Pretty good intro for absolute beginners here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w

Johnny Appleweed

In other news, Kanye still exists.

Alright that was a bad example. Animals don’t show signs of moralizing about killing other animals. At least my cats sure as hell don’t.

I srsly doubt that animals put that much thought into such things, especially considering that most of them lick their own butts.

Yes, I don’t get how watching videos on tiny screens is so popular. Seems like self-imposed misery.

Looks the same to me on a PC. Up/down arrows still adjust the volume. Scroll wheel on my mouse scrolls the entire screen as always. Do the changes only affect touchscreen devices?

Except no, your psychic powers have failed.

Trump should know how to recognize tapping people along, it’s one of his signature moves, right up there with tax fraud, stiffing creditors and strategic bankruptcy.

I would be among Native Americans in what is now the Seattle area. To them I would be a gibbering idiot who didn’t even know their language, and they would probably kill me.

Why does a calculator need my fucking email address? We’re not pen pals, just do this arithmetic.

Microsoft Bob walks in, ready to high-five.

LOL dude, I’ve been a stage actor and have worked on tons of theatre productions. Your extrapolations about me are idiotic and this exchange is pointless, buh-bye.

Yeah I’m not trying to describe what individual people do, I’m saying that among people (meaning society or the social media population or whatever) there exists tons of outrage against using AI and almost none against “stealing” other people’s work to make memes.

No artist, writer, musician, computer programmer, or anyone else in the entire world learned to do what they’re good at in a vacuum. Everybody inherently steals works from others - and we’ve been doing it for thousands of years, in a process known as “the spread of civilization”. However, when somebody actually does the work of putting together a piece of art and creating something funny or interesting with it, there’s no outrage when somebody else simply pastes different words on it - which IMO is much more directly “stealing” than basing a piece of work on the collective body of our whole culture (like AI does).

Don’t get me wrong - I don’t disapprove of memes, in fact I like the idea of people riffing off each other’s work. And I don’t think it’s bad when someone who personally lacks artistic talent uses technology as a tool to get past that inability. Any more than it’s immoral for a paraplegic to use a motorized chair or an artificial voice. For example, there was never any moral backlash against Stephen Hawking for electronically generating a voice instead of hiring an announcer. I don’t believe the people who single out AI as their outrage target have completely thought it through.

Yeah I get the attempted use, but it’s not a reverse because adults can only restrict minors, not “offspring”. And yes, I am fun at parties.

If society collapses, the time until people forget enough to make whatever’s on the hard drive a rare information repository worth its weight in gold will be a lot longer than the working lifespan of a typical hard drive.

Funny how people are so much more bothered by an AI-generated image than when people recaption memes they didn’t create. Almost like doing something using software as a tool is worse than using a real person’s work without asking. Weirdly contrived version of moral outrage IMO.

Have to admit, the name “Recall” does have a better ring to it than “Take a Screenshot Every 3 Seconds”.

At last, hardware built to run my code!