Just when I thought I was done with it forever, back to topics in Digital Humanities I go. Surely differences in generational attitudes towards AI art is something someone in a DH department has been diving deep on these days...

'Ordinary' is doing a lot of work here. I can think of a lot of ordinary people I've met who hate AI art. Seems more accurate to say that not everyone is put off by it.

Does seem to be a generational element though, with older generations not caring as much. Case in point is one of the pinball places here. The owner's been an AI art enthusiast for a while, younger folks hate it to the point that they'll actively avoid the place, the older 'I was a pinball wizard in the 80s' crowd don't seem as bothered.

I simultaneously think it's fucked, and I can immediately think of people in my life where this'd be harm reduction.

You can also do it the other way, and call out Mastodon users from Lemmy.

I did that to Jason Scott once, though I think he was less than happy about it. I was just shocked it worked.

I'll speak directly to the last question: if you use AI as a means to generate 'creative' output (see: ideas on various topics/themes stolen from other folks), improv will likely help with learning to think on your feet and confidence in expressing yourself with reference just to the electrical impulses in your own noggin.

But I don't think that alone is sufficient to fix a truly 'AI-rotted brain', which I take to mean a mind that reaches for easy answers and shortcuts. That's a bigger project, and there's a lot of good comments here and on your other post in that vein.

I don't know your IRL circumstances, but a project idea for you: take a walk around the place you live with a notepad. Write down every question you have about any old stuff that catches your fancy/strikes you as weird (probably a good idea to take pictures too). Try and find the answers to those questions without using AI - instead, talk to a librarian, send an email to your local historical society, etc. etc. Ask for resources about the topic in question. Bonus points if you take that info and make something creative with it - a poem, a short story about someone contemporary to the thing you're curious about, one act play, interpretive dance, whatever.

Like this for you simply because, depending on where you live and what catches your fancy, there may not be that much info fed into an AI database, but there could totally be a book/collection in an archive/knowledgeable person who'd be happy to chat about it.

Ugh, I still feel kinda guilty for going hard on someone's less than well thought out presentation once, to the point that she made the fastest beeline out of a room I've ever seen after class...

Toblerone + salted peanuts at the same time = pure joy.

[Suppose you can replace Toblerone with any chocolate but it's a good choice]

These are one of those things the family used to get for Christmas, sit completely untouched for a while, then I'd get chewed out for inhaling the whole thing one night.

Likely going to work on setting up something more robust in the coming months, but a Debrid subscription + Streamio has served me pretty well with only two failures to date (this one included).

Gotta ask, 3 years out - did you have any takers on this?