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Bar Mageddon @barmageddon.bsky.social · 7h

image from the movie jaws showing a sweaty chief brody in the cockpit of a boat with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. text should say "we're gonna need a bigger boat" but the last part has a box over it so it says "we're gonna need a bigger nursing home"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

ehhhhhhh is it

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 7h

This post sounds like a gateway to post dumb sports things that only a human can do. Dumb is up for interpenetration & in the eye of the beholder

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

I do think porn seems to occupy a very specific and different head space for most people, in the sense of “this exists for the specific purpose of getting me off in a physical act”

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Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 7h

The human experience craves intention. The reason we still have humans play football instead of robots despite the CTE is that the human drama of the narrative of each team, wondering who will win, the playoff implications is largely what we’re there for, not the actual product itself.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

you’d think the “AI can replace all artists and writers” people would have noticed that no one gives a shit about watching computers compete with one another, and yet

gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 8h

or chess: people play chess, they watch other people play chess, it's even getting a little popular to do. computers are infinitely better than humans at chess. nobody watches computer chess.

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Matt Schneider @mattlaschneider.bsky.social · 8h

RIP grant imahara you would’ve loved hunting AI robots

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

No problem if you just have the computers play Madden against each other - who needs the NFL!

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 8h

I saw the term "single use plastics of the mind" on here a few days ago, which captures the AI problem neatly.

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Lily Munster ain't got nothing on me @tigerlily.northsky.social · 8h

But what if the AIs are trans?! They'd have an unfair advantage at sports! And we would never know because we couldn't test their chromosomes!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

Obviously for the sake of Taylor Swift we could also give the robot a huge schlong

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

this is the tireless, far cheaper Travis Kelce replacement that AI could bring you, and Sam Altman is doing a disservice to investors by denying this to the world

Spooky Stanley @justin-stanley.com · 8h

a bbc logo can be seen in the background of a video

Alt: a bbc logo can be seen in the background of a video. Battlebots meme.

media.tenor.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

could it be that humans tend to prefer watching other humans do stuff even when there are perfectly reasonable artificial replacements

One could also wonder why animation has always been niche in comparison to live action films with human actors (and I love animation!)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

we are leaving MONEY on the TABLE for INVESTORS by not replacing the entire NFL with flame-thrower robots

NikaaaAAAAHH 🎃 👻 @mxnectarine.bsky.social · 8h

replace all sports with Robot Wars

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

could it be that humans tend to prefer watching other humans do stuff even when there are perfectly reasonable artificial replacements

One could also wonder why animation has always been niche in comparison to live action films with human actors (and I love animation!)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

It is notable that while a lot of important people are running around right now braying about how AI can replace the work of creative people, pretty much no one is saying the same things about using AI to replace pro athletes - even though it would be very technically feasible, and save money.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

We could have replaced actual football games with AI players on a simulated field a LONG time ago - we could have pulled this off by simply televising people playing Madden even before that.

Imagine the money executives would save!

How mysterious that this never took off.

Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 8h

Analogy: Imagine a robot could play really good golf. Would you watch? Maybe as a curiosity. Would you want it competing against humans? Ofc not. Now imagine the robot played good golf sometimes but sometimes threw all its clubs off a cliff. That’s gen AI doing art. Misses the point & also sucks.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

there is a certain congruence between claiming that AI can replace artists and writers and being the kind of person who thinks shooting a caged lion is honorable and fun

Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, it's like, seriously... Fun. Have you heard of it? Have you never done something for hours, just for fun? Wouldn't you feel cheated out of your fun if...I don't know, you pressed the wrong button and your Pokédex filled in, or a drone swooped in and shot your buck for you?

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Socar Myles @packbawky.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, it's like, seriously... Fun. Have you heard of it? Have you never done something for hours, just for fun? Wouldn't you feel cheated out of your fun if...I don't know, you pressed the wrong button and your Pokédex filled in, or a drone swooped in and shot your buck for you?

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NikaaaAAAAHH 🎃 👻 @mxnectarine.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t understand why people who hate thinking and writing feel like they need to produce things that require those things

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

gotta do em or your heart explodes

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joão @johnfields091.bsky.social · 8h

This, this, this. Whatever I'm plan to write only takes shape when I start to write it. What I write is mostly an irrelevant blog, and yet it's something that I would never outsource. I don't want to have written my blog, irrelevant though it may be; I want to write it. That's the fun part.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 8h

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 8h

I've just spent fifteen minutes on a 150 word section describing the crime scene photo of Mary Kelly's dismembered body. It was legitimately some of the least pleasant writing work I have ever done. At exactly zero points in the process did I think, "gosh, I wish I could get AI to do this for me."

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

Was there a moment in the 90s when executives saw those Clip Art Packs on CD-ROM and announced that graphic design was now dead forever?

Because genAI art does really remind me of generic 90s clip-art a lot of the time

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 8h

I think what AI seems to do 'best' in terms of visual art is generating images that are ultimately disposable. Created in seconds to be viewed once and then forgotten forever.

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