Two things are true:
First, there is actually an audience for in-depth, well-constructed writing, video, and audio.
Second, it is almost entirely the advertising industry's fault that so much media is focused exclusively on how many eyeballs it can capture, and for how long.
Ancient username club represent.
(Though mine only predates the Clinton impeachment)
Literally my dream model for team leadership.
It's clear that the entire cast is talented, but I can't help but attribute some of the magic to the way Noah Wyle's set is led.
A spell for all my trans friends and loved ones.
Near-future dystopian corporate hellscape SF novel-ass world.
Stupid, evil motherfuckers.
I want to scream, but I have nothing legal to say.
I know those feelings so well.
"Thank you for seeing me as a person. I'm sorry for being like this. Thank you for helping me anyway. I wish I were something else."
The most recent episode of the Pitt featured a plot about a fat man — played by Craig Ricci Shaynak — receiving care for pain of unknown origin.
I found myself crying, not just to see doctors treating him as a human with dignity, but at Shaynak's depiction of eager, humiliated gratitude for it.
I don't know how to convince you that "knowing things" is part of the point of being human.
Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Kieron Gillen somehow has the power to write comics that eat like a 12-course meal, but leave me starving for more.
The yeshiva boy in me agrees that it’d be cool if the vowels were prominently distinguished from the consonants, visually.
Hey, guess what? Developers already knew how to write insecure, poorly-structured code quickly! In fact, they were paid *not* to do it!
"It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It's the same as if you bought a cow, or a fridge, then asked me where you're going to put them." — Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores of Pontevedra, Spain
This is the most correct I’ve ever been.
Although — if I try to brightside this — I suppose the fact that most organizations are terrible at making use of analytics data sort of cancels out with the fact that the data itself is garbage.
Yeah, the most depressing thing about this, as an analytics nerd, is knowing that it was happening all over the place in one form or another long before LLMs entered the picture.
And conversely, a universe in which you don't see any disabled people is a eugenic one.
hi "A.i." is literally a tool of fascism
Oh to be a cat sleeping on a giant pile of comics, surrounded by used books.
Welp, can't argue with that.
Man, it's really impossible to learn about any part of New York City's history without hitting the point where you get really angry at Robert Moses, huh?
Legitimately confused, here... isn't that also an americanism? I've certainly been familiar with it for a long time, as a way of saying that someone is a refreshing change of pace.
Just think of the difference between how audiences reacted to the cgi in Jurassic Park, and how they react to it now. It’s still possible to craft something with artistry, but ai isn’t that.
I appreciate your take, and trust me—I’ve been a professional designer for more than two decades—I believe in the value of aesthetics. But people respond well to nice things because it shows meaning and effort. AI use will train us not to. When everything looks “good”, it stops being valuable.
You could literally have typeset the same words in Arial on a white background and they would have served the exact same purpose in protest.
To the extent that these feature your work, they have value. I mean exactly what I said: the AI added no value to your endeavor. You think these signs look “better” than they would have if you had made them yourself, but they look like every other disposable piece of ai art.
It's absolutely true that not all AI output can be detected, and this will be increasingly true as time goes on. But that isn't salient to my point, which is that it is trash content. It does not add anything to our collective experience, nor does it add value to the product it is used for.
This whole 🧵
But also, if your argument is that you need to use generative AI because otherwise your art is “bad”, let me reassure you:
The art you get from these models is also bad. Much, much worse, in fact. It carries the superficial signifiers of quality, but it is trash.
