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AI user: AI images are the future!!!! Scrolling AI art forum: Pop culture fan image Pop culture fan image Creepy incel meme Pop culture fan image

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AI sales pitch: AI is revolutionary for generating new ideas! Anyone dismissing will lose!!! AI reality: Hey, everyone! We are all doing Pixar style profile pics! Ok now it’s Studio Ghibli! Ok now it’s Barbie! Ok now it’s Pokemon! Ok now it’s Muppets! Ok now it’s South Park!

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We are on s4e4 of the AI developmental roadmap…

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Over 20,000 people have seen this post across platforms, so there’s a nonzero chance someone looked at the image and decided to build another AI avatar startup so it looks like an interactive human is there instead of a bot

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This is a perfect example of how AI wastes resources to provide the illusion of efficiency. If the majority of your webinar is bots, just SEND A FUCKING EMAIL instead of having 25 separate bots connecting to a high-bandwidth video call to transcribe your Rube Goldberg monologue.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Tech industry: adds AI to literally every device and app by default, making it impossible to ignore. Some loud-mouthed AIncel: LOOK AT THIS SECRET EASY BUTTON I DISCOVERED THAT NOBODY HAS ACCESS TO!!!

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I keep seeing the same recycled take that dismissing AI today is like ignoring the internet in 1995. In reality, promoting AI today is like ignoring the internet today. These people think AI is doing something original because they are too lazy to see the millions of web pages it got the info from

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The only people I’ve seen buy tickets to Fyre Fest 2 are reporters and influencers who want to get defrauded for the content. Honestly I don’t see how it could be much worse than Coachella…

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The danger of people using and accepting chatGPT style AI this whole time is that it has never been effective, never been ethical, and now it’s going to be used by the government to harm people at scale

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On September 22, 1998, Vladimir Pokhilko, a developmer of Tetris, was murdered in his Palo Alto home along with his wife and their young son. In November 2022, some uncredited Hollywood writer was tasked with coming up with Tetris puns for the very serious 3-part documentary exploring the crime.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Fight Club is one of those rare movie franchises where the sequel is better than the original…

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The SAG Awards are not getting dragged nearly enough for this yet…

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It’s not ok to kink shame but it is ok to have a shame kink…

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So hilariously stupid 😹🤦‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Meta monitors all my data everywhere I go but still thinks I can afford Louis Vuitton…

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#artificialintelligence #instagram #meta #deepfakes

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It’s disconcerting that the world’s richest man is installing spyware on government systems, but this cover image is low key hilarious www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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While Adobe got bullied off Bluesky, Porsche was wildin out on Threads…

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One time, I was doing laundry at a friend’s house and could only find fabric softener. I asked where he kept the detergent, and he pointed at the fabric softener. “Thats not detergent,” I told him. It turned out this man was “washing” his clothes in fabric softener for a whole decade!

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AI won’t replace you—a scammer using AI will replace you and take the company down from the inside…

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Great insight into how publishers are adapting to Google’s AI overviews destroying a large chunk of their search traffic by shifting towards memberships and physical books.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t decide what’s more offensive—that someone tricked an artist into making a sketch for a project then ran the sketch thru an image generator to promote themselves as an artist or that the image generator didn’t even get it right…

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Everyone is worried about Black Monday and a stock market crash tomorrow, but if it helps, the Great Depression wasn’t caused by the stock market crash. The crash did cause a run on the banks at a time when they were severely squeezed by the markets. But not a lot of people owned stocks back then.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I used to be too poor to buy eggs, but thanks to tariffs, I’m about to be too poor to buy anything…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments