Mom telling me about a friend of a friend who got a million views on art he posted on deviant art.
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Yeah it won't be good and it won't mean anything at all but it's *something* and it costs you nothing so why not slop out some more content for the dead internet, go wild, the social contract is fucking dead anyway
Jesus fucking christ
Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the great filter. The wholesale fully automated computerized slaughter of meaning
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What even is the point of doing anything anymore dude. Just get your best bud Claude to do everything from now on. Who gives a fuck
@eniko honestly, this feels in the same vein as watching some people I know ask chatGPT for health advice, or asking it what direction to go to get back to their car when they have lost their place on a hiking trail, or asking it to find them a quiet restaurant (and it put them by a highway). Yes these all happened.
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Mom telling me about a friend of a friend who got a million views on art he posted on deviant art. Click the link, "created with AI tools"
Why are you telling your daughter who has made actual award winning art about this person who made a computer make a picture that a million people without taste looked at?
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Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the great filter. The wholesale fully automated computerized slaughter of meaning
@eniko It's definitely the one thing AI is very very good at: making it real clear who is a twat and who is not
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@eniko I was trying to reason .. in an abstract sense .. suppose you'd have a power, that allows you to turn into 'any form you want' an idea you express in words. Would you be 'an artist' at this point ? I think the main difference between that and AI is that 'you leave most of the job to transform the idea into reality to a machine', a machine that is hungry for power, space and resources to feed it that ultimately are the works of others done by years of practicing and thinking. But I CONT.
@eniko CONT. the main thing is that it's not YOU doing the process of using knowledge and skills to transform an idea into reality, most of it is done by a machine that 'is not doing a mere machine task' it's replacing a personal/transformative process that a human should take and doing it 'with an algo' that 'doesn't really know what is doing' because AI has no consciousness. I think the problem in this case is you are "delegating too much of your task to a machine". And what if it malfunction
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@eniko It's definitely the one thing AI is very very good at: making it real clear who is a twat and who is not
@Tijn the twats outnumber us 10 to 1
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Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the great filter. The wholesale fully automated computerized slaughter of meaning
I for one, will not submit to the digital boot stomping down - as much as it is attempted to Trojan horse it through the doors as "just a tool"
That said, it is hard seeing the people you looked up to fall into it. The people you love, relegate to it, not even spending the least amount of effort into you or the relation between you.
I have no solution, I have no joke or pun.
I am sorry. You are not alone in this, for all that may be worth.
🫂
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Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the great filter. The wholesale fully automated computerized slaughter of meaning
@eniko you seem to be having about as good a week as me about this stuff. Solidarity with your conclusion of: gaaaaah
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@deshipu not really, because a human being still had to make it
@eniko they probably just found a funny rock or something
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@eniko you seem to be having about as good a week as me about this stuff. Solidarity with your conclusion of: gaaaaah
@sinbad I'm not having an amazing week no lol
Sorry to hear you can commiserate
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Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the great filter. The wholesale fully automated computerized slaughter of meaning
@eniko I think the great filter is something that will need a little more staying power in terms of "capable of continuing to exist as a thing"
all this *gestures* being propped up on the financialized instrument equivalent of a pile of nitroglycerine does not make me think it's going to last as-is
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@Tijn the twats outnumber us 10 to 1
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Maybe this is it. Maybe this is the great filter. The wholesale fully automated computerized slaughter of meaning
@eniko I'll never understand it.
I had a coworker send me an LLM-generated email yesterday. I complained about the unreadability and unnecessary padding about it to another coworker, who suggested I *run it through an LLM for a summary*.
I remember being thrilled that I get to do this kind of work. Now it's like trying to work under a cold wet blanket.
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@eniko I think the great filter is something that will need a little more staying power in terms of "capable of continuing to exist as a thing"
all this *gestures* being propped up on the financialized instrument equivalent of a pile of nitroglycerine does not make me think it's going to last as-is
@SnoopJ I hope you're right
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@Tijn the twats outnumber us 10 to 1
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@SnoopJ I hope you're right
@eniko even if I am, it's not like the *present* situation where the pile of financialized instruments hasn't exploded doesn't ALSO suck
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@eniko I genuinely don't know how to get over this precise feeling.
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@c0dec0dec0de @datarama not great for anxiety either lemme tell ya
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Yeah it won't be good and it won't mean anything at all but it's *something* and it costs you nothing so why not slop out some more content for the dead internet, go wild, the social contract is fucking dead anyway
Jesus fucking christ
@eniko the funny part is like, its definitely expensive to use in any real capacity. everyone who shows their whole ass has easily sent hundreds down the drain for that garbage.
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Seriously it's like buying it in a shop and going "look at this cool thing I made!"
@eniko with how the gen AI systems have been trained, I'd almost say it's more like "taking something home from the british museum and showing everyone the cool thing you made"
