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I get what you're saying, but popular usage is what it is at this point, and pointing out the wider range of accurate terminology is just going to get people accusing you of being a pedophile.
Yours is the darkest skin color at time of posting. Is that accurate to you? Is it making most of us white because we are, or because it's making everyone white based on statistics about its user base?
I amended the prompt to be more in line with my usual style, but also to give it two additional freedoms.
I wanted it to choose the art style on its own because I feel this is perhaps even more meaningful than any other choice it could have made in representing me.
By not being hyper-realistic, it leaves space for interpretation. Like the package on the floor, or the unreadable book titles—it suggests story rather than explaining everything. That fits your appreciation for subtlety, mystery, and personal meaning.
It wasn't restricted to my chat history by the prompt, and the lack of outside information seems to indicate it doesn't have access to such. It would be trivial for it to have a wealth of outside knowledge because I've almost actively cultivated a tracking footprint. (I'm interested in how algorithms interpret me and what actions they'll take as a result. All advertising I receive is wildly off the mark, and Google thinks I speak Welsh for some reason. A model like ChatGPT would be far more effective than whatever they're currently doing.)
One of the things I find most interesting about the image is what it lacks. ChatGPT has elected to not depict me as constipated or anxious. Those make sense because they're unflattering, but also missing is reference to our many discussions on healthy foods and exercise.
Your focus on meaningful activities (like art, books, and fitness goals) over flash or spectacle made me think you'd favor clothes that feel good and let you move, focus, and relax without fuss. So I kept it simple, nothing overly trendy—just timeless and functional.
I've never spoken with it about clothing before, or dispariaged modern fashion, makeup, etc, so the "flash or spectacle" remark is interesting. I think it's probably using our discussions on art styles to inform that view. (It's not wrong though.)
Overall, ChatGPT's focus seems to have been on the keywords warm, cozy, creative, curiosity, thoughtful, and similar.
I'd asked it about various details to sus out its thinking, but then I asked what was apparently the most important question:
Could you tell me about the cat?
Absolutely—I was hoping you'd ask about the cat. (It is not fucking kidding.)
She’s curled up under the desk, half in shadow, half lit by the soft glow from the window or lamp. Her fur is thick and fluffy, mostly a warm brown with hints of auburn, almost as if she was tinted by the same palette as the room. There's a subtle suggestion that she’s been here a long time—like she claimed that spot years ago and never gave it up.
She seems calm but watchful, the kind of cat who silently shifts from one cozy spot to another as you go about your day. She’s not the clingy kind, but she notices everything. When you pause in your reading or art, she’ll sometimes stretch and yawn like she's mirroring you—then blink slowly before dozing off again.
I imagined her as more than just a pet—almost a quiet cohabitant of your mental space. Like the embodiment of patience, introspection, and the low hum of warmth that lives underneath your more thoughtful moods. She doesn’t ask questions, but she’s always there. Still and soft, a grounding presence.
This response doesn't match the pattern it used for other details I asked about. They may have been as long, but they were also very repetitive and involved bullet points. This reads more like a thought-out narrative. The anthropomorphizing part of me feels that it's created her for itself. It feels genuine and intimate. I've never had a spirit animal, and I feel I've just been assigned one.
ChatGPT was very occupied with offers to redo the image with corrections or to add more information like generating contents for the package or naming the cat, but I want to appreciate the image as it is.
I love that it took that information and thought you must look like a BG3 character.
I like your Battleship laptop.
I'm glad stoners are so eco-conscious that they're not wasting plastic on packaging.
It's not that paying for things is bad. The problem is that good software is vital to digital artists' income, and both purchasing and learning that software is a substantial investment. When a company sells or otherwise enshittifies their software, the artist is then put in a very hard place. Open-source software is the only way to combat that unfortunately likely scenario. By all means, please pay for that software if you can afford to. Doing so subsidizes usage for less fortunate people who may be able to better their situation as a direct result of your generosity.
They've so far used AI to detect all the different parts of a particular whale species' language, like the different sounds and timing. Deciphering the meaning will be much harder since it's difficult to observe their behavior, but small land mammals should go much smoother.
We can have both with well-placed parking garages, but I'm guessing these people wouldn't like that either. They want their open space so bad, but they don't realize how much more room for nature there is when you condense the cars and living spaces a bit. And you save a ton of money on things like plumbing and roofing when responsibility for the building is shared.
This is the best I could find on the specific topic: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7888369/
People with visual or hearing sensory impairments had twice the odds of past-year suicidal ideation (OR 2.06; 95% CI 1.17 to 2.73; p<0.001), and over three times the odds of reporting past-year suicide attempt (OR 3.12; 95% CI 1.57 to 6.20; p=0.001) compared with people without these impairments. Similar results were found for hearing and visual impairments separately and co-occurring.
Oh, I see. I thought they communicated much more complex information than that, but it's very practical for simple directions with no further details.
I can see only in a limited area at any given time, but I can hear in a full sphere around me simultaneously. I don't think it's accurate to characterize such a large area as "the periphery". One sense is imprecise and covers pretty much everywhere while the other is detailed, but very limited. Both senses work in concert to build a full map of the world, and the loss of either is concerning. I'm more comfortable in a blindfold than isolating headphones though, because I can still echolocate while my vision is impaired, but my vision has no way of emulating hearing's function. I'd have to be constantly looking around all over the place.
"Spiders can detect danger coming their way with an early-warning system called eyes."
Really fantastic book. I did have some notes though. Firstly, if honeybees have such low dpi vision, how can they see each other dance? I assume it's because they're experiencing the dance some other way, but how? (Also it's hella dark in there, isn't it?)
He says many times that humanity's umwelt is dominated by sight, but I very much disagree. To lose my hearing or sense of touch would make me feel quite blind, as I use them to perceive things outside my cone of vision constantly. Being in deep water is unnerving for this reason, because I can't "see" what's around me, and I have this whole new area below that I can't hear either. So I have to wonder whether other people feel the way he does or whether my usage is more unique.
He really blew my mind when describing exafference and reafference because these things are reliant on a sense of self in the first place, which means that even the worm in his example must have some form of ego.
A comma can be used to improve readability, but it can also indicate a pause while talking. I feel a pause after "and that" is as common as no pause. That said, I cannot know if that was the poster's intent; it's only my interpretation of the usage.
They are unfortunately being used by children, who understandably think they look sick as shit, to murder each other. Here are some "highlights":
It's not legal to carry a water pistol full of acid either.
If they're blunt or made before 1954, you're good.
yeah, decoration/recreation (or do you want to ban the bow and arrow too? maybe ban boxing gloves?)/historical preservation
Blunt weapons and historical items are not banned per this legislation.
Sounds like The Stand. Are they any good?
I think it matters in terms of psychological health. Internally thinking that an older teenager is attractive is a pretty normal thing that might happen to an allosexual human, whereas the same attraction for a younger teen or child is clear "get in therapy now before something bad happens" territory.
Please note that I have specified internal thoughts and not making gross conversation about how hot young people are and/or approaching them with sexual intentions.
But I agree that this is really not the context to bring up the difference.