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And the groups of people who are only now gung-ho about "saving" it have almost zero overlap with the groups who can actually articulate *anything* that makes a given story 'good' or 'poor'.
Honestly, it's kind of hilarious. I don't hear anthing about "AI doesn't have consistent...
...fuck you, I exist and would have benefited greatly from having the bulk of the workload eased as I got into trying to tell stories.
And while *I* am persistent enough that difficulty cannot dissuade me, I know that most people aren't. If they were, they'd be writing their own stories instead...
...wasting your breath.
You want the understanding of how loving art makes you want to get better at it? Start with an art you love. Watch how *you* are the only thing that prevents you from getting better at it while you enjoy creating it. Experience the dynamic in person instead of just...
Fundamentally, the AI hate in story creation fields comes from not understanding how stories work. Not understanding the beating heart of the muse that brings life into stories.
Because as you develop that understanding, that intimate relation with Art, you realize that hating AI for making the...
...I note in particular that you're very nicely painting it in the pro-social bond hues that Kinoe has as context. Very nicely illustrating that he's *feeling* a bond every bit as unyielding and absolute as Danzo would have loved *and* like something that he'd voluntarily choose if he were still...
...badly, but it feels like a massive break in character without at least a scene where he's thinking himself into a fervor about how he can get to *see* the destruction of his enemies with this strange god-child. I do see where it's coming from, but Danzo's threat is largely that he's resistant...
Particularly in discussions, I have been accused of
- using AI as a thesaurus
- being a bot
- asking GPT for comebacks
All years before LLMs could come within spitting distance of even the median population's skill with words.
If you have a philosophical objection to lazy writers using a tool...
...mods who have no reason to do any of this for you.
Because this entire premise is a reckless shift in dynamic that would fucktuple their workload *just* on account of the fuckwits who cannot see a dollar sign without setting up an automated system to push boundaries and scam as many people as...
I know that every coin I personally back gets people really sure that I'm on everyone's watchlist.
Therefore, I lean *against* discussing the coin that tyrants are owed in polite company.
Honestly, if we wanted to seriously consider on-site fiscal work, someone should make a dedicated crypto for the site and tell folk who want it to tie back to the dollar to handle that in a secondary market.
If it's not a regulated currency, the legal problems evaporate in front of "This is a...
I'm still doing CPR, but it's looking like I've lost it, yeah.
If I find another thread to use as plot, I'm absolutely inclined to rez it. I love writing Guang's chaos and there's so much available for it. Muse willing.
My take isn't as impartial as I usually try to make them, as I'm speaking from personal impact.
I used to frequent several sites with a notable engagement model featuring likes and dislikes. It's been my experience that even before divisive topics became prominent, each space rather abruptly...
Dao of Fuck Off is (largely) sex-free and the protagonist's goals are primarily 'don't get pinned down for anything'. Also phrasable as "be able to fuck off at any time".
Dao of Jack Off has a minor metaphysics shift that makes Dual Cultivation the method of choice, and the protagonist's goal...
Meanwhile Lucious: "Bah, the dark lord killed himself on an infant. I don't need to keep his rubbish while I'm being raided."
Mere months later: Dark Mark burns.
Lucious: "shitshitshit"
And soon, some Death Eater: "Who's this harlot claiiiiiiieee!" - continues writhing in Crucio.