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The new ‘AI’ Scottish voice being used by ScotRail is being used without the consent of the voice actor.

Professional VA, Gayanne Potter wrote the following on Facebook.

i dont even know what her hair color is at this point

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

CITATION NEEDED?!!!

HOLY FUCK DID YOU ALL SEE THAT???

She looks very cute, but I am giving up on this piece I’m afraid-

So toothy

Sometimes my friend just types "smiles" and it freaked me out the first few times because this is what I imagined.

Here's a little gift for anyone that comes across it :3

Fellow snail also into MINDWAVE!!???!?!?

oooooou you wanna play the MINDWAVE demo so bad ooooouh it's a fucking gorgeous game oooou it's free on Steam go play ittt

if it isnt too much trouble, can you point me towards the rick astley "never gonna give you up doesnt exist" one with opn music in it? i cant find it and i did try for a while here and on twitter

Hey, does anyone have an update on this? It was originally posted almost 2 months ago now.

Do you live in Massachusetts? Are you looking for some direct action to take? Guess what our shitty state house just did!

It’s passed in the house and going to the state senate as far as I can tell and it seems like they just snuck it in there because ???. So it’s time to harass your state senator and rep. You can find them here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

Call them, email them, send them letters, protest outside their doors, whatever. Let them know this will not stand here

I watched a video today that was saying that Americans only feel poor and aren’t actually poor and should just be happier with less and I feel like that sentiment kind of misses a lot of the major problems actually happening in this country recently.

I did a paper on this in highschool, and it’s 100% true that video games help prevent the onset of dementia.

But these people don’t care about that. It’s just that video games to them are too new. They want to find things to blame “the problem of today’s youth” on. But low education standards and the like aren’t new. They also aren’t easy to fix. So you’ll hear claims like how it rots your brain. Or how games cause violence. It doesn’t matter if it’s true- it is just so they feel like there’s an easy solution in reach.

something bleak about the chatgpt subreddit is that occasionally people will bring up the issue of mental illness intersecting with LLMs i.e. intensifying delusions / conspiratorial thinking / paranoia / feelings of grandiosity by basically just mirroring the user's language and philosophy. and the constant refrain is, "these are people who already had these problems, chatgpt didn't give them mental illness, *and it would have happened anyway*"

and we can agree with the first part of that statement, in that talking to a LLM isn't going to completely rewrite your neurochemistry - it's not going to make you think completely wild and new things that you didnt already have some kind of tendency towards.

but. it's an especially shitty attitude to have, that people with paranoia / schizotypal disorders were "a lost cause anyway" and we aren't acknowledging how utterly novel this kind of technology is - it's a thing that people with these conditions have never had access to before, that is marketed specifically as a tool to promote thinking, in a way that can absolutely override or reverse years of progress people have had in managing their conditions

like at best, we've had access to chatbots since the early 00s that would make snarky jokes and frequently answer "I'm sorry I don't understand what you're asking" - and people on r/ChatGPT will bring up these bots as a kind of "gotcha" regardless - but nothing like chatgpt has ever existed before!!! that's the entire point, it's a novel technology that is climbing toward ubiquity - everyone and their mother is starting to use chatgpt now in a way other chat programs never were

and if someone in the psychological sciences can verify here: i'm aware that there is a portion of the population that is within 1-2 degrees of someone with a psychotic disorder, with a substantial genetic component, who (in previous decades) never went on to develop psychosis. they would have typically gone their whole lives just navigating around that vulnerability, unaware or not, most of them never triggering it, because the conditions (environmental, cultural, familial) never transpired. some might have stumbled into a religious group or fringe community that then activated that predisposition, but it was something that people had to search out and find, specifically interacting with people, literature, forums, etc that enabled these delusions.

LLMs are at-home ready to use non-persons that are perpetually available 24 hours a day to repeat back to a user exactly what they want to hear! it's free! you don't have to leave your house. you don't have to sit face to face with another person who can emotionally process what you're saying. you will not be recommended resources for your delusions. you can have a never-ending conversation with a computer that 100% agrees that you are the messiah.

if people aren't concerned about this shit as far as it affects the lives of mentally ill and unknowingly susceptible people, and they go on accepting them as collateral losses for this "great technological progress," then we're fucked. sorry. but we are.

Typical tumblr interactions

my hungry ass could NEVER work in a hardware store.

yhis is gonna happen in chapter 4 mark my words

they say ch 3 is gonna be a real

you just sat there and raised your hand these are middle school talents don’t boast.

middle school talents are becoming rarer and rarer these days such as Reading Comprehension Being able to talk to someone Compassion Understanding of other's viewpoints Common sense Not being fooled by a fake image of a baby on a motorcycle. No Tucker, he did not do that, you got tricked by a machine that burnt down a tree to make that.

the scariest thing about the generative AI thing is how quickly people have accepted it as an indefinite, irrevocable part of their reality. people have genuinely convinced themselves that ChatGPT is the only solution to most tasks - tasks they did with their own brain without any large effort two years ago. like you know damn well all of us used to write emails ourselves why are we pretending like this is an impossible task to do with your own two hands. what's with the fucking. AI revisionism. i feel like i am going insane.

Call it what it is: corruption.

Person in my gas station talking to someone on the phone: ...We're in Ohio...

Me, knowing we're in Utah: ????

Day 1160 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: The New Normal

Reminds me of a story my brother told me. He was at his new job, and his trainer complained about the day saying how there’s no way to make it worse. Then one of his coworkers faked having a heart attack to prove that the day could get worse actually

My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said 'it can't be that bad you haven't started howling like a sad dog yet' and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I've ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?'

Always go the bathroom on company time, and only on company time!

Abbie from mindwave

Then there’s the Ames. Which are not as notable as Adam’s or Kennedy’s. Couldn’t tell ya much about them aside from they got rich off shovels, and got involved in politics

Adams Political Family or Kennedy Political Family? There is a correct answer btw/sil

I mean, the Kennedy's had some good eggs amongst the rotten bunch, but RFK Jr is giving them a run for their fucking money. Been a while since I have had anything top of mind about the Adams at all, but they did have that whole slavery thing going on.

So, neither. All politician's suck and have some shady shit going on (understatement), and even the best of them are mid at their peak.

I wonder… how many people found out the pope is dead from this post popping up on their timeline?

dead

PBS was always made to be inclusive to everyone. It started out with an all black human cast. It already was woke. You just grew up to be a racist bigot.

#PBS teaches kindness and inclusion, which are threats to abusive paternalism.

“Nobody wants to enjoy retirement” is such a stupid thing. Like- ???????? Yes?????? People do??????

Listening to Maria Bartiromo drone on about MAGA narratives as if she has an objective point of view is theatre for the braindead.

The anecdotal 'nobody wants to enjoy retirement' is from the same people who say grandma should help with child care.