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In its defence

Schadenfraude is a really fun word to say.

Does Supergiant Games' Pyre count?

[shakes head]

Writers (both storytelling and informative) have a set of skills that is very useful but also entirely redundant unless in a well-developed society.

Humanity will always share information because d'uh. And we will always tell stories and make art, because that is just part of the human experience. But without the overload of information and media AND overspecialisation of labour that comes with an industrial society --

-- We'd just revert to the olden ways where information spreads from person to person organically (there is a lot less of it to go around, after all) and stories/art are just made up by whomever.

Before television and radio, before most people were able to read, people would make up stories to amuse themselves and their friends while doing work. Tall tales around the campfire. Spooky stories while churning butter. These were all things people did in pre-industrial times.

But there would be no need for someone who is 'just' a teller of stories or a sharer of information. So I'd either drop dead or, more realistically, get my ass down with doing manual labour (hey, I might not know how to grow plants, but the amount of time I spend at the gym has gotta be good for something in post-apocalyptia) and save my creative skills to amuse my community during downtime. ¯(ツ)_/¯

Good use cases for AI already exist

And I'm saying this as a certified hater of GenAI

Machine Learning as an invention has already been used for good, useful things. It's just that it never got caught up in hype like the modern wave of Generative Transformers (which is apparently the proper term for those overhyped chatbots and picture generators)

Me, a writer: [chuckles] I'm in danger

Yes but what is most likely to happen is that some violent mofos will take over large territories and make up their own rules and (...)

Which is what happened the last time there was a societal collapse.

I wouldn't know, but since OP is having compatibility issues, I'd try to get as close to native as I could. Eliminate the room-for-error. Hence the VM with actual Windows.

They can just delete the lot after they've converted their files to an opener format. :P

Mind you there -are- TTS tools that use machine learning (which is what advertisers call "AI" now) for more realistic voices. No idea if the radio was using those at all though.

Women are a community-built poison

Takes a village to raise a Gaslight-Gatekeep-Girlboss ig.

(these count as piracy, but yes, they work well and are reliable)

I will die on the hill of calling them computer programs.

I particularly "Love" that a bunch of like, procedural generation and search things that have existed for years are now calling themselves "AI" (without having changed in any way) because marketing.

There are proper words for them, but they are _{technical jargon}. It is sufficient to know that they are different types of algorithm, only really similar in that both use machine learning.

And would the meme work better if it wss used

No because it is a meme, and if people had learned the proper words for things, we wouldn't need a meme at all.

Call me a luddite, but I don't think going through a phase where bad actors have the power to set every democracy back by centuries through misinformation and other bad actors have an infinite kiddy porn machine is worth it for what ultimately amounts to a luxury VR Video game that, if even possible to exist (the holodeck isn't a "technology", it is a narrative device), would be something that realistically only the ultra-rich would be able to use (because let's face it, Star Trek's post-capitalist utopia isn't happening)

The blanket term "AI" has set us back quite a lot I think.

The plant thing and the deepfakes/search engines/chatbots are two entirely different types of machine learning algorithm. One focussed on distinguishing between things, the other focussed on generating stuff.

But "AI" is the marketable term, and the only one most people know. And so here we are.

I will agree with the people suggesting "VM and a pirated copy"

Just get like office 2010 and windows 7 off of the web, run it in a VM, convert the files, dump it all.

Sure!

Genre labels are vibes based. I'd argue Arkham totally fits the spectacle fighter vibe.

It's been a millenium since I've heard it, as I no longer qualify as young.

But

"You'll understand when you're older"

I'm older.

I'm thirty.

The only thing I "understand" is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.

The only "progress" I made is that I stopped hating myself for "failing at society" and started hating society for failing so many people.

Over here in Brazil, I guess because we're a third world country that is more accustomed to poverty than the anglosphere/yurop, we have a variant of this phrase:

"Money can't buy you happiness -- But the lack of it will take your happiness away"

It's true that you can be extremely rich and still fucking depressed.

But if you can't afford rent, and/or are working by day to pay for a small meal at night, and/or are getting sick and just tanking it because actual care is outside your paygrade -- You are guaranteed to be miserable.