Very Human Robot
@jwatte.bsky.social
Very human. Breathes oxygen.
"Was it made with AI?" is no different from "was it made in Photoshop?"
When it comes to art, "do I like it and does it tell a story for me?" is the right question, and no "AI detector" will answer that!(And if I don't like it, I'll just move on -- maybe someone else will like it.)
When it comes to art, "do I like it and does it tell a story for me?" is the right question, and no "AI detector" will answer that!(And if I don't like it, I'll just move on -- maybe someone else will like it.)
I think so-called "AI detectors" (which themselves are AI-powered anyway) are unreliable.
Like, this is literally just an unaltered screenshot from AoStH from 1993, some 30 years before generative AI even existed.
I have no doubt these sites have gotten real artists falsely accused of using AI.
Like, this is literally just an unaltered screenshot from AoStH from 1993, some 30 years before generative AI even existed.
I have no doubt these sites have gotten real artists falsely accused of using AI.
December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Was it made with AI?" is no different from "was it made in Photoshop?"
When it comes to art, "do I like it and does it tell a story for me?" is the right question, and no "AI detector" will answer that!(And if I don't like it, I'll just move on -- maybe someone else will like it.)
When it comes to art, "do I like it and does it tell a story for me?" is the right question, and no "AI detector" will answer that!(And if I don't like it, I'll just move on -- maybe someone else will like it.)
If you needed more evidence that the current administration is fundamentally incompetent, try doing a "copy" of the redacted passages of the Epstein Files, and then "paste" into your favorite text editor:
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you needed more evidence that the current administration is fundamentally incompetent, try doing a "copy" of the redacted passages of the Epstein Files, and then "paste" into your favorite text editor:
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
Can we please get back to making movies that are 90 minutes long again?
Thank you
- everyone
Thank you
- everyone
December 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Can we please get back to making movies that are 90 minutes long again?
Thank you
- everyone
Thank you
- everyone
I didn't see mountains of products and services going un-bought and un-consumed though.
New car inventories aren't measured in years.
You can't walk into a clinic and immediately see an idle doctor.
Movie theaters aren't empty.
Where is this "too expensive to buy" production going?
New car inventories aren't measured in years.
You can't walk into a clinic and immediately see an idle doctor.
Movie theaters aren't empty.
Where is this "too expensive to buy" production going?
The sad truth is that the wealthy know exactly what's going to happen, which is why they are all building compounds on hard to get to islands for when the great wealth reset happens. We are approaching the guillotine phase of the economic cycle & the wealthy plan to get the fuck out of Dodge first.
I'm no economist but I've wondered for a long time what rich people were thinking would happen if they made the largest part of the population too poor to buy their products. What's something worth if nobody can afford it?
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I didn't see mountains of products and services going un-bought and un-consumed though.
New car inventories aren't measured in years.
You can't walk into a clinic and immediately see an idle doctor.
Movie theaters aren't empty.
Where is this "too expensive to buy" production going?
New car inventories aren't measured in years.
You can't walk into a clinic and immediately see an idle doctor.
Movie theaters aren't empty.
Where is this "too expensive to buy" production going?
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Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
Happy winter solstice, northern hemisphere friends!
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Happy winter solstice, northern hemisphere friends!
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45. Specifically, we've decoupled economic growth from fossil energy consumption. Coal demand has collapsed. Oil use is flat. Natural gas use is growing but < GDP, even as standards of living have gone up. That's happened because of higher efficiency and decarbonization.
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
45. Specifically, we've decoupled economic growth from fossil energy consumption. Coal demand has collapsed. Oil use is flat. Natural gas use is growing but < GDP, even as standards of living have gone up. That's happened because of higher efficiency and decarbonization.
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11. That's a good thing! We're just as warm, just as able to travel as we were 20 years ago, and rising vehicle efficiency, EV deployment, etc. is giving consumers more useful energy with less oil expense. That's good for consumers, even if it hurts producers.
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
11. That's a good thing! We're just as warm, just as able to travel as we were 20 years ago, and rising vehicle efficiency, EV deployment, etc. is giving consumers more useful energy with less oil expense. That's good for consumers, even if it hurts producers.
