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You ever see a movie and while watching it you think, “This is going to be a cult classic.” I thought this while watching Lisa Frankenstein. In this TedTalk-

happy goodbye forever friday everyone

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that band was on the run because i was out there chasing them with plans to kill them with an ice pick

i wish i were rich because that way i could comtinue being Insane & Useless and it would be fine like not even a problem

i agree that it’s shitty to give people’s data to “AI” companies without their explicit consent, but also i feel like people are blowing the consequences of it out of proportion, or at least focusing on the wrong problem. posting any kind of art online has always opened you up to the possibility of real people stealing your shit, and that’s a hundred times more damaging to you, personally, than whatever slop a machine could algorithmically generate using data combed from countless different sources. the actual dangers of “AI” — such as creative jobs being replaced by machines — are highly systemic and tied into the capitalist hellscape we live under, and flattening that into individualist struggles concerning “plagiarism” is counterproductive and distracts from addressing the real issues in an actual material way.