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I know posting this on tumblr is just preaching to the choir, but something I’ve noticed in people who are on the fence or slightly in favor of ai is that they don’t actually understand how it works. They see chatgpt generate things in the first person and believe its actually a tiny recreation of the workings of a human brain. But llms don’t understand what they’re talking about. When they search the web for a more niche query it isn’t actually conducting research. It doesn’t even understand what language is, or that it’s meant to convey meaning. All that it is capable of doing is spitting out a string of values that it predicts will be acceptable based off a data set it’s been trained on. It doesn’t see thoughts and ideas, just values that correspond to certain characters that appear in various patterns which it can analyze and reproduce. Explaining this to said group of people has almost always made them realize and/or understand how fallible, and often-times useless they are.

When I watched obsession, I noticed something interesting in the dinner scene. When the two are seated, theres a shot framing them against the stained glass panes. All of them are yellow except for the green one around Bears head. Later, when Bear is on the phone, we see that the back wall has two green panels. Initially, I thought that this was signifying agency. At the table, next to Bear, the curse activates, and Freaky Nikki is in control, but when Bear isn’t around, the real Nikki can gain back some control, meaning that it was the real Nikki who got up and looked around. However, the more I thought about it, the less sense it made, since Nikki standing up definitely seemed to be intended as more creepy/possessive. Color symbolism is an interesting route to go with this: yellow for joy/contentment and green for jealousy. At the table, Freaky Nikki is content to just be around Bear, but Bear is freaked out by her behavior, wishing she would just be normal. When he leaves, she becomes impatient, stepping into the framing that suggests two unhappy souls. From a shot-design perspective, thats why she stands up during the confrontation - so that shes framed in front of the two green panes. This could also literally just all be coincidence considering the budget probably restricted them heavily, hence why they filmed in an actual restaurant instead of on a set, but I just thought it was interesting :) + wouldn’t be surprised if it was intentional on Curry Barker’s part, given the level of quality in every other aspect of the movie

Eat my shit-flavored dick you Presbyterian waterfowl lookin motherfucker

Didnyou know that in stainless steel cookware, what they apply to the metal is actually considered a stain, so its technically stained cookware? Omg you didnt? Thats bc i made it up and lied 😊<3

Imagine if we went extinct and aliens found our writing, but they were one homogenous culture and society that spoke a single language, so they didn’t realize that we spoke hundreds of different languages, and tried to piece together every symbol and grammar structure into one language and they thought thats how we talked and wrote

The back of a ducks water or whatever jinx monsoon said

*holds your hand* imagine a drag queen named dinner