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I really hate the cognitive dissonance in seeing a bot avatar pretend to be human when I clearly know it’s merely stealimg our likeness and behaviour.
It’s like the demons from Frieren for the weebs amongst us.
Next Alexa and Siri
classic CNN, faking NEWS articles or segments.
Strong “Simone” vibes
Because they’re not real journalists
“On camera”?
Wouldn’t that just be a camera pointed at a processor in a data centre somewhere?
Ya know that scens from The Thing where Macready pours his scotch into the chess computer, I want to do that to AI data center server racks. Sadly I am not nearly as handsome as a young or even current Kurt Russell.
The CNN anchors are training their replacements
ellison eventually wants cnn, so this is the beginning, plus zaslav is a total pushover for the right wing owners.
This when society should drop cnn as a legitimate source of worthy news.
That happened when it got bought by a Republican shitbag.
I stopped a while back, but this really should be enough for even the least serious viewers
This is the problem with AI that is so marketable, valuable and potentially unstoppable: people thinking and behaving like it is human. They are trying to take the human out of the equation for everything. When there are so few many human roles left there will no longer be empathy, compassion or reasoning from entertainers, customer service, management or eventually potentially law.
I think youre overestimating the tech here
They are not overestimating the response though.
I think I’m an optimist because I think that eventually the various companies are going to have to start turning a profit, and I just don’t see it happening. When the investment money runs out there’s going to be a huge crash. Frivolous pointless stuff like this will drop by the wayside.
What will be left is the useful applications of AI like scientific research and the automation of simple, but non-deterministic tasks that couldn’t previously be automated via a script, such as organising logistical supply chains. But AI isn’t going to replace human labour until they move away from LLM chat bots, and even then it’s just a possibility not an inevitability.
Unfortunetly, true.
Sweet, i will add this to my Roomba’s playlist.
They are destroying any confidence left in the truth of digital records.
CNN is a media company that has a lot to gain if it can get its audience to accept AI “personalities”.
also to capture another potential republican voting audience.
Oh god. This is it.
They are dying for people to gradually accept slop media, and likely their investors as well. They want to normalize a “no human” media feed so they can just skip the camera crew and writers and makeup and all that expensive shit and just pay a cloud ai bill which redirects a stream of video content that you buy.
They really want to eliminate all the arts and have robots do that while we mine the coal mines.
Woah CNN is the forerunner of Picus News from Deus Ex.
Lmao this future is stupid.
Oh even better. It could be customized through the app, by default. Maybe you like blondes with boobs, maybe your neighbor likes brunettes with tiny titties, maybe your other neighbor wants a big black dude.
But with this tech, we can MaXiMiZe eNgAgEmEnT with custom talking heads for the 24x7 outrage bull shit machine.
What if I like crochet patterns that work? I don’t understand how AI can be capable of so much technical stuff that we are trusting it with little to no oversight, but go ahead, ask it to generate a crochet/knitting pattern and then follow it and tell me what you get. 🤣
So here’s the thing, generative AI is a technology, and it’s created by humans, and I have no doubt that enough smart humans working together will easily be able to develop a technology that can generate a crochet/knitting pattern by feeding it other people’s stolen crochet/knitting patterns without paying or crediting them. That’s not a hard thing to do. What AI is doing is not actually hard.
The biggest problem with generative AI is that doing it efficiently is in fact very, very hard, and almost certainly always will be. The reality is that it’s an absurdly inefficient way of doing anything, even just for model inference alone, nevermind the training data. Some of that inefficiency is being masked by the fact that they stole all its training data they used to create it. Some of that inefficiency is being masked by the fact that they’re giving it away at a loss in order to get people hooked. Some of that inefficiency is being masked by the fact that the entire thing is a game of financial musical chairs that they won’t stop playing because none of them want to be left holding the fucking empty bag without a chair when the music stops.
But none of those things reflect the true cost of generating stuff with generative AI. The wastefulness is the point. Imagine the efficiency if each person looking for a crochet/knitting pattern would be able to download the same pattern as someone else previously already did with only a few handfuls of bytes of internet traffic, not millions of tokens of furiously churning datacenter GPUs. Imagine if we had a simple text search engine where we could search effectively for the crochet/knitting patterns other people, real people, have already made, instead of having thousands of different people ask their own personal slop machine for slop a few dozen times until it gets it sort of right.
