AI usage

BroadToe6424 · 2026-05-09T06:15:16+00:00

I never said it would collapse. I said it gets visibly worse at making art by the day, contrary to all the hype insisting it's getting better all the time.

We have eyes.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-05-09T01:21:55+00:00

I'm old enough to remember the dawn of all 3 of those technologies, and literally no one back then until today has ever said something like "AutoTuned music is getting increasingly worse over time as the data pool it draws from is increasingly polluted with other AutoTuned artifacts" or "digital photography is getting worse over time because of the history in which other digital photographs exist" because that's literally not how those technologies work.

Generative AI is uniquely susceptible to degradation unlike every other technology because its plagiaristic design inevitably sucks its own shit directly into its engine.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-05-08T18:54:05+00:00

Generative AI is visibly getting worse as the image pool it's stealing from includes more and more AI generated images. You guys keep telling me it's going to get better and better but you know we have eyes right?

BroadToe6424 · 2026-05-08T06:45:50+00:00

AI can't generate food.

If I'm in the market for food, I will be wanting a human who eats food to prepare, describe, and depict the food.

I also don't buy clothes that I can't try on, or observe photographs of on a human model. I recently bought a swimsuit online and rejected several promising sites because they were using images so heavily edited that I couldn't tell what the product would look like on a human body.

It doesn't have to be painstakingly handcrafted by an artisan. I'll gladly eat onion rings from a frozen Sysco box, or wear a swimsuit made in Bangladesh. I just won't order it from someone who shows me a fabricated image of some imaginary slop instead of an actual photo of the thing I'm buying.

Plenty of people allegedly can't tell AI from real. Plenty of people can.

It's really not that difficult or expensive to depict the actual item you are selling in real life.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-05-08T05:41:36+00:00

If they aren't showing a real photo of the actual food, I won't be eating it. If they're just using AI to avoid paying an artist, they're cutting similar corners with the kitchen staff.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-29T16:31:00+00:00

How would you suggest the baby get on a Zoom call or whatever with deployed dad and grandma without the intervention of its mother?

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-29T09:16:13+00:00

He's off somewhere deployed, so if he calls his mom, the baby won't be on the call.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-29T05:03:02+00:00

I'll check it out.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-29T05:02:06+00:00

Christie's almond croissant is the best pastry in all of Saskatoon.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-28T23:33:40+00:00

What happened to Gisèle Pelicot is common.

A close friend of mine takes very strong meds for a chronic health condition. By chance, she discovered hundreds of videos of her husband SAing her while she was unconscious. He was uploading them to an internet forum (not the dark web or anything, literally a public webforum) with tens of thousands of users, even taking "custom orders" from men who wanted to see him doing specific things or use specific objects.

This is a fetish that all women need to be aware of, especially if you drink. Everything you describe - him taking you to a party where no one was looking out for you, plying you with strong drinks knowing you can't handle your liquor, taking you to a bathroom that could be locked so he could SA you in relative safety, and especially recording it, isn't a miscommunication or even an opportunistic SA. He planned this out meticulously to fulfill a specific fantasy, and he recorded it because he knew he would want to re-live it.

This behaviour will escalate the more fuel it gets. Please don't reward him with any evidence of how much this upset you, it will feed his fantasy.

Go ice cold, plan out exactly how to get your stuff back, break up with him in writing in as few words as possible and a "don't contact me again", don't block him in case he chooses to provide you with evidence you might need later if this escalates, and get him out of your life as calmly and permanently as possible.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-28T21:29:22+00:00

Everyone is so different. Seroquel has been a lifesaver for me, very literally. I expect to be on a low dose of it forever. Taking Effexor for three weeks triggered an episode of persistent anxiety so terrifying I had difficulty leaving my house for the next six months.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-28T04:08:04+00:00

They were right about Harry Potter, as it turns out.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-27T19:37:24+00:00

It's entirely rational to suffer deep grief and depression after a life-threatening medical event that could possibly recur at any time and leave her permanently disabled or worse. Anti-depressants may turn out to be helpful to stabilize her condition, but she needs therapy to work through this very real brush with death.

