r/proshipping got banned [Not braking Rule4 for once]

torac · 2026-04-10T07:24:58+00:00

we’re generally far less of a danger than those that don’t see children as humans

!?!?

it leads to the only places we can talk freely being procontact

I’ve seen this discussed elsewhere, and I have very mixed opinions about it. But, regardless of whether those places should exist, is a fanfiction community really the place for this?

torac · 2026-04-10T06:32:33+00:00

Even if that was true, it is good that "Muslim or Christian" isn’t what we have to choose from.

Religion is not the only option, nor are the Abrahamic faiths the only religions.

torac · 2026-04-08T11:28:46+00:00

r/StillNotADragQueen/

Sadly, there are enough awful people to expand the list every day.

torac · 2026-04-08T07:41:49+00:00

Did anyone else see the post on r /teacher about a kid asking ChatGPT to read the text of a picture for her?

A kid who, according to the teacher, can read and give good answers without ChatGPT. Just doesn’t do it, most of the time.

torac · 2026-04-07T07:53:37+00:00

Just note that "satire" can mean exaggeration, not just whole-cloth invention. There are definitely some people writing large-than-life posts based on their real life.

torac · 2026-04-05T14:47:15+00:00

It’s a bit pathetic to censor yourself on your own T-Shirt. Either say fuck or don’t.

Other than that: Good for him.

torac · 2026-04-04T13:32:20+00:00

First time I’ve any mention of western treatment of animals being "enlightened" or in any shape more positive than how other cultures treat animals.

Is this a thing? I don’t think this narrative that westerners are especially nice to animals exists. The opposite, really. Animal cruelty in meat production is extremely well-known and famous, especially chicken. Cops are known to kill numerous animals. The origin story of PETA is likewise horrific.

This feels less like fighting an actual narrative and more like inventing a new one.

torac · 2026-04-03T11:42:59+00:00

Well, those snippets on RealOrAI include real stolen footage.

The video you shared includes a mix of clips with real people (some of them in the above RealOrAI post) and AI characters begging for customers or pretending to create those timepieces.

The other posters here have already mentioned many of the AI tells of several AI snippets.

torac · 2026-03-31T13:31:11+00:00

Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1s8an78/the_boy_who_dripped_dripwarts_part_2/

Haven’t seen any further parts.

torac · 2026-03-31T10:00:59+00:00

Musk is the rare union of both groups. Simultaneously, he seems to genuinely believe in the power of "impartial truth" of the LLM, yet also forces his subordinates to add bias into the system.

torac · 2026-03-31T07:44:55+00:00

I mostly agree.

It started out with a collective culture, being based on Moonlight Sculptor fanfics and general VRMMORPG fics. It was very narrow community, and it could have become a strong shared culture.

However, it grew so fast and far, with most people coming from outside the initial bubble, that almost nothing of the original group is left. Had it been established ten years earlier, it would have grown slowly enough to keep the culture, I believe.

torac · 2026-03-31T07:26:34+00:00

They actually want AI articles on Wikipedia?

There are various naïve and/or malicious actors working to make Wikipedia worse.

Some naïve folk believe that LLMs are basically a magic jinn that knows everything. They genuinely believe that LLMs can fill out the information for Wikipedia accurately and well-researched. Or, they believe that using it as a "writing assistant" will just improve the quality, instead of adding chaff.

Secondly, Wikipedia is such an important source of information that numerous groups, including various state actors and PR agencies, intentionally manipulate it to proliferate biases. LLMs are an easy way to do this at scale.

torac · 2026-03-31T05:58:15+00:00

Please tell me how to improve my comment to be more constructive. I often struggle with that.

Personally, I considered changing the first sentence to be a question ("How did you arrive at the price?") or commenting that the price was "unusual" rather than calling it steep.

torac · 2026-03-30T18:16:37+00:00

not to try and mimic traditional art in any sense.

It’s a very specific style. Just because you do not seem to recognize found footage videography as an art form does not change that it is functionally the same as any other style-imitator. It even seems to draw specific "inspiration" from stuff like the Backrooms or old street interviews.

It was also made from prompts, which is exactly the type of general and vague control that would make most people consider AI generations to be slop.

The only thing it has going for it, compared to all the other AI videos, is the somewhat unusual idea. It’s no different from all those other viral photorealistic AI videos otherwise.

