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Why is generative AI slop bad for language learning?
Because it's a RANDOM word generator!
Putting aside the theft/world burning ethical issues, LLMs are designed to pick the likelihood of a word based on the words that came before it. They're not designed to BE accurate but to SOUND accurate.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and weโre doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
๐NEW VIDEO DROPS AT 8PM PST๐
lol disregard my last post, I decided not being awake to moderate chat was a Bad Thing, so I moved up the premiere to 8pm, pst....like, 17 minutes from now.
gonna jump in the shower and be back.
If youโre a fan, itโs a good time to let them know you wonโt pay for AI translations
sevenseasentertainment.com/about/contac...
AI does not "assist" translators, it just makes their work harder, brings down the quality, and impacts their pay. ๐ญ
AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH
If you feel that use of AI art assets at any stage of the process is an automatic out, but ChatGPT translations are fine if they're "checked" by people, it might be worth asking yourself why that is. Because it sounds a whole lot like valuing the work of translators less than other creatives to me.
I know itโs difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you canโt Do The Work when youโre starving.
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and itโs my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
Screenshot of a YouTube channel titled โAI AINUโ (@AI-AINU) with 7.67K subscribers and 90 videos, featuring a banner image of an AI image which is attempting to be a woman in Ainu attire by firelight. The channel features AI-generated videos purporting to be about Ainu mythology and music.
Screenshot of an Twitter profile for โใขใคใใฎใจใซใทใโ (@Ainu_Ekashina), a supposedly Ainu-inspired โartistโ based in Hokkaido, showing a verified badge, 838 followers, and a pinned post with an AI generated photo of a woman in what is attempting to be Ainu-style clothing standing in a mountainous landscape. The clothing is incorrect.
This account on YouTube has been churning out AI videos about Ainu culture featuring incorrect imagery, garbled Ainu language, and completely fake AI music.
They also appear to be doing the same on Twitter.
Nothing is safe from AI slop.
a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture
get weirder ๐ซต
Old photograph of a wave in the ocean.
On this day in 1942, Executive Order 9066 was signed, forcing over 120,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps. #DayofRemembrance
Among the internees were individuals who embraced photography as an important means of artistic expression in the 1920s and 1930s.
Nothing like Icelandic and Japanese crime novels to break a girl out of a reading slump ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ
every time someone says "there's no putting AI back in the box just get used to it" I have to ask, "do we just write off the environmental concerns and pushing against it on those grounds because [thanos voice]it is inevitable" or are we no longer allowed to oppose bad things because they are bad
this is why you donโt use machine translation for marketing materials
I guess I do agree that AI is a big deal in the sense that itโs going to make everything worse for the foreseeable future against all reason, logic, and evidence of it largely being a scam staring all of us in the face
โIโm mad I canโt understand Bad Bunnyโs lyrics because theyโre not in Englishโ
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, youโre just boring and racist
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the โVulgar Tongueโ
There isn't a sigh hard enough for these dumbass headlines. Warriors were a SOCIAL GROUP, and later a legal classification. Gender was not relevant to whether one was part of a warrior group/family/etc. You might as well write: THIS JUST IN: WOMEN EXISTED! www.the-independent.com/asia/japan/b...
Anyway if you want scholarship in English on women in warrior society, look up work by Hitomi Tonomura, Wakita Haruko, and others who publish with them, like in the volume Women and Class in Japanese History.
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Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.
And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.
Don't submit to this one, folks.
FYI, Red Ogre Reviews also claim ridiculous rights to any work you *submit* to them, before they've even considered whether they want to publish it.
Google with AI buttons
Google without AI buttons
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building.
Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
this goes double for translated Japanese.
without italics, I lose SO MUCH character voice and nuance.
like, one of the best ways of translating ใใ is literally just italicizing the word that precedes it.
Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
