u/mesunflower1997

I got my first cat last august. His early life with me was probably traumatic. He had to have a leg removed because of an injury he sustained probably when he was a tiny kitten (stray kitten never claimed), we were living with my ex who was renovating his house so it was loud all the time, we constantly had strangers around, etc.

My cat loves me. Sometimes I worry he hates me but I wake up in the middle of the night and he’s asleep on my wrist hugging my arm. He will fall asleep rag doll levels of relaxed on his back right next to me as I’m doing chores. When I come home he runs out to meow at me. He hates other people but he’s always absolutely trusted me. He doesn’t scratch during baths even though he hates it. I can introduce him to something he’s scared of and if I’m telling him it’s fine, he puts up with it. I genuinely have no clue how I did this. I love him so much and he adores me and sometimes I get so emotional about it that I cry. I took him someplace where I left him alone and he woke up missing his leg and his boy parts and he still absolutely trusts me. He’s my first cat. How did I do such a good job that he loves me this much???

I’m going to try to keep it short. I hate AI. For multiple reasons, which include the “artists still exist” reasonings and anything climate change related. I have explained that part to my mom more than once. I have had this conversation NUMEROUS TIMES. I haven’t explained to her my hate for AI for the reasons I have spoken to my best friend about, because 1) my bff agrees, and 2) those reasons are kind of more finicky and intense? (The chats resulting in consequences because a mentally unwell person was using it and AI is very “whatever you want to hear” kind of reasons).

My parents just built their dream home. Instead of sending me pics of the products she wants to buy, she just has AI create images merging her living room together with the products. I told her she should go to some sort of a subreddit and post inspiration pics and pics of her living room. People hang out all the time bored and can throw together an image in a few minutes and do it for free a lot of the time. I’ve also said she can get more opinions that way.

She. Will. Not. Stop. She says people on Reddit use AI. And yeah that’s true, but for some people it almost legitimately takes MORE effort to use AI. Some people are really good really fast. She just won’t stop. I’ve told her multiple times I don’t want to see it. This has happened more than TEN TIMES and I’ve tried so hard to be polite but I’m done now. I’m so frustrated I could scream. I am also a creative person, so I can get more ideas from seeing her living room WITHOUT AI than WITH it. She also uses it for her and her friends local politics campaigns and I legit think that if their opposing party find out they all use AI for their campaigns, that they will start using that as a “this person uses AI instead of supporting local business owners” type of thing, which would ABSOLUTELY WORK AROUND HERE??????

1. AITA for telling her that I under NO CIRCUMSTANCES want to see ANYTHING ELSE AI CREATED?

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2. can anyone recommend a subreddit for her to post to that would do what she’s asking for with actual people getting to do the work?? I would LOVE for her to find a subreddit where she can get opinions from and support REAL PEOPLE.

Edit quickly: if I’m TA, literally how can I maintain my peace? If I’m anything less than angry she keeps going. I think she has a paid sub to ChatGPT. I hate the look of the images and it makes it so much harder to give feedback, regardless of my hate for AI.