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maybe i’m just being nitpicky. the whole AI thing has been spoken on, and I am so hypocritical on, i do use it, frequently. I do still think it’s an issue, i do feel like i did at some point lose the ability to think for myself because of a reliance on AI. but even so, just the reliance on typing. yeah, i do prefer it, but i could still write pages and pages without much issue i do believe analogue work is just as important. people complaining about their hands hurting after just a few pages ://. to each their own, i think people need to write more, and think for themselves more, and be able to sit comfortably in not knowing who they are.
ALSO, people need to walk, if you can, move ur body. so much is being lost to cars, and computers, and AI. it’s just sad.
also lithography is dying. thank you for reading my brain dump.
May 27, 2025
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Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old cliché, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
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I worked in a lab that used machine learning to identity things about cells and tissues that would take a human years just due to how time consuming it would be to count and compute by hand. Other science applications are potentially finding cancer earlier and earlier for better outcomes. People also sometimes clown on people who need chatgpt to make a grocery list for them, but I think assisting people with ADLs could be really beneficial too (though there’s getting to be some tricky nuance with people using it for too much instead of letting themselves be challenged a little and idk where to draw that line). I just don’t want restaurants to use AI generated photos on their menus, I get uneasy with people submitting photos of themselves to be transformed with AI, and I don’t think art, poetry, literature, etc should use AI. The whole point of being creative is to do the creating, not to get a computer to do it for you lol. And people said similar things about digital art, but with that you’re still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isn’t even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if it’s stolen…
May 24, 2025
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A.I. used to make art cheaper and to avoid paying artists is abhorrent. Used to write speeches and summarize books reduces the practice and makes the accomplishment meaningless. It cheapens the process and provides no value. The way it’s being advertised is nothing short of disgusting. Google aired an ad where a father uses A.I. to help his daughter write a letter to her favorite athlete. Why are you shortcutting time spent with your daughter, teaching her how to put emotion into words, helping her work through something challenging? It’s soulless dreck. I’m tired of hearing about it, talking about it and thinking about all the ways it can ruin society. Since corporations and industry insist on shoving it down our throat, I think it’s (as always) our responsibility to demand better. The linked essay made me reconsider the use of it as a tool to expand, as you put it, as long as it’s not used to enable laziness and shortcuts.
Jan 14, 2025
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i’m so worried for the future. while i try to just live in the present, i‘m afraid ill never be able to really make it in any art, and it will just be relegated to hobby. i’ve always been an artist, i’ve been writing, and painting, singing, and acting since i was a child. there’s nothing i feel more deeply in my bones than artistry. there is nothing i feel defines me more, i am full of an insatiable providence to engage and really make something. i don’t care what it is, if it’s music, or acting in films, or physical art, i an ordained to act as a vessel for things to be seen. but i understand, its not a career of value, or the industry is competitive, and it breaks my heart to think i may never be able to fully commit myself to it all.
already, i find myself making exceptions, applying as a film studies major, because it would be more versatile, but still allow me to work closely with those circles. if i can’t be within i can stay close. but i will miss it, sidelined, benched.
i guess i’m in early mourning of a dream.
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these are my tattoos :3 i want more :3 money :(
my only contention with them is they aren’t cohesive but i’ve got a whole plan for my torso so it’s fine,,,
is it not smart to have gotten them and get more before im even 18? probably. wouldn’t tell you to do it
lov them anyways tho :):):):)!/)
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