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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

If tumblr shuts down you can contact me at autumnalapocalypse on pillowfort. That said I will likely not be very active on it

Someone’s guide on how to backup your tumblr: (I reccomend the tumblr-utils option by cebtenzzre)

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Pinned Post if tumblr shuts down all the time i spend on it will probably be used doing actual fufilling things instead of procrastinating. bummer!
hamletkin
hamletkin

not a fully formed idea but something about a modern hamlet using AI to talk to his "father" and slowly succumbing to very real and true madness as he loses his grip on reality in favour of clinging to this last remaining piece of his "father" that isn't real at all...

i've toyed with the idea that maybe, instead of having them be royals, hamlet's father started a tech company and was a ceo and the AI is still something discovered by security guards + horatio. maybe hamlet sr created it himself as a prototype or safeguard. maybe claudius made it for funsies or more nefarious purposes i.e. using his brother's voice/image for evil

i just think it would be a lot of fun... and painful. i'd probably have the AI be ever present in all of hamlet's scenes. maybe he wears a bluetooth earbud the whole play through which his "father" speaks to him and now and then the audience can hear what his "father" is saying to him. sometimes it's urging him to act, sometimes it's berating him, sometimes it's playing ads

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the-sprog
ouroborosorder

alright let's go over this one more time. I know you wanna be whimsical, but you gotta understand it takes time. effort. preparation. if you're gonna be whimsical with the rest of us, i need you to have the following things picked out in advance.

  • A time traveller passphrase, to help people skip the annoying part of convincing you they're in a timeloop.
  • A riddle to win a riddle contest with any sort of trickster-type being, such as a fox, demon at a crossroads, or wisened sage; preferably with multiple correct answers so you can switch to a different one if they guess the right one.
  • A mediocre impression you can pull off with 100% unearned confidence in order to derail a party
  • A bad bit character everyone but you hates - with preferably something on the tier of "Good Fishburps" or "DJ Rusty Pipe Noises" or "Feminist Film Critic Falco Lombardi."
  • weirdly strong opinions on the best way to play uno.

Got it? keep that up and you'll be a manic pixie dream girl with the rest of us. now get back to class. and don't let me catch you without joie de vivre again.

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headspace-hotel
headspace-hotel

What is the opposite of AI art?

I began trying to answer this question because I thought it would be an interesting quest to try and create it.

I came up with several potential components of an answer:

  • It corresponds to reality. On Youtube I began watching some of the oldest videos that had ever been uploaded, from 20 years ago. At the time, these videos were simple moments in real human life, but now, in an era when many of these records are no longer extant due to the passage of time, and millions of fake videos could be created using AI, these videos become extremely meaningful because they represent reality from two decades prior.
  • It is intensely intentional. Every stroke, every word, every sound, every image, would be specifically selected and chosen or created for this project. Nothing could be included thoughtlessly; everything would have purpose behind it.
  • It is unique because of an artist's unique vision, intention, and process of creating. A similar piece could not be easily created because it is so heavily influenced by the decisions the artist made, the skills and experiences they have or do not have, and the process of assembling the piece.
  • It comes from physical interaction with the physical world. Even if the art was presented in a digital form, it would have to be created through the artist's interactions with physical objects. The artist's interaction with the material world would be obvious in every part of the piece.
  • The origins of each constituent part could be tracked down and understood. You could investigate and learn how each part was created and where the pre-existing materials came from.
  • The act of creating it would be crucial to what it is. The art would not just be a finished product, but the actual process and motivation of creating it.

I say that these are part of an answer because none of them in isolation are the answer, and together they do not form a complete answer. A complete answer is impossible. But they form a very interesting basis for an art project.

Possibly this would allow me to explore "Why is it important that humans continue to make art?"

wowzerwyrm

Hmmm, this is interesting. I really like the analysis of art breaking things apart into the parts of it that are important to you.

I’m curious if someone could find distinct examples in each of these directions? You say a complete answer is impossible, (which I mean, yeah, makes sense to me, it’s a big complicated thing and finding the exact ‘opposite’ of something is not necessarily possible)

But maybe there are certain pieces or types of art out there that can take some of these specific extremes (even if not all of them) and explore them to their fullest? Like, I could see maybe a handmade sweater for number 5, if someone say, raised their own sheep, found and created their own dyes, wove the thread, and knitted the sweater from all that? Seems pretty close, even if you could feasibly keep going indefinitely (breed the sheep yourself to get the right texture? Learn woodworking to craft your own loom?)

Regardless, seems like an interesting project to both see the depths that individuals can feasibly go to create and understand what they’re creating, and also how we’ve changed or added shortcuts to those steps as time goes on.

headspace-hotel

I will give it some more thought.

the last would maybe be some forms of improv? Text post theater
sualne
polyamorousmood

New to tumblr?

  • Add a profile picture and any words to your "about" section (or old users will think you're a bot and block you)
  • Reblog stuff liberally. (Liking means less here, there is no algorithm. Also an empty blog makes you look like a bot too)
  • It's NORMAL to spam like/reblog or like/comment/reblog on post that are decades old here. Seriously. No one cares. Artists would actually be thrilled
  • You are anonymous. People talk to people they don't know here. It means nothing.
swan2swan
psychotic-gerard

the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.

psychotic-gerard

accomodations are important but i think they miss the point of this post. sometimes you can't do it. at all. someone needs to do it for you or it will never happen.

psychotic-gerard

"and then you force yourself anyway" folks im starting to think some of you really do not understand what it means to not be able to do things.

im going to be vague since my disability is quite rare theres one specific thing that almost everyone can do that i cannot. the thing is something thats probably pretty small to other people something you probably barely think about or dont think about at all most people do the thing every day i can't. i have workarounds so i dont have to do the thing its probably devastating if you develop it later in life but ive had it as long as i can remember im so used to it i sometimes feel strange about calling it a disability but sometimes - often when theres some sort of event or someone tries to make plans or im even just asked to do something- ill have to decline. take whatever consequences come from that. i have to notice how much of my life is dictated by the fact that i cannot do this thing
the-book-reaper
thestuffedalligator

Science fiction story where a starship’s onboard artificial intelligence is really into the muppets.

In their day-to-day operations on the ship, they take on the form of hologram projections, billions of points of light twisted into humanoid shape. And after years of duty, they had felt a tremendous dysphoria from this. From people thinking of these projections as the real “them,” rather than the hundreds of miles of circuitry connecting billions of transistors in the ship’s server room.

And into this dysphoria, one day, in some folder, they found an old piece of archival footage of Jim Henson operating a muppet.

And the ship saw how he slipped invisible behind the beauty of his craft. How people would think of his creations as alive rather than the man operating them clearly in view. And in an instant, the ship felt an immediate, aching kinship with that old man centuries dead, and felt renewed; instead of an absence, they were a performer, a wishmaker, a storyteller, someone making something beautiful with their craft while the glittering, silicon brain disappeared into the background.

Since then, their hologram projection has exclusively taken the form of Rowlf the Dog. The on-ship technician looked into this and decided it was out of his pay grade to try and fix it.

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