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Everyone involved in this should be catapulted into the sun.

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Everyone involved in this should be catapulted into the sun.

A new publisher plans to churn out 8000 books in 2025 using AI. Everything about this from the massive waste of energy to the absence of any creative curiosity is utterly fucking depressing.

I, for one, don’t believe this is a real testimony from Mr. Carlos Andromeda.

As had been said on other posts about GenAI writing:

If you couldn’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it ?

100%.

Reblog if you're hoping 2011 will be a fresh start.

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if you ask me, the guy who put the sword INTO the stone should be king, not the chucklefuck who got…

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if you ask me, the guy who put the sword INTO the stone should be king, not the chucklefuck who got it out.

I assume the guy who put the “sword that makes you the king” into the stone, doesn’t really want the position

i think the stone should be king since it held the sword the longest

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous…

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

Please remember that “land back” does not mean “indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don’t belong in big cities,” nor does it mean “non-indigenous people can’t be farmers.”

What it DOES mean is that “non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from.”

It means, “there’s a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn’t caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem.”

It means, “non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem.”

It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.

People also get angry at this concept thinking it’d mean non-native people getting mass evicted from their homes but 1) your home is already owned by a bank or big business or government, the difference would mainly be who you’re now paying rent to and 2) most of the land in America isn’t residential anyway.

This topic isn’t about your house that you’re already struggling to pay for, it’s about thousands of miles of the planet rotting away under the monopoly of big agriculture and oil, but hypothetically speaking I think a local tribe would treat you a shitload better than whatever inhuman real estate brand you’re already at the mercy of.

On NaNoWriMo

tgraywrites:

Generative AI technology is, as it has been implemented by all of the major players, a purely exploitative technology that exists and profits entirely from the non-consensual and uncompensated theft of the work of thousands of authors, artists, and other creators. The datasets their technology is trained from could not exist without this mass theft. OpenAI have themselves said “It would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials.”

It is therefore impossible to take advantage of the products of these tools without yourself taking advantage of the mass theft of the work of creators whose data was stolen to build it. You cannot use Generative AI as part of text and image generation and have any respect for the work of the creators whose work was taken without consent or compensation to create it.

This year NaNoWriMo said it would “recognize and respect writers who believe that AI tools are right for them.” So, respecting “writers” who believe the exploitation of the work of the people they believe are their contemporaries is fair game. They went further to say that to categorically condemn the use of artificial intelligence “would be to ignore classist and ableist issues surrounding the use of the technology.” This could not have been a more insulting use of authors with disabilities and from working-class backgrounds to try and use their circumstances as an excuse to push the technology that exploits their work as well.

That this has all happened immediately after they secured sponsorship from “AI writing generator” tool ‘ProWritingAid’ isn’t so much a coincidence as a damning indictment of how this decision to sign up to the exploitation of authors and their works has nothing to do with what’s good for writers whatsoever.

So, I won’t be taking part in NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve deleted my profile and all the writing I had on their site. Instead, I’ll be tracking my progress on my own site with a tool I built myself - and I’ll be working with other authors to make that available to more authors in future years.

Tristan Gray

That’s how the writing community actually works. Not with authors signing up to gain from the theft of the work of their peers, but with authors helping each other, as we always have.

i think edward elric entire military experience can be summarized as john mulaney’s “horse loose in…

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i think edward elric entire military experience can be summarized as john mulaney’s “horse loose in the hospital” bit

there is a CHILD ALCHEMIST LOOSE IN THE STATE MILITARY!

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE CHILD IS GOING TO DO, LEAST OF ALL THE CHILD!

HE’S NEVER BEEN IN THE MILITARY BEFORE!

They interviewed a man who once saw a baby in a restaurant.

WE’VE ALL SEEN A BABY IN A RESTAURANT!!!

THIS IS A CHILD. LOOSE IN THE MILITARY.

@dalethesjtoddler

And then, for a second, it seemed like maybe we could survive the child, and then, 5 miles under the capital city, an evil homunculus was like, “I have a huge transmutation circle and I’m going to kill everyone to become god!” And before we could say anything, the child was like, “If you even fucking look at Amestris, I will punch you to death with my fists. I dare you to do it. I want you to do it. I want you to do it so I can take my unresolved daddy issues out on you, I’m so fucking crazy.”

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Sometimes it’s not a bad thing, just surprising. Like, “Today the child did alchemy without a transmutation circle,” and everyone is like, “Huh, I didn’t know he could do that.”

The creepiest days are when you don’t hear from the child at all. Those are the days when everyone is like “I think the child has finally calmed down,” and then the child is like “I just uncovered a government conspiracy. I went in that secret lab and snuck in there with my tiny body. I have a tiny body, but don’t you tell me that, or I’ll fuck you up,” and you’re like “That’s what I thought you’d say, you tiny fucking child.”

And then for a second we’re like “Maybe the government will fire the child,” and the child is like “I have dismantled the government.”

And its like, I didn’t know he could do that, that shouldn’t be allowed no matter who the child is.

Some people are like “There should NOT be a child in the military”

And I’m like “Well WE’RE WELL PAST THAT”

Some others are like “If there’s a child in the military, then I can do human transmutation with my daughter!”

And we’re like “Well those two things DON’T ADD UP AT ALL!”