The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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For your pleasure:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-h7BOxN-qRc
(The longer version was sadly hit by a guided copyright strike)
Sigh. I suppose this strengthens my usual point:
Stop worrying about "AI slop". You often won't be able to tell if it's AI, and it will, inevitably, become less sloppish. Dare I say, even good. Sure, you want to be able to tell if your Tinder date is catfishing you, or if the email or invoice you've received is real. It's of utmost importance to know if there's an epidemic of obese, suicidal women are throwing boulders on bridges in China.
But for everything else? A drawing is a drawing dawg, a song either sounds good or it doesn't. A work of fiction is no better or worse if meat machines or silicon wrote it (for the same assortment of letters in the same order).
This way lies zen, and the ability to happily partake in the post-scarcity supply side of the attention economy.
Of course, if you do genuinely value human authorship for reasons such as "soul" or the inability of machines to feel emotion, then good luck. You're going to need it.
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