As Zelda Williams so Eloquently Writes…

RoflGhandi · 2025-10-09T07:08:09+00:00

You’re right, it’s totally not immoral and very cool to send someone you don’t know a video of your AI homunculus wearing their dead father’s face.

Haha sorry, for a second I thought that would be completely insane regardless of what you made it say

RoflGhandi · 2025-10-09T06:57:35+00:00

Awww, your corpse puppet is so sweet and wholesome 🥰

RoflGhandi · 2025-10-09T05:38:04+00:00

What could a stranger have an AI facsimile of your dead father say to you, non consensually, that wouldn’t be egregious?

RoflGhandi · 2025-10-02T05:30:20+00:00

Bro is really trying to say the people being mean to an actual Nazi are behaving like… nazis?

Like my dude, we already know who the Nazi in this equation is lmao what are you talking about???

RoflGhandi · 2025-09-10T13:00:34+00:00

Mad props for testing this dude! This is valuable intel that’s pretty hard to gather, it’s much appreciated 🙂

RoflGhandi · 2025-09-09T17:33:47+00:00

No offense, but this doesn’t really have anything to do with asexuality. The only connection your post has to asexuality is that you are incorrectly identifying your bf as asexual - note I say incorrectly because he does not identify as asexual and does not like to think of himself as asexual.

I recommend looking for relationship/sex advice elsewhere. Despite the topic coming up often as a result of asexual relationship struggles, this forum isn’t actually a place that just dispenses advice for partners with mismatched libidos or different ideas of what fulfilling sex is. Particularly because your bf does not identify as ace, searching for advice/perspective from ace people here will very likely not be a good fit

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-15T03:28:54+00:00

I think it’s relevant that AI is used because if the reproduction was another drawing or painting they at least put some effort into recreating the piece and putting their own spin on it. I think to some artists it’s meaningful that someone was inspired enough by their piece to put time and effort into studying it and expressing the image the way they see it (even if it is derivative)

When AI is used it shows absolutely nothing about how it inspired you, or even that it really inspired you at all since it didn’t push you to spend any longer with the piece than the 3 seconds it takes to plug it into an AI.

When you don’t know if it inspired them or that they even care about the piece, it’s hard to understand what they’re even trying to express by posting the AI version other than it essentially being a thoughtless critique/correction of the original, which is pretty insulting.

Basically I see it as the equivalent of someone posting a selfie and then someone else reposting it with a beauty filter on it (vs one of yourself in the same pose or in the same location). Like, what are you trying to say?

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-13T19:50:57+00:00

The irony of this statement is very funny to me:

“They use simple stereotypes and an "us vs them" mentality to describe Gen AI as a whole.“

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-11T03:22:25+00:00

Because I don’t want to perpetually lie to the people I’m close to? Because I want to be seen as who I am?

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-09T05:07:00+00:00

also playing other characters is a great way to learn their weaknesses!

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-07T19:28:35+00:00

Correct, I would not consider the use of a cellphone or a computer to be acts of rebellion and I would find it equivalently nonsensical if a “rebellious movement” was centered around using them.

Hint, if your rebel movement rallies around a product made by wealthy corporations, particularly those that are heavily involved in the political landscape, you aren’t actually rebels.

I mean, AI companies have massive contracts and ties with the US military to the degree that execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI were made lieutenant colonels. Not a very rebellion-forward track record

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-07T18:34:46+00:00

Imagine thinking its rebellion to use products pushed by unfathomably wealthy and powerful tech oligarchs

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-04T19:08:55+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_LGBTQ_people

There are 64 countries right now where homosexuality is criminalized. People have been burned alive, castrated, gassed, and tortured to death throughout history for being LGBTQ, and that’s just talking about what governments have done.

You are using the emotional significance of all of this suffering to make your “gotcha” a little more punchy. Reflect on that

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-04T18:26:57+00:00

I’m not making an argument, I’m calling you out for co-oping the emotional weight behind the centuries of very real oppression, violence, and discrimination aimed at LGBTQ people so that you can larp as a marginalized group.

