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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Strange sightings of electoral posters in Tokyo:

A collection of posters for the Tokyo governor election, with an anonymous “AI mayor” candidate from the “AI party”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

But wait, there's more!

AI Steve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vtKT9RrrI

Det Syntetiske Parti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Synthetic_Party_(Denmark)

AI party (apparently now defunct, if it was ever halfway serious in the first place): https://www.centerforeverything.com/history/constitutive-meeting-of-the-ai-party-fi/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://www.ai-mayor.com/

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%E5%85%9A

This is just weird. But I guess that's to be expected from elections anywhere in the world, disgruntled groups use them to get their message out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Me: Mom I want AI mayor!

Mom: Shush now Saturn, we have AI mayor at home.

AI mayor at home:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

finally, my sneercon cosplay! it’s like Tuxedo Mask on a severe budget

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nsfw: nice to see thejuicemedia jumping in with a quality sneer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

bring back rap news :<

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I might have been wrong on the capabilities of ML, this is very impressive. (twitter link), was I wrong and Yud right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Don't worry a heavily edited 3 minute video filled with inconsistencies promised me that AI movies were right around the corner. No matter that the unearthly writhing of the backgrounds makes me simultaneously motion sick and stressed out, I'm sure they'll work that out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have a cursed book written by Henry Kissenger in 2023.

The Age of AI: Our Human Future -- https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805

^Found^ ^by^ ^way^ ^of^ ^https://old.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1dqv2kj/having_heard_the_entirety_of_the_kissinger_series^

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I hate that I saw that same post earlier today

Here's a quote from the book:

AI already transcends human perception — in a sense, through chronological compression or “time travel”: enabled by algorithms and computing power, it analyzes and learns through processes that would take human minds decades or even centuries to complete.

Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

everything with a memory is capable of time travel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Isn't it absolutely deranged? These people have (well had lol) real power over us.

There is a great March 2023 episode of Trashfuture I'm listening to atm called "The Diet of Brainworms" about this book. They basically want to install feudalism and tech-priests because AI is sO pOwErFuLl.

One of the hosts (Riley iirc) made a great point that it's as if someone showed Kissenger that trick where you write "boobs" using a calculator, and he became deeply unsettled by the computer's power of speech. Also appreciated the one about Kissenger being the guy who used an etch-a-sketch to draw a gun and was scared of it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Microsoft's AI leader claimed that copyright on the internet can be ignored: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ever-put-content-on-the-web-microsoft-says-that-its-okay-for-them-to-steal-it-because-its-freeware

With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That's been the understanding,"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Here's the whole thing from that great quote. Sorkin is not a hard-hitting interviewer, but he just asks the incredibly obvious questions and Suleyman swerves and dodges like a MF while pronouncing at him in an English listen-to-me-you-pleb voice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Never thought I'd see Microsoft suggest downloading a car, but I should have seen it coming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

He isn't totally wrong re the unspoken rule, but he forgets the second unspoken rule, that the first rule only applies to human being doing entertainment not corporations trying to make money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it

Ew... stay away from my content, you creep!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

see it was wrong when those dirty pirate hippies tried to do it but it's totally fine when microsoft does it because microsoft can't be wrong, see? easy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I think even wilder is that he thinks content which has explicitly been labeled "do not scrape except for search engine indexing" is a "gray area" with regards to scraping for AI. Like, that's exactly what it says not to do!

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