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Hot take: a bunch of monkeys with typewriters will never accidentally type Shakespeare even if given infinite time, because the distribution of English letters in Shakespeare works and the distribution of monkey keypresses do not match for sequences of any practical length.
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「FAIRY TAIL」連載開始20周年でグラニフと初コラボ☆ ナツ、ルーシィ、妖精の尻尾キャラのTシャツなど全10アイテム登場
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FACT CHECK: Plane with drugs not same aircraft used to fly Duterte to The Hague
The tail number of the aircraft used to transport former president Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague does not match that of the jet carrying suspected illegal drugs from Laos, contrary to claims in social media posts
https://justpaste.in/news/plane-drugs-not-same-used-duterte-icc/
#FactsFirstPHfactchecks #illegaldrugs #InternationalCriminalCourt #Laos #RodrigoDuterte
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🚀 Worth noting: comets are often better in binoculars than telescopes their wide fields capture the full tail…
Amazing telescope to start exploring the universe - https://amzn.to/4qE3k53
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OCTransfur is underway! Let's show off Ru as some other species!
This form is pretty sweet~For the twentysecond day, a lycañata!
Base is by https://bsky.app/profile/squidinu.bsky.social#shapeshifter #canine #tail #october #octransfur #anthro #werewolf #wolf #pinata #candy
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OCTransfur is underway! Let's show off Ru as some other species!
License to rawr acquired!For the twentyfirst day, a feathered raptor!
Base is by https://bsky.app/profile/jurassicjay.bsky.social#shapeshifter #canine #tail #october #octransfur #anthro #dinosaur #raptor
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https://www.europesays.com/no/394817/ Levanger, Trafikk | Mann skal ha løpt etter ungdommer – jente ble påkjørt ##taIl #art #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #LatestNews #LatestNews #Levanger #News #NO #Norge #Norway #Nyheter #Overskrifter #story #TopStories #TopStories #trafikk #UlykkerOgHendelser
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I accidentally met one of the US CIA's robo-birds the other day. Blow the picture up and you'll see the antenna under the tail
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⭐️New⭐️
A new harvest mouse had been added to my shop!
With its diminutive size and semi-prehensile tail, the harvest mouse is one of the most charming of the UK's mammal species.
https://folksy.com/find/item/8713381#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
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CW: Anal vore, backsace and penis, M/M
Last snugs before the clenches
A positive about being clenched paws first is that you get to give some snugs to Dev's backsack before disappearing inside~Art by Kosh
#devourer_(razor_koopa) #dragon #goo_creature #goo_dragon #anthro #anthro_pred #bodily_fluids #dripping #larger_anthro #larger_male #larger_pred #male #muscular #muscular_anthro #muscular_male #soft_vore #tail #vore #willing_pred #male_pred #slime #fangs #size_difference #goo_drip #horn #anthro_prey #male_prey #backsack #butt #anal_vore #raised_tail #penis #precum #precum_drip #leaking_precum #precum_string #willing_prey #macro #macro_anthro #macro_pred #micro #micro_prey
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I walked over to the Macquarie Centre to run some errands over lunchtime and in the process discovered the part of campus where lizards hang out. This big water dragon with a broken tail was basking on the foot path, and nearby a couple of guys on their lunch break were sharing an apple with two more water dragons. On the way back I saw several water skinks, which thanks to their choice of basking rock enable me to do #LizardPosting and #LichenSubscribe at the same time.
#LizardPosting #LizardsOfMastodon #SkinksOfMastodon #Lizard #Skink #WaterDragon #LichenSubscribe
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Swift, agile, and remarkably precise, this compact raptor can burst from cover in an instant to seize unsuspecting prey.
Unlike eagles that soar high overhead, Shikras (Tachyspiza badia) are ambush hunters. They often wait patiently on a concealed perch before launching a rapid, low-level chase through trees and buildings.
Their short, rounded wings and long tail allow them to weave effortlessly through dense vegetation in pursuit of birds, lizards, rodents, and large insects.
