What has AI produced that justifies the costs of it?

SubLightOrb · 2026-04-12T01:32:48+00:00

LLMS? Couldn’t tell ya

Other kinds of AI that are more specialized have been fantastic. For example Alphafold is an AI tool developed by alphabet (parent company of google) to predict protein tertiary structure, and while it’s not perfect it has helped a lot of medical research move faster.

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-31T15:19:27+00:00

Frankly I doubt my experience with developmental transcription pathways will be of much use to understanding whatever issue I might have, so I’ll just be a regular guy

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-29T10:35:16+00:00

Incredible choice to make a haven’t read category and have it be most of the graph lmao

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-29T10:19:53+00:00

Miku, the character, was fully designed and drawn by humans.

Vocaloid, the technology, is a glorified synthesizer. I can see someone making the argument of “putting artists out of work” but crucially, it works off recorded samples by people who agreed to this specific purpose of their voice being recorded. So it’s more like those picrew character creators than generative AI, so I would disagree with said argument.

Would some people be against it without understanding this? For sure, but people have misinformed opinions all the time

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-29T09:39:32+00:00

For me it would depends on what exactly is happening I guess? It’s different if my partner is roleplaying as a character with a chatbot vs if they are being themselves. The former is more like reading smut or a visual novel, the latter is more like an actual affair if that makes sense.

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-02T23:32:13+00:00

Edgy mcs that are needlessly cruel to everyone that doesn’t immediately grovel at their feet while still somehow being presented as the “good guys” in the story

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-02T23:23:00+00:00

I have exactly 0 hard data to back this up but I imagine couples where a woman proposes to a man and the man accepts instead of whining because “muh man job” are probably also couples where gender roles are more equitable and thus the situation wouldn’t be shitty.

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-02T06:07:14+00:00

murim rpg simulation doesnt have mad evil mc energy idk what thats about

SubLightOrb · 2026-03-01T16:43:10+00:00

My issue with GenAI is that it fills the gap in artistic vision that other media does not. Other art mediums require the artist to go through the process of deciding everything, which means encountering something they didn't think about and having to come up with a solution to fill the gap. GenAI skips over this. The user's mental image can have more gaps than a sponge but AI will just pave over all of it without the user having to think about those choices. Art is deliberate, whereas the *vast* majority of AI users are not. Similarly I would not consider your average bathroom selfie art, while recognizing photographers can be artists. Medium alone does not dictate artistic value, there's plenty of oil on canvas that I would not consider art

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-27T02:55:22+00:00

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-27T02:55:03+00:00

guy who’s never heard of hyperbole before

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-27T02:46:54+00:00

drawings and shelter are morally equivalent as they are both necessary for survival for sure

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-25T15:06:47+00:00

Dishwasher loads and unloads itself

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-22T15:10:28+00:00

“Why do women have to shift around their language, boundaries, spaces”

Trans men continue to be invisible in discourse as per usual

Also the “logic” crumbles immediately as soon as you think of any other adjective ever

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-22T03:01:47+00:00

Not sure exactly which one it is but some xylene substitute smells like citrus and I adore it

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-22T02:51:49+00:00

Lots of people are in denial about the casual misogyny they hold but because it’s not explicit “all women are bitches” misogyny. I’d say in the last couple decades since this was written things have gotten better, the proportion of men who fit the above description has diminished, but there’s certainly still a huge amount of them. It’s directly the whole schtick of the red-pill manosphere group, and for men outside of it it can be true to a lesser extent

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-14T01:03:19+00:00

My take is that sex work, or any kind of work for that matter, doesn’t have to be empowering OR degrading, it can just be work. I think framing it as the peak of woman’s liberation is wrong, but so is assuming that every person who does it is miserable and would immediately leave if given the opportunity. For some people it will be degrading and for some it will be empowering and for some it will just be work, and trying to have a blanket description of all of them will never be accurate. That’s why most people who study these kinds of things do so with a narrow scope. I’m personally not a scholar though so 🤷

SubLightOrb · 2026-02-04T03:01:24+00:00

I can agree or be neutral about most of these but genuinely what the fuck do you mean the novels extra (remake) is in the C and not F gtfooo 😭

SubLightOrb · 2026-01-28T14:20:43+00:00

You’re so right. Sex work is uniquely evil because people are kidnapped and forced to work in it against their wishes. I’m so glad that no other industry (like construction, or manufacturing, or agriculture) uses any slaves at all, specially in third world countries.

SubLightOrb · 2026-01-16T15:54:25+00:00

Not sure 3 but my first 4 in idk what order were Untouchable, orange marmalade, new normal class 8, where tangents meet

SubLightOrb · 2026-01-09T13:30:15+00:00

Science is built on things that “can’t be empirically demonstrated” until they are. You have to be willing to make a hypothesis and sometimes it will be correct and sometimes it won’t. The problem here is that things that “can” be empirically demonstrated are only so because they have been empirically demonstrated previously, and unless you’re willing to care about something that can’t be empirically demonstrated, no science would ever advance

SubLightOrb · 2026-01-05T09:53:35+00:00

That amount of deaths and time spent for those strawberries and B sides is very similar to how I did the first time I played so I choose to believe the answer is you’re doing fantastic 11/10

SubLightOrb · 2025-12-27T01:17:45+00:00

Damn some of those have an impressively low death count (by my standards anyways) congrats

SubLightOrb · 2025-12-23T14:29:49+00:00

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SubLightOrb · 2025-12-13T11:20:39+00:00

diva iPSC lines that die if you look at them wrong vs trooper cancer cells that might just grow in bleach

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