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| Topic | Whatd yall think of multiverse of madness? |
| darkmaian23 10/29/22 7:26:17 PM #18 | I don't understand any of the hate it got. It's probably my favorite MCU film to date, and I like basically all of them except the Eternals. It was full of action, incredible style, and was just plain fun. It didn't ruin WandaVision because in the show, it was about Wanda letting go of Vision, which she did. But her kids were another thing entirely, not to mention the obviously evil book and the prophecy concerning the Scarlett Witch. It also provided some great character growth for Strange. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | How much trouble would you be in if... |
| darkmaian23 10/29/22 1:50:52 AM #1 | A police detective, your spouse, your best friend, and your boss all earnestly reviewed a record of every post you've ever made online? If not trouble exactly, how socially and emotionally destroyed would you feel? For me, just having one of those awful angsty "papers" I wrote about myself for an English class in high school circulate would bring me to tears. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | To those who can vote in US midterms, what are you voting? |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 11:03:34 PM #25 | Straight Democrat. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | New selfie topic |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 10:55:34 PM #75 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] I'm very jealous of your large cat. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | I know times are pretty bad now, but man, it's getting really concerning |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 10:53:41 PM #44 | Kitt posted... It sounds like he's not a very popular person around his peers and have no one to confide in.If people seem fine at first but have no friends or social network of any kind--and didn't just move to a different state or country--there is always a reason why. In this fellow's case, he loves talking about politics, but is so far down the rabbit hole that even people with similar political leanings find him too strange and extreme. If you manage to see a fresh post on a controversial topic on a sub like r/conservative before the moderators "clean" up posts, you'll actually see that there are plenty of Republicans who vote Republican, spout the common memes and talking points, but aren't nearly as extreme as people might think. Another thing you'll run into is people with the same general world views will buy into different conspiracy theories and have trouble getting along because, to them, everyone else's conspiracy theory is obviously ridiculous while theirs is just fine. Once they get the hook in you though, you're done. I don't think it's possible for someone to dig themselves out until the light bulb comes on naturally. Source: I was secretly in a New Age internet cult for years and believed shit so crazy that the stuff coming out of Q looks graduate level quantum mechanics. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Breaking News Neanderthal Fossils Yield Genetic Insights |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 7:48:11 PM #14 | Robot2600 posted... neanderthals were more advanced than humans. they had bigger brains, bigger bodies, and made better jewelry and clothes.Do you have a scholarly source for these claims? I wasn't aware we knew much about them at all. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Would you personally suffer if da GOP gains power again? |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 4:48:34 AM #18 | I know a number of people who will be affected if they decide to mess with social security. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Good horror movies for Halloween without nudity/sex? |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 3:55:16 AM #14 | I'd go for Alien, if you've never seen it before. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Did you ever get the Alexander summon materia in FF7? |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 3:53:34 AM #1 | Even with a guide, I always got lost and never managed to find it until I was an adult. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Yuffie doesn't like the script. |
| darkmaian23 10/28/22 3:52:38 AM #7 | Yuffie not being slightly older and the canonical love interest for Cloud always bugged me. In fact, the whole idea that two of the game's best characters were optional and sort of tacked on was bad. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | I'm not ready for Republicans to have federal power again. |
| darkmaian23 10/27/22 8:14:48 PM #6 | Medussa posted... well, they generally won't. it'll be two years of nothing.We don't know anything yet, and won't until after the voting is finished. Though with the Supreme Court being what it is, I wonder if this will be the last free federal election? Moore v. Harper is some serious shit. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Does anyone here draw with pen? |
| darkmaian23 10/27/22 12:45:04 PM #2 | Bump --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Star Wars: Andor Episode 8 Topic *SPOILERS* |
| darkmaian23 10/26/22 11:20:51 PM #11 | I wish more people were watching this. No matter how long the episode, it feels like you've been watching for 5 minutes when the credits roll. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | You know who I really hate? |
