I haven’t stopped im sorry creative community
Im slowly easing away from it tho, im trying
Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.
The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)
I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.
How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].
I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.
"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."
Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.
(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)
Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:
It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.
C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.
Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.
(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)
Alfred gets sick of Bruce breaking and losing stuff on patrol so he gets a label maker and starts naming items after the kids
Alfred: I got you a new phone, just like you asked. Its name is Jason. Try not to let it die.
Bruce, tearing up: Why would you say that—
Kid!Tim, called to the principles office. Waiting for an adult to come get him.
Dick, storming in: WHAT HAPPENED.
Principal: as you can see Timothy has engaged in-
Dick: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Now Timtam what’s wrong? Are you alright? Do you need a hug? It’s alright.
Tim, pulled the fire alarm because he wanted the last chocolate muffin in the cafeteria but they aren’t allowed seconds: I- I just though I saw a fire. I was trying *hiccup* I was trying to do the right thing. I’m so sorry.
Principal: Mr. Grayson. We have security footage that Timothy pulled the alarm completely purposefully-
Dick: Can’t you see he’s never done anything wrong in his life?
I love the Starscream arch in skybound so much
He's also my baby bird🤲
WOOOOOOOO
FRICK ‘IM UP, ODYSSEUS! FRICK ‘IM UP
BAHAHAHAA
this is the pick me up i needed
🦄🐴 thats all im saying
he sooo is tho💙💙💙
the fact he isss- 🧡♥️(cough-kiribaku-cough)
Im dying ☠☠☠
Like keefe why the fuck MY LITTLE PONY!!!!!! Peppa pig is right here bro😭😭😭😭😭😭
(Tysm to @nullin-void if they're still on tumblr)
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I rarely talk about my actual HCs for media hyperfixations on here but I feel like it. Here's some Demon Slayer Headcanons/little observations about mostly physical aspects.
As much as I love how Giyuu's plain shin wrappings really dig in the point that he has the characteristics of a rock (I say this in a loving way) I prefer to think/live in the delusion that they're fabric, similar to Zenitsu's, which matches his haori sides.
I also like to think that he ties his hair using a ribbon of some sort (usually red, though maybe we can pretend he actually has the energy to change the colors every once in a while) and it's long so the two pieces fall down with his ponytail. I think he'd just look beautiful.
I thought Nezuko just had really dark brown hair for the longest time, usually because it's highlighted with warmer tones in lighting, unlike most black-haired characters, so even though I know it's supposed to be black I always say it's dark brown. I think she'd look absolutely stunning that way, and it makes sense to me since there's like no brown haired characters. And maybe a bit of it is also projection. I also HC the same for Makio and Hinatsuru's hair though I'm SURE Makio's is supposed to be dark brown actually. I swear.
Sanemi would definitely have crooked canine teeth that never really grow down with the rest of his teeth (you know the kind I'm talking about) and they stick out a lot. It makes him look like he has fangs sometimes, or just makes him look a little snarly n cute in general
On a similar note, I swear I'm not obsessed with teeth I just have so many HCs pertaining to them, Sabito's two front teeth would be long like a rabbit's. He has those British rabbit teeth. I always think of rabbits when I see him despite the whole fox thing and I think it'd look so cute on him!
Even though he just has long demon canines in canon (I think?) I like to imagine Genya having shark teeth, like Denji. He has those anime-boy sharp biters.
I love the HC that Zenitsu has freckles, same for Giyuu though I'm not completely sold on that one being a 100% thing. Zenitsu just has freckle-boy energy. And they're not brown, they're the orange kind.
This one, similar to Nezuko's, is where it's just plainly defying canon facts, but I love the idea of Kanao being a little taller. Maybe it's because of that one picture where she's hauling Inosuke away from the infinity castle, or because I like projecting my friend onto her, but I love the idea of her being around 5'6 to 5'8, the second tallest of the kamaboko squad next to Genya's 6'+ ass.
I’m crying this is beautiful
cut sequence from my film
thats ok it wasnt that much work anyway twt / store
I can’t say how much i love this.
I can just imagine Rei, home alone, creating something. When Enji comes back, he just stares in befuddlement. Since he has no idea what’s normal, he assumes Rei is normal. Therefore, he doesn’t question her actions often.
