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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • You’re right. Words like “I” are gender neutral.

    For that reason, speaking in the third person like Bot is doing doesn’t make sense to me (as a trans person myself). I can’t think of any motive for someone to want others to constantly refer to them in the third person… Except for one, but it’s controversial in some communities haha.

    Looking at Bot’s comment history, they only decided to speak in the third person today, while the rest of their account’s comments are written normally. Do with that information what you will.


  • Well, one instance of it was on their main account, so it doesn’t matter that much. (Sry about the SC quality)

    I wasn’t the one who issued the ban so I can’t say for sure, but IIRC the reasoning was that both accounts spoke in Drag’s unique way. That and by all appearances the account seems to have been made specifically to harass a user Drag was beefing with at the time.










  • Pretty much all popular image generating models are based on countless artworks by real artists, which were used without the artists consent.

    My art is also based on countless works of real artists, and I didn’t need their consent to put pen to paper (or tablet, rather). Media like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Goodnight Punpun and Majora’s Mask taught me how to incorporate surrealism into my work, and I don’t need permission from those creators to use what I learned in my game.

    If I tried putting Courage, Punpun or Link in my game, that’d be a different story. And when generative AI companies do that, that’s also a different story… But I have to give credit where it’s due, as much as I don’t like OpenAI they have done a better job at complying with copyright law better than YouTube. I’ve even had ChatGPT refuse my prompts when I’m not trying to get it to generate copyrighted material.

    I do agree with your other points though, and I think we’d both agree that machine learning is a net negative for the world. I’m not on the side of big corporations, I just don’t think this argument is really good for anything except getting people emotionally charged.



  • By “asap” I didn’t mean any minute now. :p Rest assured we wouldn’t make such a big change without at least telling you guys outside of a comment on a random post. And I agree a poll would be a good idea.

    And apparently I was mistaken about some things, so I’ve deleted my comment. Until further notice, just disregard what I said. Any major changes to 196 will be announced by the other mods, probably through a sticky post.

    Edit: Since I deleted the last post I’ll clarify here, too, that we weren’t making any major changes due to the neopronouns thing. It was just something I saw being discussed a good while ago and assumed it was still underweigh.