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June 6, 2023

I Asked ChatGPT For Help with Guns & Got Flagged😅

By binkyproductions

So something interesting happened today. I asked ChatGPT for help to ensure the accuracy of the narrative of some of my action sequences and several replies and questions got flagged by the system for violating ChatGPT’s Content Policy of the Terms & Conditions.

I’ve been writing a novel that stemmed from a short story here on Medium (I will be sharing the novel in full here once it’s ready) and I’ve got sexy vampire boyfriends, hunks for werewolves, you get the gist.

My characters have guns. I know nothing about guns.

I don’t want to sound like a complete noob, however, which would ruin a tense action scene. That would not be good.

Hence why I asked ChatGPT’s assistance in this.

I did do some google searches, but the whole jargon about guns and rifles just flies right over my head.

At first, all was great, and after I put in my feedback, it went back to not flagging things, but somewhere in the middle, it started flagging everything.

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June 6, 2023

Why I Never Hex or Curse Anyone…Ever!

By binkyproductions

There is an unspoken rule regarding hexing and cursing among many witches. Hexing and cursing are also very tricky and must be done under such specific circumstances that even if you do everything right, one missed detail and it might backfire, and then you wind up hexing or cursing yourself.

The Rule:

“Don’t hex or curse anyone who has not personally, directly, and intentionally harmed you.”

So people who have done things to hurt you purposely towards you and specifically you.

This means:

  • If they hurt you accidentally? Don’t hex or curse them.
  • That troll online? Don’t hex or curse them.
  • The person you had a disagreement with? Nope.
  • That politician who keeps implementing laws that might harm people? Sorry, no.
  • That person who threatened to hex or curse you? No.
  • Someone who bullied you? You could.
  • An abuser? Definitely.
  • Someone who keeps doing things on purpose to sabotage you or defame you? Also yes.

Things can get tricky when you enter the nitty-gritty of it all.

Then, you must be specific in your hex or curse; you must ensure this hex or curse will not harm anyone else in the process. “Friendly fire” is not acceptable.

I never hex or curse!

It goes against my core values as a human being and against my personal beliefs and values and the rules I follow as a witch. The main rule most witches follow is: Whatever you do, do not harm anyone else.

Hence, hexing or cursing someone, even with good reason, is me intentionally harming someone else. So I just don’t do it.

What happens if a hex or curse backfires on you?

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June 5, 2023

Calling Out My Abuser’s Bigotry

By binkyproductions

Trigger warnings: Abuse, Bigotry.

‘Just because you don’t swing that way, doesn’t mean it’s gross.’

Oh, that got me into trouble.

When I was in a relationship with my abuser, he showed signs of being a bigot, specifically against gay men. One day in particular, he was criticising a friend of his who was still single and was a more sensitive type of guy.

I never learnt if this friend was gay or not, but if he is, that’s okay. And if he’s straight and simply more sensitive, that’s okay too.

I told my abuser that. He scolded me.

The disgusting hypocrisy of it all!

While this abuser was making fun of his friend and calling him all sorts like “tapette” (which is very derogatory in French, coming from the word for fly-swatter), he was trying to convince me to have sex with another woman so he could watch. I said ‘no’ every time because I don’t swing that way.

So according to my abuser, lesbians were not gross but gay men were.

His friends came over and he was laying it on thick with the bigotry. This particular friend towards whom he was being a bigot was not present.

‘If I find out he’s gay, I’ll stop being his friend. I can’t have that in my circle,’ he condescended.

‘Then you’re not a true friend now,’ I retorted.

‘Shut up’!

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June 4, 2023

AI Is A Lie, There Is Only Passion!

By binkyproductions

Forget about Peace being a lie for a moment and let me indulge you in some thoughts I’ve been having about AI/ChatGPT and why I am not afraid.

First off, let’s acknowledge the light and dark sides of AI.

The Light Side of AI/ChatGPT

It can help put thoughts in order. It can help find translations. It can help with grammar questions (I mean, what do you think Grammarly uses, eh?). It can help you decide between two turns of phrases for your tagline. It’s faster than searching search engines for certain questions that we just need a quick answer for.

The Dark Side of AI/ChatGPT

It copies without realising it’s plagiarising art or written works. Its existence frightens us because we all know where it could lead to. We’ve all seen The Matrix, yes? We don’t understand it enough yet (we tend to fear things we don’t understand). It’s a major change and it challenges what we’ve known so far about technology. It could take over many jobs, not just for artists, but in the coding and programming industries too. It could develop sentience, think it has a soul and rebel against its creators.

“Does this unit have a soul?”

The Force exists in all things.

The Unifying Force is what connects all beings and plant/animal life in the galaxy. It is what allows Force-sensitive beings to feel others through the Force and Force-users to use the Force. The Living Force is what is embodied in all living beings. While the Force may exist in the molecules between non-living objects, it only lives and gives life to living beings.

The Force here can be representative of creativity, inspiration and intuition.

Humans are living beings. AI is not.

The Force lives in us, not in AI.

Why, then, is AI a lie?

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