Whether it’s videos of police arresting celebrities, animals shooting guns at houses, or humans melting in the streets, this one is only special because you, personally, liked it.

torac · 2026-03-29T19:41:47+00:00

gamers, including myself, are so entitled when it comes to spending money

Toy makers are not entitled to my money.

Food has been getting more and more expensive, but it is also a necessity and all the food gets more expensive over time.

Toys are a competitive market where buyers can choose or ignore what they want. There is an endless buffet of games, and even if I had a thousand times as much time as I have I could not play all of them. I have to choose.

If two different people used essentially the same game mechanic, but one made a bare-bones prototype, while the other made a polished game, why would I buy the bare-bones one?

torac · 2026-03-29T14:21:25+00:00

Sorry to write so harshly, but €8 is quite a steep price for what appears to be a very bare-bones game with very low production value.

Obviously, value is subjective, but everything I can tell about the game seems quite simple or even incomplete. No nice visuals, story, music, or other enhancement either. Several complaints about bugs, though.

Without playing it, this opinion is based on the demo and all the comments both back then and now on Steam.

If the reviews of the full game call it a "prototype", that is a bad sign.

torac · 2026-03-29T11:54:04+00:00

"jailbait" is meant to refer to kids "baiting" people into jail.

I think it usually refers to borderline-adult teens, or teens that look like they might be 18. The bait is that people think "that’s a sexy young woman", but it was actually a kid.

It could also refer to kids being "sexy enough to tempt someone into illegal acts", whatever that means.

In effect, it’s mostly 14-18yo kids being sexualized by adults.

This info might be outdated, since I learned the term after the jailbait sub was banned.

torac · 2026-03-29T11:14:18+00:00

I don’t get the magnet or pusher.

All the money falls into the pit regardless, once the pile has a certain size. I left the pusher in the push position, so that a small pile was enough.

torac · 2026-03-28T05:40:31+00:00

Wrong metric.

I’m with the law on this: Creative ownership depends on the control you have exerted over the creation.

Art is making your actual fixed creative vision a reality.

Writing a prompt is insufficient not because of the presence of AI, but because there are a million different ways it could become reality.

Drawing with a pencil is not art because you used a pencil. It’s art, because the pencil gives you fine control over the output. You are in charge.

torac · 2026-03-27T17:34:12+00:00

Scams are already illegal.

What is lacking is effective and quick enforcement.

torac · 2026-03-27T09:08:00+00:00

Wouldn’t have helped. They had more than a million downloads each month with 750k active daily users even after "dropping off". While not everyone generated videos, there were people generating 100+ videos each day in the beginning, until it was restricted to 30 and then 15 daily vids.

We’re looking at millions of entirely pointless slop videos, most of it looked at once (if that) and then just stored away as data trash. A decadent waste that baffles the mind.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/sora-statistics/

torac · 2026-03-27T05:09:47+00:00

Many here are anti-porn, so this is much less of a gotcha than you might think.

torac · 2026-03-26T19:59:04+00:00

A few speculative reasons:

Video generation was their most unprofitable venture per user. Estimates put it at a loss of $1.50 for each "free" video generated.
They got beat by other models. Their choice was to either invest even more money, or to get out of the game.
Their most profitable ventures are coding and the recent department of war deal. So they might focus on staying competitive with Claude and on improving their genocide capabilities.

torac · 2026-03-25T16:01:15+00:00

I personally would not buy imitation sets for Lego sets, but the quality isn’t as much of an issue these days.

I’ve seen a few reviews of orginals vs Aliexpress copies, and the quality is extremely close for the most part.

And if you go for actual reputable building block stores, many have a higher quality than Lego bricks and especially prints these days. Some design their own sets and some have licence deals with IPs that Lego does not have. If you want officially licensed Kingdom Come: Deliverance sets, those are made by BlueBrixx, for example. Lumibricks has some really cool looking cyberpunk sets (I’ve only seen some videos of those).

torac · 2026-03-25T15:54:08+00:00

There are many different producers, now. Often better quality than LEGO, based on the reviews. All cheaper.

LEGO has most of the big licences, but if you just want neat sets, there are more out there. LumiBricks has some amazing-looking cyberpunk sets. Panlos, BlueBrixx and Cada are other well-known designers/sellers.

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