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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

It's been a very long time since "I saw it on the internet so it must be true" was a novel joke.

So then some tech bros wanted to create "AI" so they fed a language based machine learning model the entire fucking internet and anybody ever expected anything of value?

It convincingly simulates a pedantic internet jackass with unlimited drugs and time on their hands. But that content is freely available at a slightly more human pace. Nobody is paying for more of it except the very same tech companies using every psychological trick in the book to drive engagement, even if it harms users.

The stuff under the AI umbrella will be useful for some things, and probably pretty valuable in some industries. New tools often are. But propping up however many trillions or tens of trillions of perceived value in the economy?