#and right now it's fail-open

[bi-writes]

ok i've done some light research. if you want a software engineer/fic writer's inital take on lore.fm, i'll keep it short and sweet.

my general understanding of lore.fm functionality:

they use OpenAI's public API. they take in the text from the URL provided and use it to spit out your AI-read fic. their API uses HTTP requests, meaning a connection is made to an OpenAI server over HTTP to do as lore.fm asks and then give back the audio. my concern is that i wasn't able to find out what exactly that means. does OpenAI just parse the data and spit out a response? is that data then stored somewhere to better their model (probably yes)? does OpenAI do anything to ensure that the data is being used the way it was intended (we know this probably isn't true because lore.fm exists)?

lore.fm stores the generated audio (i am almost certain of this because of the features described in this reddit post). meaning that someone's fic is sitting in a lore.fm database. what are they doing with that data? what can they do with it? how is it being stored? what is being stored, the text and the audio, or just the audio?

i find transparency a very difficult thing to ask for in tech. people are concerned with technological trade secrets and stifling innovation (hilarious when i think about lore.fm, because it doesn't take a genius to feed text into AI and display the response somewhere, sorry to say). and while i find the idea of AI being used to help further accessibility on apps that don't yet provide it promising, i find the method that lore.fm (and OpenAI) chooses to do this to be dangerous and pave a path for a harmful integration of AI (and also fanfiction in general -- we write to interact, and lore.fm removes that aspect of it entirely).

we already know that AI companies have been paying to scrape data from different sources for the purposes of bettering their models, and we already know that they've only started asking for permission to do this because users found out (and not from the goodness of their hearts, because more data means better models, and asking for permission adds overhead). but this way of using it allows AI to backdoor-scrape data that the original sources of the data didn't give consent to. maybe the author declined to have their fic scraped by AI on the site they posted it onto (if the site asked at all), but they didn't know a third-party app like lore.fm would feed it into an AI model anyways.

what's the point of writing fics if i have no control over my own content?

[g0blinwitch]

hey so real talk why hasn't the UN done anything yet. Like the shithead supreme has clearly marked where he's taking the country. Can they just...Snuff this shit out. Now. Please.

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[bitternace]

WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL!!! /POS. ATTACKING YOU.

Xemnas and Xigbar for 37 if that number hasn't been done? If it has, how about 74?

no puedo pedirle lo eterno a un simple mortal // ay, todo lo que he hecho por ti.

[ID: a mostly black and white drawing with a purple overlay of xigbar and xemnas shown from the hip up on the left side of the image. the background is black and has some diagonal lines with a bit of transparency on the right side. the shadows are harsh, with only a bit of light falling on their faces.

they stand before each other turned to the audience. xigbar, holds the handle and the middle of No Name before him, head tilted down as he looks to the audience. xemnas stands a full head taller behind xigbar, his left hand held some distance below the bladed tip of No Name, his left eye is covered by his fringe.

xemnas visible eye is painted ochre with a white pupil, while xigbar's eye is white and gold. The eyes on no name's handle and the gazing eye on the blade are a vibrant cyan. the caption reads the spanish lyrics "i can't ask a simple mortal for a forever" and "oh, everything i've done for you." /End ID.]

close-up under keep reading.

[gyrovagi]

the reason im always talking about divorce and weird complicated situationships is because i just get too embarrassed talking about people in happy romantic relationships. had to delete dak-wai bellara draft that's literally their private business.

[namelessprince]

can you IMAGINE if marshal john turns out to be the traitor? i think id be more heart broken than if it was caspian

[hakusins]

(vent in the tags) me thinking i've finally escaped financial problems: :DDDDD

life:

[goodolddumbbanana]

Dear Banana

You are awesome. Thank you for opening my eyes to honey trap duo 😂. You are also a poet when it comes to Sun angst. ☀️👌

What's your thoughts on Dark Sun and Sun becoming brothers? I see it happening. (totally just projecting my desire into the universe)

Thank you!! 😁😁😁😁 I have never being so passionate about one character like Sun. Sun, Dark Sun, Sunshine, SunBOT, servant Sun, every Sun makes me so giggle.

Even with Sans Undertale doesn't make me down that bad and spends hours to analyse him like with Sun.

Man, the day Sun and Dark Sun become brothers, not to be dramatic but I think I can die in pieces.

I want them carnally.

Like, they just interact briefly but there is so much potential between them, between the cold-bitter-apathetic- confident - independent - live for himself - i have enemies's blood on my hand and I totally do not regret about it and I wish I do it sooner- god let me live for another day and I will make it everyone's problems -future self Vs the young - tired - after so much crap still naïve and hold some hope into future- selfless - Life can hit me in the face whenever it wants and I still apologise to it because the backbone I have totally irrelevant with the abandoned and self esteem issues Moon gift me- the one who codependent to Moon to the core because everyone he cares about expect Moon if not get hurt badly then turn evil - present self.