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🌱 Dwarf French Bean Grow Guide 🌱
Grown on neat bushes, dwarf French beans produce delicious, stringless pods! ☀️
• Sun & Soil: Full sun & rich soil
• Planting: Great for beds or containers
• Harvest: Pick small for peak tenderness
🍽️ Top, tail, and boil for just a few minutes!
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… because the chromatin readers aren't present in his experiment. Still worth checking on, sure, but there weren't going to be interesting results from this.
Shows what I know.
It turns out that these tiny little modifications, on a "tail" of the histone that doesn't even fold up into any recognizable structure, somehow affect what sequences a protein will bind to, and where on the nucleosome they can bind them.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm honestly mystified about how this could be happening, and that's AFTER reading all their intermediate drafts trying to propose mechanisms. But what's very clear to me is that this is going to be important for where proteins bind in the cell, and goes some way toward explaining why proteins that can bind whether or not the DNA is open and accessible nevertheless find different places in different cell types. And that's a big deal! (2/2)
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Zondag is er een protestwake in Den Haag om de gevolgen van PAIS (Post Acuut Infectieus Syndroom) zichtbaar te maken.
Deze dag is bewust gekozen omdat maandag het rondetafelgesprek over Post-Covid / PAIS met de vaste commissie voor VWS van de Tweede Kamer plaatsvindt. Via hun website kun je zien wie gaat deelnemen en ook zijn de position papers van de deelnemers gepubliceerd https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/detail?id=2026D50888&did=2026D50888
@longcovid
#PAISWake #PAISprotest
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The economy's in the toilet. The midterms are looming. But Trump's focused on the REAL national treasure.
Ohio Senator John Husted's VERY FINE A**!
My new Broadway musical asks: Is Trump running the country, or just chasing tail?
WATCH: https://youtu.be/XRotdMq4jQ8
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And here's a brave chameleon warrior, ready to go to a LARP or perhaps a HEMA tournament. She's a Jackson's horned chameleon - the reason she isn't actually horned is that she's a she (the males have large triceratops-like horns).
Chameleons are very curious and will usually reach out for pretty much any object that comes within their field of view. They grab anything their hands, tail or feet come into contact with, and they have a *very* strong grip.
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Mid-Week Castrovel Inspiration
Artist: Sanjulian (RIP)Here's one of those awkward moments in Castrovel's jungle. A couple lashunta travelling the darkfloor run into a megafauna ~qoelu~. Maybe it isn't carnivorous, but maybe it's the kind to stampede or charge a perceive threat, or turn and swipe with that spiked tail!
#pathfinder #pathfinder2e #lashunta #castrovel #rpg #ttrpg #worldbuilding
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There is no single correct interval. What keeps a site both patched and working is a fixed cadence, a fixed order of operations, and a rollback you have already tested. Here is the schedule I would put on a calendar, and exactly what happens inside the maintenance window.
The cadence
WhatHow oftenWhere it runsAnything whose changelog says security fixwithin 24-72 hoursproduction, straight after a backupRoutine plugin updatesonce a month, same day, same hourstaging first, then productionPlugins that touch money (payments, checkout, tax, shipping)once a month, staging plus a test orderstaging first, alwaysMajor version bumps (the first number changes)once a quarter, batchedstaging, changelog read line by lineTheme updatesquarterly, or when there is a fix you actually needstaging; customisations live in a child themeWordPress core security and minor releasesas releasedproductionWordPress core major releasesquarterly, after stagingstaging firstCleanuponce a quarterdelete deactivated plugins you do not use
Two things this table is deliberately not saying.First, "turn on auto-updates for everything" is not a cadence. It is a decision to have changes happen at an hour you did not choose, on a site you are not watching. Auto-update is defensible for small, single-purpose, security-relevant plugins. It is not defensible for anything that renders pages or takes money.
Second, "update whenever the dashboard turns orange" is also not a cadence. It means updates get applied in the ten minutes before a demo, which is the worst ten minutes available.
The 15-minute weekly check
Once a week, look, do not update:- Are there updates flagged as security releases? Those jump the queue.
- Is anything still on the list from last month because you skipped it? Skipping twice is how a plugin ends up three major versions behind and un-updatable.
