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Matthew Dow Smith@matthewdowsmith.bsky.social |
Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.
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Wendell B
@wndlb.bsky.social
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It *has* replaced high school students, however. 😆
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Alph
@youralphie.bsky.social
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If you think arts and humanities are useless, wait till you hear that UC Berkeley is planning to offer a course on Taylor Swift.
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Quinn C Amacher
@qcomix.bsky.social
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@sloppjockey.bsky.social english majors win again
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ᵏᵒᶜʰᵃⁿᵏᵃ
@bloodfaggot.bsky.social
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it's not a problem with arts & humanities vs AI. It's a problem with capitalism (and its treatment of arts & humanities)
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True Libertine
@alantennisplayer.bsky.social
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I love the arts & Humanities ❤️❤️❤️
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David J. Loehr
@djl.bsky.social
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I mean, mashups, pastiche, and parody are like breathing for me--I grew up on PDQ Bach and Bob & Ray. Might take me a few more minutes, but what I turn out will be infinitely better than AI.
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Soyweiser
@soyweiser.bsky.social
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Also a teacher only needs one prompt to get several good results.
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Voxvorago | Moob City
@voxvorago.bsky.social
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AI only replicates, which means it loses the ability for art to critique the status quo. Capitalist utopia is when not even your art knows all this is wrong
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Sam Hurwitt
@shurwitt.bsky.social
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Men will literally devote their lives to build machines to try to put an entire industry out of work as revenge for being rejected by their high school lit mag instead of going to therapy.
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
@marythetrainer.bsky.social
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As a former rhetoric instructor I can say that cutting the humanities has resulted in an electorate that can’t recognize propaganda or media manipulation. At. All. They take satire literally. They believe anything they read or watch. They’re followers, not thinkers.
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adjectivecat aka 200found aka tinyfingerdildos
@adjectivecat.bsky.social
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Ironically, their lack of humanities training keeps them from becoming content, whole human beings. At best, they can participate in some rich dipshit’s infinite capital growth scheme.
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Ivy Jelisavac
@becauseivy.bsky.social
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also what was everybody doing during the lockdown to not go completely insane? read books, listen to music, watch movies
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Mike Pietrafesa
@mikepietrafesa.bsky.social
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Does that mean I have a BFA…I?
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Erica Henderson
@ericafails.bsky.social
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There's a brain rot that happens when society turns to say that what you do is the most important thing, that it will eventually solve everything but all of the people that are supposed to be looking up to you are looking at the dumb stupid arts.
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Secretoriginz
@secretoriginz.bsky.social
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It would be nice if the customer base of the various streaming services would start leaving en masse in response to their leadership's repugnant ass behavior.
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stunt double
@highplainsdrifter.bsky.social
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STEM is just a bunch of overly complicated math about triangles, not a serious subject. All it’s good for is making endless quantities of shitty websites and bombs.
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her)
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
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Neoliberal values: why pay a person to make something amazing if you can subsidize a tech bro robber baron designing software to make an enshittified copy?
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Trepanning For Gold
@rubydoomsday.bsky.social
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AI isn’t meant to create anything. it’s meant to destroy labour.
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Ivan Kowalenko
@ivkowalenko.bsky.social
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“…something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.” I know this experience.
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Harley (hellhound) and Frankie (human)
@harleyhellhound.bsky.social
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The number of papers I wrote in that weird lucid state between awake and sleep, riding the wave of caffeine and nicotine while hoping the words on the screen match the words in my head…
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EJ Pratt
@ejpratt40.bsky.social
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Look, if I spent more than 4 hours writing a paper, I would receive a lesser grade. So, procrastination and coffee it is!
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Tina - confirmed vampy
@tinaonmain.bsky.social
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and it doesn't work
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Son of a Sailor
@sonofasailor.bsky.social
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I wish dreamers and artists had become billionaires instead of misanthropes and man-children.
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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And they had to steal all the petabytes of text input, waste megawatt-years of energy and millions of litres of water, and exploit thousands of people in digital sweatshops giving hints to the machine 24/7, to achieve their useless result
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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Someone needs to hold Sam Altman down and tattoo this skeet out backwards on his chest so every time he looks in the mirror he has to read it.
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Iam kinyua
@iamkinyua.bsky.social
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Did you say AI?
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skyybeans
@skyblu.bsky.social
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Billions of dollars and they could have had a massive staff on retainer to make them whatever art they desired. but nooooo
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Nessa
@vmcf.bsky.social
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My kid’s college class schedule next semester includes a philosophy class, an anthropology class, and three art studios- animation, illustration, and drawing. It’s such a big 🖕to tech bros and STEM worshippers, I’m so proud 🥲
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Some Bloke in a Hat
@someblokeinahat.bsky.social
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This is what happens when you can only see the world in terms of Information Technology.
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Flakey Foont
@flakyfoont.bsky.social
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the google logo proves this point
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Dag.
