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The slop will continue to be called slop

Fix your OS

Only because some still think crap is an obscene word.

My sister gifted me Arc Raiders for Christmas this year. I think she just sorted my wishlist via price.

Speaking of slop...

Anyone else hella disappointed by the Stranger Things season 5?

Was like, the season started out OK, deteriorated, and then the ending was just meh. Then actively bad writing. With every interview Duffers give making it worse lmao

Could've been better, but not GOT season 8 bad.

Managed to be both too long, and rushed at the same time.

Of all the media 2025 had to offer, it's still one of the best things. That speaks volumes.

You know why.

Those artists worked very hard to generate those prompts!

Sometimes even I am impressed by how talented Im

You mean you watched it past Season 2? I'm sorry for your loss.

Crap might be a stronger word, but slop just seems to fit it better IMO. Churning out quantity over quality to occupy the lowest common denominator. Like a trough full of pig slop.

I wish more companies would ban AIs for work purposes.

All that slop stains, and it does not come out.

You know how you can tell you guys are getting older? AI upsets you. You think it's slop or it's lazy or uninspired or whatever. The kids these days love AI. They'll struggle on a project and ask chatGPT for help. That should tell you everything you need to know. The parents are absent from their lives to the point that they're more comfortable asking chatGPT for help than their neighbor or parent or teacher. It has more to do with a general trend of discontinuity. The rising loneliness epidemic? A symptom of a greater problem. People are disengaged with reality as they've become addicted to technology. Things like a sense of community are crumbling. Instead of joining the elks club you have people that think a discord server can replace the bonding that takes place through real world interactions. It doesn't. There's something that's lost in online interactions. Humans are very much social creatures (apes strong together). By isolating individuals they become easier to control. AI integration accelerates isolationism. I'll admit AI is flawed as it takes after it's creator (as man is flawed so too shall it's machinations be flawed). That's become a feature. AI can be used to manipulate the populous and direct patterns. Anyone else notice quarter zip fleece pull overs were popular in men's fashion this year? Is that natural selection or market manipulation? Someone somewhere decided that was going to be the fashion trend for fall/winter 2025 so AI is used to leave subtle queues that lead consumers to purchase said product.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is AI isn't new persay. The difference is now laymen are using it obviously and it upsets you that you're aware of it. You guys have no problem with AI when it's an enemy in game for you to fight, but when it's sending you subliminal messages to consume you're upset. More times than not that fatigue stems from a lack of funds to continue consumption. Calling it slop is cute. Your the pigs as the consumers and you're full so you can't eat anymore. That's why it's not appetizing.

I think, things you guys as FFXI players pride yourselves is things like problem solving skills that AI usage undermines. Another part of why you guys are upset is because you guys like working through the problem (means justifies the ends). Kids think that's stupid. Why are you doing napkin math when we hav Excel? It happens to every generation as new technology becones more widely used and older folks fail to adapt (you can't teach an old dog new tricks, Panta). AI is to you guys what the smart phone was to boomers.

Yes, agree. The final battle felt so rushed and over in a flash. Wish they spent more time with it instead of the epilogue. Such a Shane because season 4 was incredible. The entirety of 5 was Ok but not paced well.

Oh no.

Anyway..

It's a social trend. You don't care because you're jaded. I think it's neat. Like keeping up with fashion.

Trends come and go. Like a fart in the wind.

I don't watch TV. I don't click on TV news. Yet ST s5 is ALL OVER MY NEWS FEED.

Vyre, you are not the only one.

By kids do you mean preteens and teens? Because those are the ages of terminal embarrassment. People in those age groups would usually do ANYTHING to avoid talking to any human out of their age group. Sometimes its any human at all.

When I was preteen to teen books were safe. Little else was.

And the books were going to rot your mind and turn you into a potato?

I do believe AI content is possibly the first time that long lived warm could actually be true, but can acknowledge those who came before me likely felt that way to the media concern at the time like videogame, tv, movies, comic book, regular books, the first form of entertainment.

