We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR

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Forse il titolo poteva essere "ChatGPT sta cercando di mangiarsi le altre app"? Perché per il momento non ce la sta ancora facendo quanto i produttori vorrebbero

wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -

Well, at least I didn't get very affectionated to bluesky before having to delete and move on I guess...

(Shit I will have to get on with the fediverse I know.)

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

Artwork "Saturn devouring his son" but with a "I consent!" sticker placed on where the dead body's head would be.

You allow the artistic depiction of violence, so why wouldn't that extend to point D.ii? Artists who engage in kinky art will be negatively impact by these guidelines, which could be maliciously exploited.

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.

Not distressing.

Full tilt disturbing.

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable

“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

I hate to just repeat the post text, but in this case it's a straight description: Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos

• Skin is being smoothed or sharpened

• Features like ears are being altered

• YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity

• There's currently no way to opt out

(via BBC)

happy birthday win 95 🎂

#lowpoly

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal video business taking over the web A mad rush of creators is using AI video tools to flood the web — and turn a profit — with videos that can seem remarkably real.

New: My deep dive into the business of AI slop. wapo.st/4mFECxC

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

NEW: Spotify is now publishing — and profiting off — AI-generated songs ‘from’ *dead* artists

Without permission

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The f*&%ing library.

Winamp Skin: Virtual Dimension RMX

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

A reminder that when Becky needed to help a co-worker get into English classes that were actually affordable to lower income immigrants, it was the library that facilitated that.

Libraries do so much more than you think they do. They are essential community builders.

OK

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Do itttt!!

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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Forse in futuro le versioni gratis si finanzieranno con contenuti sponsorizzati inseriti nelle risposte, magari anche politici. Ci vorrebbero già da ora norme che impongano la visibilità di tali contenuti in modo super evidente, tipo colore diverso del testo.