i applaud you for being the change that you want to see in the world

that sounds like way more effort than is reasonable to expect from a shitpost.

the average american doesn’t understand stats.

Normally I’d agree with you, but this one was funny.

it’s a repost, op didn’t censor it. you’d know if you read the text.

dew it dew it dew it dew it

i don’t understand what that means but it sounds hype as fuck.

+1 because you can say fuck.

Their music was pretty great back in the day, but their more recent stuff sounds like schizophrenic whinging, and their music videos make them look like maga fascists. I have done zero research on what their opinions actually are.

i think I was getting two different conversations mixed together, my snark was intended for someone else. i apologize for that.

So I went looking to find out what you’re talking about, and I came up with nothing. So linky with the op comment confirming what they meant.

There are plenty of snarky things I could say. I refrain from being the ass I’d like, you haven’t proven to deserve it.

If I find any degree of success, then absolutely I will hire real humans to help me with my vision.

sadly, I have a moral compass. I’m not sure where I put the damn thing, but I have one.

My man, my dude, my guy,

That is fuckin’ why it’s ambiguous.

it’s old, because it has reddit silver, but it’s not that old, because it has reddit silver.

actually this (yes, I’m replying to myself). I’m an idiot with no marketable skills. I put boxes on shelves for a living. I want to be an artist, a musician, a programmer, an author. I am so bad at all of these, and between having a full time job, a significant other, and several neglected hobbies, I don’t have time to learn to get better at something I suck at. So I cheat. If I want art done, I could commission a real artist, or for the cost of one image I could pay for dalle and have as many images as I want (sure, none of them will be quite what I want but they’ll all be at least good). I could hire a programmer, or I could have chatgpt whip up a script for me since I’m already paying for it anyway since I want access to dalle for my art stuff. Since I have chatgpt anyway, I might as well use it to help flesh out my lore for the book I’ll never write. I haven’t found a good solution for music.

I have in my brain a vision for a thing that is so fucking cool (to me), and nobody else can see it. I need to get it out of my brain, and the only way to do that is to actualize it into reality. I don’t have the skills necessary to do it myself, and I don’t have the money to convince anyone else to help me do it. generative AI is the only way I’m going to be able to make this work. Sure, I wish that the creators of the content that were stolen from to train the ai’s were fairly compensated. I’d be ok with my chatgpt subscription cost going up a few dollars if that meant real living artists got paid, I’m poor but I’m not broke.

These are the opinions of an idiot with no marketable skills.

because idiots like me who have no marketable skills can use it to fool ourselves into thinking we can do code/art/literature/etc.

i use obsidian notes and keep the files in a Dropbox folder that automatically syncs between my several devices. I use github pages to make it publicly visible. Since it’s on github, I’ve got all the benefits of version control and edit tracking. Also, other authors can use whatever markdown editor they want so long as they don’t break link formatting.

yeah, sounds about right.

The article you linked is much more detailed than the one I read, so this interaction has benefited both of us.