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Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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This is an artificial modern world problem. For thousands of years people have told embellished stories, and humanity has thrived upon it. Tall tales, fish stories. Heck, that's still the average person's experience unless they've really worked their critical thinking muscles. Today's working adults are used to the short thirty-year "safe space" of smartphones and internet. We grew up in a temporary meta stability wh…

Sounds like you fundamentally misunderstand the thing people have against using AI for these pursuits. If your imagination or capability needed LLMs in order to unlock their full potential (as in, if you waited until AI removed the barriers between a beginner and their future craft), maybe your potential wasn't that great to begin with. And all you're doing is producing things closer to the median, instead of somewhe…

"Your potential" is part of a greater fairy tale told to gifted students to make them contribute significantly more to society at the cost of their mental health, especially when the promised rewards never materialize.

Re: ChatGPT Images 2.5

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>The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me. How is that sad? Why is your mothers joy sad?

Because the mother's joy should hinge on the actual photo of the actual event of the actual person, not a fictional imaginary event or fake childhood of their child. The experience of being human should be tethered to reality.

There was once a wise man who said the devil surreptitiously added two words to the dictionary: "should" and "ought".
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