Benji Cook
@benjicook.bsky.social
Creator of youtube.com/@thetalefoundry
Everyone's favorite robot twink
Everyone's favorite robot twink
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What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.
It's funny how Elon went from being a "free speech absolutist" to whatever this is. Consider bksy my new primary
January 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It's funny how Elon went from being a "free speech absolutist" to whatever this is. Consider bksy my new primary
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“I never had time to learn to paint and now I can make a painting in seconds”
You’re not doing anything tho, you’re watching a magic trick powered by unfathomable quantities of stolen labor and paying a billionaire 10$ for the privilege. There’s not a single democratic thing about it
You’re not doing anything tho, you’re watching a magic trick powered by unfathomable quantities of stolen labor and paying a billionaire 10$ for the privilege. There’s not a single democratic thing about it
November 28, 2024 at 4:43 AM
“I never had time to learn to paint and now I can make a painting in seconds”
You’re not doing anything tho, you’re watching a magic trick powered by unfathomable quantities of stolen labor and paying a billionaire 10$ for the privilege. There’s not a single democratic thing about it
You’re not doing anything tho, you’re watching a magic trick powered by unfathomable quantities of stolen labor and paying a billionaire 10$ for the privilege. There’s not a single democratic thing about it
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Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion
I think a bit of the "AI is democratizing art" argument is trying to avoid the ugly truth that to get good at anything you have to do a lot of it. I grew up "knowing" I was a good writer, but I really wasn't until about 700k words, and it took reading hours of scripts to really have a voice
November 28, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion