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So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

the family requests that trash gengar's privacy be respected during this difficult time

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

There are an entire category of videos that you need to be suspicious of immediately at the current moment. Ring/security/dash cam videos. Especially funny/crazy ones. They're low quality as is, so they can get away with covering up some of the app's weakpoints. Also, Jake Paul. He's letting them use his face so he's the poster boy.

But other than "this seems way too crazy to actually happen", here's some things to look for.

Check the account. Usually they're very proud of their slop, so they'll have a pro-ai tell somewhere on the page, or more obvious videos.

Sora applies a moving watermark, and while that can be edited out, they're usually not good at it, so you'll see patchy sections.

And the biggest tell: Sora can't handle highly textured areas. Look at hair and trees or grass. Once you start to notice it, it'll become fairly obvious. Even along hard edges. I believe the term is "Sora noise." It's this warbling, almost nauseating shifting in the pattern. This is what those low res videos are hiding.

As far as animation, from the little I've seen, look for consistency issues. Mouths not syncing, weird motion, things not making logical sense/just popping in, and over reliance on super fast motion trying to hide the weaker points. I'm sure there's more, but I haven't seen as many Sora "animations" so I'm not as up to snuff on those.

I'd be cautious of the mainstream/popular fandoms especially.

EDIT: These things are always advancing. The biggest tool is to use your critical thinking to sus out if something is trying to trick you or not.

It’s bad enough as is that most don’t know shit about gardening, cooking, financing, even motherfucking socializing. We’re now depending on Ai to do our research for us. Reading is now too difficult for us goddamn adults.

Brainstorming, thinking, and doing your own research is literally being attacked.

That’s fucking bad, dawg.

Our brains need to read. To think. To be challenged. I know it’s boring from the surface, but ong that shit is important, it helps us act, it helps us make sense of the world a lot better.

I hate to say it, but Ai has fucked with me too. Those ai chat bots seem so fun, but they’re addicting, non-challenging, and only feed your addiction to constant stimulation.

Signed

And let's not forget, no matter how little you actually sleep and how much you actually get done, if you're not awake during certain hours it means you're a lazy good-for-nothing. Express a desire for more places open 24/7? Selfish and entitled. Complain about how noisy your neighbors are during your sleep hours? Well you can't expect the world to tiptoe around you. But also you'd better keep it down at night because other people are sleeping!

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

Fire post!