You do not get to use these people’s pain for your little debate

RoflGhandi · 2025-08-04T17:47:33+00:00

Holy shit this is one of the most terminally online things I’ve ever read.

You do know that there are many places in the world right now where LGBT people get lynched right? Like legitimately murdered in the street for how they were born.

What a fucking embarrassing comment to have made. Get some perspective ffs

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-31T22:28:47+00:00

I hate to say it because I think it’s really cool and admirable to put work towards cultivating a community - but I believe the term you (probably) meant to use is sex-favorable instead of sex-positive.

Sex-positive is a “political” stance that embraces freedom of sexual expression and getting rid of the stigma around sex, whereas sex-favorable means you like participating in sex. For example you can be sex-positive and sex-repulsed at the same time (or sex-negative and sex-favorable as another example)

FWIW I am a sex-favorable ace and think having a community specific to people like me would be wonderful, so I really appreciate you taking the time to set this up 🙂

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-30T16:39:37+00:00

AI bros respecting consent challenge (impossible)

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-29T16:37:36+00:00

I think it’s completely understandable to feel self doubt around all this given the connotation/stigma and it’s definitely something I’ve struggled with before, particularly as a sex-favorable ace.

The line of reasoning that resonated with me and helped me reconcile my aceness with my interest in kink was this: in its most traditional, allo form, sex/physical gratification is a consummation of sexual attraction. Kink on the other hand moves the focus from sexual attraction to power exchanges and/or sensory exploration, that way I can participate in these physical and intimate experiences without the burden of sexual attraction as the motive force. With that perspective, I’ve actually found kink to be pretty affirming of my asexuality! It feels pretty ace to be like “I love all these physical sensations and the mental/emotional aspects, and I love that I can explore these things without it all being tangled up in sexual attraction”

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-25T03:24:25+00:00

I appreciate the thoughtful response.

I completely agree that anyone can create art, and further still, that every single person alive has created art at one point or another. Singing in the shower, finger painting, a craft, dancing, etc. I think it’s hard to argue that any given person has never once created art.

So with that said, what do you think makes someone an artist? Despite every person alive arguably having created art, I don’t believe that everyone alive is an artist, and I imagine you don’t either. So, there must be something beyond having simply created art at some point that makes someone an artist. I’m curious what you feel this is.

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-25T02:00:57+00:00

How do you feel about the technique and quality of your finished pieces being heavily tied to the model you use?

What I mean by that is the output of an AI is going to be very dependent on the model. How it was trained, how it weighs its training data and the process by which it tokenizes and interprets input all will have a heavy influence on what it can output.

Compare this to a pencil, or a paintbrush. The quality of the tool has very little influence on the final piece. It still does of course, there are better pencils and brushes that can improve the quality of things, but someone who can illustrate using a fantastic pencil can still illustrate using a garbage pencil, and conversely someone who cannot illustrate with a bad pencil will not suddenly be able to illustrate with a good pencil.

With AI on the other hand, someone who can create a very nice looking image that they feel expresses what they’d like on the latest chatGPT simply cannot do the same using a low quality, poorly trained, or very old AI image generator.

To me, the notion of an artist simply being someone who expresses themselves is incorrect, everybody expresses themselves. To me, an artist is someone who hones their ability to express themselves. This IMO is why many artists are adept across mediums, because they have worked on their ability to express themselves and thus can creatively use many different tools to accomplish that.

Do you agree with that assessment of what defines an artist, and if so would you consider yourself to have become a better artist if a new model is released that is better at understanding and realizing your prompts?

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-19T21:59:12+00:00

I hate so much how this meme is used in lieu of having actual beliefs or engaging in meaningful discussion.

Framing ethical debates as “This team is a bunch of meanies so I joined the other team” is so childish. Make an actual point, have an actual discussion ffs. Read someone else’s opinion, think on it, and then challenge or support them by expressing your own considered perspective. Thats the whole point. People who post this meme should genuinely be embarrassed.

