban su independencia, Adora crecio con eso en este AU, por lo que no seria loco que, en algun momento cuando Adora ya es mayor, llegan a Etheria.

muchos aspectos de Etheria siguen igual, la guerra con la horda, Hordak, Shadow Weaver, etc. pero sin Adora como la conocemos cambian algunos aspectos.

Por ejemplo, Catra se hace dependiente de Ronnie, Rogelio y Kyle en vez de Adora, para cubrir sus desastres. ella es mas favorecida que en el universo original y eso la hizo aun peor persona. una backstaber en pocas palabras.

cuando Lotor y Compañía llegan, hacen un trato con la revolución/Angela de que a cambio del control parcial de su planeta, se desharian de Hordak. aqui Adora conoce a Bow y Glimmer como en la original, pero con su nueva personalidad les tomara muchoas tiempo a los chicos el confiar en ella.

Total, cuando hay que hacer un ataque cordinado con la rebelion, Adora va con Ezor y Zethrid a esperar su señal, y mientras esta aburrida, Adora diambula un poco por el bosque y POOM, ve la espada.

está Adora probablemente nisiquiera penso en la posibilidad de que la espada fuera magica, simplemente vio una reliquia antigua y la quiso para si misma.

Adora llevo la espada consigo a la batalla y peleo muy bien! sin embargo cuando volvieron a la base de luna brillante, Angela noto que algo en la espada era...inusual. asi que llamo a los padres de Bow para que la examinaran.

y, en efecto, era la espada de She-ra.

me gusta pensar que Adora solo descubrio como Transformarse en She-ra cuando alguna de las generales estaba en peligro (mas concertamente; Narti) y que en vez de gritar "por el honor de Grayskull" ella grita "victoria o muerte"

su atuendo de She-ra se parece mas al de la temporada 5 que el de las primeras temporadas. y tiene su espada en fisico porque a ella le gusta pelear incluso sin transformarse.

probablemente Lotor decida estudiar por su cuenta el corazon de Etheria y LitghHope (encontrando alguna manera de desmantelarla) y puedes apostar que Adora esta lista para patear traseros de la Horda.

y nop, Adora de este Au no esta con Catra. de hecho creo que la mataria pero eso es un tema para otro Post.

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