Like, they are both Sun, they are so similar yet so different. And that really makes them interesting, because can anyone know Sun better than Sun? Surely they are pro at lying to themselves, but to be like that, they also need to know themselves in some levels of consistency.

And how their outlook on life is completely opposite. Sun still has some hope on Moon while Dark Sun completely wiped out of Moon's existence out of his mind.

It would be awesome if Sun finds someone who understands him, who will not talk him down or ignore him. (We see how Sun handled Sunshine like a pro) And Dark Sun finds someone while still like him, still kind and gentle and honest.

What more is the reason Dark Sun builds Neptor that way if not because he misses the time when he is still himself, still kind, honest, gentle and always thinks the best of everyone?

I want them to be brothers, even more on some darker days (damn, as long as they stay together, I don't care about what status quo they called each other, brothers, besties, drinking buddy, co-parents, lovers, we are not friends and we do not hate each other that much but I still want to strangle and destroy you when kissing you type of relationship...) (what am I saying, I have problems)

Because they can build up something really good out of each other, or make each other become so worse.

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I think I'm gonna apply to college today :)

[macbcth]

does anyone have a good way of organising your read fics on ao3, by, like, fandom, POV, personal rating, for example (any category really). right now, i'm just bookmarking everything but is there a way to separate those bookmarks? i've tried to figure out collections and failed miserably. also are all collections public? like i don't want to author to see me put a work in "3/5 stars" collection for example. on a similar note: are the tags on a bookmark visible to the author?

[figureitoutinthemorning]

Hmmmmm okay you all can ignore this lmao I’m just going to Complain On The Internet for a bit because I’m pretty sure it’s that or tell the next person to say hi my entire life story, and no one wants that, least of all me ✌️

[biracy]

@mifs was going thru the Good Omens tag and we were lightly making fun of some posts and I made this shit. And they told me to post them even though they're literally not even funny but I live to please

[godsfavoritescientist]

I will die on the hill that ford's paranoia is not a character flaw

[joatthecopa]

Quite literally the funniest thing that Saw has sent to me by far.

Anyway, who wants to play Saw X: Survive the Obby with me?

[beardedmrbean]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., weighed in on President Donald Trump's ongoing tariff feud with Colombian President Gustavo Petro – but not every social media user bought her comments.

The spat between Trump and Petro began when the Colombian leader refused to accept two deportation flights over the weekend, prompting Trump to unleash retaliatory measures. Both world leaders threatening to raise tariffs on imported products by 25% to 50%, and Trump ordered a travel ban and visa revocations for all Colombian government officials.

"I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This order was given by Colombia’s Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people."

"Petro’s denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the United States, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures."

In an X post on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez insisted that American consumers are the only party that pay tariffs.

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"To ‘punish’ Colombia, Trump is about to make every American pay even more for coffee," the New York congresswoman said in a post. "Remember: WE pay the tariffs, not Colombia."

"Trump is all about making inflation WORSE for working class Americans, not better," she added. "He’s lining the pockets of himself and the billionaire class."

Petro appeared to be a fan of AOC's post, reposting it on his own X account.

While tariffs do have the potential to inflate prices, the importer, which is the company or entity bringing the goods into the U.S., will pay the actual tariff to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

But inflated prices are not guaranteed – sometimes, tariffs can reduce the world price of an object as suppliers rush to retain access to the large U.S. market. It is possible that coffee suppliers in different countries, such as Vietnam and Brazil – which produce more coffee than Colombia – would lower or maintain their prices.

Ocasio-Cortez's tweet racked up over 47,000 likes from supporters as of 8 p.m., but received scorn from Trump supporters and tariff advocates.

"World record. 35 minutes and the tweet already aged like hot milk," the social media account Catturd wrote, referencing Petro's immediate offer to transport Colombian migrants on his presidential plane.

"Who wants to tell her that there are other countries that export coffee, not just Columbia," California State Assembly Bill Essayli wrote. 

Conservative commentator John Cardillo echoed Essayli's sentiment, suggesting that the South American country "should take their illegal aliens back."

"Plenty of other nations grow coffee beans," Cardillo wrote on X. "We can buy the coffee from them."

Activist Adam Lowisz responded to Ocasio-Cortez by insisting that the Democratic politician "doesn't understand how tariffs work."

"Coffee from Colombia will increase in price, so we will purchase coffee from suppliers in other countries who do take back their illegals," the conservative X user wrote. "Businesses will hesitate to invest in Colombia any further if they continue to be bad actors."

Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez's office for additional comment.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

my problem with Impa in Thralls, musically, is that I can't seem to decide if I want to Japanese-code her (koto time), Irish-code her (fiddle and irish flute time), or Technobabble-code her (weird little beep-boop time)

There's arguments for all of the above, and I tried to combine all of them too, but so far it's mostly been a mess so!!! I don't know. :(