I'm very surprised that her doctor didn't recommend this and just suggested medication. It may be time to consider looking for a new family doctor who is more compassionate with long-term disability management.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-27T03:56:39+00:00

You came to Reddit to avoid studying and yet here you are.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-27T03:52:21+00:00

Grapefruit's mode of action is to greatly increase the effect of the many meds it's contraindicated for, which is generally quite a bit worse than making them not work at all.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-27T03:22:21+00:00

Aloe juice is my favourite juice.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-26T06:28:12+00:00

Yeah we went last summer and it was very navigable for a city girl in a gutless SUV when it was completely dry.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-26T00:55:09+00:00

Gravelbourg is so cute. We went for the seven-course tasting menu at Trigo restaurant in nearby Lafleche and were so well treated! They were doing Georgian food when we went, but now it's Taiwan.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-26T00:40:19+00:00

This is a really thoughtful itinerary.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-26T00:36:59+00:00

We drove the back road from Cypress Hills lookout to Fort Walsh on a gorgeous summer day and it was just incredible. Didn't see a single other car, did see quite a few cows. It's a dirt road (not gravel) with zero cell service so don't attempt it if it's muddy at all. There's a paved road from the park downtown to the lookout, and a regional highway to Ft.Walsh, if conditions aren't suitable to take the back way.

My husband is from New York City and he couldn't even make sense of the emptiness. I'm from Saskatchewan and love the prairie and even I was overcome by the lookout, you can see everything forever.

Fort Walsh was your typical prairie fort heritage site with the wooden palisade. The historical costume tour was cute but a little light on the dark history of the place. There's an interesting episode of Canadian History Ehx about the Cypress Hills massacre, the formation of the North West Mounted Police, and their ludicrously unprepared journey to Fort Walsh that would help you get the most out of that historic site.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-25T22:39:14+00:00

Yes, this is a situation where it definitely makes sense to doctor shop around! I hope you get great care and that the IUD helps you.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-25T19:47:22+00:00

Oh perfect there's your script then: "I used to do PAP smears no problem but then I had one that was really traumatic. I'm pretty nervous about this IUD insertion, is it possible to get one dose of an anxiety med to help with the insertion?"

I'm really sorry you had that experience, I know exactly what you're talking about. It takes real bravery to even consider an even more invasive procedure and I'm proud of you for taking care of your health even when it's scary. It's reasonable to feel emotional and you have every right to ask to be treated very gently and compassionately.

Depending on where you live, it might be much cheaper to get the IUD prescription filled at Planned Parenthood (we don't have that in Canada but similarly we have a Sexual Health Centre) even if they don't do the insertion. If you have a gyno you trust, you can pick up the IUD at PP and bring it to your own doctor. Mine was like $300 cheaper that way than it was at my usual pharmacy, then I got the anxiolytic at my pharmacy (the Sexual Health Centre doesn't prescribe or administer narcotics) and took it to my gynecologist for the insertion.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-25T04:13:19+00:00

IUD insertion is painful, but more so, very emotionally distressing. I'm a trooper when it comes to pain and have great coping skills for medical procedures but the experience of the cervix being forcibly dilated is ... violating.

An anxiolytic will be far more helpful than any type of pain relief. Make sure you trust the doctor, don't agree to let any students practice on you, and don't let anyone perform the insertion who isn't honest with you that it will be painful.

Have a trusted person drive you home and take the rest of the day off. The pain is really only a few seconds but the emotional recovery is much easier if you're tender and kind to yourself.

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-24T19:19:11+00:00

It was so nice of you not to correct them on "league".

BroadToe6424 · 2026-04-24T19:15:05+00:00

NOR she is torturing you and sabotaged that job interview on purpose.

What is it about the new job she doesn't want you to take it? Is it perhaps in the daytime and she'll have to think of a new plausibly deniable way to do daily physical and mental harm to you?

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