screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

This platform is full of nerds with a conscience: we recognize ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis machines for the radioactive snake oil they are.

This is yet again the problem with AI

It isnt that its going to replace us. Its not, it really isnt. It sucks and looks like shit and neve rproduces anything good.
No, what it does is it drowns out actual human made stuff under a sea of slop. Be it art, music, writing, etc, all the human made stuff

"The logical end point of AI progress is feudalism for 99.9 percent of humanity, so vote for me and we'll eliminate the billionaire class responsible for it" is a political platform I will vote for, if offered.

The scholars had argued in the paper that a network of pro-Israel donors and advocacy groups routinely pulled U.S. Middle East policy away from what was truly in America’s interest. Their analysis triggered a fierce backlash: institutions denounced them as antisemites, The Atlantic killed the article, and the Kennedy School stripped its logo from the paper. Emails from Epstein’s Yahoo account show him reviewing early drafts of Dershowitz’s attack piece, accusing the authors of recycling “neo-Nazi trash,” and agreeing to distribute it through his network. The cache also highlights Epstein’s influence at Harvard and his role managing the finances of billionaire Leslie Wexner, whose foundation poured nearly $20 million into the Kennedy School. The covert effort to smear the scholars mirrored the very dynamics the paper described: wealthy, well-connected actors mobilizing elite institutions to police criticism of Israel. The emails also show Epstein, during that same week, working with his lawyer on strategies to discredit a young woman who had accused him of sexual abuse. 🔗 Read: https://dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-aided-alan-dershowitz-mearsheimer-walt-israel-lobbym @ryangrim | @MazMHussain

⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.

The scholars had argued in the paper...

it's not metaphorical or hyperbole when i say "kill Ai before it kills you"

I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??

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Another day, another type of scammer. Be careful guys

I'm suspended, Oh no, look I definately cannot post this message to warn you'all 😂😂😂😂😂

Thoughts about “AI” Yes it’s: The slop The theft The brainrot The loss of work The crumbling of creator rights The destroying of the environment and infrastructure But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you. Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical. Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school. It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large. [At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]

Morning thoughts about "AI".

Where do we go from here?

Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.

A new feature on X showed that lots of hugely popular MAGA accounts were secretly based overseas. Donald Trump keeps sharing their posts anyway. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Man, that's what this is about, isn't it? It's not even to make the oil companies money, it's because Trump thinks the failure of the Iraq war was not stealing all the oil and he wants to "do it right".

Regular-ass people: "I can't buy new shit. Everything is too expensive and there appears to be no relief on the horizon."

Kevin Williams of the business section at CNBC: "While it may seem to be a smart money move, it can result in a costly productivity and innovation lag for the economy :("

A story in 3 acts:

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

This is an incredible read about how one editor at a Toronto publication uncovered the fact that a prospective freelancer was a fraud who's been getting AI-generated articles published across the globe.

The kicker says a lot, too. Just give it a read. Amazing from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social.

That's adorable!

"Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is. [...] I never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. - Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli was "utterly disgusted" when he was shown an A/I demo in 2016

Yeah, f*** A/I. It's something that's making everything worse in every single way - I don't get it. I mean, I get it in a 'This makes sense to save money by not paying artists' way? But then, what the f*** are we doing? Is this where we want to be?" RIAN JOHNSON ON THE USE OF A/I Hollywood

Dana Terrace Unsubscribe from Disney+, Pirate Owl House. I don't care. Fu*k gen A/I NEWS THE OWL HOUSE CREATOR DANA TERRACE ON DISNEY + SOON HAVING A/I-GENERATED SHORT-FORM CONTENT FROM USERS Source: X | ®DanaTerrace @FandomWire | FandomWire.com

Guillermo Del Toro “I'D RATHER DIE THAN USE GENERATIVE A/I.”

If you like Studio Ghibli, Knives Out, The Owl House, or Frankenstein, here’s what the creators are saying about A/I.

🚫 SAY NO TO GEN A/I 🚫

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position.

Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning

As much as it’s funny to see use the Twitter chat bots to take the piss out of musk due to him making it worse and worse do remember that the data center behind it is poisoning people and using the site and that stupid bot has real world physical harms.

watch them seethe as a grab a piece of wood burnt by a lightning strike and draw the sickest buffalo ever from memory on a cave wall.

what an absolute ghoul. thanks, mailed both my senators. hope they drop their cosponsorship of this shitshow.

That there's the sound of an innocent man!

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.

Oh you mean the great architecture of the time, the days of vaudeville and early Broadway and - no? Just the child raping, I see.

It literally has a disclosure on its Steam page. It didn't "slip through", man. You tried to charge people for a thing that's got slop in it and they're mad.

I have an extension to add a pop-up on the Steam page for it but I really think it should be by default top-of-page.

Dreamy Empire @PotatoParallax Every Latin America election be like : Fernando Indiano leader of a coalition of trade unions indigenous groups and a coalition of progressive parties 50,1% Felipe Heinrich Mengele III Nazi drug lord 49,9% 15:44 23jun 22

Watching Chilean election results come in and once again thinking about this tweet

Alright, that seems like a good place to start with researching what this bill would *actually* do, thanks. I'm digging around, and folks like the Heritage Foundation dig it, so that's certainly damning.

Hey, I'm opposed to censorship, but in general I don't write my representatives blindly without reading a bill myself; reading the actual contents of KOSA, it seems... good? At a glance? Is anyone able to articulate in concrete terms how it would be abused, instead of in vague sweeping terms?

This is the story I've been waiting to read ever since @josepagliery.bsky.social and @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social busted Gaetz four years ago...

www.thedailybeast.com/gaetz-paid-a...