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Pornography.

Yup. We’re in a situation where everyone is thinking “if we don’t, then they will.” Bans are counterproductive. Instead we should be throwing our effort into “if we’re going to do it then we need to do it right.”

Isn’t this what all those artists were insisting they wanted? AI replacing rote labor instead of their “creative” jobs like producing advertising and concept art?

Given that OP has ended with a complete lack of clarity in what his question actually means, I see no further point in discussing details like this.

You have yet to present a particularly well-formed question for me to answer. You still haven’t even clarified your original post’s question, what exactly do you mean by people “role playing as animals?”

OP has been singularly unclear about what exactly he means by “role playing as animals” in the first place, so I don’t see the problem here.

UPDATE: can’t help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals

I think you’ll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is “animal roleplay” to you? Where are you seeing it being done?

Did you actually look at the image of the sculpture? It’s not reaching up. It’s just standing.

Furries are a modern example of anthropomorphic animals in culture. It’s a convenient shorthand.

There’s been furry content on the Internet since before the World Wide Web was invented.

Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.

Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅

The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We’ve been imagining what it’s like to not be human for as long as we’ve been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.

Okay? I’m not sure how any of this is detracting from the point I’m making here. You can’t do everything yourself. Nobody can do everything for themselves, society is too complicated now. So we pick the things we’re good at. Not being good at troubleshooting your PC doesn’t make you “stupid”.

Except for the medicine stuff

So aside from the things that you can’t do, you can do anything.

Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.

I bet you Google it.

Can you fix your own car? If your refrigerator fails, can you fix that too? How about medical conditions, are you able to treat any and all of those? Prepare any kind of meal? Assemble a wooden cabinet from raw materials? Weld and cut metal? Sew clothing, plant a garden, paint a picture, play a musical instrument?

There’s always things that people are good at and other things that they’re not good at. We live in a civilization where we specialize in things because it’s impossible to learn everything that needs to be done. You think you’re good at troubleshooting computer problems, and that’s a fine thing to be good at. Other people are not good at it. They need help with it. That doesn’t make them “stupid.” It makes them people who’ve chosen to focus on other things.

Why specify just “newer generations?” I do tech support for older generations in my family and they’re just as un-tech-savvy.

The vast majority of people don’t care how a computer works, they just want it to work. And that’s fine. There are lots of machines and other technologies in my life that I can’t spend the time to fully comprehend, I’ve got other stuff I need to do. As long as there are a few people who focus on each kind of machine and each kind of technology then civilization carries on okay.

As is frequently the case for relatively tech-savvy people, I do free tech support for my older relatives. In the past year or two it’s become so much easier because 99% of the time all I have to do is remind them “have you asked Copilot how to do that?” And they’ll go “oh yeah,” go ask Copilot, and that tells them how to fix their problem.

You are on the Fediverse, a niche platform that has inordinate appeal to people with a particular attitude and aptitude toward tech. And this particular community has its own set of attitudes that tend to get reinforced thanks to the upvote/downvote system. This is a bubble we are in here. If you look around at the people here and draw conclusions about what people in general want you’re going to get a very inaccurate view.

Chatgpt.com is the fifth-most heavily visited website as of August. AI is popular.

How dare those awful people keep trying new things. The Internet was perfect in the 1950s and we should stick with it being exactly the same way forever.

Oh, there are still thorn-users trying to “poison” AI? It doesn’t work and only annoys human readers.

The closest thing to this right now is Copilot Vision, which is entirely configurable.