Matt Turner

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If you ever catch me staring off into space and you wonder what's going on in there, assume it's this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74n...

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

There are so many other options at this point. Transfer your playlists and cancel that subscription!

Let's play a game called "is this shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey or a Jamiroquai music video?"
We're pitching SPACE SCI FI movies this week, so give us your fake movie titles in the replies!

Watch this, she's just reading a poem but you won't have seen it read so well

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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

We all need to speak up, and do not let this happen

just did 63 damage on a level 1 fury in Draw Steel after getting the shit kicked out of us by a mutant pig, this game rules

you can laugh at any age but you cannot guffaw until you are 35 or older sorry

The full album of my Star Trek show is coming out pretty soon!

The House of Lords must be abolished, but while it exists we need to ensure it's representative. Different.

I'm half the age of the average peer, there are NO trans people in the Lords. That's why I'm standing for the Green Party Lords List. 💚

#AshForLords

Improv. Sketches. Music. Nonsense. www.radiogo.show

Hey gang, if that flurry of retweets weren't enough to tip you off - I have a new show! It's a comedy show called Radio Go!, and it's good as hell. Please take a half hour today to check it out, because I think you'll really like it. You can find all the information over at @radiogo.show

An edited screenshot from the video game Hollow Knight: Silksong with the Very Hungry Caterpillar replacing one of the bosses. The text "Endless Craving Caterpillar" is shown on the bottom left side of the screen.

Grah! I'm struggling with this Silksong boss! Does anyone have any tips? He's just always hungry!

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

The conversation has been had. A ton. And the simple conclusion is there aren't. I looked through the comments and no one here provided an actual example of an ethical use of AI. Assuming, we're talking specifically about generative AI and large language models, they are riddled with problems front to back. These AI companies have admitted--both on their own and in the course of the many lawsuits against them--that their businesses wouldn't be feasible without having fed in preexisting works. They claim fair use, though official judgment is still out (and, I for one, believe it's not fair use and is a violation of copyright). Additionally, they have repeatedly admitted to getting the majority of the works through pirating. They inherently broke the law to even get started. We can talk about how AI jeopardizes jobs in the creative fields. There's certainly evidence that it does with jobs that would go to artists having been replaced. There's also evidence that it doesn't because no one can name a compelling work made with AI.

Of course, jobs in the creative field aren't just writers and artists, it also includes accountants and marketing folks and administration folks. It's wrong to try to outsource their jobs to machines too. Especially ones that, y'know, have such high failure rates in what they do. We can talk about how it's incredibly draining of resources. It takes a lot of electricity--driving local electric prices up. It takes a lot of water--clearing out local water reserves. Server facilities for AI programs literally spit poison into the air and are making the communities they're in sick. We can talk about the exploitation of workers. Folks, generally in poorer countries, receiving dollars a day to sit in front of computers and flag things like child pornography and torture videos that've been incorporated in the system and need to be filtered out, without proper mental healthcare resources or money to see someone from the company they're working for.

We can talk about AI as a tool of facism. It is a propaganda machine with known issues of deeply seated racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc built into the coding and reflected in the output. It's also a powerful tool of misinformation. From minor misunderstandings to people genuinely questioning established historical fact, from the effects we're already seeing of people having lower reading comprehension and decreased critical thinking skills to the folks that generative AI has literally created deepfake pornography of, there is a core of changing folks understanding of reality through manipulation. In our industry, in particular, we're dealing with folks reporting that AI in the postal office has started flagging any shipping of books as obscene. It's going to continue to be a problem for censorship as people who have a vested interest in censoring material they don't agree with use AI as "proof" that they're right. And on top of all of that, just yesterday the New York Times was reporting on ChatGPT, not for the first time, being sued for wrongful death because it encouraged a teenager to kill himself and taught him how to do it.

To use an analogy, it doesn't matter if there are a couple of seemingly fresh apples in a barrel of rotten apples. You really are better off to dispose of all the apples because the ones that may look okay, probably still have worms in 'em. We've had the conversation. The question is whether you personally can still justify "ethical" uses with all of that in mind. I know I can't.

Sharing my response to the guy I just yelled at on LinkedIn over his question of "why can't indie comics talk about ethical uses of AI?" TLDR, doesn't exist. But if you're looking for talking points...

Oh fuck, JENKS??? I'm tuning in to that!

"I've been reading the most recent Nightwing run. It's good, lots of fun ideas, they know what people love about Dick Grayson..."

"I'm sensing a 'but'"

"Yes, like I say, they know what people love about Dick Grayson"

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Running Man? Looks like a jogging man at best. We're gonna pitch some unhinged REALITY TV shows and movies because we keep doing it accidentally anyway.
Give us your fake REALITY TV titles in the replies!

Aren't LLMs just big autocorrect systems anyway?

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

The whole group chat loved this one.

Every single mainstream media outlet LIED and LIED and LIED about almost every aspect of the Marks & Spencer non-story.

Organised transphobia is basically a lie machine, it cannot engage in its campaign against trans people’s lives without systematic dishonesty.

Someone please put this on properly in the UK, you really don't want to see my one-person version of it.

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A full 22-track version of the "Khan!!!" album is coming!

Graham Linehan ruined his own life by walking down a path of hatred but forgetting to first become a billionaire writing beloved children’s books and THEN walking down a path of hatred

This feels like a lot of our pitches on the show recently