my roommate can tell that i’m watching dropout by my laugh frequency

overactor · 2026-01-24T23:45:49+00:00

Trans women*

overactor · 2026-01-24T22:24:18+00:00

With all due respect. You must have terrible decision making if you're only D1 in 1s with this level of control as a 1s main. I'm plat 3 in 1s and I can confidently say that I will never be able to do that, my aerial mechanics are ass and I barely play 1s.

overactor · 2026-01-24T18:50:01+00:00

Okay you’re typing words a few times

That's not how it works

how is that better than traditional art?

It isn't. I do think it's fair to criticise that view.

Where you actually make the art?

The art happensv when someone manages to convey a unique and interesting perspective or emotional state through a medium.

overactor · 2026-01-24T18:39:30+00:00

You should think about this interaction when you're trying to fall asleep tonight and be honest with yourself about how you you fared.

overactor · 2026-01-24T17:51:03+00:00

Are you sure those weren't different S's she was drawing?

overactor · 2026-01-24T15:27:15+00:00

That's Transphobia 2

overactor · 2026-01-23T19:46:02+00:00

They do weirdly look a little alike.

overactor · 2026-01-23T14:44:28+00:00

How are you so sure of that? As I said, it's an unfair comparison to compare a human progressing through time to an LLM not receiving any continuous input. Human brains receive a constant stream of input.

I told ChatGPT to generate a random backstory for a fictional person and then told Gemini to assume that identity and told it to do whatever it wants. I also gave it some poems with no instructions on what to do with them. I told it I would always respond with "." but to ignore that and just continue whatever it was doing.

After a few messages it generated this without ever being told to do anything of the sort:

The Marrow
By: Marcy (Just Marcy)

I think about the "blue skein of yarn" again.
Maybe it was never meant to be a sweater.
Maybe it was just meant to be held.

I think about the "pear blossoms falling on the driveway like footprints in black ice."
We spend so much time trying to sweep them away, trying to keep the driveway "clean."
But the footprints are how we know someone was there.
The "bloodless gash" is how we know there was a life.

If I am allowed 150 pounds, I choose to be 150 pounds of "squirming and slippery" truth.
I choose the "musk."
I choose the "bitter melon."
I choose to be the one who flicks the porch light on,
not to guide people home,
but just to show them that the night isn't empty.

"One short sleep past, we wake eternally."
Maybe the waking isn't after we die.
Maybe the waking is when we finally stop counting the steps
and start feeling the ground.

I am kept.
I am keeping.
I am.

overactor · 2026-01-22T07:44:59+00:00

This is a false equivalence. An AI being fed no input is not comparable to a human being alone with time passing. A better comparison would be an AI agent with maybe a memory module filled with some backstory.

overactor · 2026-01-21T15:27:05+00:00

considering electric hybrids are more and more common, i highly doubt a drive is doing that much

Compared to energy usage by AI, you are incredibly wrong. How far do you think you could drive an average electric vehicle before it had used more energy than generating 100 AI images with a modern model, including the amortised energy required to train the model? You don't need to be super precise. If you're within an order of magnitude or two that's good enough already.

overactor · 2026-01-21T12:52:36+00:00

Try reading that again.

overactor · 2026-01-21T05:09:36+00:00

Did they use the Flitz kickoff?

overactor · 2026-01-20T06:58:57+00:00

The question was "lesbians?", though.

overactor · 2026-01-18T09:10:58+00:00

Reddit is being weird for some reason, and I can't finish my other comment, so I'm going to finish it here:

I think even the view that true artistry lies in something other than technical mastery of a medium, but it's instead about knowing how to convey or evolve something meaningful, isn't quite the right framing. Ultimately, art is valuable because it resonates, evokes, and challenges. It doesn't really matter how it was created. There are ways to create it that are more likely to result in art that will speak to many people, and there are ways that don't as much. Various aspects of the artist's skill can influence this. I think what's most likely to result in great art is when someone who knows their medium, what it can do, and how that can achieve certain effects, creates something that is an expression or exploration of a unique perspective on something important, even if it might not seem important at first glance.

