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Y.L. Wolfe's avatar

The last few years, I've been feeling like Sarah Connor. I keep saying "Skynet is here." I've been scared by what I'm seeing. Scared by what it is doing to the writing industry and other arms of the arts. I'm right here with you - they're coming for all of us.

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Meaghan Ward's avatar

It's just horrifying.

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Y.L. Wolfe's avatar

I deleted part of this comment, which you might see in an email notification. Apologies - I overstepped. xoxo

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Meaghan Ward's avatar

Oh, come on, now you HAVE to tell me what you were going to say - you know how to reach me!

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The Thinking Other Woman's avatar

Well, here's the thing. Some of these artists charge $1000 to do a picture for you, and most people JUST DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY.

I write fanfic, for fuck's sake. You aren't ALLOWED to make money doing that.

So if no one will draw you something at a price you can afford, you just can't have an illustrated story. Never mind that the last "artist" I paid to make me something? Took my basic drawing, changed a few things, and sold basically the same thing to the next person!

Okay, enough on that. I follow your general idea. I find it distressing now that THERAPY is being turned over to MACHINES.

Yeah, let's let machines THINK FOR US.

I mean, the RethugliKKKans have already turned half the country into machines to begin with ...

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Sidney P Robinson's avatar

When we let a machine plunder our words and actions in the hope it will make something better, we lose our humanity and the very essence of who we are. If we follow the 'advice' it provides us with, then we too become robotic in our emotions and surrender the work we should be doing on ourselves to a machine. Perish that could ever become true. But, surely, it is.

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