Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw. Art by Tjeerd Royaards
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Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw. Art by Tjeerd Royaards
source mastodon - https://newsie.social/@royaards/116594142035336090
Nooo, don’t you see? There’s no soul!
AI just copies from the foundations laid out by humans and applies the idea in the prompt.
But humans diligently study their predecessors and use it to pursue their own unique idea.
Artists are super special unique divine transcendent souls creating objectively meaningful works!
But they’re happy soulless people
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3181877/
I assume you consume exclusively AI generated content since its so great.
My favorite are the video renderings of light novels.
So… fundementally human originating content?
Doesn’t all of it originate with a prompt?
P.S. Through some balance of time zones and sleep schedule, we seem to be on at exactly the opposite times.
Are you my Tyler Durden?
That depends, are you open to making rich people into soap?
I’m more in the camp of simple communal independence, but I guess historically that attracts the attention of rich people in need of saponification.
Close enough, lets form a secret organization around planting edible anual-crops/bushes/trees on disused public land so anyone can harvest them.
Idk last time we tried that, Parliament criminalized it and beat the shit out of us.
https://www.shortform.com/podcast/episode/stuff-you-should-know-2025-06-17-episode-summary-the-fencing-of-the-commons
I’m imagining self sufficient (solar) stealthy mobile AI turrets that take out anyone brandishing a firearm while evading detection or capture.
Or maybe a nanodrone swarm that sabotages firearms.
Generally make it not worth the cost of enforcement.
I guess hiding the crops might work too… subterranean gardens and mirrors redirecting sunlight?
Really I’ve been thinking that connecting the communes with good communication and logistics might be the real silver bullet. Maybe they could form from scattered members who develop their own systems after being connected and thereby become too difficult to disrupt as a whole.