The Hat and The Hair Animated: Rerun ep 66

by | Aug 6, 2025 | Hat and Hair | 67 comments

There was a writers strike and an actors strike at the same time. One of the things fueling the fervor was the use of AI and how producers might start using it to get rid of ‘creatives’. (The real big contention was over pay for streaming residuals, but the news, as always, focused more on scary Terminator scenarios). I, not being a member of the guilds, would gladly work as a scab. Fuck unions. And, I’m not scared of AI being better at doing what I do, because I actually have talent.

So, I had ChatGPT write a script and I trained an AI on my character voices. Chat GPT wasn’t allowed to let the characters hate each other, because it’s not nice to be mean, even though that was specific in the prompt. The voice training did OK with the Hair, but couldn’t find the nuance of the Hat’s pitchiness.

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67 Comments

  1. kinnath

    All hail CPRM!

    Fuck AI.

  2. DEG

    Chat GPT wasn’t allowed to let the characters hate each other, because it’s not nice to be mean, even though that was specific in the prompt. The voice training did OK with the Hair, but couldn’t find the nuance of the Hat’s pitchiness.

    I watched it. Yeah, the voice training worked on the Hair, not the Hat.

    The script is obviously contrived and stilted.

    • R C Dean

      Pitchiness or bitchiness.

      • R C Dean

        Insert question mark as appropriate.

  3. rhywun

    Missed this one….

    OMG so saccharine sweet, make it stop!

    • dbleagle

      Who kidnapped the real Hat and Hair?

  4. Brochettaward

    The Chinese, Russian, and American governments are all racing to build an AI that can out-First me, and yet here I still stand.

    There’s a reason the indigenous speak of He Who Firsts in hushed tones.

    • (((Jarflax

      Here you stand in fifth

      • Brochettaward

        I can First through the dimensions of time and space. Your pathetic seconding mind couldn’t even begin to comprehend the power that I wield let alone my benevolency in not destroying you on a whim.

      • Ted S.

        I would have said filth, not fifth.

  5. kinnath

    Three or so weeks ago, Triggernometry was talking to the guy that explained the warning signs of impending civil war. They concluded that UK may be past the tipping point.

    Today, they are discussing the new Online Protection Act.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xorkq9jX5k

    The UK is dead.

    • rhywun

      Well… a sort-of free UK is dead. I’m sure it can limp on quite successfully for the right people.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Reversion to form. Subservient peasants obedient to their masters.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      The Government IMO WANTS a civil uprising in order to justify the crackdowns they so badly want to implement. Look at the overreaction after the Southport riots.

      They did the same shit after J6.

      • R C Dean

        They want a civil uprising, until they actually get a real one.

        The mob was the proverbial “last argument” of the Romans, and a great many regimes have fallen to an enraged populace.

    • DrOtto

      Regarding your request for vacation venues next spring…might I suggest Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo TX. In the middle of some of the flattest part of the state is nestled the 2nd largest canyon in the country. It’s a great park and has hiking, biking and camping opportunities. There are cabins you can rent near the park for a pretty reasonble fee and the weather that time of year is very agreeable.

  6. Gustave Lytton

    Ded thred link:

    truck mechanic with the third brigade at Fort Stewart

    “We’re combat infantry soldiers, and they got us locked in a room,”

    Uh huh.

    Noting that they were locked in the armory, Robert Conrad Labbé said he responded by telling his son, “Well, I guess you’re going to be safe, because if he breaks in there, at least, you’ll be able to fight back,” using the weapons stored inside.

    I doubt that there was any live ammunition there. I can comfortably assume that if there was, it wasn’t issued and neither were any weapons unlocked and issued to the unarmed soldiers huddling there.

    • Akira

      I doubt that there was any live ammunition there. I can comfortably assume that if there was, it wasn’t issued and neither were any weapons unlocked and issued to the unarmed soldiers huddling there.

      Everyone in the military of every rank and position has a loaded weapon on their person at all times. /commonly held belief

      • Brochettaward

        What’s really funny is being stationed in Iraq during a fucking war and not being allowed to have a loaded weapon on the FOB, but a bunch of Ugandans were allowed to walk around and guard buildings with fully loaded AK’s.

        You see some really strange shit in the military and I don’t know how anyone can walk out of it with more respect for government or rules.

