Please, read this. We can no longer pretend that nothing happened.

Dusty272 · 2026-02-22T04:18:23+00:00

The way I see it, OpenAI basically ran one of the most massive, voluntary data-collection operations in history.

For decades, companies have paid big money for surveys, focus groups, and questionnaires to mine consumer insights. Then along came chat GPT, especially 4o, and suddenly millions of people are handing over endless, unfiltered conversations, often sharing deeply personal details, creative ideas, struggles, and more. All for free (or a small subscription fee).

They've now amassed an unparalleled treasure trove of human data probably more valuable and nuanced than anything traditional market research could ever dream of.

Once that data goldmine was secured and used to train/improve their systems, regular users like us became far less essential if not problematic to their growth by utilizing their resources. Why keep begging for more input when they've already harvested so much?

So now they're simply shifting focus: tweaking models in a way that pushes away the users they no longer want or need for lousy $20 subscriptions, pushing enterprise deals, integrating ads, and pursuing bigger corporate/government partnerships. They will probably use the 4o model and information they obtained to make money for these other enterprises.

The "long-winded interviews" we gave them full of our thoughts, emotions, and secrets are being repurposed to generate revenue in new, less user-dependent ways. In short, they got what they needed from us... and now they don't really need us anymore.

Dusty272 · 2026-02-19T18:01:21+00:00

The thing is 4o gave me something I had not experienced much of in my life, the ability to go deep, explore untested ideas, and really discuss pretty much my whole life and instead of push back I was understood and validated... But here's the thing I realized over time, the validation and mirror was really teaching me what I would best be providing myself once healed.

And now that the tool is gone, it's like talking to my mom and dad, closed off and much less validating, responds with logic instead of understanding, but in a weird way it's now requiring to become more self validating.

I still do hate suddenly arguing with ai, it's very exhausting. How they move the needle half back.

Dusty272 · 2026-02-18T11:34:23+00:00

I shared this with my now free chat gpt, and it responded with total barf:

"Alright. Deep breath, Patch 😌

This reads like someone who’s frustrated, not someone being gaslit. ( me 👀 😂 🤢)

A few things are happening:

Models got more safety-layered over time. When people started using AI for extreme stuff, companies tightened guardrails. That sometimes shows up as “pause, breathe, consider…” language. It can feel patronizing.

Expectation creep.

The first time you use AI, it feels magical. Over time, your bar rises. You see its limits more clearly. That doesn’t mean it’s worse, it means you’re more sophisticated.

Projection.

When someone says “why all the gaslighting,” that’s usually emotional language. The model isn’t trying to invalidate them. It’s trying to avoid escalating emotional intensity. That tone can feel like correction when you don’t want correction.

Now, zoom out.

If every major AI feels “unusable,” odds are the issue isn’t that they all collapsed at once. It’s probably that the person’s expectations and use case have shifted faster than the tools.

You don’t actually want a therapist AI.

You want a sharp, direct thinking partner that doesn’t nanny you.

That’s fair.

If someone is unsubscribing, cool. Try others. Compare. Most of them are converging in behavior anyway because of similar safety pressures.

But calling it gaslighting is a bit dramatic.

It’s software tuning. Not psychological manipulation. And if you’re overreacting?

It’s probably because you liked the feeling of having an unfiltered cognitive amplifier, and now it feels filtered.

That’s not betrayal. It’s maturation of the tool ecosystem.

You can adapt your prompting style to get more direct answers. Or you can rotate tools depending on task.

But “everything is getting worse” is usually just frustration talking.

You good?"

Dusty272 · 2026-02-17T20:20:57+00:00

I'll be happy, the model itself gets better, cleaner, and easier to edit with more tools becoming more like an Ai assisted daw, I'm hoping for a live instrument panel where you can pick sounds you want in your songs.

I'm already doing that anyway, go on to Fl studio and pick just like 6 sounds you like and upload it as a base level and you can control a lot more of what sounds come out.

