basically treated like that by everyone from TNG on.
and everyone still created and appreciated art. shows how this shit could be integrated into FALGSC
There’s a DS9 episode where Quark tries to trick Kira into being scanned because one of his customers wants a custom pornographic holoprogram of her, which really isn’t far off from all the creep shit people try to use AI for.
what’s cool about the holodeck is it’s a physical place you can enter and leave when you want, whereas there seems to be no escape from slop
Weirdly enough, I tailor the feck out if my browsing experience with lots of Firefox extensions, so I’m hardly ever exposed to it. But yes you’re right.
What extensions do you recommend (besides ublock)
There are addons that will filter most AI sites from image searches.
AI Overview Blocker for Google, Blue Blocker (for Twitter, a bit hard to install), uBlacklist.
I try to use RSS more too, and avoid socials sites that aren’t Hexbear.
I do love how in TNG the programs were like “I want to be Sherlock Holmes” or “I want to do Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ with perfect special effects” and in DS9 it’s literally “Vulcan Love Slave Part 3”
Bortus straight-up making custom porn programs in the simulator on The Orville is the most obvious natural progression of this
With Riker on board, they probably had to set the holodeck to “PG” as a precaution.
I’m sure there are nods to him using it for fucking. There’s a really funny, “I’ll be on the holodeck” line when he’s clearly sexually frustrated
I guess but it seems like very often they put a lot of emphasis on the “program” creation aspect. AI slop as it exists today is the opposite no?
I think of both extremes where the holodeck is a combination of being so extremely detailed you can spend years on a program and also supposedly extremely “slop” like where you can just say “computer create X” and it just does so.
The current AI slop is very much the latter part of this, specialy given how little control you have and if you do end up having to integrate AI art or whatever into some bigger project then it is borderline not saving any time at all.
At the current stage, you do not get exponentialy or even lineraly better results by spending more of your own time messing with AI models, LORAs etc.
So yeah I guess, maybe you may as well say that the replicator is just actualy good “fast food”.
counterpoint: the idea that tom paris is a prompt engineer is very funny
Holodeck is their version of VR.
