Please, Spread This For Those Who Might Need It Right Now

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War? Whatever do you mean?

Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.

shame that sham of a shameless museum

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We are so so understaffed

[at Jason's funeral]

Dick: *places his hand on the headstone and sobs*

Dick: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

ofc

i will lie awake at night

i will stare at the ceiling

and the most heart wrenching/warming story idea comes to my head

except im too lazy to get up and write it down so i forget it in the morning

just how God intended.

You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

Ok I did the thing

Don't look at it too hard

I haven’t stopped im sorry creative community

Im slowly easing away from it tho, im trying

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

Loiriyiel

Considering the other results, I think I’m lucky to get something that resembles gibberish than anything else

Find your REAL Angel name

• First two letters of your last name • First vowel of your first name • Third letter of your middle name (or parent’s first name if you don’t have a middle name • Last consonant of your last name • Add IEL or EL to the end!

and then Argos is just under the table, tail wagging and starry eyed.

i think argos died in the original odyssey but this is the internet so i can head-canon that athena blessed argos to only die when telemachus/ody dies

My favorite post-EPIC headcanon is that Odysseus' family is just completely accepting of all the unhinged sh*t that he's done.

Odysseus, over dinner, some 2 months after his return: And then I finned the sirens, letting them drown. We ate the tails later.

Telemachus, starry-eyed: OMG GUYS THAT'S MY DAD!! THAT IS!! MY DAD!! (points excitedly) ISN'T HE INCREDIBLE?

Odysseus: And later when he wouldn't stop being in my way I stabbed a god repeatedly with his own trident.

Penelope, heart-eyed: That's my husband. My love. Love of my life. You slay, my king.

The rest of the people at the table are 100% freaked out and probably terrified, btw.

Hell yeah. Time for me to blab about the comic instead of the meme.

Anyone remember this legend of a comic? Tintin, arguably Hergés greatest work.

Action packed, full of mysteries, and humorous, Tintin is one of the greatest comics ever. It’s one of the first stories that got me into analyzation, one of the reasons I love mysteries and puzzles today.

Admittedly, some parts (Mainly Tintin in the Congo and The Blue Lotus) of the comic are rather…Ehh, blunt and straight, racist. It gets really stereotypical at times, Hergé has actually admitted to solely confirming to the stereotypes at the time.

The art style itself is simple but improves over time. There is no variation in the paneling but it gets the job done. The lettering/speech bubbles can be kinda confusing for new readers but you get used to it eventually.

The characters are kinda flat. Fitting to their descriptions with no questions asked, no real backstory for anyone. But this a comic from the 20th century, cut it some slack. They fit well together though, all of them fitting together to make a great cast.

The storylines? That’s the gold. Really intriguing, having plot twists and suspense all the way through. If not for the plot, I probably would’ve stopped reading.

Do I recommend this? Yeah. Will it be hard to read in the beginning? Yes. But stick for the storylines, some peak writing is found there ngl.

I sound like a total nerd for talking about this 😭

this is the mood tonight lads