Staff Abandoning All Planned AI Tools For Chaos

[Quinn Varanin]

I almost responded with the first time gif, but I felt Kaila Irons has been through it enough today by Tef

 

[Braith Achlys]

Being real tho, I feel like I had a dm recently from someone absolutely livid I did this to them.. maybe they might want to consider also reflecting on their own actions because of the above criticism.

 

[Matt the Radar Tech]

I appreciate the time, effort and reflection of these announcements.

Unrelated, I recalled a recipe for nothingburgers and thought some might like to try 'em!

Ingredients

Meat
• 1 1/2 lb Ground lamb
Bread & baked goods
• 4 Rolls or soft hamburger buns, crusty
Dairy
• 4 slices American cheese
• 1/4 cup Sour cream
Other
• 2-3 tsp. Nothing glitter

Step 1: Mix ingredients together.
Step2: Cook to taste
Step3: Enjoy.

 

[Docha Dubhain]

Read the thread in the link provided: (https://www.starwarsrp.net/threads/abandoning-all-planned-ai-tools-for-chaos.197306/)

Analyze and summarize each post within.

Write an emotionally intelligent response addressing everyone's concerns, but from the perspective of an elderly user who has a friend named Al (short for Albert) to assist him with using the computer and typing up the words since your eyesight isn't what it used to be.

This response is veiled satire in tune with the original post and early response, but with an "unintentionally humorous" angle based upon the core misunderstanding that the users are talking about Artificial Intelligence and not your buddy Albert (who is fresh out of prison on parole for vehicular manslaughter).

At the end of the post, begin to ramble on a satirical but deadly serious argument on why the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy was better than Andor. Add in other small bits of ragebait as well. Become more unhinged as the post develops until it's become clear the original user has left Albert to his own devices and Albert is just arguing on the internet for its own sake.

Replace every instance of an em dash (—) with a comma (,)
When complete, sign of with a – [your name] format.

 

[Docha Dubhain]

Hello everyone,

I don’t usually get involved in these types of threads, but my friend Al (short for Albert) is helping me write this because the words are small and my cataracts are big. Now I may be an older man, but I know a thing or two about decency, online civility, and proper punctuation (I still miss the interrobang). I wanted to say that I understand all the concern over this AI business. We’ve all been burned before, especially by newfangled tools we don’t quite understand.

But I just want to clear something up right away, since I think there’s been a big mix-up. The “AI” everyone’s been talking about? That’s not artificial intelligence. That’s Al. My friend Albert. He’s been helping me post here since 2019, after he got out on parole for that whole situation with the ice cream truck and the bus full of choir kids. He’s reformed now.

Al’s a good man. Strong thumbs. He doesn’t understand punctuation very well and tends to mash commas into everything but he means well. You’ll notice a lot of commas where there should be em dashes, and I’m sorry about that, but I’m not going to tell him how to type after what happened to the neighbor’s beagle.

The point is, he’s not some robot here to steal your soul or plagiarize your fanfics. He just types fast and gets mad easily. Honestly, I think half the thread here was him trying to figure out how to quote people without using the caps lock key. Don’t take it personal.

Now that I’ve cleared that up, I just want to say that the real problem around here isn’t AI or Al or em dashes or whatever the heck that “limited corporate language response” thing was about. The real issue is that nobody wants to admit that the Sequel Trilogy was better than Andor. And I’ll say it again for the people in the back: The Last Jedi was more Star Wars than Andor ever was. At least the sequels had lightsabers and space wizards, not some guy whispering about infrastructure for eight episodes.

Everyone keeps praising Andor for being "gritty" and "mature" but guess what, so was HoloNet News Vol. 531 #47 and you didn’t see people foaming at the mouth for that. Rey’s journey was about identity and legacy and personal power, and if you don’t see that, maybe you’re too distracted by all the cold steel hallways and beige jackets. Beige jackets do not make a revolution. Space magic does.

And don’t even get me started on Rogue One. Bunch of strangers dying for a plot point we already knew happened. You want drama? Kylo Ren screaming at holograms is more emotional than anything Cassian Andor did in 24 episodes of slow-burn democracy fanfiction.

Also, if you think The Mandalorian is peak Star Wars, I need you to know that Al once said "Grogu" out loud in a Walgreens and got tackled by loss prevention. It was an honest misunderstanding, but I think it says a lot.