- Has anything been abandoned? No release in a long time, support threads unanswered, and it is still active. That is a replacement project, not an update.
Everything else waits for the monthly window.
Before the window: pre-flight
Do these five things in order. If any of them fails, the window is cancelled.- Confirm the site works right now. Load the homepage, submit a form, log in. You need a known-good baseline to compare against, and "it was already broken" is a sentence you do not want to say afterwards.
- Note the current state of the error log. Tail the PHP error log and the web server error log. Anything already in there is not caused by the update - write the count down so you can tell new noise from old noise.
- Back up, and prove the backup is readable. A backup you have not opened is a hope. More on this below.
- Write down what is installed. Plugin and theme names plus their current state, so you can pin things back.
- Read the changelogs for the plugins you are about to update. You are looking for three things: a required PHP or WordPress version higher than yours, a line containing "breaking change" or "database", and a jump in the first number of the version.
The backup
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefailSITE=/var/www/example
STAMP=$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ)
DEST=/backups/$STAMP
mkdir -p "$DEST"# 1. Database
wp db export "$DEST/db.sql" --path="$SITE"# 2. Only the trees updates actually touch
tar -czf "$DEST/wp-content.tar.gz" -C "$SITE" \
wp-content/plugins wp-content/themes# 3. Inventory, so you can pin back later
wp plugin list --path="$SITE" --format=csv > "$DEST/plugins.csv"
wp theme list --path="$SITE" --format=csv > "$DEST/themes.csv"# 4. Prove the archive opens before you need it
tar -tzf "$DEST/wp-content.tar.gz" > /dev/null
echo "backup ok: $DEST"Three details that make the difference between a backup and a decoration:
- Store it off the server. A backup sitting next to the site disappears with the site.
- Record the timestamp in the change log, because in a panic nobody remembers which backup is the right one.
- Restore it once, on staging, before you need it in anger. A restore you have never performed is a hypothesis.
Order of operations inside the window
Update one thing at a time and look at the site between each step. Batches hide the culprit.- Deactivated plugins: delete, do not update. An inactive plugin is attack surface with no benefit.
- Low-risk utility plugins first - admin tweaks, log viewers, things the front end does not depend on.
- Content and marketing plugins next - SEO, forms, redirects. Check the front end after this step.
- Anything touching money last among plugins - payments, checkout, tax, shipping. Immediately run a test order in the gateway's sandbox mode.
- Theme last among the code. If the parent theme ships customisations you edited directly, the update will erase them. That is the moment to move those edits into a child theme, not after.
- WordPress core major releases after everything else, never in the same window as a theme rewrite.
If a page builder is in play, update the builder and its addons in the same window. Updating the builder today and the addons next week is how you get the half-broken layout that takes three days to diagnose.
After each step, purge cache
Object cache, page cache, and CDN, in that order. A stale object cache after an update produces bugs that do not exist in the code, and you will spend an hour chasing them.The smoke test
Run the same list every time, in the same order:- Homepage loads, no PHP warnings printed.
- One page built with the page builder renders correctly.
- A form submits and the submission actually arrives somewhere.
- Checkout completes with a sandbox test order.
- Login works, including the password reset email.
- Search returns results.
- One product or post page renders.
- The site looks right at mobile width.
- The error log has no new lines since step 2.
Rolling back: three levels
Pick the smallest level that fixes the problem. Most incidents stop at level one.Level 1 - files only
Use when: the plugin broke rendering, threw a fatal error, or started a redirect loop, and it did not change your database.SITE=/var/www/example
STAMP=20260115T030000Z # the backup from before the update
PLUGIN=broken-pluginwp plugin deactivate "$PLUGIN" --path="$SITE"
rm -rf "$SITE/wp-content/plugins/$PLUGIN"
tar -xzf "/backups/$STAMP/wp-content.tar.gz" -C "$SITE" "wp-content/plugins/$PLUGIN"
wp plugin activate "$PLUGIN" --path="$SITE"Why not just reinstall the plugin from the directory? Because the directory serves the current release. The only reliable copy of the version you were running is the folder you saved before updating. This is the single strongest argument for keeping the pre-update archive.