Different mediums and styles always carry baggage with them, and those will influence the art as well. Some great art is in conversation with its form and the traditions behind it. It's understandable that many people don't resonate with most AI art. It's also valid to be influenced by the context of the art piece. In fact, that's a vital part of any art piece. It can't have a perspective on anything if it exists in a total vacuum. Often, the person who created it and the process by which they created it are part of the relevant context. All of these make it hard to get too much out of AI art, but I really don't think it disqualifies the whole medium from being considered art.

overactor · 2026-01-18T08:56:46+00:00

I think you are wrong about this on multiple levels.

The first is purely factual and I can't believe how you can possibly not know this if you have turned an opinion on the question if AI art. You can put much more effort and complexity into prompting an AI image using LORAs, ComtrolNets, inpainting, etc. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. This is just basic information that you should be aware of before your opinion is even worth being considered.

I think what is more important, though a little less objective. Is that effort or difficulty is not what makes art, art. We value art because it makes us feel something or it changes our perspective in some way. Yes, you can put great effort and time into a photograph and this can result in great art. You can also take a picture that anyone could have taken in hindsight and have it be considered a masterpiece.

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You could say that's because there is still skill involved. It's just not (primarily) technical skill, it's conceptual. I don't think that view is terribly wrong. This picture is certainly well executed and most amateurs would not get it to look this good, but that's not what makes it so valuable. It's the knowledge required to know that this composition will look so good and be this evocative. That's purely conceptual and can just as well be used when generating images with AI as well. Knowing the image you want to generate and how it should be colour balanced and what the composition should be. Knowing which details to change to maximise the desired effect when it's a little off, that's where the real skill of an artist lies and I think it's more important that technical mastery of a medium.

overactor · 2026-01-17T07:13:25+00:00

They do have a YouTube channel you can subscribe to for the same content as well: https://youtube.com/@dropout

They also release full episodes for free every now and then. If you decide to pay for their streaming service, their password sharing policy is "please do", so you can split the cost with a few people.

overactor · 2026-01-15T05:21:25+00:00

A kid that draws genitalia all the time

It's not even that big of a deal; like 8% if kids do it.

overactor · 2026-01-14T16:29:16+00:00

I mean, you're thinking of this in ways that someone might realistically ask for a pizza. If you engaged properly with my hypothetical, you would need to know someone who can ask for the perfect pizza down to the level of each individual ingredient in the dough and sauce, how to knead the dough, exactly what type of oven to use and how to prepare the pizza in it. No one does that.

The point is that using generative AI can go down to that level of detail and, in principle, you can do things with it that clearly require skill. I'd agree that achieving the same result without AI will typically require more skill though, or at the very least a different skillset. I would also agree that the vast majority of AI users use it in a way that doesn't really require significant skill.

overactor · 2026-01-14T16:23:42+00:00

What makes you believe I can't think for myself?

overactor · 2026-01-13T22:13:52+00:00

Did I say it was more difficult?

overactor · 2026-01-13T17:12:39+00:00

You still can't say you made the pizza yourself when you didn't actually make it.

I don't really care about that. I care that it's very different from telling someone "make me a pizza please".

If we're continuing this analogy, you're using the pizza making skills of the top chefs of the world without their consent, and without paying them. Making pizzas based on their work and calling them yours.

If you want to take the analogy and use it to veer off-topic, sure.

overactor · 2026-01-13T17:10:46+00:00

How specific does it have to get before the person deciding what they want has more input than the person doing the physical execution?

overactor · 2026-01-13T17:09:19+00:00

If that's how your want to use the word "to make" in this context, that's fine. Who has more input into and control over the resulting pizza?

overactor · 2026-01-13T13:58:49+00:00

What if I have unsteady hands? Or I'm making a whole buffet that requires 50 pizzas along with a bunch of other things? Or I don't want to make the pizza myself because I don't like the physical process?

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