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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3h

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 2h

"Viewers don't care if what they're looking at is AI" has pretty thoroughly been demonstrated to be wishful thinking from this execs by now, I think

"Frightening" Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 10h

Blum too. At least find a new way to say "it's here to stay" jfc

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

He said this in January lol

A world in which human wages crash from AI -- logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero. Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10h

At long last my deep hatred of FURY ROAD will be vindicated by this loser shit.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 10h

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 14h

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 10h

(I did not enjoy "Furiosa," because I felt like it was full of 'Who gives a shit?" choices like this.)

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 10h

Also, why are you wasting time and resources to erase an actor's eyes so they match another actor's? Why not go the whole way and manipulate Ann Taylor Joy's face to look like Charlize Theron?

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Killoud Kat @kloudkat.bsky.social · 11h

Saw someone on Twitter point out that they always say exactly the same line every time with almost no variation.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 11h

This is the part in history where all the artists I admire show their whole ass and it sucks.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin (he/him/his) @benzed.bsky.social · 12h

Fucking hell

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 17h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Erika Lee Sears @erikaleesears.bsky.social · 1d

😃 #oilpainting #art

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 13h

15 pages on ULYSSES in the five hours before it was due. I believe I B+'d it.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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Welton B. Marsland @wbmarsland.bsky.social · 1d

"Each submission will be rigorously screened for plagiarism"

*spluttering* I'm sorry? What??

Things made by the plagiarism machine that was trained on all our works will be what??

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Merc with a 🫦 full of blood🩸 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 1d

that’ll do, pig

The Wesley Snipes crying while pointing a gun meme, but now it’s Farmer Hoggett.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 13h

Look, Immortan Joe runs the Citadel, ok? He’s not going anywhere and no one can do anything about it. Just get back on the wheel.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 14h

How hard is it for Reuters journalists to either:

1. Write 3 sentences summarizing the key points of the story they just wrote, or
2. Read the 3 sentences generated by AI?

And also how tf do you unironically follow that sentence with “our responsible use of AI”
?!?!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

www.propublica.org

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 20d

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

www.wired.com

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Lumina @luminousraven.bsky.social · 22h

The way the cops back away as the frog just dances

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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