| darkmaian23 10/26/22 3:47:53 PM #11 | Heartomaton posted... I don't blame you. I suck pretty bad. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Does anyone here draw with pen? |
| darkmaian23 10/26/22 3:47:28 PM #1 | Haven't seen many Inktober posts here, so it might just be me using pen 'round these parts. Anyway, for those of you who do draw with pen, have you noticed that no matter the brand, they don't seem to last long anymore? I've been drawing with pen for a couple of years now, and it seems like every pen has lost quality and longevity. Even my latest purchase of Sakura Microns aren't what they should be. I've bought from Blick, Amazon, and Jetpens. Is it just me? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | How many of the Hellraiser films have you seen? |
| darkmaian23 10/26/22 12:13:40 AM #25 | I was only aware of the first two before clicking on this post. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | What would you do if given the opportunity to chose any life path? |
| darkmaian23 10/26/22 12:11:40 AM #1 | Like instead of a 9 to 5 job at a bank or working in retail, you are given the opportunity to choose something you'd like to do and all your financial requirements and any necessary schooling would be taken care of. For example, you could choose to do mathematics, carpentry, weaving, sculpting, painting, study history---whatever you like as long as it is something productive of your choice that you might find fulfilling. So, no Netflix 40 hours a week unless you are studying film or want to do a film blog or something What life pursuit would you choose to find fulfillment? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | YeOldDuncan is SUSPENDED! |
| darkmaian23 10/25/22 4:17:02 PM #127 | Oubliettes posted... if so that's just even more reinforcement towards my point. if hes in his 30s and still getting grounded, hes probably pretty significantly impaired.Your thesis earlier was that a way of handing out of control behavior is to ignore it. I have literally never seen him post anything that wasn't abusive or inflammatory. He has allegedly sent women on this site creepy, unsolicited messages and been banned before because of it. Which is more reasonable, everyone putting Duncan's endless stream of accounts on ignore over and over again, or him being permanently banned? Permanently removing him from the site makes using it safer and more pleasant, and would deny him an outlet for more toxic behavior and its reinforcement. To be honest, your enabler stance is really starting to piss me off. It spits in the face of disabled people who do try their best to be good and need some understanding when things don't work out. The admins of this site have a responsibility to keep this site safe, Duncan's guardians (assuming he really them and needs them) have a responsibility to more closely monitor his activities online and get him more help if he needs it, and Ducan himself has a responsibility to try his best to do well with whatever cognitive and emotional abilities he has. The only responsibility that posters here have is to try and be generally OK people and follow the rules. Most of us do OK with both. The two biggest hurdles to the broader acceptance of mentally and physically disabled people in my opinion are people that hide behind a diagnosis to excuse ridiculously toxic behavior and those who insist that everyone else needs to accept this because the person is sick. Let's extend this thinking to the case of a person who has no real choice in their behavior. If a caregiver takes a late-stage dementia person to a museum, cool! Maybe the person's behavior will be a little strange, but we live in a society, and folks will understand. But if that person becomes too disruptive, they'll be asked to leave. If the behavior becomes too extreme or there is a pattern, they'll likely be banned from the venue and the caregiver will need to find something else to occupy the person's time. Please stop advocating for endless tolerance. There is a logical limit to what should be allowed, and one isn't lacking in compassion for setting such limits. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | YeOldDuncan is SUSPENDED! |
| darkmaian23 10/25/22 2:18:29 AM #119 | Oubliettes posted... how disabled is duncan? like you said, only an expert can tell. and that's about where my agreement ends. personally i'm not keen on making an attempt to hold him (or others like him) accountable for his actions because i dont know if hes capable of even understanding why theyre bad in the first place. i dont mean that as a dig, but like i said, a lot of people overestimate the abilities of developmentally disabled people just because they can speak/type coherent sentences, and on the chance that he's more disabled than he appears, dunking on a handicapped dude for the crime of being annoying/wrong/shitty on the internet just feels kinda gross inside tbh. if you cant deal with him, just block him and move on if he comes back. What you are saying might come from a good place, but practically it doesn't make a lot of sense. He keeps getting banned because he keeps breaking the rules. If he can't follow the rules, then he doesn't need to post here. Posting on GameFAQs isn't