Turfster

_{this is a really good¹ article, and a horrifying peek below the stones of our society into the hell that is capitalism brainworm husk world, and the absolute monsters that are doing their very best to destroy everything yet again just so they can get theirs}

#kill all "AI"bros #also kill all techbros #furthermore capitalism must be destroyed

Turfster @Turfster2/3/2024, 2:17 PM

Reading in an article that less and less people are starting translator/interpreter studies, because "everyone's using AI translations these days anyway"

Can't wait for our Data Centre Cooling Towers Of Babel future, where everyone spouts nonsense at each other, and starts wars inadvertently

#"AI"#fuck "AI"

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Dornath @Dornath2/2/2024, 2:03 AM

Does anyone know him? Bring that guy to cohost he's a great Poster.

connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/2/2024, 6:10 AM

i feel like he wouldn't dig the vibes for posting unless he knows a lot more about CSS than i'd presume

Christian Simmers @Xuelder2/4/2024, 4:16 PM

IDK he is good friends with Margaret Killjoy(his podcast network hosts her podcast) and was a writer for Cracked. Also was a poster on Something Awful back in the day.

connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/4/2024, 4:28 PM

i feel like working for cracked would make him less likely to like this site, but then you throw in something awful and damn now i don't know anymore!

perhaps co-host is the "fallout new vegas fan is trans now" of something-awful-posters. we're all better now.

@aune2/2/2024, 2:03 AM

this has also been converted (or is in the process) of being this week's behind the bastards episode subjects as well!

connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/2/2024, 6:09 AM

with ify too!!

Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid2/2/2024, 2:24 AM

My only issue is the line 'I should offer a caveat here: There’s nothing wrong with the basic technology we call “AI."'

There's a LOT of things wrong with it. Chief among the issues; who controls it, and what their motivations are.

connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/2/2024, 6:08 AM

i feel like AI that can be humane presupposes that tech we currently have to build it was made humanely which PHFHFFFFF

Parker Posey's Mouth @AllisonIsLivid2/2/2024, 8:52 AM

Totally! It's a problem from first principles.

Literally Just Some Guy @skylark2/2/2024, 4:05 AM

Reminds me of an interview between Adam Conover and Dan Olson where Dan said something to the effect of "There's no other word I can use to describe it, it feels like they're praying to chatGPT". Expanding that to praying to the all powerful free market through AI as a savior figure is a clever connection imo.

connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/2/2024, 6:08 AM

dan is really good at seeing the pattern of behavior behind the layers of technobabble nonsense

boxterhua @boxterhua2/2/2024, 8:52 AM

seeing this descent into a cult for a technology that fucking sucks in the first place makes me so fucking angry. it makes even less sense to me than religion in general because i understand how this works and it's all garbage. what do you mean you want to worship what could essentially be the worst if else tree i've ever seen because it spits out images that steal from millions of images. stop making the torment nexus a real thing already!

connor sheri shaw @Sheri2/2/2024, 11:52 PM

to people with lives measured in property, creatively making your own property is tantamount to creating life, which is a form of godship i guess??

Hatsune Michael @DeCosterMakesThings2/3/2024, 12:32 AM

Great BTB, wpuld love to see Ify in more of these.

linus @linuwus2/5/2024, 7:28 AM

had to reread that title twice, kept thinking his name was "robot evan" lol