so we instead continue to squeeze blood from stone so that a robot can write more vivid sexual fantasies about social networking website CEOs

there's always work being done toward designing models that are more parameter- and data-efficient so they don't require an entire planet's resources to train but sadly that doesn't give the corpos the results they want fast enough

like can we instead talk about how generative ai is just...really boring and lame? can we talk about how academics and hobbyists are increasingly priced out of contributing to ML R&D by tech megacorps with virtually unlimited compute/data access?

the conflation of modern "generative ai" with all other forms of machine learning and statistical inference has totally poisoned all discourse about AI/ML

idk maybe i just need to "curate my feeds" better but the web Sucks Major Ass and i want to spend as little time on it as possible and just be gay irl

queer folks without irl community deserve better online communities that don't eventually make them feel like they aren't "doing queerness properly"

these spaces become places of repetition and reinforcement of popular forms of queer signification which is impossible to reconcile with all the infinite variations of queerness

i felt this same thing being in queer spaces on twitter (before it became x the everything website) and it's one of the reasons i had to stop using the site

any online space is plato's cave, all you see is shadows dancing, none of it is real

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I feel like gen z people and millennials both refuse to accept that much of their experience of the internet is common between them and that they are cringe and fun in very similar ways. Which is a shame bc the appeal of dumb internet stuff is so timeless and universal