Hey, don’t short-sell your system. From what I hear you too usually get the pleasure of waiting several months.

Okay, and?

I can tell you who’s definitely not an artist: the person who tells others to create their idea. They’re a client.

I will still maintain that I have a certain impression from the outside (artists are doing shit about the situation, devs need to get off their asses) which I’d imagine is what others are seeing too.

Unless they have learnt to draw/paint, they’re not artists. Just like people who haven’t learnt how to code are not developers.

Well, now we’re at the point where we both only have anecdotes and I’d have to take your word over my memories from numerous discussions over the last years. While artists are actively protesting, for non-devs it looks like developers are, in large numbers, at least okay with AI. That’s probably what DevilsPanties is observing. Hence the comic.

Sorry, I don’t follow. This may sound like snark in writing, but it’s not meant to be: who is where in what? Who isn’t a developer?

Are those the same people saying how AI “democratises” art? And how nice it is that even people with disabilities can now finally make art and how ableistic any and all pushback against AI is? Yeah, that’s the ones I mentioned.

It does look, from the outside, suspiciously like a large number of devs don’t care. For every dev that complains, you seem to get one who pretends to be a “voice of reason” or sth and, while they of course see why people might be suspicious AI, don’t worry, they’re one of the good ones, will rattle off a list of stuff they now routinely let an AI do and they’re happy about. Just the small stuff, just the boring stuff, just this, just that, and the other thing. Don’t fight it, Ai Is HeRe To StAy.

You won’t get that from artists, only people who are jealous of their cooler younger brothers the work artists put into their craft and want the benefits without the work.

Do you not hear the words in your head while reading?

Their phones contain AO3.

If I had kids, I’d rather they stay on their phones.

lol fuck, I knew someone would call me out on my rusty Japanese. Thank you!

ㅋㅋ which is “lol”

Gamers may be familiar with “kkkkkk” because that’s what you’d type on a keyboard to get ㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D

Edit: Gawwwd don’t listen to me today. This isn’t exactly correct. And I struggle to explain transliteration. Basically, the character ㅋ corresponds to “k”. I need sleep.

First things that comes to mind: Japanese for “to laugh” is 笑う “warau”. The equivalent of “lol” then started as 笑. Over time it evolved into just the first Latin letter “wwwww”. Which kind of looks like grass. And because Japanese people love word play, logically the next step was 草 “kusa” - which means “grass” and now also “lol”.

Anyway, sentences in languages that use logograms, such as Japanese, are generally shorter since they just use one character where languages that use Latin letters need several (“Want to hang out tonight after school?” - 授業後今晩遊ぼう？). So standard text message character limits are plenty to convey A LOT of stuff in Japanese. (EDIT: See comment below about the quality of that Japanese sentence lol)

You can make sentences more compact if you want to: 今晩　遊？ is not a complete sentence but the essential parts that carry the meaning, “this evening” and “hang out”, are there so if you’re in a hurry that’ll do.

Going further back in time might be more interesting, the Japanese did some crazy shit with pagers: https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/02/spelling-words-using-numbers.html

And here I was thinking I was showing you some life-altering possibilities you hadn’t considered lol

Don’t ask me, there is effectively one (1) brand of methylphenidate available for adults where I am and it’s not Ritalin.

Don’t ask if you might not like the answer :/

Congratulations, you may have ADHD (one of us one of us <cheer>). The applicable drugs are dopamine reuptake inhibitors (such as Ritalin).

Bodily functions that should be automatic fail all the time, for bullshit reasons, why not that one? Not that I have any strong feelings about that story but I don’t think it’s entirely outrageous to imagine. I’m aware that I may lack vital information about human anatomy - but so do the people you’re talking about.

Alright. Sounds like bullshit that you’re going to have to deal with, whether or not we’re facing the AI apocalypse, and I sympathise.