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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 8h

"If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed..."

Who among us ever thought that Sora would be used for anything other than the offensive slop its users are currently producing?This is its target audience & primary use case.
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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 1d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 13h

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

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Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

Gallery of Friend graffiti 👀

all reviews

all friend.com reviews by NYC

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

“Hype, however, does not necessarily translate into sales. As of this writing, he has sold around 3,100 pendants — though he expects that will increase rapidly once the product hits retailers like Walmart sometime next tear. The ad campaign is still rolling out in Los Angeles, with Chicago up next.”

A Debate About A.I. Plays Out on the Subway Walls

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 10h

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 10h

To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 10h

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 10h

Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.

Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 3d

anyway, here is 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton discussing what we know about large AI models on 60 Minutes.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

i don't care

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 11h

the fact that technology is as advanced as it is is the reason we should be emphasizing the unique value of every human soul more, not less

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 11h

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl

that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13h

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13h

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13h

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

🤦🏿‍♂️

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 12h

a major problem I think when the entire thesis of your product is, "what if you could quickly, easily, and cheaply make something for no obvious reason?" If you didn't have any of those things, your potential userbase would be much smaller!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Who is going to pay for all this slop?

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Who is going to pay for all this slop?

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Lost count of the wtf moments in this review.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

Today in luxury surveillance.

ht @timmaughan.bsky.social

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“Hey Meta, how old is this baby?” I asked.
I was holding my child close to me as we waited for the elevator. He was facing away and Meta’s answer was fairly imprecise. I held my kiddo out a bit further, still facing away, and asked again. Meta answered with both greater precision and accuracy.

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 13h

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Techni-Calli @illleavenow.bsky.social · 13h

Great news! Your spyware is about to stop pretending you get to choose when it spies on you!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

Perplexity

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

www.perplexity.ai

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Andreas Keller @nannus.bsky.social · 13h

From a data protection perspective, this is an absolute no-go. If there hasn't been a reason not to use a Google phone until now, here it is.

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Pumpkin Spice LSD Season @screaminjwalkin.fathomlessbeats.com · 13h

good thing nobody looks at their phone otherwise i'd be concerned that this sounds like always on surveillance

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

“Google has filed a patent for a face-detection activation system that would eliminate the need for ‘Hey Google’ hotwords by automatically triggering its Gemini AI assistant when a user's phone detects their face nearby.” 😩

Perplexity

Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

www.perplexity.ai

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Terry O’Gara @terryogara.bsky.social · 13h

It's not new. In Elizabethan England, a courtier would wait all alone in the royal chambers, and upon seeing the face of a noble figure, identify them by name, and then say, "How may I assist you today, my liege?" 😁

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