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Well shit. We have commercials for phones that advertise all these amazing photo editing features included, which to me is just faking reality. If you can change the weather, backgrounds, eliminate people, move things around on the photo, you’re not just making your picture cleaner, you’re faking shit. It’s no longer a photo of a moment in time. With the way memory works it won’t be long before we take that edited photo and convince ourselves that’s what really happened. Really is meaningless and AI isn’t helping.

It’s terrifying. AI will now become the catchall scapegoat. Anybody sees news footage that doest’t fit their rhetoric, it’s AI. It’ll be like the “fake news” war cry but worse.

“Did you see what he said?” What’s sad is I’ve seen this done with politicians. My parents, in-laws and other older adults are easily fooled into thinking it’s real.

Yesssss I love mentoring! Drop me a PM and tell me about his plans.

My kid is on track and wants to be an aerospace engineer. At some point I'll need you to give him some reality.

He’s the only one of the recent releases I’m disappointed by. I like Xia Li too, and Von Wagner and Jinder Mahal were a bit of a surprise, but Grimes was the only one I was an active fan of. The rest were no loss.

On a sad note Cameron Grimes was released. Sucks. His initial push got derailed when Baron Corbin got sent to NXT. Grimes never fit in after that.

It's kinda why I picked Becky over Rhea at WrestleMania. She's the only real option. Look at the women that were in the battle royal. I wouldn't have put the belt on any of them. With the exception of, and I know it sounds crazy, Nia Jax. There will be some NXT women drafted to Raw for sure.

Worf almost looks like the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz.

Picard, or Bald Spock? Delightful, shreiking voice.

My 12 year old wants to redo her room and would like a bigger bed. I'm trying to figure out if I can fit my queen canopy bed in her room so I can get a king sized bed lol.

MagicSchool is an AI software that is just for education. It is great as a massive time saver. But what it doesn't really do anything I can't do myself--it is just a massive time saver and makes me more efficient. It is great for writing a job description or anything technical, but when I have it write the newsletter I have to go back and edit it into my voice.

I follow this account on IG where a guy does a whole “AI fooling boomers” rating scale. He’ll find obvious AI stuff then quote the boomers responding to it thinking it is real.

I would definitely get shot anywhere else other than Seattle. I keep my middle finger to myself, but I yell WTF asshole a lot.

All I know is in 1984 Kyle Reese told Sara Connor that the T-800's were surrounded by living tissue complete with sweat, bad breath, everything that made it impossible to differentiate from humans. Sara said they don't make things like that yet. Kyle said not for another 40 years. So here we are.

Not to derail an entertainment thread, but my neighbour just used chat GPT to draft a business to business legal contract, with some particular a nieche clauses and such that his regular lawyers were going to charge him £400 to do. Just to copy paste his name onto a document that they'd have pre prepared minus a few particulars. First we were worried for the arts , but I think we're safe for a variety of reasons. But maaaaaan there is an ai storm coming for legal and beaurocatic institutions and jobs. White collar upper middle class gonna be stressing

I thought using a battle royal to crown a new women's champion meant they were planning on going with something new. Instead we get Becky again.

Gotta love the 5th.

Just to close the loop on this discussion RC, I am just going to have to agree to disagree with you on this. I don't think you are a bad guy or anything just because we disagree here on this particular topic.

In Arizona, yelling at people who cut you off can get you shot, usually by a gun-toating conservative with Trump political bumperstickers (and possibly Confederate flag stickers) on their pickup!

I have a couple of (non-political) car stickers and I yell at people while driving lol.

This question has always fascinated me. During the 2016 I became obsessed with this question and I remember one specific research paper that stuck out. First, this is a MASSIVE generalization and does not apply to everyone that chooses to or not to put a bumper sticker on their car. People who put bumper stickers on their car are, regardless of the bumper sticker's message, more likely to view their car as an extension of themselves, their personal identity, and personal space. This is why people with bumper stickers are way more likely to be involved in road rage regardless of political orientation or bumper sticker message. Conservatives are more likely to have this perspective. I do have confirmation bias on this hypothesis. As an American liberal, I do not see my car as an extension of myself, am too polite on the road to a fault, and I get annoyed when people cut me off, but my feelings usually end there (before I sound like I am saying I am some holier than thou liberal, I want to put it out there I get irrationally angry when people touch or move my shit, even if they are trying to help me). Obviously there are other reasons. Regardless of political ideology, people are more likely to put bumper stickers on their car if the sticker is more aligned to the views of the majority of the local population. For example, you are less likely to see a Trump sticker in an urban area or a Biden sticker in rural area even though those candidates may still receive 45% of the local vote. I couldn't find that journal entry, but I did find this one with some interesting findings about political bumper stickers.

Isn't this the real Turing test? An AI creating a piece of good, original art (that isn't dependent on another artists song or voice or movie script or whatever) that fools 99% of the population it was made by a human?

And then there is...this?

I love The Thing. I put it right up there with Alien. The special effects, the characters and the music war absolutely great. The theme song for Halloween is very iconic. It's simple, yet brilliant!