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      Go outside

      Instantly tracked by 70000000 AI cameras hooked up to the Palantir database

      The sea peoples were right, urbanization was a mistake, we must return to monke

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        Some. Many, if not most, are just flawed human beings.

        I don’t enjoy this “everyone sucks” mentality you see online a lot.

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        Very few things are as fake as AI… and my best guess is most of them frequent some national Congress building.

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        ai is false so much because it’s just pulling all the nonsense garbage created by humans, and moreso corporations. it doesn’t think, it just regurgitates garbage on the web and pushes it as factual.

        all those meme images, and one liners and make believe stories that are just making fun or stuff when we (typically) know it’s sarcasm/false etc…, yeah… ai don’t care - that’s just facts to it and presents it as such.

        ai could have been amazing, if the internet wasn’t riddled with jokes, memes, false info etc etc etc but here we are.

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          Hear that guys??? It’s time to get serious! No more joking around!

          So a jew, a catholic, and a muslim walk into a bar…and things were pretty akward from across the room.

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    Glad to be here, witnessing the death of the internet as we know it here together. I’m pretty sure most of you are real so let’s enjoy the show together before we all go outside again!

    As the internet lay dying I wondered if I should be crying A great gift to mankind is losing it’s mind

    Should we stay? Said the friends we made along the way

    Who are we without web? But who, is the web without the we?

    Even as we grieve and leave

    Remember.

    There is no web without the we And where we go the web will be

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        Yes it sort of feels like online ecosystem collapse. Between all the insincerity, ads and slop. Very few online places feel alive :(

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      The Great Unpluggening!

      I think the Internet will persist, but the public spaces on the Internet will ba treated like people treat the tabloid magazines at the grocery store checkout. Unused and largely ridiculed.

      I expect invite-only microcommunities will thrive though.

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        You are right my friend. But i’m afraid that this might be at odds with annonimity online. These micro communities might look a lot like this, just more restrictive on the user registration side.

        I can imagine that we may have a federated community of human verified forums. Where you have to go to the computer club at least once to get a forum account.

        Anyways, the death of online truth and authenticity gives us a tremendous opportunity to reinvent what online contact should look like. But inevitably, it will be more outside and less online I think.

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    The genie is out of the bottle, but at some point, LLM/image-gen providers are going to have to raise prices for their services. While this won’t do anything to stop self-hosters, it might cut down on the number of casual users just a tiny bit. At least I hope it will!

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      The genie is out of the bottle

      This is a lot more like Pandora’s Box - all the evils have been let loose.

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      Unfortunately realistic image gen can already be done locally on consumer hardware at the cost of additional rendering time. The cat is out of the bag. And while local video gen is pretty easy to spot, the models just keep getting faster and better at a scary rate.

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        Oh definitely. But setting up local solutions requires enough time, effort, know-how, and hardware that’s getting more expensive by the minute, meaning that a lot of regular Joe & Jane Blows who got used to free ad-supported options or cheap pay-to-play services might drop out of the game.

        Of course, anyone sufficiently motivated to generate images/video at scale is already building out their infrastructure regardless of cost since, presumably, they are going to be state-actors or mercenary influence operations.

        I wonder where it would leave the millions of Facebook/Twitter social media engagement-farmers, once their marginal costs start to skyrocket.

        • And that’s why they keep ai free. Thedifference between losing 1 billion dollar and a billion dollar + 100 000 dollar is marginal. No to mention, they want us addicted, and ai is a perfect means to do so. At some point a virtual friend was a looser’s deal; looking at it now, there is an attempt to normalise virtual companionship. This is the last social media I have, almost all others are gone. I periodically wipe down things, too. And there is always a computer willing to ‘talk’ to me, truly a cyberpunk distopia.

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      My concern is that “self hosters” in this context are state actors with their own data centers.

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    Pretty crazy there’s no PKI in place to verify photos, videos, or text. We just need apps to verify signatures and tell users about the origin. Memes can remain unsigned, but veritable information should always be traceable to a source.

    E.g. I’m more inclined to believe a video sourced by AP (sent to me by whomever) than one posted by the white house twitter without signature.

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      That’s a really good and reasonable idea, which is why I’m absolutely sure it will never happen 😢

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    Just turn away from your phone screen and go outside. There is an entire non-AI world to explore and steward.

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      I’ve been getting back into my favorite childhood TV shows and finding some good library books. No AI slop there. 🙂

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          Hard same. ❤️💕 I’ll support the public library any and every chance I get as long as they keep serving the public good.

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    There was a brief window before this mess where we used to be unsure if things were cake or not, I long for those simpler times.

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    You know I used to think ai was pretty cool because I read a lot of sci-fi and in most sci-fi ai is a very useful tool but now that I’ve been living in reality for a good 2 years I’ve noticed that maybe this ai just isn’t very nice. It’s like that time I meet weird ai Yankovic and thought it was the real Weird Al but all he did was regurgitate edgy talking points and send me videos of giant boobed women dancing.

    Needless to say, Bob Barker was pretty cool.

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      Ai IS cool. LLMs and ai art and most forms of generative ai ISN’T cool.

      One of my favourite examples of ai being capable of doing good when it isn’t being controlled by a trillion dollar bubble is alpha fold

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      You know I used to think ai was pretty cool because I read a lot of sci-fi

      You read a lot of sci-fi and your conclusion was the AI is depicted as good???

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    Can you feel it? You won’t be able to tell soon and that means you’ll just need to plug in like the Matrix. Then it won’t matter right? Everything will be constructed. While the billionaires play in the real world. You’ll be plugged in but you’ll be a billionaire in your own world. You’ll have the same thoughts, feelings, experiences except they will be “fake”. You just better hope that no one turns your shit off, otherwise reality is hell.

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      ye, worst outcome would be that you compliment a little baby whos to stupid to have their own thoughts on their “work”. but who really cares about them, it is still better to falsely accusing an actual artist of using ai.

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    There could be two major attacks.

    First is pricing realism. Just like many pre-IPO products, it’s trying to gain interest. Someday, it has to make money, meaning everyone with a cheap/cheesy idea will need to pay for it.

    The second is legislative attacks related to copyright infringement. I’d see it as a progressive legislator asking them for lists of permission from every image author they’ve grabbed from. Inevitably, they profess “We don’t have that!” And the model is blocked. Admittedly, that is not something I see happening soon, but it’s something to hope for.