@3fecta.bsky.social
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I once did an experiment of doing my paper early with proper timing, research and got a B. 3am before it was due at 9am. Always an A. This is science.
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IsThisPrugatory
@dubyaargh.bsky.social
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Rich people that realize they are useless get desperate.
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Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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I feel that
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imogen underscore
@imogen.gay
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pea brained
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Judith Sawyer
@judsawyer.bsky.social
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Sir, you have won the internet today 🏆Take the rest of the day off 👍
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The Great & PAW-erful
@greatandpawerful.bsky.social
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"Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless" is one of the DUMBEST lines I have ever heard of! Go be DOOMER pilled somewhere else please while the rest of us do the art we love no matter if we use tech to do so or not as tech has benefitted artists!
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Jill Krajewski
@jillkrajewski.bsky.social
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amen
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Michael Lloyd
@powerfuldeer.bsky.social
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Have none of these techbros ever heard of Grand Admiral Thrawn?
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Kira Leigh 🏳️⚧️
@kiraleigh.bsky.social
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Art is just about the only free tool people have to self-audit. Rocks on a sidewalk are enough. Record lived experience. Preserve history. Make an individual, wild mark. Witness yourself. War on the arts is war on humans. When everyone knows this and acts accordingly, I will know peace.
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ADE | MarcDesign | Raffle Time :D
@marcdesign.bsky.social
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I don't understand what you mean. Look at the render quality you can achieve with machine learning. Self called artists are just jelly when faced by such magnificence! Please read this above with the most ironic voice possible, or we are not friends anymore!
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Jim Myers(he/him)
@jimmolemaster.bsky.social
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Even wired up on stimulants and half asleep with a looming deadline an actual Arts & Humanities student could do circles around algorithmic shlock the tech and finance bros are trying to pass off as "art" and "writing"
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Dueledge
@dueledge.bsky.social
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Really shows how incredible the brain in. Especially when you consider how much less energy it runs on.
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Queen Gwenevere
@queengwenevere.bsky.social
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Some of my best work has come out of “panic the night before,” nothing like an adrenaline-fueled freak-out to drive creativity!
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Jen in Motion
@jeninmotion.bsky.social
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And admit stealing our output is the only way it can be profitable
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𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔪 ℭ𝔯𝔬𝔴
@storm-crow.bsky.social
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Yeah that 20 page research paper that, per the rubric, needed to have a minimum of one source annotation per sentence that I came back from winter break and found out was due... That day. And had to ask for an extension to do in 5 nights? Humanities paper. On I think 1400s-ish Ireland.
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Dave
@davebrowne.bsky.social
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Every AI essay I've read sounds like this.
youtu.be/Mp_EArT4H_E
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Mara Wilson
@marawilson.bsky.social
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Look up Elon Musk’s alleged favorite books and they’re all either shit you read when you are 13 (which he also happened to completely misunderstand) or biographies of “great men.” Him having no use for taking in any new information is part of the reason he is the way he is.
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Geoff Nesnow
@dontinnovate.bsky.social
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I would hire a good philosophy/psychology/history student over a good business student any day for most business jobs.
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Jason Michael Harlow
@jmharlow.bsky.social
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It’s a gas-guzzling, racist plagiarism machine, hooray!
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Michael Kaplan
@differance.bsky.social
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the easiest job for an AI to replace is…CEO.
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Arcade Løckë
@arcadecow.bsky.social
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As an anthropology major and art history minor this post hits so incredibly close to home 😂. Im getting flashbacks to late night quad shots and desperately looking up references.
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Cagedbe4r
@cagedbe4r.bsky.social
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As a 'Tech Bro' with a BA in Philosophy I disagree
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340ml vodka shot
@slime.bsky.social
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you know how people love digging holes for no reason? its about digging a hole; they do it to see how far they can get
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KG
@gone263.bsky.social
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Come to the UK, your next job could be in cyber!
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Mark
@velorian.bsky.social
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Of course, in 5 years it may be able to approximate what a top PhD candidate could do… or maybe much sooner.
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Saudades das Putinhas Aborteiras
@snel.bsky.social
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BRAVO!
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Hipster Sasquatch
@hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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Speak for yourself; I have never written that badly for a project.
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Chamber of Gouf Unsealer
@nuclearbob.bsky.social
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Without new arts and humanities to steal, current AIs won’t be able to make novel things. This is just attempting to drive the price of new arts and humanities down so the tech companies will be the only viable employer and then they can do what a monopsony does.
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NativeMichigander
@jcoblentz.bsky.social
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I feel seen
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Eli Roberts
@eliroberts.bsky.social
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Science will show you how to clone a dinosaur. Arts and Humanities will tell you why that’s a bad idea.
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Florida Man, PhD
@casusscribere.bsky.social
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Yup; the worst students turn in AI slop at the highest rate because the better students can half-ass something the night before that's much, much better.
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