At first I thought, "ah I've been studying and listening enough! I'm sure I can listen to a podcast now!"
But as soon as I searched tiktok, I immediately learned that the ridiculous amount of study time I've done so far is a drop in the bucket.
at some point I'm just going to have to make my own bananagrams. that might be the only way I get through this.
this is one of the most difficult things I've had to learn. Never before have I sat down, listened to a recording, and genuinely understood nothing... despite studying.
and suddenly, things begin to make sense. slowly as ever before, the words fall into place.
and suddenly, the original mistakes begin to fade, and it begins to become more simple...
20 years of artistic skill, stolen by losers whose only concern is money. It could have been fine if the AI wasn't a direct theft of people's work, but they really went all out to screw ME over. now anyone with cash can write "in the artstyle of -" and steal my one creation.
@JonLamArt@JPohlmanWriting@GrumpiGnome I feel completely heart broken. Like total 𝓽 - 𝓻 - 𝓪 - 𝓼 - 𝓱 . I can't believe they would steal my art and use it to train an AI. ROTTEN BASTARDS. They may as well have tried to reached their selfish hands into my very chest to snatch out my fucking soul.
9 hours of language courses later and I have the reading comprehension of a literal baby, a terrible accent in the target language, and expectations reduced to 0. I might just pay another 25 dollary-doos for a tutoring site but odds are all the tutors may be out on holiday...