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I have almost the whole week off which is really nice, I need to finish some personal stuff. Yesterday I was feeling a bit sick at night and decided to sleep earlier despite wanting to play a few games until late. On top of the fever, my back was hurting like hell (I have a congenital problem that most of the time is harmless but sometimes it hurts) and Cat #1 would always lay beside me and touch his little back on the spot that was hurting, it was warm and nice. I love that little cat so much.
Woke up feeling 100% better with him resting his little head on my shoulder :)
 
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AI is giving me an existential crisis. If everything humans do can be turned into an algorithm stuffed into a computer, what then? Or something I don’t know. It’s really made me question my purpose in life, or whether pursuing anything is worth it. A free machine can do anything you can do faster and better, unlike humans you have no chance to catch up. I feel disgust at using one yet I understand why people would use it and I don’t blame them. I’ve always dreamed of creating something beautiful with my own skills without relying on someone else or a machine. I see beauty in the real world and there’s nothing I wouldn’t give just to capture a fraction of it. Using a machine doesn’t make me feel like I’ve accomplished something. Yeah, I’m going through some stuff thanks for reading this gay post.
 
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Can an AI actually enjoy shitposting? Can an AI be a lolcow and get mad and thereby amuse me? I couldn't really be amused by an AI lolcow that wasn't actually mad and wasn't even conscious.
 
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AnOminous said:
Can an AI actually enjoy shitposting? Can an AI be a lolcow and get mad and thereby amuse me? I couldn't really be amused by an AI lolcow that wasn't actually mad and wasn't even conscious.
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Sounds like a Philip K. Dick novel.
Chiang Kai-shek said:
I see beauty in the real world and there’s nothing I wouldn’t give just to capture a fraction of it.
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If your willing to put the time in and become great become a painter, if you’re a hack like me become a photographer.
 
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AnOminous said:
Can an AI actually enjoy shitposting? Can an AI be a lolcow and get mad and thereby amuse me? I couldn't really be amused by an AI lolcow that wasn't actually mad and wasn't even conscious.
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That’s OpenAI’s next product after they release sora. LolcowAI!
 
Chiang Kai-shek said:
AI is giving me an existential crisis. If everything humans do can be turned into an algorithm stuffed into a computer, what then? Or something I don’t know. It’s really made me question my purpose in life, or whether pursuing anything is worth it. A free machine can do anything you can do faster and better, unlike humans you have no chance to catch up. I feel disgust at using one yet I understand why people would use it and I don’t blame them. I’ve always dreamed of creating something beautiful with my own skills without relying on someone else or a machine. I see beauty in the real world and there’s nothing I wouldn’t give just to capture a fraction of it. Using a machine doesn’t make me feel like I’ve accomplished something. Yeah, I’m going through some stuff thanks for reading this gay post.
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AI is completely derivative of existing works, and can only put them together in unexpected ways with a human prompt. As a human you have a richness of experiences that you can put into works, things you've seen and heard and felt that only you can put into art. Sometimes it helps just to take a break and go outdoors or somewhere new and experience something that you can add to your works


AnOminous said:
Can an AI actually enjoy shitposting? Can an AI be a lolcow and get mad and thereby amuse me? I couldn't really be amused by an AI lolcow that wasn't actually mad and wasn't even conscious.
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AI's are not aware in any way, they are merely autocompleting their part of the conversation. They have a massive database of conversations and will use that to find the most common response. It's like memorizing a list of riddles so when someone asks you on you can respond without puzzling out the riddle.
 
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Betonhaus said:
AI's are not aware in any way, they are merely autocompleting their part of the conversation. They have a massive database of conversations and will use that to find the most common response. It's like memorizing a list of riddles so when someone asks you on you can respond without puzzling out the riddle.
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Fuck off you evil bastard. I want to be watched over by machines of loving grace.
 
I'm doing well enough mentally. Weened myself off a lot of pharmaceuticals after talking to my doctor about it. I think they fucked my body up way too much. Trying to find a new outlook on life without needing drugs to make my brain produce the happy chemicals. Picked up diamond paintings as a new crafty hobby so I have something to do during my downtime. I need to find a show to throw on in the background too, at some point. For now, though, music and some creative outlet is all I need to help with the dopamine/serotonin supplies. I haven't been happy in a long time but I refuse to give up. I'm living for myself, rather spitefully, despite the problems in my life and brain.

Just started my weight loss journey on top of it. I'm not obese by any means but I've gone over a threshold and I've decided to shed some pounds. I'm not looking to be super model skinny, but to shed off enough weight that I feel good about myself in some capacity. Multiple health issues cropping up in the last five years really does put a damper on my mindset but I'm powering through it. Just sticking to cardio and movement range for now. I just want to be healthy and happy at the end of the day. I will achieve this goal, I know it in my heart.
 
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The fucking bank system crashed and a whole supermarket (and who knows what else) got stuck with a lot of people unable to pay anything, and on top of that tomorrow everything is closed. At least I had some physical cash to pay for a couple things to eat tomorrow. I'm getting all the money out and dropping this shit bank, this fucking shit keeps happening every month.
 
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AnOminous said:
"Happy" is overrated, sometimes you just have to face reality.
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I did actually, and I realized my reality at the time was super depressing and heading for a crash. That's why I got off the drugs, started working on myself, and picked up a new hobby, so everything is of my own merit now. Even if happiness is unachievable because we live in a shitty reality as it is, I want to at least be content with myself and who I am, at the end of the day. Just trying to be optimistic about it all the same. But thank you for the input all the same luv! 💕 I do appreciate it.
 
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Betonhaus said:
AI is completely derivative of existing works, and can only put them together in unexpected ways with a human prompt. As a human you have a richness of experiences that you can put into works, things you've seen and heard and felt that only you can put into art. Sometimes it helps just to take a break and go outdoors or somewhere new and experience something that you can add to your works



AI's are not aware in any way, they are merely autocompleting their part of the conversation. They have a massive database of conversations and will use that to find the most common response. It's like memorizing a list of riddles so when someone asks you on you can respond without puzzling out the riddle.
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This isn't really accurate. AI doesn't have any sort of database, nor is it simply repeating what it's seen; AI models work by effectively analyzing input-output pairs and composing outputs from given inputs, based on the input-output pairs they've been trained on. There's no actual lookup, and those inputs and outputs are not saved in the model. You are correct in that AI doesn't have any awareness of the actual substance of anything. It just goes "based on everything I saw in training, the output for this new input should look like this."

That said, it's not really all that different from what you've described human art as. All human art is derivative of something, we just have more inputs.
 
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That said, it's not really all that different from what you've described human art as. All human art is derivative of something, we just have more inputs.
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Many, many more inputs, and able to provide weighting to different options. But yeah there's enough similarities to make you reassess how the human mind works.
 
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Like a fart at a windy beach I refuse to accomplish anything today. Fuck it.
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Got my hungover self ready to deliver a zoom presentation then realised I'd got the date wrong. Having a schedule suddenly freed up is one of the greatest feelings known to man unmotivated middle-aged wagies.
"Working" from home, so I've not even achieved wearing pants today.
 
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Today is my first day alone at a big new job. The person who trained me said I’ve got nothing to worry about and she’s got full confidence in me, but I’m fucking nervous. On top of that my life has turned into a mid 2000’s rom-com as my parents try to set me up with British(🤢) girl (I do not live in Bongistan).
So yeah, weird time!
 
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