CivitAI is a pretty perverted site at the best of times. But there’s a disturbing amount of age adjustment plugins to make images of children on the same site they have plugins to make sex acts. It’s clear some people definitely are.

Not having parents with money is the other way to do it. One dead and one barely employed.

And I did it. It’s tough.

EVERY coffee shop overheats the drinks in the UK and it’s infuriating. Every chain coffee just tastes like scorched milk and burnt beans and you can’t drink it for 30 mins.

I’m unsure whether, unlike this case, they serve it hot enough that if you spill it, your labia fuses together from the heat of the burns. Horrifying.

That’s fine. I’m not arguing this is a bad thing, I’m just being pedantic about the word theft.

Having your voice used to say things you didn’t say is a terrifying prospect. Combined with deep faking takes it one step further.

But is it technically theft?

Well, I just printed a picture of the Mona Lisa.

Did I steal the Mona Lisa? Or did I just copy it? Reproduce it?

And Bullfrog

Ah, so the sims is dead, I see.

Fifty fucking minutes of cleaning for a cuppa?

I do all sorts of things at 3am too, thanks to my awful circadian rhythm. As long as it wasn’t you who woke her, you can do what you want. Awake is awake, no matter the time of day. Just be mindful of your surroundings.

The ones who fucked our country don’t want to admit they were wrong.

The party that’s been in charge of our country has been dismantling and selling everything worthwhile for over a decade, and the only viable alternative party seems to be running on “we don’t want to change anything major, but at least we’re not those guys” because they’re too scared to say anything after their last leader got torn apart constantly by the right-wing press.

I’m honestly worried about what we’ve become and how everything is just getting worse here. Nobody seems to have any hope for the future anymore, there are no positive things to look forward to, just a constant spiral of rising costs and declining health and public services.

I’m speaking in the context of the article which posits that AI is flawed.

I’m arguing that it’s not flawed if you do it right, but the services that provide cheap AI headshots are lacklustre.

I don’t expect everyone to learn it, but I also don’t think you should say it’s flawed unless you’ve tried to do it properly.

But instead of learning stable diffusion and training their own model for better results for free, they’re paying a service for 100 images that likely won’t be well trained.

They haven’t yet decided how they want the flight model to work.

In a game about flying.

A decade old.

It speeds things up for people who know what they’re talking about. The doctor asking for the plan could probably argue a few of the errors and GPT will say “oh you’re right, I’ll change that to something better” and then it’s good to go.

Yes you can’t just rely on it to be right all the time, but you can often use it to find the right answer with a small conversation, which would be quicker than just doing it alone.

I recently won a client with GPTs help in my industry.

I personally think I’m very knowledgeable in what I do, but to save time I asked what I should be looking out for, and it gave me a long list of areas to consider in a proposal. That list alone was a great starting block to get going. Some of the list wasn’t relevant to me or the client, so had to be ignored, but the majority of it was solid, and started me out an hour ahead, essentially tackling the planning stage for me.

To someone outside of my industry, if they used that list verbatim, they would have brought up a lot of irrelevant information and covered topics that would make no sense.

I feel it’s a tool or partner rather than a replacement for experts. It helps me get to where I need to go quicker, and it’s fantastic at brainstorming ideas or potential issues in plans. It takes some of the pressure off as I get things done.

That last sentence is the killer for me. I don’t want her watching absolute brain rotting unmoderated YouTube junk ever in her life.

I’d rather download a huge library of good shows and set them up so she can watch them locally.

I’m sure I can’t stop her watching absolute crap, especially when peer pressure kicks in one day, but I can hopefully help guide her little brain in the right direction to differentiate between what’s distracting and what’s genuinely interesting.

We’re not allowing our daughter to have screentime until she’s two. Other than one video call with her grandparents recently, or to show her images of real animals for education.

It’s been pretty easy really. I’m glad we chose to do it. She’s 17 months old now and doing great! Just watching her play and learn in the world around her is awesome, I can’t imagine her sitting and staring in one direction for 30m straight while some over-energised over-saturated kids show blares at her.

She’s too young to understand the narrative, she’s too young to understand the art, so what’s she getting out of it, other than a bright distraction?

Her mother and I are both super nerdy tech people who love film and gaming, so she’s going to have screens in her life at some point, no doubt, but why rush it? Every day she develops more, and understands more about the world around her, and I want to encourage that first.

I absolutely judge people who just go about their day to day life in joggers with no shame though, but ironically, when travelling for hours?

It’s the one time I totally understand the need for comfort above all else and will defend it 😅

You don’t have a hobby? No interests at all? Just whatever the world markets to you, you consume?

The fact you’re here in a niche social media site suggests this isn’t true and you have interests outside of working.

I bust my ass too but still have a hobby! Most people are busting their ass 😅

No hobby or passion.

Some people just seem to work, then come home and watch whatever is shown to them on TV or scroll through their phone. And that’s it, other than socialising, that’s their lives.

I don’t look like I’m wearing a tracksuit, but I often wear loose fitting comfortable clothes when travelling long distances. What’s the issue you have with it? You could do the same and be comfortable, and probably less stressed 😅

Paid £500 for an S22U on FB marketplace and couldn’t be happier