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Amoeba_Girl Amoeba_Girl @awful.systems
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
  • The thing is, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of the data is effectively worthless out of the online advertising grift. It's thoughtlessly collected junk sold as data for its own sake.

    It works because no one working in advertising knows what a human beings is.

  • Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect
  • I'm going insane looking at comments praising the 1995 TV spot, going on about how it makes them teary-eyed and such, and how the AI remake is a travesty. That shit already looked like if you put a Norman Rockwell artbook in the blender, drank the mixture and subsequently got sick on the Vegas Strip.

  • Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect
  • This is crappy and weird but it could have been worse: unlike the Toy's Are U's advert they wisely decided not to include any human. Which in turn makes the caravan of trucks look eerie and sinister. You can't win them all.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024
  • Considering the user is trying to cheat on a test about elder care of all things, Gemini might have a point there

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024
  • This is literally going to be an embezzlement op isn't it

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024
  • Holy shit I had no idea there was a left wing branch of the mad cryptofascist meme stock cult.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • it's really fucking dumb because trump got 2 million less votes than in 2020. really great map for learning the wrongest possible lesson from this election.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • Dem talking heads spending so much energy courting moderate conservative votes was an excellent way to demobilise their base. They really gave their all to lose an election that should have been a free win.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • i do love how the "anti-imperialist" protest vote against harris was a choice between like three or four putin apologists. the state of the US left is really fucked up and i don't want to look at it ever again.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • We also have stuff like DLSS, which is pretty cool and I imagine ends up being more efficient in energy usage. The key thing I believe is it's built as a specific tool for a specific purpose, instead of general purpose slop machines eating humongous databases to excrete absolutely nothing useful for anyone.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • Ah awesome! I didn't think it was because you can't upload pictures, but maybe you can in the "Revisited" version!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • I think it's fine to have little art games that are only interesting to play for a few minutes. They can still have an impact that stays with you forever. Catacombs of Solaris for instance is one I love and think about all the time.

    These AI guys though, god it must be so sad working on this stuff. They can't be proud of what they're making if the goal is to trick people into thinking you can have a real Minecraft game in there. The game is not even relevant, as far as I can tell they're only using it to draw attention to their stupid and doomed ASIC business.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • I'm sure her results would be very accurate if troll farms could vote and chatgpt was doing the count.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024
  • I do like it also, but notice how they try to hide most of these strange effects in their demo video. They're trying to pass it off as a playable minecraft. Anything interesting about the technology is a defect to these people.

    They also claim this is "the first playable AI-generated game" when the exact same sort of thing already existed in 2022 (and it looked a lot more efficient and haunted): https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/ Maybe it doesn't count if you call it "Neural network" instead of "AI".

  • Where's Your Ed At- The Cult of Microsoft
  • I don't like how people use "hallucinations" to refer to the output of neural networks, but you know what, it is all hallucination. It's hallucination on our part, looking at arbitrary sequences of tokens and seeing meaningful text. It's pareidolia, and it's powerful.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024
  • Study finds greedy white children would rather have two fictitious cookies than one real one they can eat.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024
  • (This particular study, if there even is a real study, is infuriating because what it's really measuring is how much you trust a figure of authority to keep their promise. I wonder why black kids would have issues with this!)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024
  • Racism is insane; it fixates on superficial characteristics like skin color rather than important ones like IQ and time preference.

    I'm sorry, "time preference"? Is this piece of shit referring to Colored People's Time as a scientific concept or am I missing something?

    This is such a cursed tweet ughhhhh