At a time when we are trying to save the fucking planet from burning down, they are very intentionally and very deliberately shoving this garbage, inefficient technology down our throats, replacing older, more sensible technologies, breaking those technologies to make them seem even less sensible, selling it like it’s the second coming of god, and powering it with fossil fuels to further destroy the environment. This is not an accident. Hey ChatGPT, can you think of any of the richest industries in the world that would be happy to team up with some of the other richest industries in the world to increase demand for fossil fuels, even though we’re not supposed to be using fossil fuels anymore, and can you tell me how much money they all made last year? I bet it’s a fucking lot, isn’t it? How can they keep making so much money when we’re not supposed to be using fossil fuels anymore? Mysterious. /s
We’re being fucked, the planet’s being fucked, and the future’s being fucked, and the people responsible are laughing all the way to the bank, then jumping on their yachts, and heading somewhere very similar to epstein’s island, where they will party and do drugs and plan how they’re all going to set up their new mansions on Mars once it gets so bad here on Earth that they have to leave us behind to burn. This is not really about AI, this is about people who don’t consider most of humanity worth caring about or in any way consequential to their plans. We do not exist in the future they are building. We should probably find that very upsetting.
I don’t seek them out, but I hear that LLM monstrosity patterns are largely a thing of the past.
The most plausible theory I’ve heard is that people realized LLMs are bad at writing patterns and so pivoted to feeding them other people’s patterns to reformat or maybe grade for new sizes.
The new sizes may have stitch counts that don’t quite work, but they don’t seem to make the same ridiculous infinite increases/decreases that haunted the first generation of LLM-generated patterns.
Still, I doubt that an LLM could give you a reasonable pattern for any garment without directly ripping off an existing pattern.
Even when they rip off another pattern, it’s a mess. It’s in the range of uncanny Valley where it makes enough sense to workup, but it doesn’t make the item you’re looking to make (which is usually the original pattern).
I’m just salty the internet/new books got flooded with these patterns so its a little more difficult to trust the process.
I swear this was a plot point in Fahrenheit 451…
Yeah, in 2006 it took a dozen people behind the camera to run a local newscast. Now they do it with three people and a ton of automation.
They’re also, generally, in service of the status quo.
It’s literally the perfect business model, like the one refined by ad-based mobile game companies, but even easier.
Agents troll for the news. Agents right up the news. It’s fed to a video agent that reads the news. No need for human intervention. No need for any pesky slowdowns. Everything is ready in moments from the moment it happens.
Unfortunately, we’re going to lose integrity, accuracy, and virtually everything else that we need in the news source.
We already don’t have integrity and accuracy from most news sources.
Okay, now broaden your conclusions. Imagine the level of distrust is even earned because we don’t know what to fucking think. Because everywhere we look, there’s a different message.
I get this mark, but I think that you’re underestimating the damage that we’re going to be seeing in the very near term.
Good point. With AI news we’ll be able to trust it more because the message will be consistent across multiple sources and delivered reliably, compellingly, with conviction, and targeted to the current desires, fears and prejudices of the viewer. All of this will help to maintain a sense of trust, and shape your worldview.
Human beings are, for the most part, not mentally equipped to deal with this. We already see a significant part of the population lost in constructed realities. That’s the tip of the iceberg.
It’s going to be unwatchable but they will still shove it in our face until they find out they can’t really make that much money from it. But they won’t hire the real people back again because then they’d have to admit they were wrong so they will just not have serious news anymore and even more people will get informed from podcasts and youtubers and other alternative media. These people in the Entertainment Business would rather destroy a business than pay people.
These people in the Entertainment Business would rather destroy a business than pay people.
Capitalism.
Friend of mine told me his boss said he’d rather burn the place to the ground than let the workers unionize.
So far as I know, that boss never suffered any personal violence, despite treating everyone like shit.
Give him time. It sounds like he’s working on the discrepancy right now.
Sounds like Americans will get the news they deserve
I mean literally everyone will. All media will become a cesspool of magnificently curated garbage. That’s going to transcend national boundaries.
Honestly, I think you’d be right at home here. You’re sort of one of us now.
What you’re saying is almost verbatim Trump’s fans claiming that they voted for him and will endure whatever pain he dishes out just to own the libs.
I’d be okay with Max Headroom, but he told it like it is. Might be too far for them.
Max Headroom and the new Pepsi generation 2026
