# Have you canceled your Amazon Prime or Washington Post subscription? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 27, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307 "2024-10-27T19:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/203 "2024-11-04T01:31:36Z")
And they keep telling us this is gonna make human artists obsolete? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/204 "2024-11-04T01:34:09Z")
Obviously not typesetters ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/205 "2024-11-04T01:36:18Z")
@squeegee: I _really_ like the words that aren’t but written in a script that isn’t. Ref @Smapti’s comment I think AIs will be great for inventing alien cultural artifacts. You need to decorate the set of the next Star Wars movie? Use AI’s. It’ll be be real-seeming, but so wrongly Earth un-like that it’ll be perfect alien-ville. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/206 "2024-11-04T02:13:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Ref @Smapti’s comment I think AIs will be great for inventing alien cultural artifacts. You need to decorate the set of the next Star Wars movie? Use AI’s. It’ll be be real-seeming, but so wrongly Earth un-like that it’ll be perfect alien-ville. Except that they aren’t “real-seeming”; every AI-generated image I’ve seen—this one definitely included—looks like a Thomas Kincade painting as viewed through a Vasoine-frosted lens. Actual graphical and designers and visual futurists create a unique ‘design language’ which makes each location and culture look distinct and generates a feeling in the viewer. This AI ‘visual gunk’ all looks like someone watched _The Fifth Element_ late one night and then used Adobe Illustrator and a freeware clipart library to generate some crap they hope no one will actually look at, notwithstanding the extra fingers/limbs, flying cruise ships, hybrid aircraft/squid, and of course the gibberish text Stranger ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/207 "2024-11-04T02:44:52Z")
Did not need to drop either subscription since I had neither, more out of inertia than anything else. Workplace has a group WaPo subscription for the whole outfit so they get their cut whether I read or not. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/208 "2024-11-04T04:06:40Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Obviously not typesetters Some AI – never even heard of etaoin shrdlu. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/209 "2024-11-04T04:40:30Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > notwithstanding the extra fingers/limbs, flying cruise ships, hybrid aircraft/squid, and of course the gibberish text You mean you don’t agree that the e larggest s cruisie is choomp im the wore llizeed Cas? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/210 "2024-11-04T14:32:47Z")
However I did resubscribe to the NYT today after reading their blistering condemnation of tfg ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/211 "2024-11-04T14:57:48Z")
Which bit on the NYTimes was that? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/212 "2024-11-04T15:05:10Z")
[This short, but interactive bit](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/02/opinion/vote-harris-2024-election.html), perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307/213 "2024-11-04T19:58:02Z")
I wonder how many people nationwide would respond, “I am canceling Amazon Prime…right after football season”? For that matter, I wonder how many of those people were going to do this anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-canceled-your-amazon-prime-or-washington-post-subscription/1009307.md?page=10)