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i never would have considered myself capable of making games before ai, and now i have what, 3-4? especially an rpgmaker game, which has been a dream of mine since i was a kid. code has always scared me shitless, and so did the art workload, but it's manageable now.

i've learned a lot more about political theory too, and i attribute that to ai, because i wouldn't have surrounded myself with people who engage with it, were it not for wanting to find ai-friendly spaces. it refined how i argue and how i speak to people! i feel as though i've matured as a person as a result. i have friends that i never would have met otherwise.

and it's changed my art to a fundamental degree. even outside of refining ai art, i've been able to execute ideas that were daunting for me before, because i just cannot grasp anatomy and space like other people can. i felt stunted and like i'd never truly be happy with my art, and now, i feel so much freer! it can be fun again, because it doesn't involve me agonizing over shit that i've spent years of my life unable to understand! i like accessibility tools!

To this day I still wear a mask because I don't want to get sicker than I am, and I don't want to spread illnesses (covid or anything else) between people. It takes no effort. But people give me looks like "what's going on ??? ?" when they see me.

Those people, whose ideals are so fickle that even their own self preservation doesn't matter in the end if it's not the talking point of the day, are the kind of people I think of when I hear the current anti-AI discourse. Especially because I know that a lot of these same anti-AI people are knowingly using AI. I just had an argument the other day with two people about whether AI was acceptable, both of which had admitted in the past to using LLM's (one to code, the other for… idk some random shit)

And I'm not super old, I'm 30 or 40 years old, but I still feel too old to care about how people, who will immediately turn on their ideals when it first seems inconvenient to have them, look at me. It's still sad that so many of the loudest people parrot (or should I say stochastic parrot? get it?? he he.) the least informed talking points and it's maddening that they are aggressive to my friends and acquaintences who just want to better themselves and enjoy their lives and make others' lives better. But I take it as a red flag when I see people treat each other this way, and am just glad to not have gotten close to them, because I feel that even if I hide that I use AI it won't matter because in the end they don't really care about that. They just want someone they can punch down on in front of their peers.

It limits who I can make friends with on some communities, but it's like, I don't really want to befriend rotestant-brained hateful people, and it just means that the connections I do make can be stronger and more meaningful, you know?

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

When you hear a story about a Guy, wanting to tell a story about them is the most natural thing in the world. That's how mythology and folk tales happen.

IMO the idea of fanfiction being "bad" or "cringe" as an artform is related to how activities have to be profitable to be considered valuable, but further than that it is related to how "owning" is considered to be preferred over "caretaking" or "stewardship" where you do not own, you just participate

This was the crossword puzzle in the New York Times yesterday. 

Tausig’s crossword is a so-called Schrödinger puzzle, named for the physicist’s hypothetical cat that is at once both alive and dead. In a Schrödinger puzzle, select squares have more than one correct letter answer: They exist in two states at once. “Black Halloween animal,” for example, could be both BAT or CAT, yielding two different but perfectly correct puzzles. Only 10 such puzzles have now been published in Times history.

It’s the theme of Tausig’s puzzle, though, that makes it special. Four entries in Thursday’s crossword can include either an “F” or an “M.” Both are correct; neither is wrong. For example, “Part of a house” can be either ROOF or ROOM. The long “revealer” answer, tying those select entries together and spanning 11 squares smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle, is GENDER FLUID.