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of the sea and desert

@moyaofthemist / moyaofthemist.tumblr.com

I am genderless and prefer they/them/their pronouns. (ey/em/eir is also acceptable; she/her and he/him are not) I’m in my thirties.
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As a heads up, I reject the retcon that Whirl and Jetstream are the same character, As so that affects how I characterize Whirl. It's totally all right if that's not something you can get behind! I wanted to include this warning for anyone looking to read my fics.
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My Opinion on AI Art

Since it seems like there’s some confusion about this (people talk like you can only be either categorically for or against AI art), here are my opinions so y’all can decide whether to block/unfollow me or not.

(Warning: This is so fucking long. Sorry. It's a complicated issue and I wanted to make it clear what I do and don't support. If any of it is too confusing, feel free to ask for clarification. Anon is off, though, so you’ll have to ask me face to face.)

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notclevr

Thank you for tagging me @imsinenomine

Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people.

I'll go with Nine Inch Nails:

  1. What's your gender: Mr Self Destruct
  2. How do you feel: Every Day Is Exactly the Same
  3. If you could go anywhere: A Warm Place
  4. Fave mode of transportation: Various Methods of Escape
  5. Your best friend: Disappointed
  6. Favorite time of day: In This Twilight
  7. If your life was a tv show: And All That Could Have Been
  8. Relationship status: We're In This Together
  9. Your fears: Hurt
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indigestionn

Thank you for tagging me @notclevr even though stealing nine inch nails means I have to dig into a band with more cutting titles,

I'll try Los Campesinos,

1. What's your gender: Plan A

2. How do you feel: Baby I got the death rattle

3. If you could go anywhere: To Tundra

4. Fave Mode Of Transportation: For flotsam

5. Your best friend: You! Me! Dancing!

6. Favourite time of day: The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future

7. If your life was a TV show: Romance is Boring

8. Relationship Status: We are Beautiful, We are Doomed

9. Your fears: Hello Sadness

I'd tag people but I'm on mobile, you see this, it's fun, do it, etc

Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people.

my band: Sparks

1. What's your gender: Girl From Germany

2. How do you feel: The Decline and Fall of Me

3. If you could go anywhere: Left Out in the Cold

4. Fave Mode Of Transportation: Let the Monkey Drive

5. Your best friend: So Important

6. Favourite time of day: Moon Over Kentucky

7. If your life was a TV show: Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is

8. Relationship Status: All You Ever Think About Is Sex

9. Your fears: (Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your Country

tagging anyone but also specifically maybe @estradasphere @lady-adrian-dangerous @noveldivergence and @unyielding-gelatin

Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people.

ooooh this is a really neat one, thx for the tag :] i went with Blur

  1. What's your gender: Charmless Man
  2. How do you feel: I'm Fine
  3. If you could go anywhere: Thought I Was a Spaceman
  4. Fave Mode Of Transportation: He Thought of Cars
  5. Your best friend: You're So Great
  6. Favourite time of day: Out of Time […it's night. for lack of better options i had to get abstract with this one]
  7. If your life was a TV show: Repetition
  8. Relationship Status: On Your Own
  9. Your fears: The Horrors [lol]

not gonna tag anyone in particular, whoever wants to do this do itttttt ^-^

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kitschke
Using only song titles of one artist/band, cleverly answer the questions and then tag people.

tumblr choice: Car Seat Headrest

  1. What's your gender: Cute Thing
  2. How do you feel: Jus' Tired
  3. If you could go anywhere: America (Never Been)
  4. Fave Mode Of Transportation: I-94 W (832 Mi)
  5. Your best friend: Some Strange Angel
  6. Favourite time of day: I Want You to Know That I'm Awake/i Hope That You're Asleep
  7. If your life was a TV show: Destroyed By Hippie Powers
  8. Relationship Status: You're in Love with Me
  9. Your fears: Dreams Fall Hard

i tagggg @tourdion @girlbloke @moyaofthemist @aphextwinselecteduser180819works anyone else who enjoys music challenges 🫶

Oh, what a fun idea! Hmmm…who to choose…

Artist choice: City of Sound

  1. What’s your gender: Wasteland
  2. How do you feel: The Madhouse
  3. If you could go anywhere: Race to the Sea
  4. Fav Mode of transportation: The Astronaut
  5. Your best friend: Chapter II: Lights in the Vault
  6. Fav time of day: The Current
  7. If your life was a TV show: I for One; …but one ghost
  8. Relationship status: Odyssey
  9. Your fears: Silent Empire

I tag anybody who wants to play! Too sleepy to choose. 😴

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I think folks have really lost the plot when it comes to AI.

Imo, the issue we are faced with is not how to prevent ai from being utilized or advancing, frankly I think that ball is already rolling. The issue also isn’t designating sacred work that can’t be touched by AI (I’m sorry to say, art is not inherently better than manual labor). The issue we are really faced with is now that we are embarking on a world wherein AI is rising and gaining genuine ability to match or exceed humans, how will we ensure we are taking care of our people?

A lot of folks seem to be really concerned with protecting the idea of intellectual property, but at the same time don’t we believe in an egalitarian sharing of knowledge? Should we really be prizing exclusivity of access to media or materials? I don’t really think so, but the challenge we face is how to ensure that a society that will increasingly have less and less need for human labor (particularly in data analysis or data entry jobs that AI tends to be the best in) will still see its citizens financially secure.

I have no problem with AI making art, regardless of whether I think that art is “good” or whether someone a machine makes can even be defined as “artistic” to begin with. Frankly, I don’t care. I do care that many artists will be out of a job and we don’t have a mechanism for ensuring they’re taken care of.

And that is where the discourse is so often falling short in my eyes. Many leftists who claim to want to leave the idea of personal ownership behind become the most forceful advocates for protecting intellectual property. A development that should be spurring on the greatest advance in humankind’s ability to universally take care of everyone is instead demonized on the left for somehow being theft and largely ignored on the right as a pipe dream.

AI is growing more powerful exponentially. Our lifetimes will see a shift on the level of the invention of electricity or the internet (if not much much greater) and we need to be prepared for that. The outcry cannot be “You used AI tools and therefore your work is invalid” but rather it must be “How are we restructuring ourselves to better absorb this new change?”

Universal basic income has to become a default. Removing healthcare from being tied to a job is a necessity. Eventually moving past currency might even be a possibility.

You can’t stop the world from turning, you can’t stop this progress from happening. But we still have time to focus our efforts on taking this change and handling it well. History will watch what we say, what we do, and how we addressed this.

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