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@billgoats

Do better, sky!

@c0dec0dec0de @llewelly

"English of all languages degraded by stealing words from another language?!"

If English gave back all the stolen words we'd all just need to sit there and be silent.

@jopabinia.bsky.social

I'm so happy you included an ant!

Every arthropod is kind of like a little miracle. They are so complex and yet so small.

I've watched an ant who couldn't make up her mind.

I've watch a bee get annoyed with and then fed up with an ant.

I've watched isopods experiencing the simple joy of the sweet potato.

When I nibble a sweet potato today I will think about them all.

@HeliaXyana

No problem! Just let me know.

It's an amazing work already but I don't wanna mess with the process.

@HeliaXyana

I love the expression, it's so hard to get emotion into a drawing like this and it's really impressive, only mentioned changes because if you want feedback from fresh eyes I have some.

@mschfr

But I want to read the comments.

Although that's a neat trick I didn't know it could do that.

@HeliaXyana

There is something sad and defiant in her expression that you have captured.

Are you still making changes to this?

@dendari @llewelly

A perfect example of the most precious kind of dark gray.

And what lovely ears.

@Richard_Littler

I love this music and the film.

It's so hopeful, moody, calming, just lets my imagination run wild.

@rlcw

I adore this and I kind of love how it's worn away too. But that worn look might not go with the rest of what you have going on.

@adardis

It could also be about recommending brands, or to generate traffic to make other more synthetic content seem more legitimate.

So much of the internet feels like a potemkin village...

@SnowyCA

I have been a living info-dump of all of this in her life for years. She agrees then says "well I don't use social media"

But then later she says something about something she saw on facebook.

She is convinced that all of this is happening but doesn't see how it could impact her, or how it might be one of the reasons she doesn't find social media more useful and enjoyable.

@philleu

The way I see it a bot still represents what *someone* thinks, just communicated in a more desperate and less honest manner. A bot is a person speaking with money or intent to manipulate.

Bots are an extension of human expression in this way.

@louisa_ @llewelly

colour: hand mixed and slightly nonuniform, way a person's face can change when nervous dappled, or subtly shifting

color: uniform in hue, saturation and brightness. You can assign a hex code to a color.

@sysfrank

Who among us has not "been a ghost video" from time to time?

Bots and manipulative content have become to pervasive that even casual users have started to notice.

I guess I can understand why, if you didn't use social media much, "OH NO! They are posting *fake* comments." wouldn't seem like a serious problem. After all, what kind of weak-minded person cares about the comments of random strangers like that?

"I don't use social media so there is no problem. If you think there is one you should stop like me."

I encounter this often.

If there is something manipulative on social media only a "social media user" is at risk right?

I think the opposite is true. People who "try to avoid it" and who don't post or comment much are at a greater risk of not knowing when they are encountering bots, for example.

My mom almost never posts anything on any of her social media accounts. **But she still reads them.**

She has dismissed my concerns because (unlike me) she "doesn't really do all of that."

I worry "Dead Internet Theory" gives people permission to just dismiss anything that bothers them as "bots" --

Real interactions are valuable even to people who claim they "never read the comments" and who say "I don't use social media"

But the slop has gotten so bad and become so ubiquitous that more people are starting to notice. Both my mom and friend mentioned this topic to me WITHOUT my prompting.

I had given up on getting either of them to care. But it's getting bad out there.

I have mixed feelings about "Dead Internet Theory"

Your friends and family on facebook and X are immersed in bot content and only some of it is obvious.

If not bots? Then it is false actors who have rapidly adopted LLMs to make plausible posts as political and influencer personas. (See the recent exposure of 'All American' right-wing accounts on X. These accounts fooled millions.)

I worry "Dead Internet Theory" makes many people just give up. eg. "It's all bots"

"I might need to get away from AI. I watched a ghost video. Decided to look at the comments to see what people thought. They were all agreeing it was a real ghost. But, I couldn't tell if any of the comments were real."

-Friend who doesn't get why I don't like AI.

Why do we "look at the comments" on a video, news story or post? I think it's to compare our own impression against "other people" to see if our opinion is "normal" -- With so much generated content this feature is broken.