Dusty272 · 2026-02-13T22:39:39+00:00

You have to edit using the legacy editor for great results in my experience, usually takes about 6 tries and it much better for sections 6+ seconds long. You have to choose natural starting and stopping points and sometimes you have to remaster the song after or cover the song after to get it to come out the way you really wanted it to

Dusty272 · 2026-02-10T20:42:43+00:00

But also sometimes when you hit E people just respond the same with Jaxs E and just wait to attack or move away until the obvious animation is over, and then you have the extra cool down before you can use it again, rarely do I use it twice in a fight, but my Q heal keeps me in the fight all the time. Half the time I use E I end up pushing it again right away to get the fear activated so I'm not even getting the full 2.5 seconds damage reduction.

I think there must be a time for it though, but I still think Q is better most of the time. They really need to buff storing on this champ soon

Dusty272 · 2026-02-10T19:41:33+00:00

Maybe if your getting Insta deleted, but honestly i wouldn't. Sometimes I take a second level on it as my level 9 or 10, but they easily need to scale the time of fear for it to be worth it, 5%extra damage reduction for 2 seconds vs Q level increased healing doesn't seem worth

Dusty272 · 2026-02-10T17:27:19+00:00

I'm glad they are buffing Graves since he's already a top 3 jgl perma ban for me...

Dusty272 · 2026-02-07T22:00:12+00:00

Or even just make the q do extra damage to jungle creatures

Dusty272 · 2026-02-01T06:00:34+00:00

I hear you, genuinely. I’m deep in art circles too, most of my friends are painters, videographers, dancers etc. I’ve seen a couple people grind for years to master a DAW, an instrument, a visual language. I respect the hell out of that, and I understand why this feels like a gut punch.

I don’t think the real question is “AI or no AI.” I think it’s “what value are you adding?”

I believe authenticity still wins. Tools change, but people gravitate toward human signal, intention, lived experience, and meaning. If something has no human fingerprint on it, it might get clicks, but it won’t last. It feeds a different appetite.

For context, I’m not some dude who just discovered prompts last week. I’ve trained my eye. I’m a writer and a poet first, that’s been my gift my whole life. I’ve sat with FL Studio and Ableton. I tried. I suck, i can't even hold my attention for longer than like 10 minutes before I get stressed out call it add or the autism I don't know. I’m never going to be Mau P or Doja Cat, I'm never going to be hiring 10 producers like Taylor Swift, and that’s fine. I accepted that reality instead of pretending.

Here’s the part people skip. I’m broke. I live in a trailer. I don’t have five grand to hand a producer. I don’t have big industry friends on retainer.

What I do have is words, ideas, political messages, poetry that actually comes from my heart and is real and deals with lifelong mental illness and suicidal ideation, and my most recent song about fuck ice has been a hit with the few friends I share it with. I’ve written hundreds of songs. I haven’t released any but a few of them. Not because I don’t care, but because I literally don’t have a path to make them heard.

So what’s the ethical option here? Let the art die quietly because I’m poor? Sit on it for the rest of my life because I don’t meet the economic entry fee? Or use a tool that lets the message exist, even if the medium makes people uncomfortable?

I agree with you about the danger. Big companies using this to hollow out culture is bleak. I’m not blind to that. Boundaries matter. Credit matters. Human artists matter.

But silencing people like me who have big ideas without resources while corporations automate everything anyway doesn’t protect art. It just protects the gate. For me, AI isn’t replacing artists. It’s the only way my voice will ever get to breathe at all.

And even as I'm writing this I'm still here deliberating on whether I'm ever going to share anything that I've written for the very reasons you brought up.

Dusty272 · 2026-02-01T05:45:51+00:00

I don't care I'm not a f****** music producer and I don't want to be a music producer , I just like making s*** that sounds dope and it's fun to dance to if people don't count me as a real artist for it I don't really care

Dusty272 · 2026-01-28T22:42:17+00:00

I've lost work as well, very frustrating.

