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Teefa

@tifaret.bsky.social

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Just an anti-fash abolitionist landback non-binary transfemme doggo trying to nurture kindness and end capitalism. I play VRChat, make games, and watch a lot of movies, vegan as a Vulcan she | her <3

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 6d

Hi, I'm Teefa the doggo! I run a furry oriented VRChat film club called Teefa's Movie Night. We have Group+ screenings every Wednesday night at 7 PM CDT. We watch films ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to indie classics. If you'd like to join us, please request membership here: vrc.group/TMN.5196

Teefa's Movie Night

Teefa's Movie Night is the place to be for furries that love cinema․ We host cozy viewings every Wednesday at 7PM Central․ Join our Discord for event schedules‚ film discussion‚ and to suggest movies․

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

I got VR one Christmas, thought it was kinda neat but set it down for six months. I saw one video on VRC, signed on, and have spent almost every single night in it since. It can be a wonderful place. I'm Tifaret in VRC. Feel free to send me a friend req if you ever check it out <3

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

And there is always something happening. On any night you could go to a rave, a poetry recital, a film festival, a Japanese-English language learning exchange. You can learn sign language in VR. You can learn chess. You can play games. There is so much I haven't even heard of!

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of people describe a dynamic where you spend a while finding your people in public spaces and then settle in with a group of tight friends in private spaces. It can sometimes feel daunting getting to that stage.

OTOH, it is a lot easier to meet and spend time with people. It's safe and fast.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

It's hard to overstate how much VR (and even VR users interacting with desktop users) changes the online dynamic. You feel the presence of the other people in the room with you. You have access to body language. It feels more human than any other online conversation. The intimacy brings connection.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

It is undoubtedly one of the best places to be trans. It's our Unimatrix Zero.

Related, it often fosters a sense of chill. You're always safe and in control. You can be weird and let people be weird. You can sit comfortably with diversity in a way that isn't always true in other social areas.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

People have the best time in VRChat when they approach it as an adventure without expectations. You will have wild experiences. You will have boring experiences. You will meet jerks. But you will also meet the most amazing people.

It really opens up social space to be whatever you want it to be.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 4h

You get back what you put into VRChat. You can spend a lot of time finding controversy and cultivating negativity.

VRC is an infinite space. You can always find to a new vibe.

It's a game to some. But to me and many others, it's just life. You find friends and hang out every day. It's great <3

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 7h

The opening sequence to Lord of War has always stuck with me. Gun violence has always been a *mysterious tragedy.* How could it happen?

But to draw such a straight line from the mundane to the obscene. fuck me

The Life of a Bullet:

youtu.be/I4TOYp0_6lc?...

Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 12h

You are a very silly person. I hope this is not the intellectual vanguard against actual fascism.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 12h

And you don't think that is at all condescending or filled with value judgements?

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 12h

...by telling me that I am not making art, to stop with my workflow, and that all AI is in fact fascist.

I have a question, how do you make art with this little self-awareness or sense of irony?

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 13h

Do you think you *are not* gatekeeping art right now?

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 13h

I understand the heuristic, but it still seems like a way to externalize your own taste.

And there is plenty of GenAI that involves high effort and artistic vision.

I'd rather have AI art that *I* enjoy over almost any other consideration.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 13h

I've been making things my entire life. I am an avowed anti-cap, anti-fash leftist. I've spent 18 hour days working on art.

I still find Sora etc extremely engaging, expressive, and freeing. I am making exactly the art I am wanting to make with AI.

You don't know me.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 13h

Protecting my art by not letting anyone see it!

A screenshot of a Bluesky comment that reads "I'm not posting any new art until this is corrected. I'll be active but I don't feel like my intellectual property is safe here anymore."

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 14h

We could go one step further and compress the writing so that *only* an LLM could understand and explain it.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 14h

It leads me to wonder how many "AI doesn't even exist" positions arise from people intentionally, unintentionally, or tangentially breaking their LLM environment.

It seems reasonable that if your only intention with AI is negativity, you might have a negative time with it.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 14h

My personal experience is that I have a lot less hesitation in surveying dense topics if I know I can ask a dozen clarifying questions. LLMs have greatly expanded my scope of casual and sometimes more specialist knowledge.

I do think it requires the right mindset to not going into hallucinations.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 15h

Like, whatever, you do you. I'm not arguing your taste.

But to me, it's just such a curmudgeonly boring and smug position. And it's inherently conservative, homogenizing, polarizing, and exclusionary.

That intentionality shows up in your work too. It makes your art boring and smug and regressive.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 15h

It's just belligerent cope. You aren't advancing art or artists. You're just throwing a tantrum. You are telling people actively making things to stop. You're telling the world to move backwards in empowered expression. It's behavior indistinguishable from the worst cultural gatekeeping of history.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 15h

Hot take: I don't think you can be all that serious about art if you see something, enjoy it, learn that it is made with AI and then retroactively change your opinion.

If you refuse to see the intentionality and care put into (some) AI art, you're being contrarian to the point of ridiculousness.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 1d

I think this particular prompt and its methods would require intention, but I am sure there are other prompts that could persist in effect as long as they are in the context window of the LLM. They might even snowball, each contrived error compounding the next.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 1d

This particular prompt involved what I now suspect was an engineered / contrived attempt to show an LLM misbehaving by denying a news subject. The prompt required a few specific parts but then produced almost exactly the same text as the example in the screen shot. It was hard to stop the behavior.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 1d

A while ago I was working on a prompt that was very hard to undo. I eventually had to delete the chat it was in to return to nominal operation.

I keep thinking about how there are a lot of ways you could bork an LLM, especially if you aren't treating it as a very sophisticated memory environment.

Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 2d

Wait! Is the barking chihuahua made out of candy also not in the training set?!?