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Puzzled at best. Not Halston, nor Joan Didion. Old Gen X Gay. It is not permitted to touch the Megara.

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Now more than ever is the time for an interpretive dance.

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@Filmgadfly Wait - isn’t the scoring done by a reader i.e. totally subjective?

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@JoelWBerry This is alllllll incorrect. It is a business, and the goal is to make money. No one is gunning for you.

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@GreatXanda So you ask someone you don’t know well for money? And you expect him to give you the money?

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@megbasham It is more than a bit dicey to say the least, no matter what the whatabouts in the comments say

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Sometimes I feel like a lesbian fascist sapio-supremecist from 70s British Children’s Sci-fi who will nuke the planet if everyone doesn’t get with the program

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Alright, this is interesting. But haven’t blue collar women always worked? As in, I’m not quite sure women have ever not been working except for a lucky particular subset? Maybe I’m wrong, I dunno. I do know that we need to unhook Diet Coke from any kind of socialism STAT because that’s not right.

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Are we training the AIs on the three laws of robotics? If we aren’t, that’s really dumb.

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@lady_valor_07 No

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@megbasham This clip is incredibly concerning.

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Hello - Gay Person here (old news) - and this sort of thing makes me sad for straight men. Because of the fear of “The Gay” being some sort of aerosolized infectious pathogen, these guys have come up with some sort of ritualized touching because they are quite literally starved for male affection. And no, I don’t mean sexually. I am talking about good old fashioned guys having guy friends they can lean on. I think culturally it needs to be OK for straight men to be people and have needs before total crash-outs like this happen.

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@esjesjesj It’s giving Wet Garbage.

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@Crew_Cut_Esq Fawlty Towers if everyone can deal with an old British sitcom that was at times unbelievably funny.

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@shenronOmega24 @elcutejoto I haven’t dived into his timeline; what makes him warped?

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Ackshually I’m editing myself: After the death of her best friend, a new mother gives *the* dream of being a comedian one last try.

I have an inexplicable belief the definite article *the* instead of the possessive “her” in this logline makes it seem like her goal is a more universal desire than just your protagonist’s; thereby engaging the reader a bit more. I have no proof of this, just a lot of caffeine telling me that it’s the right choice for that reason. “Try” instead of “shot” because the word try here has more urgency/potential-for-failure (risk) than shot. Maybe? It’s all subjective. Regardless, sounds potentially like a good story.

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@juliacgriffin Unasked -for edit: After the death of her best friend, a new mother gives her dream of being a comedian one last shot.

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@matthewqueen84 Jaw-dropping

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@shipranotes Yes

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@archie_lochie You can’t prove God exists either. This is where faith is required.

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The AI Art Evangelicals are obnoxious at best; envious, craven and dishonest at worst.

There is a willful choice on their part to unhook the creative process from actual humans because none of them can emotionally handle that they don’t have the creative instincts or abilities necessary to bring something worthwhile into being. It’s too much actual work in being an artist for these people.

Add to it that most artists work in obscurity their whole lives without any recognition whatsoever and the situation becomes intolerable; there is no guarantee of endless admiration for their efforts and that’s a bad thing to these folks. Why would you even create if you aren’t immediately celebrated like you were at your sixth birthday party? It seems to be a question that vexes them infinitely.

They don’t want to be artists, what they want is Artistic Instant Gratification; that is to be able *to say* that they are an artist rather than do the years of work required to achieve any kind of proficiency in a chosen medium.

Their view of the creative process is breathtakingly shallow and focuses past even the finished piece of art; the art itself is immaterial when what the real goal is admiration for creating something technically good.

The fact that they themselves didn’t actually create anything becomes an annoying fact they wish we’d just stop harping on.

Of course, none of the “work” produced by machine is actually their creation as much as it is a commission of a piece by an artist’s patron. They stubbornly and repeatedly choose not to understand this point and instead shriek about how typing a prompt makes them an artist. It does not. Work, and nothing but the work, makes one an artist.

They have conflated being an artist with merely being artistic. It is not the same thing. At all.

All this said, they will ignore reality and keep calling people who expect a degree of gained-by-years proficiency in an art form “gatekeepers” or “elitist” or “just not getting it.”

These are people who lack the courage to try and develop their art (any art) on their own by following the lonely path of consistent effort and discipline. Instead, they want to push a button and have something immediately spat out by a machine that they can then take credit for. They say they are artists; at best they are button-pushers.

And for my money, I suspect it all comes down to a very painful realization that they aren’t that good at what they want to be good at, so they will have machines do it for them and then take credit for it all. It all seems to flow from a place of bitterness that they haven’t been blessed with any real talent, when any actual artist will tell you it’s mostly about rolling up your sleeves and keeping at it. Sometimes keeping at it for decades with no recognition, fame, or financial success. That’s too scary/unacceptable to them. Instead, they want a hefty ROI.

I have a deep suspicion these are people who do not care what they are recognized for, that they simply have a need to be recognized as great by a large audience. As large an audience as possible. Recognized for being great at something… something that they suspect is out of their reach. They cannot accept that what they want is out of their reach because of their lack of talent, or their lack of discipline, or both of these facts combined.

AI art is not art. AI writing is not writing. AI filmmaking? Same thing. All these things when done by a machine are soulless pastiches of the countless human works the machine has been trained on. It’s certainly impressive what the machines can do! But none of it is human, therefore it has nothing new to teach us, nothing to make us feel, nothing to make us think.

Consequently, the AI works are valueless.

And, for the record, back in the day we would have simply called them all poseurs and moved on.