some kind of basic human right, and online communities have a right to set standards. What you've said about Duncan could be true of literally any of the other trolls that infest these boards. Nobody here even knows for sure if Duncan has any kind of mental or physical problems. We had a guy some time ago fake having cancer for sympathy. Frankly, if anyone here is bad off enough that they can't function or control themselves beyond limited conversations on limited subjects, I hope their caretakers or guardians would be monitoring their internet usage and steer them in a better direction. And lest you call me ableist, I actually am physically disabled in real life and have advocated seriously for disabled people in the past. Disabled people should be reasonably accommodated and treated with compassion. It is not reasonable to expect that a super toxic person who can't follow rules--whatever the reason for that behavior--should continue to have posting privileges indefinitely. Boundaries and limits are a healthy part of life. Everyone at some point needs to be told "no", and there is nothing discriminatory about it. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Why is she called "A Certain Scientific Railgun"? |
| darkmaian23 10/25/22 1:55:51 AM #5 | Paragon21XX posted... Don't question Academy City's methods. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | YeOldDuncan is SUSPENDED! |
| darkmaian23 10/25/22 1:02:34 AM #114 | Solar_Crimson posted... CE has tried to help him many times, but he never listens. Not even to advice regarding Pokemon. And he also has a habit of interjecting on topics that he has absolutely no idea about because he's so sheltered.Is that really the reason? I know that people often reach for "sheltered", "spoiled", or "immature" when dealing with a mentally or physically disabled person who behaves in a frustrating way. Sometimes it is because they really aren't functional, or have uncontrollable aspects to their disorder, or it can be because they are assholes. Only an expert can really tell the difference. At the end of the day, while it is nice to extend extra help and tolerance to those who struggle, a person is ultimately answerable for their actions. A mental or physical illness--unless you've got like a brain tumor or dementia or something--isn't an excuse for consistently bad behavior. He needs to be banned until he can function in a non-abusive way. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | would you kiss me if i gave you $5 |
| darkmaian23 10/25/22 12:38:24 AM #11 | People are gross, so no. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | The EU is still pushing for the mandatory scanning of all online communications |
| darkmaian23 10/24/22 8:06:14 PM #13 | Vyrulisse posted... For now, it's 100% gonna happen eventually.We don't lose every battle we fight, and apparently the German government is less than pleased with what is in the proposal, so even if it does eventually become law, it might be something very different. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | How much do you dwell on the past? |
| darkmaian23 10/23/22 4:50:20 PM #22 | rivers posted... i believe my life would be dramatically different today if i'd known i had sleep apnea closer to its onset in my childhood instead of 20 or more years later.Sleep apnea can have such an incredibly negative impact on cognitive function and emotions that it's insane, and despite being such a big deal and so treatable, doctors don't look for it in young people. Even after over two years of treatment, my life is only a shadow of what it could have been if I'd been treated from an early age. Most of the men in my family suffer heart attacks by 40, likely because of sleep apnea. In general, it produces a fair number of stroke victims in their 30s and 40s too. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | What are some good SCARY anime movies? |
| darkmaian23 10/23/22 12:01:39 PM #7 | Another --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | The EU is still pushing for the mandatory scanning of all online communications |
| darkmaian23 10/22/22 5:48:14 PM #7 | AlephZero posted... If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.If the government has no reasonable suspicion that a person is a child predator, they have no reason to riffle through their messages and photos. Automated scanning technology generates false positives, and applying it to absolutely everything will generate many more false positives with real world consequences. It will waste police time and resources that would be better spent solving actual crimes. It will make it harder to police actual abuse, and may lead to life-ending accusations for innocent people. And that's before the use of mandatory scanning is extended to regular crimes too, especially with global political instability and a looming global economic crisis. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | What is a pick up line that would seduce you? |
| darkmaian23 10/22/22 12:41:52 PM #15 | "Would you like to watch Gundam...naked?" --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | The EU is still pushing for the mandatory scanning of all online communications |