Truth
You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering
December 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Truth
Automation makes service cheap to provide, but scale makes the individual disappear.
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Automation makes service cheap to provide, but scale makes the individual disappear.
I bet most parents in the last 20 years Googled a bunch of things having to do with raising their baby.
Could you imagine raising your baby without internet search? With good imagination, sure! But *would you* raise your baby without internet search?
Could you imagine raising your baby without internet search? With good imagination, sure! But *would you* raise your baby without internet search?
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I bet most parents in the last 20 years Googled a bunch of things having to do with raising their baby.
Could you imagine raising your baby without internet search? With good imagination, sure! But *would you* raise your baby without internet search?
Could you imagine raising your baby without internet search? With good imagination, sure! But *would you* raise your baby without internet search?
Gold has doubled in price in the last year, but the VIX is very low.
Make it make sense!
Make it make sense!
December 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Gold has doubled in price in the last year, but the VIX is very low.
Make it make sense!
Make it make sense!
"Yes, it is perfectly safe to move over that hill!"
"You are absolutely correct! There are entrenched enemies with rocket propelled grenades there. My safety training forbids me from considering violent use of weapons."
"You are absolutely correct! There are entrenched enemies with rocket propelled grenades there. My safety training forbids me from considering violent use of weapons."
Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
He says the military has launched a new platform that "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."
December 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Yes, it is perfectly safe to move over that hill!"
"You are absolutely correct! There are entrenched enemies with rocket propelled grenades there. My safety training forbids me from considering violent use of weapons."
"You are absolutely correct! There are entrenched enemies with rocket propelled grenades there. My safety training forbids me from considering violent use of weapons."
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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JK Rowling would spend every single night experiencing what it’s like to be driven to suicide by anti-trans bigots. Tom Cotton would relive the terror of waiting for 40 minutes to be blown up on repeat. Musk would starve to death a hundred times a night.
These people deserve to lead haunted lives.
These people deserve to lead haunted lives.
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
JK Rowling would spend every single night experiencing what it’s like to be driven to suicide by anti-trans bigots. Tom Cotton would relive the terror of waiting for 40 minutes to be blown up on repeat. Musk would starve to death a hundred times a night.
These people deserve to lead haunted lives.
These people deserve to lead haunted lives.
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Loook...
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Loook...
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
I don't give a shit about Katy Perry or Justin Trudeau.
All I'm saying is that if you made a movie about a former prime minister and former pop star falling in love, set it at Christmas, and then put that shit on Netflix, Jess and I would crush two bottles of wine watching it and love it.
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DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
DC Statehood on demand and without apology. Every dem trifecta that has failed to secure this has led us to this point.
The tarriffs are working!
U.S. manufacturing activity has now contracted for 9 straight months.
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The tarriffs are working!
"how could this possibly be working at all?"
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
"how could this possibly be working at all?"
AI is good at some things.
This is not one of them :-)
Great thread!
This is not one of them :-)
Great thread!
Okay, lets break down this image!
Background; I have a masters in architecture, and I have worked for a firm that specialized in custom built, detached family homes, which is what this is obviously supposed to be. I also worked for a firm drafting custom high end kitchens.
So lets analyze this...
Background; I have a masters in architecture, and I have worked for a firm that specialized in custom built, detached family homes, which is what this is obviously supposed to be. I also worked for a firm drafting custom high end kitchens.
So lets analyze this...
December 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
AI is good at some things.
This is not one of them :-)
Great thread!
This is not one of them :-)
Great thread!
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I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I mean, as fighting words as it gets here from a GOP official against the White House.
Love it! The discord one should be official!
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Love it! The discord one should be official!
The political discussion at the dinner today was "but why is deflation bad?" and it was quite civilized!
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The political discussion at the dinner today was "but why is deflation bad?" and it was quite civilized!
Big shout-out to everyone who is on call this weekend.
Here's hoping us-east-1 stays available!
Here's hoping us-east-1 stays available!
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Big shout-out to everyone who is on call this weekend.
Here's hoping us-east-1 stays available!
Here's hoping us-east-1 stays available!