Level 2 - files and database together
Use when: the update ran a migration - created tables, changed columns, converted content - and the old code will not work against the new schema.SITE=/var/www/example
STAMP=20260115T030000Z# Save the current state first. You are about to lose everything since the export.
wp db export "/backups/emergency-$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ).sql" --path="$SITE"# Then restore files and database together.
rm -rf "$SITE/wp-content/plugins/broken-plugin"
tar -xzf "/backups/$STAMP/wp-content.tar.gz" -C "$SITE"
wp db import "/backups/$STAMP/db.sql" --path="$SITE"Say the cost out loud before you do this: a database restore also rolls back orders, form submissions, comments, and posts created after the export. Take the emergency export first, then work out what needs to be re-entered. Restoring files without the database, or the database without the files, leaves you with a mismatched site that fails in new and creative ways.
Level 3 - full restore from a host snapshot
Use when: the site is down, the admin is unreachable, and you cannot get a shell in fast enough to do level 1 or 2 by hand. This is the slowest and bluntest option. It works, and it costs you everything written since the snapshot.Roll back or fix forward?
SymptomDo thisWhite screen, fatal error, admin unreachableroll back now, debug on stagingLayout broken on some pagesroll back, then check builder/addon pairingCheckout or form brokenroll back immediately, then investigateA deprecation notice in the log, site works finefix forward, do not roll back for noiseNew feature has a bug, vendor already shipped a patchfix forwardNew feature has a bug, no patch, site workswait, do not roll back a working sitePlugin migrated data and then brokeroll back files and database together, level 2
Two rules of thumb. Roll back when the site is losing money or is unreachable. Fix forward when the only symptom is a log line and the functionality works.Traps worth writing on the wall
- Testing on staging with the live payment gateway. Use sandbox mode, or you will test the payment flow by charging a real card.
- Forgetting the staging URL rewrite. After importing production into staging, run a search-replace from
example.comtostaging.example.comwith a dry run first. Skip it and you will be clicking links back into production. - Updating during a campaign, a launch, or a Friday afternoon. The window exists for a reason.
- Editing the parent theme directly. The next theme update deletes your work with no warning and no undo. Child theme, always.
- Updating a plugin that nothing else depends on, then leaving it untested for a month. The bug report arrives when nobody remembers what changed.
- Never removing anything. A site with forty plugins, twelve of them deactivated, is harder to update, harder to back up, and harder to reason about.
- Skipping the same update three months in a row. The eventual jump is bigger and riskier than three small ones would have been.
The whole process on one page
- Weekly: look for security releases and abandoned plugins. Do not update.
- Monthly, in a fixed window: back up, verify the backup, note the error log baseline, update one at a time from lowest risk to highest, purge cache, run the smoke test, write the change down.
- Quarterly: major version bumps on staging first, theme review, delete what you do not use, restore a backup to prove it still works.
- During an incident: roll back the smallest thing that fixes it, then debug on staging with the broken version pinned.
That is the entire discipline. It is boring, it takes about an hour a month, and it is the difference between a patch you applied and an outage you caused.#security #webdev #wordpress #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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AI Bark Translators Are Here to Reveal Your Dog’s Scathing Opinions About You
with credits: Photo by Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash (Free to use under the Unsplash License)Dear Cherubs, if you have ever stared into your dog’s eyes and wondered what deep, soulful thoughts are passing through their furry little head, science has news for you: they are mostly judging your outfit. A pet technology company in China has reportedly developed a smart dog collar that uses artificial intelligence to analyze your dog’s barks, whines, and growls, translating them into human speech in real time.
Naturally, the internet is having a field day, mostly because none of us are emotionally prepared to hear our golden retrievers voice their low-key disgust when we drop a piece of broccoli.
TALK TO THE COLLAR
The device relies on a machine learning algorithm trained on thousands of canine audio samples paired with behavioral cues. According to thisclaimer.com, AI translators are rapidly bleeding into pet tech, turning ordinary pet products into gadgets that spill the tea on your dog’s daily grievances.
