to copy my own comment from another similar thread:

I’m an idiot with no marketable skills. I put boxes on shelves for a living. I want to be an artist, a musician, a programmer, an author. I am so bad at all of these, and between having a full time job, a significant other, and several neglected hobbies, I don’t have time to learn to get better at something I suck at. So I cheat. If I want art done, I could commission a real artist, or for the cost of one image I could pay for dalle and have as many images as I want (sure, none of them will be quite what I want but they’ll all be at least good). I could hire a programmer, or I could have chatgpt whip up a script for me since I’m already paying for it anyway since I want access to dalle for my art stuff. Since I have chatgpt anyway, I might as well use it to help flesh out my lore for the book I’ll never write. I haven’t found a good solution for music.

I have in my brain a vision for a thing that is so fucking cool (to me), and nobody else can see it. I need to get it out of my brain, and the only way to do that is to actualize it into reality. I don’t have the skills necessary to do it myself, and I don’t have the money to convince anyone else to help me do it. generative AI is the only way I’m going to be able to make this work. Sure, I wish that the creators of the content that were stolen from to train the ai’s were fairly compensated. I’d be ok with my chatgpt subscription cost going up a few dollars if that meant real living artists got paid, I’m poor but I’m not broke.

These are the opinions of an idiot with no marketable skills.

bill gates being less shitty than most does not make him good.

i applaud you for being the change that you want to see in the world

that sounds like way more effort than is reasonable to expect from a shitpost.

Which I’d respect if he was honest about it. I don’t think he’s capable of being honest with himself, much less anyone else.

the average american doesn’t understand stats.

Normally I’d agree with you, but this one was funny.

Yes, the system sucks, and we should do what we can to fix it.

What is also important is Order of Operations. It will be much harder (if not impossible) to effect any positive change on the systems that be if the orange orangutan wins the election, while those changes will be at least possible under the leadership of the blue candidate.

I like to think that people who are not able to figure this out are victims of republican/russian propaganda. To think otherwise would be both depressing and enraging and I have too much of my own shit going on to deal with any of that.

Several of my alt accounts have been banned across the fediverse for calling out such nans. I figure if my alts get banned for that, then I should block them from my main.

(if anyone takes offense to me having “several” alts, that’s because without using 3rd party apps you can’t categorize interests like reddit’s multis feature without just having multiple accounts with their own sub list.)

What he says and what he does are not the same thing. Trump is about Trump First, and everyone else never.

it’s a repost, op didn’t censor it. you’d know if you read the text.

dew it dew it dew it dew it

i don’t understand what that means but it sounds hype as fuck.

+1 because you can say fuck.

Their music was pretty great back in the day, but their more recent stuff sounds like schizophrenic whinging, and their music videos make them look like maga fascists. I have done zero research on what their opinions actually are.

i think I was getting two different conversations mixed together, my snark was intended for someone else. i apologize for that.

So I went looking to find out what you’re talking about, and I came up with nothing. So linky with the op comment confirming what they meant.

There are plenty of snarky things I could say. I refrain from being the ass I’d like, you haven’t proven to deserve it.

If I find any degree of success, then absolutely I will hire real humans to help me with my vision.

sadly, I have a moral compass. I’m not sure where I put the damn thing, but I have one.

Just my opinion, as an idiot with no marketable skills: I think the more fascist candidate is the one who attempted a coup on Jan 6.

If I can figure it out, what’s other people’s excuse?