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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 9h

I'm pretty sure this is an AI-generated logo. If you look at the other versions of it on their website, every single bird is slightly different (the feet, the head, the bag).

I mean, this sucks, no?

A screenshot of the Sackbird website that says "seek the sack" (horrible) followed by four images of a black bird with a bindle and a human arm. there are minor variations in the art - some birds have bigger heads, or more fingers, or flatter feet.

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 9h

Ugh gross.

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 10h

"Generative AI is a tool and prompt engineering is a craft"
is possibly the funniest and most infuriating at the same time quote I've seen on a Facebook post this week.

If it's such a craft and skill why don't people use that time to learn to make real art? Maybe because it isn't a skill?

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 14h

Hell yeah, congratulations!

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah horror especially requires it I feel like.

Even more so if the system is more roleplay or investigation heavy vs one where you run head first into battle as a super adventurer.

Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah at some point we have to immerse ourselves in the game and even throw some of our own personal knowledge out the window to keep the game running.

Sure the GM can be responsible for a lot of that, but sometimes a player has to go "yeah okay, I'll go along with this"

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 1d

Do you ever kinda mildly dissociate when thinking about politics, like this authoritarian hellscape is happening in a dream and can't possibly be real? My brain's defense mechanism is apparently to be like, this shit can't be actually happening, right?

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, virtually everyday at this point.

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 1d

It makes me so angry when I come across these.
I was looking at a "video editor" job listing recently, after the brief company story and required qualifications it finally got to the daily tasks.

The entire job was training AI on already created videos. Not the company's videos, just any video

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 1d

Difficult to express the added insult & fatigue it causes when job hunting that about 1/3 of the listings I see are training an AI to do the job so they can fire you later. Sometimes even stealthily inserted part way through a job description!

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 1d

These are so rad!

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 2d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 2d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lane! Draws! Comics! @lanedraws.bsky.social · 2d

BUT AT LEAST HE MAKE TRUMP ANGY, GUYS, RIGHT?

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
20m
From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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🎃 @vamospeat.bsky.social · 3d

yes, you did

it was all there, plain as day, black and white. you ignored every single bit of it bc they knew your content was the key to getting through to young white men. so you didn’t just vote for it - you platformed and normalized it

and you deserve for it to follow you till the day you die

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Jes the human 🔜 Twitch Con @jesthehuman.itch.io · 3d

The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst...

All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉

Submission form for Games against Genocide

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3d

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI

With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 4d

Hope you get it!

bart simpson from the simpsons is smiling and sending you good vibes

ALT: bart simpson from the simpsons is smiling and sending you good vibes

media.tenor.com

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🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 4d

We have literally hit the apex of bad faith arguments from proponents of generative AI/LLMs.

Let me be clear: No.

Being against this tech is not, and shall never be, equal to bigotry against humans.

Sit. The. Fuck. Down.

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Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 5d

It's been two days and I'm still riding this high.

Spencer @ghostlightloot.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight at D&D my players told me they loved an encounter in the big dungeon we're in.

I felt very proud because I made the encounter up on the spot when they did something I didn't expect.

I might not be the worst DM to ever play the game!

a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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