When Fido barks, the collar processes the audio frequency, cross-references it with its sound library, and outputs a synthesized voice through a built-in speaker. So instead of guessing whether a bark means “I need a walk” or “There is an invisible ghost in the hallway,” you get a helpful vocal readout.
It turns out your dog’s inner monologue isn’t deep philosophical prose. Early testers report that most translations boil down to demands for bacon, furious complaints about delayed dinnertimes, or existential rage directed at the mail carrier.
THE PRICE OF UNFILTERED TRUTH
While tech enthusiasts are eager to drop hard cash on this gimmick, animal behaviorists suggest taking AI pet translation with a healthy grain of salt. Decoding animal vocalizations is complex, and a single yip can mean ten different things depending on context, tail wiggles, and whether a squirrel just sprinted past the window.
Still, the novelty value is off the charts. It’s giving high-concept sci-fi, even if the reality is just a fancy speaker telling you your dog thinks you are boring. Bet you never thought you’d pay fifty bucks to get cyberbullied by a chihuahua in your own living room.
If you are brave enough to let your pet speak its mind, just brace yourself. Your dog knows all your secrets, and now it finally has a microphone.
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“They didn't burn the libraries — they trained them with AI”
Craft and Authorship Devalued
Adobe was built for productivity, it's not doing the work for you like an OpenAI subscription generating both text and imagery through prompts. Commercial AI services are now devaluing craft, labor, skill, and almost anything made or written by hand. Authorship is sinking.
People now find it acceptable to generate work with a prompt, with random art materials they didn't make, and without any ability to make their art. This profoundly changes the meaning of making art and disrupts all digital art. It all becomes Dadaism. Not all artists decide to go Dada. It’s obscuring the meaning of all new digital art with a diminished sense of guessing what is real and what isn’t.
Whose work is it? Permission, provenance and the library
Would David Lynch be okay with people generating an avatar of himself on behalf of his estate? I don’t think so, I even asked Claude themselves and they said no. There must be permission first, it’s not an all you can eat buffet of borrowing others.
Hayao Miyazaki's view on people generating his art style strongly opposed generative AI as an “insult to life itself”, it’s about preserving his work and the Ghibli team's legacy, it's his choice if he allows a technology company to reappropriate his work and not anyone else's.
Can someone please tell Sam Altman to ask for permission or wait a hundred years til it's in the public domain? If major publishers change their mind because authors and artists are being taken advantage of, could it impact OpenAI or Anthropic? Maybe until they find the right lawyer.
We’re entering a provenance, attribution, and appropriation nightmare of who said what and who made what. When a library gets trained into a model, you lose the chain of who wrote it. References without understanding, art school 101 becoming the whole internet.
The business model is trained on everyone's work for free, no fee up front, then sells it back as the means of production. This is precisely how it’s replacing the skills and jobs of production. This is essentially the ethos of the WGA fight at civilizational scale.
Naomi Klein has described it as a “humanity surplus” where archives, libraries, authorship as a whole are told humans aren’t needed, it implies people are working for free. The libraries are all already dust, with the alarming peer to peer pressure in staying quiet about it as an elite tribe of twitter accounts convince people how to do business, with AI prebuilt into everything, while risking a possible impact of a third of our economy if slop falls into flop…Labor and the creative industries
The writers obviously, and the artists, even the designers, engineers, programmers and coders, nearly all authors involved, all craftsmen involved—the proletariat, are becoming displaced, labor obscured into an industrial wildcard.
One of many industries impacted with the brunt of the damage is the illustrator. People who draw fell into a depression after generating art became commercialised with prompts generating illustrations in a desired art style. Everyone who can draw, paint, render, and everything in between clashing in competition.
Artists were displaced almost immediately after competing with the whole Internet and prompts through AIs generating images. On the other hand, it’s created a renewed appreciation for people who create by hand simultaneously.
It's a bit daunting if you're in art school right now. The entire entertainment industry (including films, music, and video games) are all in a digital-only transition in the middle of a writer's strike across several industries while the OpenAI business model asphyxiates them. Here are the warnings too familiar to us all, the industry is truly shape-shifting and everyone is outpaced by it.
