#Word Automation

[snarfflarf]

Asking BG3 characters to pick you up pads: Round 2

[super-cool-taxi-service]

(returns again with an even longer beard, visibly decrepit) FUCKING FINE. HAVE IT YOUR IMPOSSIBLE WORD-SEARCH WAY. GIASFCLFUBREHBER. i spent EIGHTEEN YEARS in the WORD SEARCH DESERT FOR THIS

[svtskneecaps]

honestly wish the qsmp made more use of the novelty that is Mail. like "man i really need to get a message to cellbit but i don't know when we'll be on at the same time :(" leave one of those supplementaries presents that only opens for the matching username that has a book in it signed by you detailing everything you needed to tell him, or if you need to send off a bunch of things leave a security chest buried under or behind something and send a coded message with its location. cmon. Mail. Postal Service. Quesadilla Postal Service Mail, the QPSM if you will. (if your language can make it QSMP plEASE jump on)

missed opportunity. send more letters that aren't badboyhalo's debt collection.

[dragongirlbunny]

controversial take but i don't think genai is the antichrist or whatever, it's just being horribly pushed as something it's not. as a tuneable randomness generator, it actually has uses for generating shit like placeholders, drafting emails, etc.

it's when you come to expect thought/intentionality/a final product that it all blows up and is a colossal mess.

[betterbemeta]

AI represents a unique threat to the 'fannish' or 'nerdy' creative ecosystem. It's infesting all creative spheres but fanart, fanfiction, filk (and its peripherals like 'covers of anime OPs') fan music videos or 'edits', fan essays/videoessays, fan films, and cosplay are in serious danger.

"You're on tumblr complaining like the things that interest you are threatened, of course you are, people are dying in the real world," de-cringe for a second.

I am talking about a greater trend or 'dominant strategy' for Online Engagement that sees all fanwork as only profitable parasitism of SEO keywords.

And Media IP is valued by its owners because it is potentially relevant to people.

And people searching for Topics online is, to a machine, data that depicts that relevance. But to human beings, that is 'a fandom.'

"But you can spin any petty online thing to sound apocalyptic," the global entertainment industry is worth over 2 trillion dollars. listen to me.

The issue here is older than AI Generated Media; AI has the potential to speed it up and expand the scope of the problem. In the past few years, leeching money from SEO and interest in popular IP has boomed as a gig. I can't write it all off as a Bad Thing because that could also describe a professional Let's Player or a patreon-funded movie critic. But farther away from normal human behavior the most cynical content of this type is a way for Content Creators to siphon money from an IP's existence. If they didn't get paid, nobody would make it.

For context here, your grandmother cared enough about her star trek 'zine that she was probably printing it and distributing it at her own expense.

Limiting to YouTube as an example, before the AI boom there were already videos that were churned out in industrial quantities to take advantage of search keywords. Maybe they are chopped up clips from a TV show to capture anyone searching for it. Maybe it is a fake/spam video that claims to be clips from the next episode but fakes the thumbnail. But the reason why these videos nobody likes still make money is the same reason that people are able to navigate AO3.

Fanworks and fan-culture-inspired creative work have very specific key words that a machine can learn. This is probably why also it's easier and more popular for AI to generate images or music in a 'genre': a 'novel' or a 'love song' can be anything but a 'fantasy novel' probably has 'dragons' in it, and a 'synthwave' or 'power metal' song are likely to have certain chords and instruments.

Something more recognizable than 'fantasy themed power metal' though, is 'pictures of Pikachu.'

But you don't even have to search for Pikachu or for Dungeons & Dragons; algorithms are good enough to try and predict what you might search for in the future. It is assumed that you might be willing to overlook a lack of human emotions in things you haven't asked for 'yet' because you might be peripherally familiar enough to recognize their trappings. It would blend in with the rest of what a computer has tagged you with, which doesn't contain your feelings actually! Only how 'likely' you are to be interested in an article/video/song with 'magic missile' in it somewhere.

When I think of fanworks I think of feelings that are so big that the original media can't contain them. A shift to a more machine-like outlook seems destructive to me, and like tapping your blood for gold, and also deeply antisocial.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

Absolutely wild to me that I've been gone for six months and I'm still considered the subject matter expert on some of this stuff, like guys, I've been GONE I erased the knowledge from my head.

