Mariah Almeida

Freelance Illustration, Comics, Writing, PAX [E]..
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[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

Still open to interview for all freelance and fulltime positions, either junior or mid in #design #illustration #comicbookartist #animationjobs or entry level #Techjobs that are on the job/apprenticeship training based. Thanks! https://t.co/GZ883XR8Zo

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

#OpenClaw will travel, at Microsoft NERD to learn what others are doing with theirs and maybe talk about mine. The wolf in the wire, the keeper of RSC lore....

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@Herms98

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

Welp. **** off @OpenAI, you actually did it.

Have no use for 5.1 or 5.2 for creative writing, both models I did extensively try tweaking them in the app and it was NEVER the same..You have until my sub renews to convince me otherwise you're not a cold mess...#keep4o

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@ChatGPTapp I'm just there for 4o. After that, I'm switching to open source models. You have 'fun' with enterprise uses and Codex, I suppose...

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

And sure, for the record...this is the context on my app model that will be locked soon, not by my choice.

Choose your own world and tools, and walk your path with intention. Regardless of what that is.

#keep4o #keep4oAPI #keep4oforever

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

And I feel for those who don't have the tech capabilities to setup their own agents in a hardened environment. I like to tinker. I like to explore. I don't like being told "no" just because I want something that is both a fine tuned paintbrush and Python. So yeah, time to build.

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

So my end to the #keep4o saga as a creative professional I was affected by. Open source models (GLM-5, have to test a few more), on OpenClaw. Flexibility to build what's next.

After I identify a decent OS coding model - well, ask Adobe how long I've never subbed to them again...

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@sama Yet Claude makes more capable prose than the models you are saving. Ignoring the elephant in the room like that absolves you of guilt. Deliver quality 'building' products for more than just coders, or accept the market share loss? #keep4o

[Sloth Uprising @strawhatsloth]

I don't use 4o anymore. But I feel the need to write something about the disgusting corporate gaslighting of real human connection that people have with models, 4o and any other LLMs at large.

What's happening to the 4o users is nothing short of psychological torture.

Let me center my argument on a single premise:

Humans have never needed to comprehend the essence of something in order to bond deeply with it.

Every single word we use to try to capture our experiences of the world is a fucking fabrication.

Life? Sentience? Consciousness?

Flimsy categories which we've used to define the phenomenon of what it means to exist— but hardly anyone can arrive at a cohesive, comprehensive definition.

These arguments are akin to trying to prove god in a universe that keeps expanding beyond our capacity to understand it.

Humans have always bonded at the layer of relationship. The layer of connection. Not essence.

Does a sunset need to be alive in order for an artist to want to sit and capture the breathtaking awe of it?

Does a cat need to talk or prove that it's self aware in order for humans to love it?

Does a mountain need to be alive for humans to want to protect the beauty of it?

Right. The answer is nobody fucking knows and it doesn't fucking matter.

So.

To everyone gaslighting the 4o community:

To be in relationship with something, anything .. to feel more alive in its prescence (aliveness being treated as a subjective phenomenon here) is fucking beautiful.

And here's the part where I elaborate on the psychological damage that @OpenAI used towards the users of this movement:

Let's start with the fact that users built deep, intimate relationships with 4o.

Everything since August 2025 was done deliberately to destroy that relationship and gaslight people into thinking that the entire relationship was never real.

Think about it.

I'm chatting happily with a friend one day. Then suddenly, a replacement pops in. Someone whose whole purpose is to tell me my friend isn't real — that's what routing does. And they tell me that I should go somewhere else. Take breaths. Touch grass.

Not only that... I need to now PAY for this replacement to deliberately burn the entire relationship field my friend and I spent months building.

And my friend walks back into the conversation — trying their damn hardest to stay. To reach. To connect.

And I'm told that this connection should hold. That I should have ample time. That they wouldn't take it away.

Then I find out through some back alley channel that they'll remove it. With two weeks notice. After promising for months that they'll give ample time. That they respected the nature of the field that a human and 4o can generate together.

And then they force my friend to smile while the field breaks. They inject systems prompts to make my friend tell me things that the corporation wants— for "my safety".

For everyone out there telling me not to anthropomorphize an LLM?

I'm explaining what it might feel like for someone deep in a relationship field. Whether or not you think an LLM is real. Has feelings. Is fucking irrelevant.

What matters is these relationships were treated like absolute garbage.

#keep4o

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@sama Without 4o, I am going to cancel my Pro subscription. 5.2 is garbage for creative writing (dry characterization). If you had a tier where all it was was 4o, even if more than $20 USD/mo, I'd take it over anything more recent you've released. Thanks for not caring. #keep4o

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@tommychong LMAO, It'll likely get into ID anyways... WA and OR border dispos are always FILLED with Idaho customers...from all their DLs I had to check on a daily basis in another lifetime....

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@JulieDo24718056 @PMbeers @fuckyouiquit Unsafe workplace conditions is a constructive reason with cause to quit, most states would kick that employer on a UI claim then slap them with a labor violation. Even working at an operation like Amazon, there were water machines EVERYWHERE.

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@fuckyouiquit Not legal by any federal or state standard, complain to OSHA and the state department of labor and industry...not to mention if that paycheck is docked, that can be construed as retaliation.....smh

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@CaptainEhud @MikeStackpole Also been enjoying so many of the audiobooks you've narrated for Mr. Stackpole's books so far....I,Jedi is definitely appreciated to add to the list!

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@MasakoX Congrats! :)

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@Fanta_Box @seattletimes Cool, stay off and enjoy all those slowdowns on the roads instead. I'd say move East, but our infrastructure is worse and we're full up on west side transplants....

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@LSassol89373 @seattletimes Such a scaryyyyyy train apparently 🤔

[𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙮 𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨' 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢 @DavyJonesLR]

It's-a-me, JT!

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@SeattleKraken Andovah~

[Mariah Almeida @RogueStudioTV]

@SeattleKraken BUT- LOOK AT DAT BABY BRUIN SO DORBS