Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m much more accepting of fursonas than plagairism machines that can’t be trusted to give accurate information.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We don’t exactly force other people to use one, and it doesn’t hurt anyone for us to, so why should we care?

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who cares about fursonas??

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s gross, like when someone puts big titty anime girls on a tech blog, it’s off putting to anyone who doesn’t share the fetish.

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’d only be a fetish to the people who only like furries for the porn they make and don’t have an interest in the rest of the subculture that it comes from, which probably isn’t the sort of person to use a fursona to represent themselves on a tech blog in the first place.

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It would be a lot easier to engage with the subculture from the outside if the porn wasn’t so prevalent or up-front as it is/had been in the past, and if the weirdest/most socially maladjusted members of the culture didn’t tend to be the most attention grabbing (but that’s an issue with almost every group online though).

        If you’re up for it, I’d love to be pointed at some good examples of the subculture outside of the fetish/kink stuff.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like you’re in denial of liking fursonas/feeling they are sexual 😁

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s like telling a woman she must be a closet lesbian because she doesn’t want to see boobs everywhere.

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    • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what exactly was sexual about an animal cartoon? doesn’t seem much different from what I grew up seeing on cartoon network.

      I know that side exists, but none of it was on display here

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Furries are a sexual kink.

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is this, 2003? Furries run the internet.

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  • besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Whole IT teams would crumble without furries

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We’re fucked if a plane headed to Anthrocon ever crashes.

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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fursonas are pure narcissism. Imagine if non-furries acted like furries: you open someone’s social media and if every pic they upload is commissioned artwork of their (human) selves. You walk into their home and the walls are covered in self-portraits. You chat with them and they reply with ‘stickers’ of pictures of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions. Pure narcissism.

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  • melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ever heard of Bitmoji? Or Apple’s Genmoji thing? People do create stickers of themselves doing gestures or facial expressions, it’s fairly popular… And most of Instagram is people posting thirst traps and selfies. Not sure why you’re singling out furries here…

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Instagram?

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  • domdanial@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is also selection bias, the furries that dont upload their art every day and make it their profile pic aren’t seen, only the ones that do.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you seen youtuber merch?

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t even want to understand shitheads like you. Stay away.

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