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Why are people so afraid of AI?

Humans have patterns and that is why they can be recognised by them. Authors have a certain writing style, their book are often about very similar things, musicians sing and act in a specific manner that makes the recognisable and few are able to truly reinvent themselves or their style. Is that a “lack of creativity”? Are they just inferior beings unable to break out of their bubble?

AI is a tool. It can be used for good, bad and everything in between. If you see it as something one should fear, loathe, or despise, that requires a meme quip as a kneejerk reaction to anybody mentioning it positively, maybe use your own reasoning to come with a thoughtful answer, or if you can’t then maybe don’t.

Sorry that its so long, if you dont want to read it please dont make a summary out of it and instead ignore it

Was the sass really necessary? 🙄

There must be a misunderstanding. I’m not saying “AI should write the short story”. AI can act as the spark and you can provide the material to make the fire.

Starcraft series based on the games and official books around it. It’s such a big universe with a lot of stories. Just don’t pull a Marvel and oversaturate the market with your stuff.

But for something original, see what China is doing with their 5 minute episodes on their TikTok alternative Douyin.

This is definitely where AI can come in handy. Continuously pluck a few words from wikipedia and tell the AI to come up with a few plot lines, then go from there.

TIL voting is lobbying

No of course not. Only what you approve as activism is activism 👌 And using official channels is certainly not activism.

Stop Killing Games should be asking for donations to get the people involved to have meetings with representatives in the EU commission. The big, shitty gaming companies that are firing devs en masse and just out to make money have their lobbyists. If the SKG movement doesn’t organise, that’s all we’ll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.

Gib sauce!

Everything this article says it’s true. Google needs to be forced to stop giving money to Mozilla. It’s driven the org into the ground. When the decision supposed to be made? October? I hope Google loses and Mozilla wakes the fuck up.

I didn’t know about their craziness, but the UN office of human rights has had their eye on the organ harvesting allegations since at least 2016. The Falun Gong might be as crazy as scientologists and mormons, but that doesn’t mean they should be treated this way.

USAians drinking coke instead of tea. Makes sense. Guess making a good cuppa takes too long to fill the immediate need for another sugar dump 🤷‍♂

Make everyone lactose intolerance: everyone is a malfunctioning system now.

Indeed, yes. It’s subjective and we are both somewhere in the middle with a bit of nuance, but there are people who just throw it around willy nilly. The unhinged use is what this post felt like. “I see slop everywhere”. Makes me think of the phrase “if you smell shit everywhere, look under your shoe”.

From what you say, you perceive the term “slop” as a direct synonym to “low quality”, without any extras.

Slop to me is a simple, low-quality, repetitive output.

If you went to a restaurant that made a high-quality, complex soup, for hundreds of customers per day with the help of machines, would you call it slop? I wouldn’t.

If the restaurant however made ramen from packets, threw in some starch to make it thicker, and they had a nice big ladle to slap that liquid into a vessel with a nice sound, I would for sure call that slop.

That output is what matters, because there’s no way for us to see the input. How are you going to know what words somebody used to generate an AI image?

Slop to me is a simple, low-quality, repetitive output. So, it’s not just one simple, low-quality medium but many. Looks at this video for examples. Or just scroll youtube shorts after searching for anything Indian or even literally “omg look at this” for the search term and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

If you have a hard time telling whether AI did it or not, it’s not slop.

“slop” is being thrown around just like “socialist” and “gay”. Save it for actual AI slop. Just because something is made by AI doesn’t make it automatically “slop” 🙄