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After all, it's what kept her from taking any real responsibility anyways. She's practically mastered the art of shifting the blame from her to some poor bystander, although that's shifted from petty crime and trouble to something much more sinister.

It was so easy too, everyone around her already thought she was the perfect person. Her mom and dad saw the perfect daughter, who never talked back or done anything wrong. God, why would she? She had decent grades, she always went to church with her parents on sundays, she was such a good girl.

To her peers, she was the epitome of perfect. She was pretty, popular, and the nicest person in the whole world.. to certain people of course. But like everyone else, they weren't really people to her.

Nobody would ever know that the kind, always smiling popular girl could be capable of murder.. or that she fantasized about burning the entirety of Ormond to the ground.

People are just pawns to Julie, pawns that she can use to get her way. That's what the Legion is to her, just another set of pawns she can use to feel powerful , yet never have to take the blame when something goes wrong. Of course, don't get me wrong. There probably still is a sliver of genuine love for everyone in the Legion..

Shes just too blinded by greed and power to be able to fully see or feel that.

This acc will still be active, however I will be a lot more active on there.

He bought (more like steal) his little switchblade when he was 13, the foster home he was placed in at the time was particularly violent, so he bought himself a knife to defend himself. He ended up having to use it when his foster mom was quite literally beating his ass to near death, he slashed at her arm. Later on he would be moved to yet another foster home, which was like .1% better than the last.. foster parents were still assholes though.

He kept the knife, which would fuel his slightly concerning habit of harming small game such as wild rabbits or squirrels.. people just assumed he was into hunting (which he is, for all the wrong reasons).

He also had a knack for carving his name into the walls of all his foster homes starting with that very night he used his knife, a way of making a statement that..

Frank Morrison was never to be forgotten.

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Happy international lesbian day to the BIPOC lesbians!

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Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.