      • Threedoor

        Bro, BIAP?

      • Brochettaward

        No. I should have said COB, but it was at Speicher.

    • Threedoor

      Yep. Not one single round.
      An army base is the softest of soft targets once you get past the three MPs at the gate.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Beirut marines say Hello!

      • R C Dean

        “My God, man! These people are trained killers! We can’t possibly let them have weapons.”

  7. Evan from Evansville

    Kick ass, folk. I’m introducing you to Leonard, soon, and DAMN. If he don’t get you up, then no one will.

    “I come to work fired up! I come here to get YOU fired up! I tell it like it is! GET YOUR BRAIN ON!”

    You, as well, y’all. I ain’t done and neither should you, but I need some rest. I’ll be up in the aisles in no time.

  8. Evan from Evansville

    The frantic shivers of the universe are a signal. (You’re out of orange juice.)

    I’ll assist you in the lonely aisles. (Buy soap.)

    Cade Horton again solidifies his worth, and my vocational rehab appointment may’ve been valuable, but too early to see.

    Do well, hin and hon, gliblettes.

    • UnCivilServant

      I was worried I’d have to find new bottles of MicroSol and MicroSet on short notice, but mine turned up. I might just be able to complete this project without buying anything new. So far everything I’ve used with the exception of the water was already in my possession. (New tap water for washing up isn’t really counted as a purchase.)

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, U, EfE, homey, and Ted’S.!

      • Gender Traitor

        It goes well, thanks! The hometown team actually had a decisive victory last night, 7 to 1! 😁

        How are you?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m all right I guess. I think I am going to get this mini done on time.

        I have recovered from the exceedingly boring work yesterday.

  9. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    whats goody

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not sure, it’s quiet today.

    • Ted S.

      Not the air quality.

    • DEG

      Goody? Well, I slept a bit better last night.

      Now for the gym. Maybe some eye candy, maybe not.

  10. DEG

    Mornin’

  11. Suthenboy

    Good morning all.

    I just watched the video. So, lets make a thinking machine but make damned sure we tell it what to think. We just cant help ourselves.
    The AI is still in its embryonic stage. We will see what happens.

    • Gender Traitor

      …and good morning, Suthen and DEG!

      • Tres Cool

        *cough*

      • UnCivilServant

        You were in the first list.

      • Gender Traitor

        See above. 🙄

      • Ted S.

        Turn your head when you cough.

    • Gender Traitor

      No! No! Too many carbs!

      Good morning, Sean!

      (Also: hash browns > home fries)

      • UnCivilServant

        Tater Tots > Home Fries.

      • UnCivilServant

        Also Tater Tots > Hash Browns

      • Gender Traitor

        Potato salad > all other ways to prepare potatoes.

        But still too many carbs. 😞

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m sorry, you’re wrong about potato salad. It falls behind poutine, pierogi, gnocchi, loaded baked skins, shepherd’s pie, and some more I haven’t recalled yet.

      • Gender Traitor

        Can’t argue with you about the skins. 😋

        Also twice-baked potatoes.

  12. Suthenboy

    Just now watched on Britain’s Orwellian regime

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xVJj3Oxfq4

    If you dont care to watch Neil Oliver puts it in a nutshell: “Censorship is all they have got because they have nothing to say”

    • rhywun

      It’s easier than pursuing actual solutions to problems. Just give antifa everything they want to shut them up, keep your heads down, and the grift and power game can go on.

      • UnCivilServant

        As far as I can tell, what antifa wants is to be flayed alive and strung up by their skins.

    • SarumanTheWoefullyIgnorant

      The Muslims have got the UK government by the balls. The implied threat of violence if any Muslims are called to account for any crime has them collectively cowering in the corner. Much safer to punish wrongthink than to prosecute actual crime.

      • UnCivilServant

        The answer to that threat is pre-emptive strikes against the extortionists.

  13. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates!

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, ‘patzie!

    • juris imprudent

      Good morning sir, and everyone.

  14. Evan from Evansville

    Lunch at ten will again be Steak n Shake. I’m highly pleased with this. Your envy adds flavor.

    Peace be with the tallow.

    • Ted S.

      Save money by brown-bagging lunch.

    • UnCivilServant

      Envy?

      Evan, you misjudge us.