So basically, Rei can act like the weirdest little goober she wants and her husband won’t question it because he doesn’t think it’s weird.
did i mention how much i love this
When I think of Rei’s childhood, I think of Yuki from Wolf Children.
Just not at all being the lady her parents probably wanted her to be and living her best life collecting bugs, feathers, and small animal bones.
And just like Toga, those interests were suppressed because they ‘weren’t appropriate for little girls,’ and she was made to conform.
I mean, look at her expression and tell me she wasn’t told to sit still and be quiet too many times when she was a child.
I think she was a weird kid.
And that's why I play with the snowboarding theme when I do fanworks involving Rei, as well as the idea that Touya’s inability to sit still when he's agitated/excited comes from Rei. It's also why I have the headcanon there was never a point where Rei and Endeavor loved each other. They already have two extremely different personalities in canon, and the high-energy headcanon just highlights a further personality difference.
I’ve already gone into it in more detail with an Endeavor analysis that I made, but here’s an excerpt that illustrates my point:
...what I think shows here is they weren’t really talking all that much. Specifically, he is not ‘talking down to her.’ He is not treating her with any particular disrespect or putting her down as inferior. He doesn’t have the arrogance he later exhibits. This also isn’t him being aloof and ignoring her either. Look at his face, specifically his eyes. That is the same blank, deer in the headlights, “I have one brain cell dinging around in my head that is struggling to find a way to interact with people,” stare he shares with Shouto.
He has no idea what to say to her.
So finally, Rei turns off to the side to admire the garden, and he asks, “Do you like the flowers?” It’s a small thing, but it does show that in some capacity, he did show some interest in Rei and making her happy. He’s just stupidly awkward about it at this point. (Even if his ultimate goal was…well, we’ll get into that.)
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The long and short of it is if you remove the violence/temper aspect of Endeavor's character, you basically have Shouto: An awkward dork who doesn’t entirely know how to interact with people and he probably doesn’t understand sarcasm or euphemisms either. The main reason we can’t see that side of Endeavor’s character very well is because he’s weaponized intimidation/violence to cover it up. (Dammit, dude, this it not how you patch a character flaw.) So I don’t think Shouto’s isolation and childhood training caused his social ineptitude so much as exacerbated a character trait that was already there. He got it from Dad.
So referring to the earlier pre-kids part of Rei and Endeavor's relationship before the violence actually started, imagine the awkward personality-type paired with a partner who is, by all accounts, weird and has too much energy to be contained. Arranged marriage aside, I like the idea that Rei reverted back to her odd personality after she left her parents’ house. I like to think she danced in the kitchen when there was no one home, hoarded feathers and skulls and other odd keepsakes, and looked for places where she could snowboard. She was a housewife by herself for long periods of time, so who was going to stop her?
There is a short story I absolutely love called Ink, Water, Milk by Catherynne M. Valente. The plot's not relevant to this post, but there is a scene where a bored housewife buys a bunch of those cube-shaped watermelons and just stacks them in her fridge to admire them.
And for some reason, I can picture Rei doing this.
Like Endeavor just comes home to find her sitting cross-legged in front of the open fridge and smiling happily at the nine cubed watermelons stacked neatly inside. (Keep in mind, these things average $100-$200 a piece and are inedible/decorative.) No explanation for why she's done this, she just has a big, ecstatic smile on her face and pointing into the fridge. You know, Touya energy when he's a kid and excited about something. And Endeavor, in true Shouto fashion, is baffled by what she’s done, has no idea why she’s done it, and wondering if there’s a joke he’s not understanding.
I like to mirror this behavior in Touya and Shouto when I can in writing for Ambush Simulation. Underneath the trauma, they are at their core the brother with their mother’s high energy and the brother who is socially awkward and doesn’t quite know how to deal with the unhinged behavior but doing his best.
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Edit because I just found this gif.
Young Rei:
True
My contempt towards a brand is directly proportional to how often they interrupt my playlists.
If no one does this for me, I’ll do it for someone
This is now just a dead account I wont be posting things or doing anything here I do have another blog that im setting up tho so stay tuned
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