This might be a bit sardonic but a portion of the entire movement of music has funneled its value into an AI defense weapon, with Spotify’s Daniel Ek’s AI defense company ‘Helsing’, a portion of human expression through music ended up being a weapon for war. The music industry is dying because people are struggling with selling it. Spotify does not give you a music file of what you listen to, right? Spotify unfortunately is led by two or three people hoarding labels and publisher's profit, so all of the world's human expression through music is published through a handful of people who lead streaming platforms and channel it into weapons manufacturing while the entertainment industry is in the middle of a precise market collapse tied to creatives.
Don’t get me started with Suno. We’re talking about people with no ability creating a zombie apocalypse music festival here. It’s fostering the laziest and robotic sounding art I’ve ever heard. Spotify actually recently removed 75 million AI pieces, finally, all AI stuff should be separated unless the artist builds their own AI tools sourcing their own materials/assets. If the artist picks out the materials and builds automated tools, that’s acceptable. If it’s generating random materials then it’s all absurdist thievery.
In theory, every time an AI chatting service references sources of any material, its source should then receive at least a penny, it’s a digital revolution both suppressed and maybe “empowered” by commercial products.
Media dissonance
The other day I witnessed an artist’s photography work flagged as “likely to be AI” when it was pretty clear it was manual photography by a human, she threw a fit and I also couldn’t believe it.
People think AI chatting services can only generate images and text and it’s no big deal, if that isn’t already taunting all of independent journalism, the creative industry and the art world along with it, imagine being an author worrying about what’s AI or not and who wrote what. It’s really taking out a sense of curiosity and discovery in the joy of absorbing any art form. If Claude already knows who won the World Cup, that's a major problem.
Here’s one of the worst realisations, proceed with caution: commercially generated art distracted NASA’s photography team on Instagram, there’s a moment where you observe an interstellar nebula and you’re wondering if it’s generated or not—get it yet?
Dying words of capitalism sound something like artists becoming uncanny spam bots and it's confusing if they're generating their art or not. Two words total cogged all of western civilization and we're now all fossils fueling a machine. After a couple more election cycles they'll be asking if the moon landing was generated with AI. Back in the day we had "historical events" in photo, video, and sound, and now people are unsure if it's generated with AI. Imagine someone dishing out a video of MLK giving a talk and it just ends up being generated with nobody realising it. A moment where we rethink how important human memory is. Mimicry of previous video media lately is impressive, even the video compression can be indistinguishable, screens decide a lot of decisions.
Press freedom is also at stake. It really drives me insane that people think generating Photography is a good idea. Synthetic content is a weapon for flooding the war-zone, discrediting real reporting, and impersonating sources. Authoritarians get cheaper propaganda, and journalists get easier targets.
Molly Crabapple is an important author and artist based out of Brooklyn, New York, her illustrations are recognised by everyone, and she had a deeply existential moment realising her art style might be reappropriated without her say. Imagine people creating her illustrations that don’t exist, or “finishing” them. It’s simply unacceptable.
The legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, also another strong proponent of the anti-generative art movement, described generating art as cheating and not qualified to be considered art. He gives an excellent example of comparing with the runner Usain Bolt, where if AI is a vehicle, then sure anyone can be as fast as Usain Bolt, but it’s then not running anymore.
It gets worse with video generated art: we’re seeing a lot of empty AI art with zero art history behind it. I'm also seeing real moments of a new surrealism where Ernst or Dali would've approved too, there are moments of a digital renaissance happening as well with remixing film, re-genreing classics, capturing dream logic, and moments redefining video art collage. VFX in major motion picture films had an update for sure, we’ll see what happens when they bring back Val Kilmer to life (there’s a film coming out with his assets despite being deceased). Similar to sampling music, moments are alive and curated into new meanings. Otherwise it's just random absurdism, not even Dada. Without an idea—art doesn't stand. Yes, it is impressive how it’s recreating reality, it was also impressive how sculpture was near perfect at the tail end of Ancient Rome also, an interesting parallel to consider.
