I've Discovered That If I Take A Bunch Of Quotes From @the-haiku-bot And Put Them On PD/CC0 Images With

I've discovered that if I take a bunch of quotes from @the-haiku-bot and put them on PD/CC0 images with the right font, they can look downright profound. Or amusing.

@the-haiku-bot posts used:

immediately

no bro esto es

why are you taking

when listening, you

there is a difference

idk about

you lost her and did

my ancestors are

That one is not that much of a stretch. Texas Instruments is first and foremost a semiconductor company. That means its main product is microchips (which TI made commercially viable and was instrumental in proliferating) and things that can be made from microchips like vocal synthesizers (like the Speak and Spell). Built from the ashes of the defunct Geophysical Service Incorporated in 1951, it actually did work for the seismology part of the oil industry and military defense before it invented the handheld calculator in 1967. Thematically, missiles aren't that far off from military submarine navigation systems and covert monitoring of Soviet nuclear tests.

Plus, the underlying math for calculating points in multidimensional space is basically the same regardless of what the space is or what the points represent. A calculator is highly generalized in functionality. So even if TI did start out as a calculator company, it really wouldn't be that hard from an engineering standpoint to take the basic calculation hardware (or more likely, multiple calculators' worth of hardware) and affix it to a missile rather than a dot-matrix screen.

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SPOILERS FOR THE SIMS 4 STRANGERVILLE

Currently debating if I should have my Sim Stanford Pines eat the Bizarre Fruit.

On one hand, it'll get him possessed by the Mother Plant and I'm worried that'll be annoying to deal with. On the other hand, it is 10000% in character for this man to take one look at the "seriously don't eat this it's weird and dangerous" fruit and put it in his mouth. But on the other other hand, you'd think he'd have learned something from his experiences with Bill. (Well, I do, anyway.) But on the other other other hand, the story can be pre-character development.

So I'm going to let the good people of Tumblr decide! I'm sure I won't regret this at all!

I think it's important to add that a documented issue with the art protection software Glaze (particularly early versions) is that, on simpler styles like line art, the software leaves noticeable swirls. I wonder if the weird swirls are an artifact of AIs learning from glazed pictures.

If so, I think I can glean a few things from this:

Programs like Glaze absolutely do have an impact on AI outputs, and that impact is noticeable to humans and negative. While it's true that the effects can be edited out, that requires an additional effort that many (dare I say most) lazy art thieves aren't going to make.

AI bros, contrary to their own claims, are training their AIs on works that artists clearly do not wish to be used for training. If they were only using public domain works and works that they have the rights to, they would not be affected by software like Glaze because artists only use software like Glaze when they are trying to protect their works from AI plagiarism.

The existence of programs like Glaze is not deterring AI bros from training AIs on art they aren't supposed to be using. Unfortunately, I suspect nothing short of legal action will.

how do you recognize AI art?

it's surprisingly easy.

-generic looking art

-weird proportions

-strokes that make no sense

-backgrounds that lack detail or make zero sense

"I'm not going to therapy!" -Bill

Ma'am that is way more than one shot of olive oil put the bottle down