| darkmaian23 10/22/22 12:38:14 PM #4 | Vyrulisse posted... "It's for the children" is a popular vehicle to push legislation like this because realistically how can you even argue against protecting them?There are two good arguments. One, the legislation really isn't for the children: it's a bill to give the police more power, and although it is framed around the issue of child abuse, it is easy to see how they will want these powers for regular policing too (I'm not familiar with all the details myself, but apparently there would be a way for police to generally access the harvested data for other crimes). The second is that the bill was written on false premises: they let companies and private individuals tell them what is possible and what is needed instead of listening to independent experts. They won't even meet with any groups critical of the bill, even if that criticism has nothing to do with encryption or privacy. There are plenty of knowledgeable advocates that think this sucks for not seriously addressing harm to children, but they are being ignored too. For example, when EARN IT was making the rounds (that's the US version of this that is waiting in the wings for its time to shine), some advocates were very concerned that increased government control over communications would lead to a reduction in the ability to discuss abuse and for victims to have their voices heard. Not all victims are happy with an increase in the status quo: many don't like that certain organizations are allowed to retain abuse material indefinitely for research and police purposes. Other paths to reducing abuse--like targeted police actions or increased aid and social support to help stop production abuse material--are never seriously considered by politicians. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | I'm planning to have sex with my youngest cousin |
| darkmaian23 10/22/22 12:20:32 AM #19 | littlebro07 posted... I really wanted to fuck my cousin when we hit our teens and she became hot as hell littlebro07 posted... Wait...so did you, or didn't you? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | I'm planning to have sex with my youngest cousin |
| darkmaian23 10/21/22 11:44:08 PM #15 | So, is it a casual thing, or are you guys into each other as friends or romantic partners? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | The EU is still pushing for the mandatory scanning of all online communications |
| darkmaian23 10/21/22 10:44:57 PM #1 | The excuse is to prevent child abuse, despite the fact that the legislation is based on lies, exaggerated data, and is designed to destroy secure communications and increase surveillance powers generally. The politicians involved have apparently refused to meet with any of the organizations that have voiced concerns not only about privacy, but about the fact that it is garbage that won't help kids. From the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/eu-lawmakers-must-reject-proposal-scan-private-chats An AMA on Reddit from a concerned group: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/y9nhbo/ama_were_from_the_stopscanningme_campaign_and/ Information on what's going on and how we got here from an EU politician who is opposed to the legislation: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/ --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Masturbating to Video Games |
| darkmaian23 10/20/22 3:07:32 PM #33 | Aerith had a much sexier looking 3D model! --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | If America Falls to Fascism, What Would You Do? |
| darkmaian23 10/20/22 3:06:13 PM #53 | As a disabled man, I fear that choice will be taken from me. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | I've become an absolutely miserable, bitter man in the last few years. |
| darkmaian23 10/20/22 11:04:09 AM #3 | bluezero posted... No, it's definitely gotten worse. Global pandemic, the GOP, mass shootings, etc.I agree with this completely, and I'd also like to add the state of the global economy and the war in Ukraine to the mix too. Even if Putin never uses a WMD, the tremendous loss of life, the destabilization of a country that has WMDs, and complete disregard for international rules and norms will have a lasting negative impact on the world that will be felt for a long time. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Someone broke into our house, but they didn't steal anything. |
| darkmaian23 10/20/22 8:42:19 AM #40 | Octans posted... Check your house for bugs. It sounds stupid as fuck but random citizens have legit been spied on before by 3 letter orgs, and I wouldn't put anything past them. Extremely rare chance as in basically unfounded that it actually happened, but peace of mind is peace of mind.This seems unlikely, but I do think it is in the realm of possibility that a determined, higher-class thief that didn't get the time he or she wanted in the house might leave a bug or two in the house to determine a better time to strike again. I wonder how you'd check? Actually, I've wondered the same thing after reading about all those Airbnb's where the owners hide cameras in the bathroom and stuff to watch guests. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Someone broke into our house, but they didn't steal anything. |
| darkmaian23 10/19/22 11:43:59 PM #33 | That sucks. How are you and your family holding up? I imagine it's got to feel a little scary staying in the house after that. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Can toxic people change? |