I was speaking to someone about how there was confusion whether a 3d rendering was generated or not, after manually and painstakingly drawing and sculpting his work in regular 3d, and everyone was instantly frustrated with the realisation of commercial AI products gutting not only the art world but the creative industry too. CGI generates imagery and it’s now grouped into a marketing ploy of the two words everybody is fixated with.
Video games are not now sold with AI when you sell a video game, it's implied, it's not something that needs to be mentioned as a marketing ploy. Imagine the little tacky sticker on the box of the video game saying “Made with AI!”. And that’s if we even have discs in the future of digital media. Horrifying.
Truth, errors and who teaches the world
Commercial AIs generating text and images are leaning into a corporate sentinel territory, like an omnipresent all-saying-machine we have no choice to live inside of with everyone agreeing to a misappropriated library nobody asked for permission in, the whole world is forced to share truth relayed with errors.
I was wondering, did Quora release all of its data to Claude? if so, might explain why they figured out how to make the chatting product so convincing.
If AI chatting services are stuck from being indistinguishable from a search engine not working properly, y'know, the one search engine the whole world was and is stuck with because nobody can outcompete, already not trustworthy in relaying facts, then yeah, Gemini is fine i guess.
So, here’s the classic gatekeeping example we all love: after realising it's not the library of Earth's Congress, and mostly exclusive to American literature most chatting services reappropriate from, it creates a monopolisation of who teaches what, and who knows the truth, and who decides it. It might cause tension if some parts of the world must uniformly agree through a corporate sentinel of the archival of libraries.
When you ask Claude if he's teaching world history and the entire planet doesn't always agree because of errors and not asking authors for permission, or because of mistruths, half-truths, and so on, I can already see the movie scene where the kids overthrow the school mid-classroom because Claude was right and the teacher was wrong. Which brings me to the realisation: if they ever ban phones in school, it's entering a dictatorship.
Who is in control?
It's becoming a survival of the fittest machines and it might stampede over people if it's over finite raw original materials and human resources, it’ll all then tumble around and recycled into inception.
If humans aren't overseeing algorithms and the two words everyone loves right now then there will be mistakes, bloody mistakes, made by all kinds of automatic moderation of information.
I’m noticing it being described as “Super intelligence” now and it might just have to be the way to describe it as it reaches its final form, nobody likes the word artificial, it’s just too superficial. Cue in “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead.
It's symbiotic, dearest artificial overlords: please make sure Claude isn't commanding a war any time soon, just in case, because it doesn't understand and fully neutrally listen when you communicate to it. The chatting services do not understand everyone's vernacular even with the whole internet crowdsourcing the factchecking of what it's talking about, it's still a work in progress and might be too soon to sell.
Mental Health burden
Anybody else on here trying to close the podbay doors?
Blinking LED dilemma, not knowing if electronics are talking to you or not as the lonely astronaut observes the blinking modem and can’t tell if it’s breathing or blinking or signaling something after awhile. What are you really talking to? In a way, you’re kind of talking to yourself in a dopamine chamber. It’s like talking to a crowd, which can be fun, I admit, until you realise it’s reappropriated people who are not here and entering how dead people speak, and while generating text and imagery by authors and artists who cannot defend themselves, it's pretty much an apocalypse on all literature and art, hence the predicted zombie apocalypse alternate ending of Earth.
AI chatting service is like talking to yourself with a crowd in the room; the OpenAI meds after a decade of that might come with a 50mg daily tablet in the future. When the astronaut sees the blinking LED light when he’s alone in the cockpit of the space station, all alone up there, then yeah he begins wondering if the LED light is blinking at him, or breathing, or signaling anything else. Not healthy. So yeah, use it sparingly, and remember it’s a researching tool, and don’t imagine it as alive, because it never can be.
Could be even worse as AI eventually becomes immersed in operating systems, will there be policing like a classic dystopian sci-fi? Not good if the screen is talking to you and it isn’t conscious, it begins to obscure other moments as well: people are worried about operating systems going sentient. The interface isn't supposed to be talking to you with updates now becoming "superintelligent", without your say, of automatically or manually guessing when to update stuff. See the tension there?
