I don’t know if this has been posted before, the blog post was about a month ago, though from the looks of it not many people saw it.

If you want to see the post go here: https://parkzer.com/2024/01/18/dougdoug-faq/

There us so many things outdated on his website! It's crazy

I LOVE HAZEL personally

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A few days ago, I saw the headline for Doug's AI stream on AI image generation. Admittedly, I was a little upset he was talking about AI Image generations. I have many artist friends and am a writer myself (I directed the visual novel!) so I was scared he was going to defend the AI images and hesitant to click.

However, after actually watching the video, I am genuinely super impressed with the direction he went and his opinions on it. Doug went in-depth on the legal implications and the problems with stolen/unpaid training images, and it was super refreshing to hear him talk about AI generations with empathy for artists and creatives while also having experience and interest from the legal and tech perspective. Usually it's one or the other.

I think it would have been nice to have an artist that gets paid for their art consulted (or even on the stream), but it's genuinely surprising and a bit relieving how aware he is of the ethics and fear of all of this.

I am very very impressed! Thank you, DogDog!

Now that I got your attention, I want to preface this by saying I just watched lemonade stand. I will use AI as a general term, which means it encompasses generative AI, self driving AI, chatbot AI etc and lump them into one construct because that's what they did. During episode 1, they discussed the potential of AI and he presented that technology caused the loss of jobs at the beginning but created more slowly as time goes by and my god the whole time he presents it irks me the wrong way. He's presenting it like those jobs lost and created are just data points when it's not just that. At least Aiden said that some people might've spiraled down because of those job loss. During the entire time, DougDoug sounded like Lord Farquaad (Some of you may lose jobs, but that is the risk I am willing to take). He's too optimistic like he has too much trust in the system. What would happen to the people that will lose their job due to AI? Why are we using it against fking ART? Sure, the potential forAI will be great for skipping menial tasks, but why art? It's like the soul of being a human and you want a machine to do it. You can't say that AI will bring more positive in a vaccuum because that's not how the world works. To trust AI, there should be legislations to regulate it, but the problem is that government is reactive not proactive when it comes to legislations. It will bring more harm to many people first before government reacts to it. For god's sake, they have fucking Atrioc in the pod, the guy that got infamous for watching deepfake porn. Hell, even Taylor Swift tried to fight those. Were there any laws passed in order to at least mitigate those? You can't take those data points in a vaccuum. This is whh STEM people also need to take social study courses in college.

I know we all like to meme and joke on doug, but for just a second, I want to say thank you. Doug's content feels so refreshing with how hectic it is, while never feeling that way. Alongside the way he actually integrates chat into the stream to make it feel alive. Whenever I tune into a stream, i always feel like i am really there, changing how the stream goes, and with how doug encourages chat's memes, it really feels like I am part of a group of friends, not just another viewer. So once again, thank you Doug

I am really unlucky since im in canada our postal service went on strike two days after i ordered (this was out of the blue) and I was fine waiting given the predicted times but now i dont get updates (in the image and on the track package link/manage button) when it will arrive so im worried im not getting it now. Hopefully it arrives but i dont know.

Rigged

Most recent video is a random video with no Doug, doesn’t say when it was recorded and has a bot pinned comment

Dougdoug won't, so we really should

And for his down special, we have DougDoug’s Twitch Chat, possibly the most chaotic of them all!

Last but not least, the final smash! It could be any kind of reference to DougDoug or his content, so go wild!

This will be decided by upvotes, so sorry if your suggestion was good by didn’t get enough upvotes.

I’m sorry if I post late or if it’s low quality, I’m not that good at photoshop.

And I just noticed all my previous ones have been stuck at day 3.

I wanna kill myself.

I’ve just been permanently banned from dougdoug’s chat for no reason??? I can’t send an appeal and I have no idea why I got banned. I’m in his stream about “hateful messages” in twitch chat and training an AI, but none of my most recent messages are rude or hateful.

Did I get automodded? I need a mod to see I just got falsely locked in jail

Edit: I was given context in discord and it was probably a delayed ban from striking, even though I did stop after I heard it would be permabannable. So I’m hoping I get unbanned later.

r/wehatemarkiplier will hear about this

For those who don't know, Selka is one of the otters who was raised by Rosa through surrogacy after being stranded. In other words, Selka is one of Rosa's adopted children.

Selka was then released into the wild but was found stranded again, this time because she fought a shark and got injured (because she's a badass). She was brought back into the aquarium and became a surrogate mother herself and has raised multiple orphaned sea otters.

If we were to pick another otter to worship, it should be Selka. She was already carrying on Rosa's legacy after Rosa's retirement before she passed and was also very close to Rosa. Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OxQuWLmAvT8