Holy em-dashes, Batman!

I’m an enjoyer of em dashes, myself (before AI 😢) but that is far too many

Mickey7

Sounds like you should do it

This is likely not the Generative AI, LLM-slop type of AI you’re thinking of.

I hate generative AI. But other forms of AI and machine learning have been used for much longer and haven’t facilitated the building of ecologically harmful datacenters.

For example, AlphaFold, which is an AI program that can predict how proteins fold and is an incredibly useful tool.

I expect that the use of AI here would be similar: something trained for a specific purpose, not just generic generative AI tech like ChatGPT

You’re right, I should’ve looked at your name first haha

But the handrails won’t be giving off UV light, they’ve just been treated with them. UV light doesn’t linger on a surface

A few tells

• fridge in the yard?
• snowman is too perfect
• not enough snow to make said snowman
• asymmetrical townhouse (different windows, etc.)

But the biggest giveaway

• the bricks on the house are of inconsistent sizes. Sometimes they are too long, sometimes too short. If you zoom in it becomes apparent (easiest to see on the right half of the house)

Because it’s an AI generated photo

AI generated cat photo :( was going to share this with my poker buddies until I noticed.

The white poker chip inserts are all fucked.

Or many people who don’t like it have already blocked the people who post them frequently

Unfortunate that they used an AI image to represent it though. It’s added another horn to the triceritops

You may be partaking in revenge bedtime procrastination

AI slop photo no pls

This is setting off my AI-slop alarm

• the top two and bottom two are in strikingly similar possess with similar angles and framing
• why are there extra mascara appliers on the right for the top two? (I’ve never used mascara so I might just be ignorant of this)
• each mascara applier tip is slightly different, so it’s not just the same one photoshopped in multiple times

That’s not the same as the post’s photo, though. Did someone redraw it in more detail, or did someone put it through an AI image generator to look like that?

Oh that makes sense, sorry I misunderstood!

Yep, they/them/theirs is used in the same place as he/him/his or she/her/hers. It/it/its should not be used for people unless someone explicitly says those are their preferred pronouns. “It” is typically used for objects and non-human animals, so it could be seen as rude to refer to a human as “it.” If unsure, use they/them.

Using “they” for a singular person has been used since at least the 14th century, so there’s no need to feel uncomfortable with it. I highly recommend reading the Wikipedia page on Singular they, which touches on its history.

A similar example is “you.” “You” used to be only a plural, with “thou” being the singular, but over time it fell out of fashion and now “you” can be used as singular or plural, like how “they” can be singular or plural.

Singular “they” was criticised by some people hundreds of years after it started being used. But language cannot be prescribed; it is determined by how people use it.

It’s “whet your appetite” in case anyone was interested. But the misspelling is probably part of the meme

Yeah I was reading about the editing guidelines and they have a principle that surprised me at first:

Verifiability, not truth.

Basically, you could edit an article with information you know is true (like your bedrooms or fireplaces), but truth is not the criteria that edits get tested upon. It must be verifiable by a source.

Pretty cool that you didn’t just give up and actually got the local newspaper to interview you! That’s awesome!

Came to ask the same thing.

Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.