Dude. Read the room. You’re literally in a community called “Fuck AI” and arguing for AI. Are you masochistic or just plain dumb?

They’re absolutely delicious, but good luck getting the smooth finish. That’s witchcraft right there!

Here’s one of mine.

Short form: take finger peppers, stuff them with a paste made of sesame and flour, roast them until they’re crisp, add peanuts.

They’re not as spicy as they look.

Tell me you know nothing about photography without using those words.

The only people I’ve ever heard say AI is good for “references” are people who aren’t artists.

Because AI makes for LOUSY references. (Unless your art style specifically involves clothing pieces melding into each other without rhyme or reasons and cthonic horrors for hands and limbs.)

Tell me you don’t understand how generative AI works.

As long as progress continues and humanity survives, computer generated art will eventually outperform humans. It’s pretty obvious, as far as science knows you could just simulate a full human consciousness and pull images out of that somehow, but able to run that in parallel, never deteriorating, never tiring. It’s not a matter of if “AI” can outperform humans, it’s a matter of if humanity will survive to see that and how long it might take.

That did it!

Because it’s easier to throw the latest Monster of the Week at players than it is to craft NPCs and relationships such that there is compelling drama. Combat is easy. Drama is hard.

Yes, you are really.

🤷‍♀️ If you insist.

But you’re wrong. You’re just atrophying your ability to think in exchange for hallucinations. Still, you be you.

True. The people left behind are even worse: cryptobros. 😂

AI is just humans but faster and more efficient …

Let me repair this for you:

AI is just humans (on some really stiff drugs) but faster and more efficient (at bullshitting with absolute confidence) …

I’ve never seen AI slop that withstands any inspection of detail. Like clothing detail that makes no sense, or things weirdly merging one into another for no observable reason.

That’s a stupid question anyway.

I can’t fly a plane. I can still tell when a plane has crashed. I can’t play a sousaphone. I can still tell when someone’s played an incorrect note with one. I can’t cook Beijing roast duck. I can tell when one has been burned nonetheless, somehow.

It’s almost as if the question isn’t being asked in good faith.

Almost.

AI doesn’t solve any problems.

It creates new ones. With the self-assured confidence that only a techbrodude billionaire could project.

(This is probably not a coincidence.)

That’s really weird to me.

If I’m playing a board game (like Xiangqi/Chinese Chess) what’s cool is when I spot an opportunity and exploit it. This is playing according to the rules of the game.

If I’m playing a card game (like Fight the Landlord) what’s cool is when I assemble a good combination of cards that drains my hand with inexorable play. Or when I find just the right timing to interfere with someone else draining their cards. Again this is playing according to the rules of the game.

In sportball, presumably when the audience is going wild at a cool play by some player they’re playing according to the rules of the game. (I can’t attest yeah or nay to this because sportball isn’t my vibe.) Is this not cool? (I’ll let sportball fans answer here.)

So why would RPGs be the exception to this? Why do you have to break the rules of play to do cool things?

That’s really weird to me.

He’s not talking about the touchscreen kiosk things. He’s talking about the drive-through AI order-takers. Which have pretty much been a disaster no matter where you go.

Yeah, the day there’s an airliner that has a single pilot is the day I stop flying ever again.

Siri: Buy <insert album name> from <insert premium site that sells the album for $1000>.

They’re not humans, the ones who will inflict this upon us (except of course that AI is bullshit). They’re at best lizards, intellectually speaking (and with about the same moral standing).

Commercial/state-enforced AI crawlers overburdening services and forcing admins to increase cost and time spent dealing with these DDoS attacks is much closer to theft than the piracy itself. Piracy doesn’t make people lose money, AI crawlers do.

👉 👃

Every person who says “piracy makes me lose money” is lying (or at least profoundly confused about how “income” works).

Crawlers take up actual assets (bandwidth and time) that actually take money from your pocket. Piracy may or may not reduce your potential (key word!) income.

One of those two is legitimately a property crime.