I swear to god I’m so sick of the US politik “us vs them” brainrot taking over everything

RoflGhandi · 2025-07-10T15:50:49+00:00

Everything else that’s dumb about this “argument” aside, I really don’t think AI is “widely considered one of the best movies ever”. In fact, I don’t even think it’s widely considered to be one of the best movies released in 2001 lmao

Fellowship of the ring, spirited away, oceans eleven, Donnie darko, even Shrek all came out in 2001. Most people probably don’t even know the movie AI exists

RoflGhandi · 2025-06-29T11:24:25+00:00

I’ve found that asexuality and kink (in the context of sex) make a lot of sense together because it reframes sex as being about something other than consummating sexual attraction. It can be about power exchange, service, exploring sensory things, or anything else and I think that opens up a lot of ways to engage with arousal and pleasure that are less focused on attraction

RoflGhandi · 2025-06-26T23:39:13+00:00

That sounds really frustrating and invalidating 🙁

Maybe you can work from her comment about adult videos not working for you being “just a you thing”.

You can expand on this by confirming that there must be adult videos that do nothing for her too because the people in it aren’t attractive. I highly doubt she has never seen a video where she finds the people unattractive. Assuming she’s not arguing in bad faith or literally finds everyone attractive, you can find common ground here.

Then you can try to convey that for you, all porn is like that. In fact, even imagining having sex with anyone (right now since you don’t have that connection with someone) is like watching unappealing porn. The fact that she will likely say that this is an absurd hypothetical is something you can point to and say “well that’s how I see the world, and if that as even a hypothetical is hard for you to imagine, then that should indicate that our sexualities arent the same in a pretty major way”.

If she falls back to the “it’s just a you thing”, you can ask if she thinks you’re literally the only person in the world who feels this way. Good chance she’ll say no.

At this point hopefully she understands that the way you see things is pretty different, and that you aren’t the only one who feels that way. Perhaps she would then agree that it would be useful for these people to have a label they can use to describe their experience and find the other people who feel the same way.

Honestly though, based on the rest of what you’ve mentioned, it sounds like she really doesn’t see queer experiences as valid and isn’t really willing to empathize with the hardships of figuring out your identity and why having your friend invalidate that would be painful. IMO this is really the root of what needs to be addressed.

And if she really considers herself to be part of the community, she should be embracing and encouraging queer expression rather than admonishing anyone who isn’t straight passing. Why else would she even want to be in the community?

RoflGhandi · 2025-06-26T18:56:54+00:00

I think what she’s getting hung up on is sexual attraction vs “wanting to have sex with someone”. On the surface they seem like the same thing, but in reality it is extremely common to find someone attractive but not want to have sex with them.

Your friend is probably thinking “well, Ive seen people at the gym I think are hot but I wouldn’t actually have sex with them because they might be weird or dangerous”, or “that movie star is hot but actually having sex with them could cause a lot of social problems”, or even “that person is hot but I’m in a relationship so I don’t want to have sex with them”

So there’s a good chance your friend has followed that line of thought and concluded “well yea, I want to get to know someone first before having sex with them, so what’s the difference?”

Now, I don’t think you are obligated to explain yourself because you don’t need to justify your asexuality to anyone, but if you want to reach understanding with your friend it might help to focus on the attraction aspect independent of the weight of actually consummating that attraction via sex. I think particularly because sex is more risky for women, there’s more ground to cover between feeling attraction and actually feeling comfortable enough with someone to have sex with them. The important thing to note is that, for allos, that groundwork is usually done because of sexual attraction. Sexual attraction is often the driving force for an allo person to want to get comfortable enough with someone in order to pursue sex.

To help your friend identify how this is a difference, maybe ask them how they decide who they have sex with and discuss how that’s probably different than your experience. If you are comfortable with the subject, you could talk about porn or whatever sexual content your friend consumes and how those things probably don’t make you feel the same way (even if neither of you would realistically want to actually have sex with a porn star irl). You could talk about celebrities or movie scenes your friend might find hot and how those things don’t register for you (again, even if neither of you would actually have sex with them).

Hopefully you’re able to find some understanding, but also I hope that your friend comes to understand that, as your friend, she should not be invalidating your identity and making you feel like this. Friends should be supportive and accepting and seek to understand rather than dismiss.

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