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Jellypaws - AI previews and meshes

Casualsims - AI previews. Meshes idk

Sonyasims - AI previews. Meshes idk

Pixelvibes - AI previews. Meshes no ai usage there ❌

ddarkstonee - AI previews and meshes

Dustyrat - They used to use it for their previews, but no longer do. Mesh no ai usage there ❌

pastelpaws/xxxtigger/pasteltigger - uses AI for previews last I checked

ironvolt545 - I am going to assume their meshes use AI or they use AI to “help” them “create”

sims3melancholic - has used AI for those “highly realistic” skins they have recently made

Cowbuild - AI previews and meshes

Leosims - AI previews. Mesh idk

Cluttercat - they use AI for their artwork/painting cc’s. Mesh idk, but I would assume they do since they use AI images for their cc paintings!

Rubyred/casa dutti (same person) - AI previews. Mesh idk

Sims4life - AI previews. Mesh idk. They could be using AI to generate pictures for their paintings/artwork cc or downloading AI images off Pinterest!!

Daonworks - AI previews unknown. Meshes are AI

Syboulette - They used to use AI textures in the past, but who knows if they still do. So watch out for that!

Swimwearsprada - AI previews idk. Meshes are AI

Scodee Yodee - AI previews idk. Meshes are AI (older stuff is fine, only their newer stuff uses it)

AFAIK dumbburgergirl - uses Al for that bubble font in their previews. Could also be using AI for some of the furniture they make

Jellycat - AI previews. Meshes idk

Roxxysim - AI previews. Meshes idk

creamlattedream - AI previews no usage there ❌ Uses AI generated textures for meshes

mhm if I have anything wrong or needs to be corrected please do let me know!!! I don’t want to be spreading misinformation 😭🙏

The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.

But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.

So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.

Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.

Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.

So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.

Wambalo and other digital workers spent eight hours a day in front of a screen studying photos and videos, drawing boxes around objects and labeling them, teaching AI algorithms to recognize them. Human labelers tag cars and pedestrians to teach autonomous vehicles not to hit them. Humans circle abnormalities in CTs, MRIs and X-rays to teach AI to recognize diseases. Even as AI gets smarter, humans in the loop will always be needed because there will always be new devices and inventions that'll need labeling.

 Humans in the loop are found not only in Kenya, but also in India, the Philippines and Venezuela. They're often countries with low wages but large populations — well educated, but unemployed.

The pay for humans in the loop is $1.50-2 an hour.  "And that is gross, before tax," Wambalo said.  Wambalo, Nathan Nkunzimana and Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan were employed by SAMA, an American outsourcing company that hired for Meta and OpenAI. SAMA, based in the California Bay Area, employed over 3,000 workers in Kenya. Documents reviewed by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay SAMA $12.50 an hour per worker, much more than the $2 the workers actually got, though SAMA says what it paid is a fair wage for the region.

It's destroying the environment. It's taking advantage of people who're desperate. It's traumatizing them for dollars an hour--if they're lucky and they aren't denied their pay for no reason. I think about this a lot, that these people were made to look at awful and disgusting and illegal things for the sake of training these stupid AI.

"I looked at people being slaughtered," Wambalo said. "People engaging in sexual activity with animals. People abusing children physically, sexually. People committing suicide." Berhane Gebrekidan thought she'd been hired for a translation job, but she said what she ended up doing was reviewing content featuring dismembered bodies and drone attack victims. 

[...]

SAMA says mental health counseling was provided by "fully-licensed professionals." Workers say it was woefully inadequate.

It's just absurd and disgusting and infuriating. Yes the good applications are worth humans working on. It's not a bad thing--if the people employed to do the work are compensated appropriately and cared for. But so many of the uses are just unnecessary.

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I bet lumbering around as a Golem feels good as fuck

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Maybe Trian's head just did that

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I know they're an affront to everything our people built but uhm. inquisitor cadash is kinda... 🫦

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🧮tintopping

Channelling my Superior stone sense to navigate these stupid ass tunnels. This fleeing the city in disgrace shit is so easy lol

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Wounded Coast.

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Smithing Fact!

You can drink molten metal ☝️ once

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tastes better than darkspawn blood lol

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what

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💎c4dash

I hope Snowball fucking dies tbh

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🧪 arcanistacquired

I need to fuck up cleaning my father's shop so bad that he'll never ask me to do it ever again 😮‍💨

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I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

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No redheaded berserker from a few years ago? 🥹

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BRO???

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THIS MF WANTS TO FUCK OGHREN

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my hungry ass could NOT be in the deep roads

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The parchmenttok girlies will get my ass for this but after reading Swords and Shields I can safely say we made the right call banishing House Tethras

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just saw a human girl walking down the street holding a nug like it was her own child but that's probably none of my business

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LELIANA IS IN TOWN?!??

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what happened at the Provings was NOT funny!!! that casteless madw a mockery of centuries of TRADITIONS

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i swing da sword

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the hero of ferelden called me dad one time and i've been riding that high ever since

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I hate my fucking job. Whoever built this keep: I'm blowing you up with my minddddddddd

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I have a suggestion ☝️🤓

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Not now Dworkin

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Let him talk you bitch

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Creature of the day, for the 8742715th day in a row, is:

SNOWBALL!!!

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

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See that bit at the bottom? Don't do that. Insert ParamedicGuy.gif going "Don't."

Other malicious spam comments I've gotten seemed designed to make an author question their writing, or outright encourage them to delete their stories from AO3. This one is different, in that it tries to get you to destroy the work on your own computer.

If you ran that command, it basically locates your Documents folder, then deletes everything in it, including all subfolders. It also does it without any prompt, so you have no chance to second guess your actions.

This is just fucking trolling.

Coincidentally, we just did training on a cyberattack similar to this, called a ClickFix attack. You can read about how that works here.

As a general rule, if ANYONE or ANY WEBSITE tells you unsolicited* to do anything in Powershell, CMD RUN, command prompt, shell command, or something similar, DON'T.

*There are legit reasons for running commands in PowerShell or the command prompt, but in those cases you are likely seeking out a solution to a problem you are already experiencing. Don't just run random commands on your computer as recommended by some unlogged-in guest on a fan fiction site.

Always think and consider before taking action, and get a second opinion from a trusted source. When I got this comment I was pretty sure what the command would do, and it took me about three seconds of googling to confirm it.

(I added a short little summary for each Class explaining the basic gist of it. Although obviously you can also look them up to get more detailed info)