| darkmaian23 10/19/22 5:40:06 PM #22 | I made the decision to block them. Thanks for the support guys! --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Biden completes release of most barrels from US Petroleum Reserve in history. |
| darkmaian23 10/19/22 5:39:38 PM #60 | I read that as "US Pokemon Reserve" and was very confused. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Does anyone know of any cool places to order candy for Halloween? |
| darkmaian23 10/18/22 9:09:18 PM #8 | Oubliettes posted... albanese has the fuckin balls to bill themselves as "gourmet" when they taste like someone sucked all the (good) flavour out of a haribo goldbear and spit the remains into a shitty albanese bagI like Hairbo as much as anyone, but they don't pack nearly the flavor of Albanese. Maybe you got a bad bag? They've been my go-to for years now. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Does anyone know of any cool places to order candy for Halloween? |
| darkmaian23 10/18/22 8:59:21 PM #5 | DrizztLink posted... This feels like an Albanese ad.Not to reinforce your suspicions or anything, but their gummies are the best and the peanut butter cups are to die for. But I'd really love to branch out and try new things. itachi15243 posted... bokksuThanks! This is exactly the sort of thing I wanted to learn about. [LFAQs-redacted-quote] The stuff they stock at Wal-Mart isn't special enough, and I live in a small town, so fresh made candy isn't readily available. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Does anyone know of any cool places to order candy for Halloween? |
| darkmaian23 10/18/22 7:05:57 PM #1 | Albanese is the only place I know of that ships their delicious candy straight to your door. Any other good options? Halloween is something I like making an event out of. I used to shop at a local candy store, but then I found out most of their really good candy was Albanese anyway. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Are you afraid of a nuclear war happening? |
| darkmaian23 10/17/22 7:35:42 PM #10 | whitelytning posted... Low(ish) risk but very high consequences. Afraid.This, basically. Though I contend that there isn't much of a way for regular folks to gauge how likely it is for nukes to drop. How many working nukes Russia has (not to mention biological and chemical weapons), how willing Putin is to use them, whether or not he could---these are things known only at the highest levels. We'd all like to think Putin won't use nukes or wouldn't be allowed to by those close to him, but nobody here really has all the facts. Hopefully we come out of this OK and the world moves past anyone having nukes. There have been some uncomfortable close shaves before, and no civilization has ever lasted forever in recorded history. It is unacceptable that any group of people should possess the power to end global civilization. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Can toxic people change? |
| darkmaian23 10/17/22 12:04:43 PM #15 | Tenaku posted... Sorry, but I lol'ed at this.Don't laugh! Although CEMen kind of have a reputation, you guys are all actually quite helpful when a serious question gets asked. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Can toxic people change? |
| darkmaian23 10/16/22 11:19:03 PM #1 | For several years, I had an on-again off-again friendship with a certain person online who was 20% solid friend, and 80% manipulative creepy, soul-sucking, and abusive. They claimed to have a rare personality disorder and some other mental affliction (but never elaborated on that part), but refused to seek treatment. One of the things that apparently can help is group sessions, but the doctor who diagnosed them refused to refer them to one, saying it might be damaging or dangerous for the other participants. A couple of years ago (or was it just one?) I finally had had enough and blocked them, thanks to some advice from you folks. They recently added me back to their friend list. Like...I think the correct choice is to ignore the friend request, but I'm currently having a rough time and don't have any friends at all. In terms of being in the gutter, my life is near rock bottom. They used to say that me being friends with them was special and meant a lot to them. I thought that was perhaps pure manipulation, but I've since read that people with their personality disorder can in fact have like one or two friends they latch on two and absolutely nobody else. I'd also like to believe people can change. CEMen, guide me with your wisdom. No seriously, I'm stuck and need actual advice here. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Another topic about the implications of AI art |
| darkmaian23 10/16/22 12:39:26 PM #10 | Smiffwilm posted... Hey, as long as it results in more r3- art. More art I mean.The latest version of WD produces some OK results; don't know about the more niche stuff. But there is a definite tendency to generate extra arms and hands below the waist instead of anything you'd actually want to see. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Another topic about the implications of AI art |