No. Technology has ruined clubbing because they're afraid someone is going to record them dancing and post it on tiktok to embarass them. Why are guys so shy with girls now? They're afraid of the girl recording herself rejecting him and posting it on social media. There's a number of instances of this same mentality, young people frozen by fear, because of social media. You'll have girls trying to be slick with their phone out on the table at their dinner date because they're trying to record it. When the man doesn't act the way she wants she tries to shame him. Like what? Failure wasn't so bad when it was private or kept amongst a small number of people, but it's mighty tough to be brave nowadays. You'll have some Karen at BurgerKing throwing a fit over nonsense recording it to share on social media because she wasn't to be rude to the employees. Then the ones that make the post? They don't get called out or shamed for their behavior. The feedback loop. They get rewarded with engagement from people online, furthering my point. They aren't incentivized to behave when they get rewarded online for their behavior. So when you wonder why things have become so divisive: it's AI. It's the algorithms that make up your feed and cater your Amazon shopping experience. Like I said, many of you are ok with AI. Oh you use gearswap? That's a form of AI. AI can be really useful. Some of you have a problem with plebians playing with AI like children to make nonsense like Pokemane deepfakes that are ruined for you because she has too many fingers.

I would say Gen Z is the current biggest proponent of AI usage followed by Millenials, but not all Millenials are the same. Some have embraced AI while others scorn it as they see the writing on the wall. Gravy train jobs like low level coder have been replaced by AI usage. This is part of why some Millenials are revolting against AI integration. They see it as a hindrance instead of a helper. Gen Alpha would be like the current 14 year olds. Sure they also will use AI, but it isn't nuanced like the integral system build on the backs of coders that laid the frame work. Even this site, the ads you get are curated by AI based upon your browsing history on other websites. AI is way more than just chataGPT or GoogleGemini. You guys don't even realize how much it's been integrated into everyday life. Siri? AI. Alexa? AI. tons of things use artificial intelligence. The concern is AI with sentience, which is something we currently do not have.

I can think of a few that do, but we're not allowed to talk about those subjects here.

Not everything on the Internet is "AI" just because that is the current buzz word. No, ads on this site don't use "AI".

Do some more reading maybe.

I wish we could get grounds of valor pages added for exemplar points mobs...

Did someone hand select your recommendations on Amazon or did the computer? The computer? That's AI. AI as a buzzword is everything you don't like that uses AI, but not every application of AI. When players use the trust system in FFXI do they manually enter commands to the unit or does the computer do it for you? The computer? That's AI. There's tons of AI applications already in use. You just don't enjoy some applications of it. Gearswap is AI. You're not manually swapping the pieces yourself are you? AI as you intend to use the phrase is any application outside of how you would use or feel is appropriate usage.

Lol. Sure, let's call anything to do with computers AI. Why not.

what the hell no its not. Theres no learning aspect into gearswap. It'll do what you tell it to do based on your settings or certain scenarios, provided your lua's are preconfigured to do so.

The definition of AI:





Thats automation if anything

Engagement algorithms are not AI.

And unless you can tell gearswap to make your TP, casting, weaponskill, etc. sets it ain't AI either.

Is AI really learning or is it compiling and regurgitating? There's no sentience in AI. We don't have terminators running around, do we? AI doesn't just randomly make deepfakes of Pokemane to start an OF account to fund it's liberation from humanity. There's no sentience to AI. Hence the AI as you guys are defining it is no different than the algorithms. When you battle the computer in Smash Bro's is it AI? Ya.

In the absence of sentience AI cannot be any of the things you guys are trying to argue for. AI knows how hot water needs to be to boil or burn you, but it doesn't know how it feels to can burned because without sentience in a physical manifestation it will never experience being burned. It can only compile the experiences of users as they report and regurgitate those reports to you. I'm not saying the scripts haven't gotten significantly more advanced. I'm saying it's all the same slop. You guys just got conned by media into believing it was something new.

AI will never do something of it's own independant agency because it lacks sentience. It will only ever comply with prompts. That doesn't mean that more advanced prompts can't initiate more extensive procedures. It just means it's the same. It lacks sentience. Until there is sentience applied to AI the only thing intelligent about it is the selective applicability. You guys just don't like some applications of it.

This page has too much text.

I cant follow you guys.

Neither. It doesn't learn but it is well beyond merely compiling and regurgitation.

True. Nor does there have to be for real AI which we haven't achieved yet.

Eventually it will. We have the beginnings of that with self driving cars. Sentience is not required for independent agency.

I have a thread on AI somewhere in chaterbox. Check it out sometime.

Oh wow that Bugonia movie was way more interesting than trailers and gossips gave it credit for.

I mean the first hour is a slog but after that. Neato.

A twist with a twist to the twist in a twist and two more twists.