Someone doesn’t know what a logo is for, I see.

Yes, actually, they do. It took me literally SECONDS to find this:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

And that wasn’t even the one I was looking for. The one I was looking for I found about a minute later:

• https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-linked-eroding-critical-skills.html

I guess you should have asked ChatGPT to find that for you.

“It’s shit” is different from “it’s unethical”.

If people want to pay for shit, let them pay for shit. They can’t make me listen.

But I guess it is “ethically” sourced as they kinda asked by making it opt out, I guess.

No.

As your mother’s case shows, making it “opt out” is emphatically not the ethical choice. It is the grifter’s choice because it comes invariably paired with difficult-to-find settings and explanations that sound like they come from a law book as dictated by someone simultaneously drunk and tripping balls.

The only ethical option is “opt in”. This means people give informed consent (or if they don’t bother to read and just click OK at least they get consented hard like they deserve). This means you have to persuade that the choice is good for them and not just for the service provider.

TL;DR: Opt-in is the way you do things without icky “I don’t understand consent” vibes.

In my more cynical moments I’d say “can’t harm what doesn’t exist”.

So it’s masochism. Got it. Hey, I’m not kink-shaming. I don’t get it, but you be you.

I’m strictly an amateur snapshot taker. So I’m lucky if 1 of 100 photos are things I consider “good”.

This is why I respect people who can reach 1 in 10 keepers. They know things I don’t understand.

I get more thinking from not having to look up information.

Research says otherwise, but hey, what do they know? They looked up information instead of asking an AI. Obviously they did less thinking!

🤣

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

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!

One of many reasons I don’t trust “EVERYTHING MUST BE COMPUTERIZED!”

Yeah, like I said I was gone long before the Ketamine Kid took over so I didn’t have to watch that pattern develop.

I just got this creepy “we don’t know what ‘consent’ means” vibe from their continued forcing of accounts I don’t give a shit about on me. I’d open each day by blocking each and every “recommended” account and figured out that I was spending more time doing that than actually using the site.

So I ditched.

I have no autism superpowers and spotted the pattern that Twitter was a toxic shitpile before Kaptain “Ketamine” Kidd took over the helm.

All it took was for me to recognize “you know, every time I use Twitter I feel like shit”.

“Think” is doing some very heavy lifting there.

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) …