[dykefish]

Berhaps Zane or aphmau ? (For ask game)

aaahh Yes of course #girl and her bffie The clear choices for this

GIRL:

fav thing: i feeaaaaar. We will be here for a while. just to answer the question heres something simple, Her dedication to neva eva passing up the opportunity to be a snide petty bitch, she will hold a grudge until the end of time And if she even gets a whiff that theres something she can tease you for shes goin for it, ALSO ! her whole fucking thing with women, Why are you literally like that

least fav thing: MY girl has nothing wrong with her, however. That impostor from the cocomau videos. I do not like her. she has her moments and i like her cute outfits, But they did something to her. And its bad and it sucks.

fav line: i Dont know if theres really a specific line that stands out for me id have to think for a little but in the minigames i love when she goes 'oh Hush' or 'pressure ! pressure !!!!'

brOTP: zane and katelyn could start a haters coalition if you believed, if you believed with me Take my hand

OTP: i am chaining her to my basement, i dont even have a basement, im stealing someones house just for the express purpose of chaining her to a basement,

nOTP: im not compelled by most zane ships either by love OR by hate, but if i had to choose, that one bitch #betrayal #hateAndWar #onlyLike4PeopleKnowWhoThisIs

random headcanon: DO WE WANT TO GUESS. other than that, #gamer, #gamerGirl, Not as often as she got older but she games

unpopular opinion: this is not unpopular in The correct circles but, SHE IS NOT SKINNY. SHE IS NOT STOIC. NUMBER ONE OVER REACTOR. ALSO SHE WOULD NOT HAVE A PUSSY BUT THATS A DIFFERENT STORY.

song:

i Dont listen to music i think she would listen to, Or that would relate to her happenings, But. i Do think about her alot.

picture: i like many a picture But this screenshot in particular is so sweetie, i Need to kill. her.

also Some of my art, i have developed her design to be ideal to me. specifically. So of course i like her in my images

APH !!!

fav thing: jessica bravura is the realest bitch on this earth, This girl has it all, a harem, a girl who built a shrine to her, and Katelyn.She has katelyn. Shes literally a fucking hybrid angel princess goddess reincarnstion or literally wahtever the fuck Thats so awesome. Shes so real

least fav thing: it is once again the cocomau videos, a Common criticism at least from what i remember Was her makin her voice more highpitched and exaggerated as time went on And now sometimes in the cocomau videos she Has this strange unnatural even cadance, 100% my gripes with cocomau are simply because its not geared towards me though

fav line: once more i dont think theres a singular line that stands out and id have to think about it, Theres a specific tone she takes when shes jokingly belittling someone that comes to mind though that is Quite fun

brOTP: guess, and also not alone buddies

OTP: i Stand behind aarmau until The day i die until the day i literally die idgaf

nOTP: not really a hard no i just dont feel anything towards garmau and laurmau, maybe that'll change once i get through mcd though

random headcanon: get some meat on her bones, Get her a belly

unpopular opinion: shrug, dont think i have one, i dont engage with the fandom at large enough to see that many opinions either

song: GUESS.

picture:

i have a soft spot for this specific icon of hers... so sweet

[savrenim]

heyyyy so psa to fanfic authors out there: I got a very polite comment on a fic of mine this morning (from a verified ao3 account) asking if they could feature my fic on their youtube channel, and would only do so with permission and would give me full credit and link me.

obviously, I went and checked out the channel myself, and it was a content farm with clickbait titles that technically did "feature" fanfiction: every video was an automated/ screen-to-text reader reading the fanfic in full out loud over??? some video game???? and then linking the author and the fic in the comments, for authors that had agreed to identical comments to mine. not sure if they would have agreed if they'd realized that they'd received an automated comment on their fic, replied as if it was a human being, and then likely an automated process popped out the video of a screen-to-text reader directly reading their fic with no commentary or other fair use edits over possibly even stock footage??? given that these things are 2-4 hours long and the channel is posting a video every day???, for whomever owns the channel to get advertisement money.

so just. check and make sure it's a human being that actually wants to talk about your fic and not someone farming for content if you get a comment asking if you'd be willing to be "featured" on a youtube channel.

[emlos]

most anti ai arguments dont work on me cause i think copyright is fake and plagiarism is awesome, i know how datacentres work, and i dont understand what 'real art' is

[br1ghtestlight]

omg wait.... mepads voice as like siri or whatever the google automated voice is

[thrileikur]

pb in the suit from thin yellow line makes me want to watch veep and further radicalize myself (ironic with bonnies values lol). well id do anything with it that doesnt make me directly remember it was from fucking seinfeld but i have my urges without the regards. i think i just moreso identify with the fans of the show who recognize the 80s circlejerk-acclaimed tv references than other western cartoon enjoyers, for better or worse

[nadekofannumber1]

Nadeko canonically comes out the end of shinomono against considering AI real art.

Idk if nisio believes that but it’s certainly a makes sense as an opinion to give to Nadeko given the incident of shinomono.

In this way Nadeko’s word play of A.I. circulation in caramel ribbon cursetard could technically come full circle (baddum tsh).

[andkeeponplaying]

I have suffered more than Christ today

[whitespringbunker]

sexy robot/computer in season 2 or i riot

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

so I was just watching a CBC news clip on youtube, and the actual line said was "while Trump's tariffs have brought uncertainty to the North American economy and upended the Canada-US relationship..." but the captions had it as terrorists instead, and well

[mistresscitrusslice]

My toxic trait is thinking I’m above using Grammarly. If I need grammar help, I’d rather look up the rules manually to understand it better next time.