News has made it to the red site, with the top comment openly ignoring the fash takeover.
Only found a single thread on the orange site about it, with someone trying to bring up Lunduke's opinion on things (Lunduke's a banned source on HN, hilariously enough)
If the AI industry gets bailed out (and that's a multi-hundred billion dollar "if"), it will be because the technology they create makes shit like this possible.
To try and end this on a somewhat lighter note (source):
🎶 Butt hole sun, won't you come
🎶 And wash the pain away
Also, fake old-celluloid-film filter for something that was supposed to be from 20 years ago? Really?
I was gonna say that was probably the slop extruder's doing, but it looks to have been applied manually for some godforsaken reason. Best guess is whoever was behind this audiovisual extrusion thought "celluloid filter = Nostalgia^tm^".
Well done to Avi on blowing a pile of venture capital cash to make his own life feel a bit better. The rest of us will probably pass this one by.
Money buys happiness, but he sure ain't doing that right.
hallucinatory RETVRN clips about the good old days
Nostalgiabait is the slopgens' specialty - being utterly incapable of creating anything new isn't an issue if you're trying to fabricate an idealis-
such as, uh, walmart 20 years ago?
Okay, stop everything, who the actual fuck would be nostalgic for going to a fucking Wal-Mart? I've got zero nostalgia for ASDA or any other British big-box hellscape like it, what the fuck's so different across the pond?
(Even from a "making nostalgiabait" angle, something like, say, McDonalds would be a much better choice - unlike Wal-Mart, McD's directly targets kids with their advertising, all-but guaranteeing you've got fuzzy childhood memories to take advantage of.)
Its also gonna be an apocalypse-level event for Silicon Valley, who have incinerated hundreds of billions of dollars and every last remaining bit of goodwill they had through creating and marketing the cultural pollution engines behind this bubble.
For the artists whose life work was stolen and abused by SV to pollute human culture, for the workers forcibly deskilled by capital's digital slop looms, for the millions of people who have had to suffer through the myriad harms of the AI cancer, the bubble's burst will be grounds to celebrate like nothing else.
Training the kids not to trust AI at such a young age. Real forward-thinking, that Massachusets contractor! /s
Not marking with the chatbot is apparently not an option. AI might save money in the future! So kid, we’re gonna keep treating you with contempt. It’s good preparation for your future.
AI as an ideology shows contempt for humans and human-made work, so seeing believers in AI double-down is completely unsurprising
Quick PSA: There's an open letter calling for a fork of Rails, specifically to purge it of David Heil Hitler's influence.
There's definitely interest in documenting the techfash takeover on awful, I think you should post it