lilithsaintcrow

lilithsaintcrow, 4 months ago to random

“‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says.”

Then fucking pay for it honestly or fucking perish, you fucking grifters.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

lilithsaintcrow, 7 months ago to random

“YouTube does not ALLOW adblockers!”

…oh my dear sweet summer corporation, you seem to have forgotten just who is actually in charge here.

lilithsaintcrow, 2 months ago to random

Okay, so the kids and I filled out all our stuff online, made the appointments, went in...and the pharmacist refused us Covid vaccine, saying we had to be 65+.

I don't even know what the fuck.

lilithsaintcrow, 5 months ago to random

My site's firewall informs me that we're now at 1526 blocks of the ChatGPT bot’s attempts to scrape/steal my content to train their plagiarism sauce.

I'll say it again, there is no ethical use of LLMs/“AI”s at this point. You know the ecological devastation, the plagiarism, and the racism. Just don’t use it, even for lulz.

lilithsaintcrow, 3 months ago to random

My portal fantasy MOON'S KNIGHT (which drove at least one Amazon reviewer to distraction because the protagonist, during the funeral of her best friend, has harsh words for God) is on sale for $3.99USD in ebook today! https://books2read.com/moonsknight

lilithsaintcrow, 2 months ago to random

“... a large part of the artificial intelligence boom is hot air, pumped through a combination of executive bullshitting and a compliant media that will gladly write stories imagining what AI can do rather than focus on what it's actually doing.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/peakai/

lilithsaintcrow, 2 months ago to random

I've reached the, “no, this scene isn't getting done today, watch some Letterkenny clips instead" part of exhaustion, so there's that, I guess.

lilithsaintcrow, 5 months ago to random

Me: "...and so I think this character wants to kill God.”

My daughter: “Totes fair."

My son: “Yeah, whomst amongst us…or is it whomst among? I always wonder."

cue ten-minute discussion of among vs amongst

#saidatdinner

lilithsaintcrow, 10 months ago to Pubtips

I'm hearing chatter that Grammarly has just admitted to using its users' work to train an AI--without consent. That means it's been stealing/scraping your work and writing, without compensation.

If you use that particular service, you might want to look into that. #publishing #writing

lilithsaintcrow, 9 days ago to random

I don’t know how that squirrel got on the neighbor’s roof but I hope it has some kind of escape plan.

lilithsaintcrow, 8 months ago to random

Ebook prices have been kept artificially low for a long time, mostly because of Amazon. The pushback to that is starting to see some traction now, accompanied by predictable howls of faux-outrage.

Almost like several writers were yelled at and harassed for predicting years ago…so weird…

lilithsaintcrow, 5 months ago to random

This week, in Authors Behaving Badly…

Given how hard it is to keep track of one's own actual socials, why on earth would anyone want to sockpuppet? Just a whole lotta wasted time/effort that would be better spent ACTUALLY WRITING.

https://www.themarysue.com/cait-corrain-goodreads-controversy-explained/

lilithsaintcrow, 3 months ago to random

“The plans at Automattic have been so controversial internally, that a product manager has even started pulling his own photos off Tumblr to make sure they’re not used to train AI, according to 404." https://gizmodo.com/wordpress-tumblr-plan-sell-user-content-ai-companies-1851291225

lilithsaintcrow, 1 month ago to random

...okay, I couldn't wait. We really gotta talk about trad publishing. https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/04/we-gotta-talk-about-publishing/

lilithsaintcrow, 6 months ago to random

It's bloody unconscionable that Covid vaccines and things like Paxlovid are being privatized, after taxpayer money funded research and development. The correct price for a vaccine is $0. The correct price for Covid treatment in this, the fourth year of the pandemic, is $0.

lilithsaintcrow, 2 months ago to random

Authors absolutely do not mind that Goodreads is for readers. Authors mind that it’s a cesspit full of toxicity because we’re not seen as human beings there, just easily available punching bags. The ease of harassment and brigading attracts the worst behavior, and Goodreads allows it by design.

lilithsaintcrow, 11 months ago to random

@zoomar And the ever-popular “he wants to spend time with me only to demean and belittle me, then escape consequences by claiming ‘it’s just a joke’…”

lilithsaintcrow, 7 months ago to random

"A female Jewish physicist was responsible for the single most important scientific discovery of the twentieth century. Her work has, literally, changed the world. Why isn’t her face staring out of every science textbook?" https://lithub.com/the-past-and-present-of-writing-women-out-of-scientific-history/

lilithsaintcrow, 6 months ago to random

Me: “...so really, having meaning in sentences depend on word order is one of the reasons why English is so good at mugging other languages in dark alleys and making off with vocabulary.”

My son: “You look so excited while explaining this stuff.”

lilithsaintcrow, 5 months ago to random

Since Substack is okay with Nazis, how about a thread of alternatives for people looking to get out, and possibly take their audiences with them?

lilithsaintcrow, 1 month ago to random

So…if I were to learn a programming language (I think I once knew BASIC in fourth grade, waaaay back before Al Gore's Internet), which one would my hacker pals suggest?

lilithsaintcrow, 1 month ago to random

Shuffle Play starting me out with Plastic Bertrand this morning; it’s gonna be a busy day.

lilithsaintcrow, 4 months ago to random

My daughter: “If you WERE a supervillain, you’d be the one to give your henchpeople healthcare and PTO.”

Me: “That’s just good business practice though!”

lilithsaintcrow, 2 months ago to random

Shuffle play’s starting me out with the Police’s “King of Pain” and hoo boy, Friday, so that’s how we’re gonna do this?

lilithsaintcrow, 1 month ago to random

The news about marijuana becoming Schedule III is nice, but I can't help wondering if it's happening simply because cops have decided another pretense works just as well for terrorizing their victims and so are willing to let go of this one.