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Things I think itās ok to use AI for:
1. Helping blind people navigate the world 2. Separating vocals for sampling 3. Making sports video game commentators have dynamic dialogue (no oneās done this yet I donāt think, but they should. Itās not like youāre taking a job, Kirk Herbstreet still gets paid the same. He probably hates doing all those readings anyways) 4. Those pictures of JD Vance or Elon sucking toes and stuff (they make my parents happy)
Things I think AI should not be used for:
1. Pretty much everything else but Iām sure thereās more like the blind people one, Iāve just heard about those being life savers specifically
Things you should feel deep, all encompassing shame after using ai for:
1. Creative writing. The arts in general really but using ai to write anything creative is an intellectual and spiritual war crime to me
1. Helping blind people navigate the world 2. Separating vocals for sampling 3. Making sports video game commentators have dynamic dialogue (no oneās done this yet I donāt think, but they should. Itās not like youāre taking a job, Kirk Herbstreet still gets paid the same. He probably hates doing all those readings anyways) 4. Those pictures of JD Vance or Elon sucking toes and stuff (they make my parents happy)
Things I think AI should not be used for:
1. Pretty much everything else but Iām sure thereās more like the blind people one, Iāve just heard about those being life savers specifically
Things you should feel deep, all encompassing shame after using ai for:
1. Creative writing. The arts in general really but using ai to write anything creative is an intellectual and spiritual war crime to me
Jul 17, 2025
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š§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 thereās 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 donāt 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 donāt 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 youāre still picking up a stylus and physically doing the work yourself and not just typing in a prompt. And this isnāt even getting into the libraries that AI trains on and if everything in there was acquired correctly or if itās stolenā¦
May 24, 2025
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š¤My #official take is that AI art generally on the whole fucking sucks. 90% of it is uninteresting slop content by brain dead techbros who have no knowledge of art or why we value it.
HOWEVER!!! There is one use case where I think using AI in your art can actually elevate the work, and thatās if the art itself is in some way trying to say something about AI.
Luckily, thereās actually a lot of things to say about AI ā referencing it in your work pretty firmly places it in the current cultural landscape in super powerful way.
Some examples (note that these all have pretty nihilistic / downright dystopian outlooks on modern society, maybe thatās also imporyant): - Vegynās album under the Headache pseudonym - some of the scenes in Conner OāMalleyās 103 fever short
HOWEVER!!! There is one use case where I think using AI in your art can actually elevate the work, and thatās if the art itself is in some way trying to say something about AI.
Luckily, thereās actually a lot of things to say about AI ā referencing it in your work pretty firmly places it in the current cultural landscape in super powerful way.
Some examples (note that these all have pretty nihilistic / downright dystopian outlooks on modern society, maybe thatās also imporyant): - Vegynās album under the Headache pseudonym - some of the scenes in Conner OāMalleyās 103 fever short
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š¤Sometimes I recommend being a hater. Iām not here to talk about the numerous quality uses of AI, how often it is actually used nor am I here to critique AI without strawmanning it. I donāt care if I strawman an account of AI because I genuinely despise the way most people use AI. I think AI generated images are ugly. I think that AI cannot hold a half decent conversation. Iām completely avoidant when it comes to showing AI my writing; Iāve never done it and I refuse to. I hate when you go to that one poetry website and there is AI āanalysisā there, because its not real textual analysis and it upholds a certain contextualised intentionalist framework of reading a text reinforced in high school English. I hate that the meta AI will influence what products will be advertised to you. I donāt care if itās the future. I genuinely love being called a dinosaur because I hate AI.
Sep 24, 2024
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šOk stay with me here. Too much public filming. This is going to discourage good weird public activity. We need people being weird in public. Odd dancing, carrying around insane items, freaked out fits, etc. Instead of a quick vid to show your friends, or, god forbid, *get internet clout*, people should be sketching the scene and describing it in colorful language. Now you have to take accountability for your opinion on the matter, your draftsmanship and writing gets better, and the public freaks have plausible deniability in the job interview. This goes for drunk man on the street tik tok videos as well. Put on a newsboy cap and start jotting. There should be exceptions like intentional performances or heinous crimes of course. Iām open to other exceptions I just canāt think of any rn. This will never be a reality but i can try
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