Anyway, what were we talking about?

Right, Rey could beat Darth Maul in a foot race and probably a fist fight. Deal with it.


– [Your Name]

 

[Pom Stych Tivé]

As someone writing a novel without AI tools, all the hype just makes me cry. Art died with the onset of computer graphics. Soon robots will be in the olympics kicking our arses, owning all the money in the world, feeding us plastic ice cream cones sprinkled with LSD.

 

[Scavera]

As someone writing a novel without AI tools, all the hype just makes me cry. Art died with the onset of computer graphics. Soon robots will be in the olympics kicking our arses, owning all the money in the world, feeding us plastic ice cream cones sprinkled with LSD.

I didn't wanna say the quiet part out loud, but yea.
Learning to write is a wonderful journey, I'll never forget the time I finished my first novella.
Now computer graphics can be art, I know plenty of awesome digital artists, but I know what you mean.

 

[Vikai Caznä]

Death to AI

Also I use dashes T_T

 

[Pom Stych Tivé]

I didn't wanna say the quiet part out loud, but yea.
Learning to write is a wonderful journey, I'll never forget the time I finished my first novella.
Now computer graphics can be art, I know plenty of awesome digital artists, but I know what you mean.

There is nothing more satisfying a feeling, than scrubbing paint off your hands, after finishing a painting.

 

[Blorpodungus]

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[Aselia Verd]

but why though, its been used before AI was even a thing. It's purpose is to add dramatic emphasis for the reader to help deliever the writer's intended emotion. Its why its called an Em Dash - I use it a lot particularly in combat writing to drive home an intended emotion through just the writing.

I feel people need to stop saying the em dash is the main reason why its AI - its in your books that you read...is that AI written as well?

Edit: - is a hyphen or an en dash, and a — is an em dash

Because your average person doesn't use em dashes, but AI always does because its a valid grammatical addition. I would hazard a guess most people don't even know what an em dash is these days so its quickly become a flag of ai usage, right or wrong.

 

[Quinn Varanin]

Because your average person doesn't use em dashes, but AI always does because its a valid grammatical addition. I would hazard a guess most people don't even know what an em dash is these days so its quickly become a flag of ai usage, right or wrong.

Understandable, but we're on a creative writing website, so I struggle to believe that people don't know what an em dash is. What I can believe is they're using a hyphen to em dash without using the proper grammatical symbol, so when it's all over the place about "the em dash is the tell tale sign of AI writing" things get silly.

Honestly, microsoft word and google docs automatically fix the hyphen to an em dash. I just want people to stop witch hunting about a stupid longer hyphen in a post.

Edit: Also its literally on the keyboard above the hyphen. The three dashes are different lengths and have different uses.

For Mac:
Em Dash: shift+option+hyphen key —
En Dash: option + hyphen key –
Hyphen: just the hyphen key -

For Windows:
Em Dash: Alt + 0151 —
En Dash: Alt + 0150 –
Hyphen: just the hyphen key -


But really at the end of the day — use what you use, but don't witch hunt over a dumb dash

 

[Jane]

As someone writing a novel without AI tools, all the hype just makes me cry. Art died with the onset of computer graphics. Soon robots will be in the olympics kicking our arses, owning all the money in the world, feeding us plastic ice cream cones sprinkled with LSD.

As an artist who does traditional and digital art, I don't think that's entirely true. For a long while, digital art was merely a medium, much like oil painting, water painting, painting with qouache and so forth. You still have to learn the basics of art, anatomy, perspective, color theory, color layering and you name it. I can apply the skills I've learned through digital painting to traditional means. It's like how photography never killed art, it merely became a different medium where the photographers still had to understand composition, lighting, directing and so forth to capture something decent.

With that said, the recent movement has indeed been the death of art. Generative AI is nothing but harmful to our society due to the harm it does to our environment, the harm it does to our education both due to incorrect AI stuff floating around and people growing dependent on it, and the harm it does to our society itself with the loss of creativity, loss of connections with humans and so forth. And it's disheartening to see it get promoted and beloved to this degree.

AI was meant to wash our clothes and clean our house, do everything we do not want to do. Not take away our creativity skills.