This is so wild that I choose to believe it's an elaborate bit
Is life just a series of slot machines until you die?
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No, but capitalism is
Ben, take that stupid thing off. You're more than that helmet.
We're all getting a glimpse behind The Scary Door
Can we get an AI to press the "generate prompt" button for me?
I've said it before but this case really exemplifies the point: these sorts of generators are like gacha machines, it's a dopamine gambling button that can get someone addicted quite easily. So you get people who literally don't actually care about what it's spitting out, they're not trying to use it to actually realize some idea they've had, they just want to slam the treat button over and over and keep feeling good forever even as it overstimulates and temporarily burns out their ability to feel pleasure.
Also I've seen image generator gooners literally call it a gacha themselves, completely aware of what they're doing with it and what it is.
Especially when, if you've use one, it can generate a whole bunch of trash that looks nothing like what you want, and it can take a while before you get something that looks presentable.
Intermittent reinforcement is a very effective conditioning technique.
Exactly. Compound that with the delay to build anticipation, the trivial ease of access (for a local generator it's literally just slapping a button, with a material power cost akin to playing a modern AAA game or a heavily modded older game like minecraft for an equivalent period of time), the heavy visual component (or audio, in the case of the image in the OP), and the tension of whether it'll be a "winner" that gives you dopamine or something disappointing that strings the tension along further.
And then on top of that you can customize it, and the prompt system is just perfect for developing superstitious ritual components as you try to tweak your prayers to the inscrutable machine to make it give treats better (some of which actually works, because it's an absurd real-world manifestation of like 40K machine spirits where asking them nicely really does make them work better or like the world-building book language in Myst where getting lost in describing endless trivial things in flowery language actually makes the rest work better too).
It's basically a perfect storm for building addictions and ingraining them.
These people can't do anything. "Goo goo ga ga! Compooper wipe my ass for me! Compooper breathe for me!"
And they're the fucking ruling class too. We're being ruled and dunked on by literal adult babies.
Remake of the Matrix, except the world wasn't post-apocalyptic at all and people just put themselves in the pods because it was easier than doing anything.
Laying in my pod, pushing the soda+horny button to have the computer invent a new kind of intravenous soda and jerk me off, getting angry and confused because it's still too many buttons.
i would do this
That will be all jobs under communism. You WILL live in the pod, you WILL push the soda+horny button.
i KNEW there was a reason i'm a communist
That's what my Geography teacher told us will happen, about 20 years ago.
Edit: She also told us we're being spied on by big tech and our privacy is being eroded, the class laughed at her. Why would the good government spy on us 
Was your geography teacher called Richard Stallman?
No way this isn't a bit.
Looks like the account is a throwaway so yeah probably. But a lot of AI image generators already have a feature that basically does this.
i've done trolling in the past and i would never use a throwaway account because you can't see people's reactions, which kind of defeats the whole point. if anything, it kinda makes me think the guy knows he sounds kinda stupid but he still wants an answer
"My imagination machine isn't imagining enough for me! DO ALL MY THINKING ALREADY! AND WHY CAN'T IT CHANGE MY DIAPER FOR ME‽"
ai generating ai prompts to fill this hogs slop trough infinitely.
Who are these people lol? Has anyone ever met these AI obsessed weirdos?
The people yearn for fully automated slop machines
i love the antichrist
Just pick up an instrument you talentless sack of shit
Tbf it can get extremely discouraging if you don't have a social context to help you stick with it.
no, they want something that sounds good. not 200 hours of scales and a 4th grade cover of camptown races.
Yes
Perhaps you could use a term other than "dumb" to describe it. It was reported for ableism.
Done
awesome
And after that It'll be like "Ugh why do I have to press a stupid button, why can't I just will what I want into existence!!"
george jetson complained about how hard his job was
at this point why not join that ai slop "social" network one of these ai ghouls released?
if all they want is brainrot, they have plenty.
The whole thing will get boring in a year from now and in 2 years it will be as old fashioned as NFT
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: