🦇 Ian, spooky edition 🦇

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

They all say the exact same stock phrases, "AI is here to stay, it's the future, we must embrace it".
Just like NFT adapters all said "I feel so welcomed by the community, this is the fastest selling collection ever", etc.
I'm not saying they're paid shills, but they sure sound like 'em.

Adam West Batman? definitely.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

A meme that says 'petition to add this button to literally every app right now: Exclude AI meme by @FLScience

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

The word "burger" doesn't even refer to meat!
Do they want to ban any meat products not made in cities that end in "burg" as well?

Our useless Belgian government did this to evening schools — they quadrupled tuition costs for every course they deemed "a hobby": any language that isn't Dutch, any skill that isn't "useful" or a bottleneck profession.
Registrations have cratered.

YouTube video by Justin Rasch Animation KING KONG never seen DEATH - NO AI

I just watched an immaculately animated King Kong death scene and I'm emotionally Not Okay, so now you have to share in my pain. youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4h...

There are millions of slightly sped up movie clips on TikTok with an AI voiceover added that explains everything that happens onscreen, and it makes me want to peel my own skin off.
They invariably start with "In this world, ..." and every character is renamed "Jack" or "the man".

No exaggeration: Blender is everything they claim AI to be.

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Oh man, am I glad I switched to Deezer.
(And Pocket Casts for podcasts!)

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

My dad once brought home Titan AE from the DVD bargain bin, he had only glanced at the cover and mistaken it for a live-action film.
When he discovered the truth, he reacted like he'd accidentally bought a bag of dog poop 🙄

Oh hey, it's that time of year again for Gobelins students to stunt on us all with immaculately animated shorts!

Godspeed, you talented Frenchies.

"but that is not the story" i have so much respect for this brave young woman

AI is the new aesthetic of fascism

Assistant is clunky, but it does what I want it to do: call people handsfree in the car and set timers.
It doesn't talk back in a sickeningly cheery HR voice.
Do I really have to go back to egg timers because tech insists on cannibalizing itself?

Oh great, Google is replacing Assistant with Gemini in everything, so I'll have to throw away my kitchen smart device.
Who needs to easily listen to the radio or set timers if you can get the dumbass robot to boil a lake and then advise me to put glue on my pizza instead?

they're calling her "the coolest person who has ever been alive"

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

I have that same shirt and I've never felt more validated in a purchase.

Man, I'm glad I caught that one Castle Rat show in Antwerp this year, because now they keep getting booked on festivals where I don't know a single other band on the line-up 🥹

that's what I'm sayin!

Oh No, Your Child Wanted To Listen To The Muppets In The Car And Now You're Crying Over The Rainbow Connection Again: A Memoir

I've heard countless folks say "I can't even draw a stick figure" and let me tell you, that squiggly hand-drawn line will always have more heart and expression than any AI art could ever have.

That virginity sentence should be enough to put you on a list

Hornet from hollow knight silksong

SHAW!!

"an AI-driven production pipeline to deliver content quickly for multiple platforms" just reads to me as "we're doing Italian Brainrot but with Maya the Bee ".