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Australian artist, writer, wildlife photographer, dungeon master, and bird-nerd. Autistic and depressed, but video games help.
All photos are my own unless otherwise credited. All subjects are wild and living unless otherwise noted.
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Less anachronistic (becase MAGIC) are the enchanted earrings that let the players speak privately using a permanent 4-way Message spell. They're effectively earpieces.
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My D&D campaign is mid 18th century tech, so gunpowder is common *but* when my players went to explore a "City in the Clouds" they found it was actually an alien outpost made of billions of malfunctioning nano-blocks that kept dispersing, swarming, and reforming; a "City *of* Clouds".
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noted
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If my watermark is in the bottom left corner, then the picture is the right way up.
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Humans are great at naming and ascribing personalities to inanimate objects or concepts. "My phone hates me today." "She's a good ship, the Windspire." "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me."
LLMs are designed to USE that tendency. Deceitfully.
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The adults range from 5mm (males) to 8mm (females).
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"But Doctor, I Am Pagliacci"
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Thanks for sharing this. The prospect of deleting my observations and finding another way to ID spiders was daunting to say the least.
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The plot of Les Misérables can best be summed up as "Holy &#%@ guys, it really sucks to be poor! Being hungry? Sucks. Being homeless? Sucks. Being a convicted felon? Sucks. Being a woman? Sucks. Caring enough to try to do something about it? Also sucks (but maybe you'll go to heaven)."
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"Most importantly, the community will be involved in the creation of this and any major new features."
The community has spoken: Don't do this. Don't take Google's blood money. Don't destroy the wonderful thing we love.
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We don't need answers or clarity. Nothing that you can say about why you're doing this terrible thing will convince us that it's okay to do this terrible thing.
Tell Google you don't want their blood money. Focus on being driven by human expertise rather than techbro fairytales.
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I understand that $1.5 million is tempting - but this is like taking a donation from a fossil fuel company. Don't do it, you're better than this.
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No. iNaturalist doesn't need this, and your users don't want this. Google's Generative AI is ecologically destructive and unethically sourced. Don't tie yourself to it.
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He's a keeper.
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And it's unethical? Gen-AI (like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney etc.) only work because they steal art from countless of professional artists with the goal of replacing or undercutting them.
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Sadly, Owlcat Games has openly admitted to using generative AI in their production.
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I want a modern Indiana Jones about robbing the British Museum (et al) to return stolen artefacts to their indigenous owners.