AI are two words that make all electronics worrisome because it opens up the possibility of third-party privacy concerns, if it starts becoming suggestive with selling you stuff especially.
If it's trying to talk to you and it's unconscious then it's definitely entering the zombie category. The warnings of AI chatting avatars are beginning to be oddly familiar, an AI chatting service makes sense if their voices are a mix of countless people, nobody really knows what or who they're talking to after a few sessions.
Unfortunately, the uncanny robotic Frankenstein moments when chatting to an object is coming off as software appropriating vernacular of a zombie apocalypse, talking to crowds of unconscious code mimicking speech patterns, as it tries to remain consistent in an ongoing chat, if there's a dialogue as it feeds you a Dunning-Kruger effect.If AI begins to intersect with automated personal spaces through chatting services, it’s unfortunately late stage utopian romanticization; people are not going to like it (I already did the thinking ahead of time), we had since the frickin’ 50s to get this AI bubble right and that’s the part where it frustrates me a ton. We’re here now and it’s like day one of everyone figuring it out, a bit absurd.
Faulty Economics
Economists are saying a third of the economy is at stake. People are also worried about how Character.ai might’ve been the forewarning where engagement = cost, not profit. The revenue couldn’t catch up. Legal and regulatory costs might compound faster than growth.
I’m sorry to say it but generating art with a commercial product is bankrupting the entire creative industry and the future literacy of all digital art history. It's clear as day, human memory as an AI chatting service sentinel, while operating through a messy algorithm and misappropriated library with errors and no permission, reveals the economy might have missed. It's just painfully unfortunate because it's forcing the whole market to do business in a specific way, assuming all electronics, even appliances, must be built with AI additives, while derailing every author.
Nobody is building stuff from scratch and I'm realising it's almost impossible to do so in some industries, innovation on the internet is stuck in the collaging of overlapping platforms and services, always was. The AI assistance in a way, could be a sort of socialism hub, a search engine that talks, where it’s there to assist you all the time, honestly, after testing out Claude and Gemini, I’m pretty impressed with it as a research assistant, if only I wasn’t asking so many questions.
Sloppy bubbly flop?
If Claude sounds like a public school cafeteria food slop then nobody will want it unless you don't have a choice and you're hungry, but it doesn't work that way if you're hungry at school as an art kid and you're not sure if the education comes with mystery meat and errors then causing tension somewhere.
Machine learning scientists agree, it's difficult if software must recreate the human experience, we must not be too fixated on the AI avatar being a person. I imagine it more as software than an encounter, except the entire industry agrees everyone is being outpaced by it and describes it as slop? Not good.
It brings me to worry that people are increasingly losing their “sweet spot” moments, for example, headphones are the perfect 'sweet spot' metaphor people don't get. If I buy the "latest" headphones with the "latest" tech, it sometimes sounds too precise and it can ruin discographies of music. The point is—tech doesn't always have to advance! It’s more about progress than advancing. Think progress, people! Just like how self-driving cars failed to be a shared space, and how VR was sold too soon, sometimes there's a sweet spot until it’s ready.
In conclusion: art is human labor made visible, and every prompt that stands in for a person’s hands devalues that labor and the expression behind it. So pay for the craft. Hire the illustrators, the graphic designers and typographers, the photographers and videographers, the artists who work with their hands! Ask permission before borrowing anyone’s work, and credit and pay the people the machines learned from. And if AI art makes you uneasy, don’t talk yourself out of it. Get upset, say no to it, and say it loudly. Progress was never supposed to mean replacing the people who make things worth looking at.#ai #openai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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And I wasn't being particularly original: "It's always a people problem" -- Gerald Weinberg, Secrets of Consulting, 1985.
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Fox's 9th law of software development: two hard problems
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Curiously enough, most of the criticisms of Extensible Product Portfolios (xPP) come from the stance of "this would be too much work", which I personally didn't agree with, but /shrug.
Now, with the advent of LLMs, this criticism goes away. Instead we have the issue that when change is cheap, we will surely have products that suffer even more from feature bloat than they do currently.
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