Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️

Forget Victorian children, “The American pope closes his manifesto on artificial intelligence by quoting Gandalf” is a sentence that would instantly kill a 2003-era forum user

dame @dame.is

The Pope starts closing his AI manifesto by citing Gandalf: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

The fun part about this is that people online deny that the primary concern is lowering the barrier to entry and worrying about competition, but a lot of the time people actually *in* the industry will just come out and say it lol

I think anyone who describes copying as theft should be legally required to disclose whether they ever made a “lol i just right-clicked and saved your NFT” joke

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Copyright exists almost entirely so publishers can fuck artists over and anyone who pretends otherwise either doesn’t care or has had the wool pulled so far over their eyes that they might as well be a duvet

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Turning “publishers are using the spectre of AI scraping as a fig leaf for blocking the Wayback Machine” into “AI IS BLOCKING THE WAYBACK MACHINE” is so incredibly pernicious, holy shit

Holy shit. This is genuinely unhinged:

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MFers will be like “AI bad because it infringes copyright!” and then watch silently as copyright law proceeds to do Absolutely Fucking Nothing about it and publishers reap the rewards and sign billion-dollar deals with AI firms

reading snow crash when the main character’s ai assistant hits the “It’s not X–it’s Y” #AncientSlops

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“If you think about it, really, it’s the witches’ fault that we drowned that poor woman”

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[ABSURD ANTHROPOLOGICAL/LINGUISTIC CLAIM] factoid actualy just statistical error. Pirahã Georg, who lives in the Amazon jungle and meets 500 eccentric academics a year, is oultier and shoudl not be counted

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“To stop AI companies training on my art, I left Twitter, a site whose policy on third-party API access is to send you anthrax in the post, and moved to Bluesky, where they have a publicly available stream of every single post live as it comes in that they call ‘the firehose’”

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jaxxon, 23, furry porn artist (laudatory): it’s about the sanctity of art as a product of the beautiful human mind, something no billionaire tech ceo will ever understa

brian, 61, acted in 3,000 hallmark christmas films: I DON’T WANT THE POORS STEALING MY JOB

I love Britain because we have absolutely no respect for our ex-politicians. Oh, you wanted to retire and live the quiet life? Sorry buddy, you have five appearances pencilled in on Labubu: The Game Show

videah θΔ @videah.net

what the *fuck*

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"im a 102 year old armless veteran and its my birthday"slop did numbers on facebook before ai and it has continued doing essentially those same numbers from those same people after ai

▾ Dithering Options…
◦ Floyd–Steinberg
◦ Sierra
◦ Atkinson
◦ Bayer 2x2
◦ Bayer 4x4
• Sapir–Whorf (current)

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And remember: If you, as an artist, admit to being curious about or interested in new technology in any capacity, a vicious online hate mob will endlessly spew racist vitriol and harass you and your family until you back down out of fear. For the greater good™®!

Due to its age, IBM Is the only tech company that has aura, rather than a pale Thielid imitation of aura. Few understand this

1994 Azeri stamp

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honourable mention to this spanish artist who has been on a multi-decade quest to build A Cube Inside The Earth and has somehow actually completed 5½ of the 8 required corners

www.almadelmundo.com

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People need to read theory, SMH

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I think everyone needs to take the UKpill and accept that “working/middle/upper class” actually has nothing to do with your job or how much money you make

“You’re working class if you provide la—” No. You’re working class if you shop at Lidl and middle class if you shop at Marks and Spencers.

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Imagining this type of guy but their reference point for “Europe” is, like, Bosnia

“Ugh, Europeans are so smug but you can’t even go hiking there without the risk of setting off an old land mine 🙄 Peaceful my ass”

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I try not to get into internet arguments but people arguing that machine translation isn’t “generative AI” always irks me enough that I fall into the trap anyway

YOU’RE TURNING A TEXT PROMPT INTO A TEXT OUTPUT
IT’S LITERALLY WHAT THE TERM “TRANSFORMER” WAS INVENTED FOR
GAUAHAHHHHHHH[dies of stupid]