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Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

06.07.2025 17:22 — 👍 11900    🔁 5654    💬 127    📌 176

National CASA/GAL federal funding terminated Without these funds, the work of CASA/GAL programs across the country will be impacted along with more than 200,000 children...

@wyden.senate.gov On behalf of my fellow OR CASA advocates: Why is CASA having federal grants terminated, and how exactly is a program that advocates for abused and neglected children not, ya know, "protecting American children"? Make it make sense please.
nationalcasagal.org/national-cas...

25.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 4

My Voice, My Choice Movement for safe and accessible abortion in Europe. Join us and be a part of change for Europe that is free, equal, and just for all. Together we are stronger.

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04.03.2025 10:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thinking about how, for a whole lot of conservatives, there are no good or bad *actions*, just good or bad *people*.

This is where "the only moral abortion is my abortion," and a wide variety of other hypocrisies spring from. It's also why they don't care if you call them hypocrites.

28.02.2025 16:31 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Sign the Petition Petition to Ban Platform X (formerly Twitter) in the European Union

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27.02.2025 11:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

29.01.2025 17:59 — 👍 4104    🔁 875    💬 71    📌 47

Is everything terrible right now? Pretty much. But if you try to focus on all of it, you will not be able to function. So do what you can to make the world a better place to exist in- in the ways that you can & forgive yourself for what you can't. Doing something is always better than doing nothing.

29.01.2025 18:29 — 👍 1786    🔁 537    💬 33    📌 15

Afbeelding met de oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid om van de sociale media van Big Tech af te gaan

Afbeelding met de oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid om van de sociale media van Big Tech af te gaan

Afbeelding met de oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid om van de sociale media van Big Tech af te gaan

Afbeelding met de oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid om van de sociale media van Big Tech af te gaan

We kregen ontzettend veel reacties van jullie binnen op onze oproep aan de Nederlandse overheid om per direct van sociale media platformen van Big Tech-bedrijven af te gaan, zoals X en Instagram.

Wil je meer weten over de oproep? www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/op... 📢

30.01.2025 11:35 — 👍 50    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 1

my goals as an artist and person is less that I should make something that will be remembered beyond me, but something that makes other people feel and those folks carry that feeling with them and beyond.

…just gotta make it…

26.01.2025 00:59 — 👍 47    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0