| darkmaian23 10/16/22 11:08:00 AM #8 | kirbymuncher posted... Most of the people doing this I think would not be involved with creative visual art in any way were it not for the AI. So why not let them have some sort of input into the creative process and see what happens?Because they still aren't involved: there is no creativity involved in AI art. You are not drawing or painting or sculpting anything. So-called "prompt crafting" consists of going on Reddit or one of those gallery sites and grabbing an already existing prompt for something you like and messing with random seeds until a thing you like more pops out from Stable Diffusion, NovelAI, or whatever else you might be using. Maybe it's just something cool to mess with, and that's fine---I like it too. But you see a ton of people claiming they "made" a piece and are proud of it, or just flat out claiming they are good at drawing, painting, pastels etc. and made it themselves. You have not become creative by imagining it might be cool to see a "chibi catgirl in an autumnal forest with a wizard tower and purple sky in the background", because literally anybody who draws or paints thinks things like that. It's what you do before you start working. As you work through the forms on paper or in clay or on canvas or digital tablet, you become closer to your work and begin to express your sensibilities. It becomes your "chibi catgirl in an autumnal forest with a wizard tower and purple sky in the background", not an algorithm's "interpretation" of your prompt. Claiming an AI piece as your own work is like claiming something you paid a guy on Fiverr for is work you made. Now, the use case you pointed out where a guy maybe wants a background because his real interest is character drawing is fine (though it would be better if he at least touched that background up a bit before using it---especially with unanswered questions about copyright). Even better, I think, is using AI generated art for inspiration or as the basis for a larger piece. Kakapo posted... People thought cameras and photography in general would destroy art.Machine learning--AI--is fundamentally different than what came before it. There is active work being done on AI 2D art, AI 3D art, AI animation, AI text generation, AI chat bots, AI voice generation, and AI music generation. Some of it is already very impressive. How much need will there be for any form of human creativity in say 10 years? Companies won't pay people for things they can have a program spit out. Robots also continues to advance. In 10 or 20 years of software and hardware advancement, how many jobs will be available for regular human beings? Those this topic is about AI art specifically, watching an unforeseen leap in a computer's ability to perform what many considered to be a uniquely human task is unsettling, and rams home the point that humans aren't special and calls into question what a future world will look like. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Another topic about the implications of AI art |
| darkmaian23 10/15/22 6:46:56 PM #2 | Bump --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Another topic about the implications of AI art |
| darkmaian23 10/15/22 3:44:25 PM #1 | I originally wrote this as a reply to another topic, but was told nobody would look at it and the topic kind of fizzled. So allow me to try again! I wonder why people don't think good AI art is a big deal.If computers can do everything as good if not better than a human (we aren't there yet with AI art, but it's coming) then what are people supposed to do for work? How do we better ourselves? Increasingly sophisticated robots will come for most manual labor jobs in time. In the past, new technological innovations created new jobs. With competent machine learning and good robotics, you just won't need nearly as many people working as we have now. People dream of a more enlightened humanity with greater leisure time and UBI, but that doesn't seem to be the path the world is headed down. AI "art" is also problematic for other reasons than taking jobs. Images and voices can already be generated with OK realism, and in time they will be perfectly real. Video and 3D modeling are being worked on. You'll soon be able to fabricate news and criminal evidence that is indistinguishable from reality. Our legal system and society at large aren't prepared for that. Another negative social aspect is the diminishing and devaluing of human creativity: already people are claiming that they "painted" or "drew" an AI image, often one generated with a common prompt that they changed a word or two for. They often won't admit it when confronted either, even if they have a picture with that weird floating ghost text or funky hands and fingers that even a total beginner wouldn't draw. There has even been at least one case of somebody taking what an artist was drawing in a live stream and having an AI "finish" the piece. If you have the know-how, you can apparently already train the AI to produce works in the style of even relatively unknown artists if you have several pieces. It's kind of a more philosophical thing, but if computers can even mimic human creativity, then what can humans do to find meaning or value? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Update on my partner. |
| darkmaian23 10/15/22 3:40:41 PM #4 | My guy, if she is already seeing you while having a boyfriend, and is willing to leave that boyfriend, she'll eventually do the same thing to you that she is doing to her current boyfriend. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
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