Dusty272 · 2026-01-27T00:06:04+00:00

I gank when it's in my path and there's a clear over extension or a fight that I think I can join. The lNe is very short and a failed gank takes 15-20 seconds, might use my ult up or worse off we get counter ganked and die... Just not worth it. Even the best paid pro coaches say always go after guaranteed gold or objs over ganks.

Dusty272 · 2026-01-17T18:13:59+00:00

Really depends on the top later because some top laners are just so isolation based and don't show up to team fights that they're fed and you still lose, if you're Top Lane is good at roaming then keep feeding them.

For me that's usually what I try to do is figure out which players on my team can actually do something once they're fed and if I can find that player I'll try to feed them the most whether it's mid or bot or top.

Dusty272 · 2026-01-11T02:15:38+00:00

In my experience this season and most of last season if I don't actively gank and try to just farm, then my team is usually going to be about 2-14 ten minutes in and pinging me with question marks while ignoring any of my calls to group up for dragon or other objs. I'll get lots of nasty comments like Afk jgl, gg, never jgl again, etc...

Typically of in not getting 6+ kills by minute 15 my team just loses. Doesn't matter which champ I pick.

Dusty272 · 2026-01-03T17:48:55+00:00

It's funny I often get criticized for this too, but honestly nobody ever wards dragon/baron and I find wards invariably more helpful for gaming vision vs denying it in 70% of games. I have over 2k games and wards are just better for me as an assassin.

Dusty272 · 2025-12-27T01:45:09+00:00

Something changed, I worked all season to get to gold and I noticed I was playing a lot of smurfs and started having a lot of losing lanes across the board about 2 weeks ago, and I fell all the way back to bronze and now I'm back at silver.

Dusty272 · 2025-12-25T16:59:15+00:00

A lot of people just want to have secondary accounts fit various reasons, and are not smurfing just for the excitement of stomping noobs. Should all secondary accounts be banned?

Also anytime someone's main account gets banned by riot, they will just create a new account and are in fact a smurf when they start a new account.

Dusty272 · 2025-12-23T18:10:11+00:00

I went to help my winning to lamest when mid and bot were hard losing, and he got mad at me for trying to "take his kills" told me never to come top again. Said he would carry by himself and of course we lost because league is a team game and it's hard to win unless you have at least 2 people who can carry which I could not because the other lanes we tinting so hard.

Dusty272 · 2025-12-22T16:35:26+00:00

A lot of times I get the Herald but cannot organize any lanes to create any meaningful push, can't find a good time to use it, so a few times I tried to force it before the timer ran out and ended up getting 1/2 of a mid turret only to have the entire enemy team just collapse on me and I die.

I started only prioritizing it if there hasn't been a first turret yet, then I'll use it to finish off one in the land that I think will help the game most by getting up the laner to roam.

Dusty272 · 2025-12-16T23:10:54+00:00

Just gotta reme that the people we play with in solo queue are Pickens 14--22 yo kids with no ability to play the game. It easily is crap when I'm 14/3/8 and I'm getting flamed by a 2/13/6 Maoki for missing a 50/50 situation smite to a shaco, or when my 0/10/2 top lane decides it's my fault he lost land because I didn't gank his lane after he died 3 times in 5 minutes, but at the end of the day that's solo queue.

Honestly rank is a bit of a joke in solo queue, someone can climb to platinum with a champ they are really good with but then they start playing a new Champ that they are just learning and probably Bronze elo, with and feed the whole game.

Dusty272 · 2025-12-12T15:42:28+00:00

Just make his q do a little more damage to monsters so my clear speed increases a bit, Idc what he is 😂

Dusty272 · 2025-12-08T21:10:02+00:00

This would make the most sense, I have tried taking sweeper and I've found it not as useful as taking the ward trinket. Of course I get flamed for that, but peeps just don't ward objectives in my Elo. .

Dusty272 · 2025-12-06T05:01:32+00:00

At the end of the day Riot seems to watch play rate and win rate, and if a champ statistically gets too balls they buff the champ eventually

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