Technology

Which platforms are?

Because it seems like Facebook users love AI content with hot chicks and Twitter has its own child porn/content creating software.

I was subscribed to Medium with my work account. I was already contemplating if it's worth the price due to the ungodly amount of articles about how to use AI, which AI tools etc. Today I got an email from them. The content was basically, you don't really hate AI articles, you just want "trustworthy" articles, and those can be done with AI too. Guess who unsubscribed.

I was recently ordering food delivery, and a local restaurant replaced most of their image-free menu items with AI generated photos. (Some of their items always had real photos, but most didn't until the AI photos were added)

I ordered from somewhere else and sent the first restaurant an email that I didn't order from them due to the AI images of the food.

Also, fuck Thuisbezorgd for adding AI photo generation. I would have not ordered anything but it was already late and the family was hungry.

I’m sorry. I wholeheartedly agree with the article, but this bit:

I had no idea that my online interactions would one day be scraped en masse for AI model training. I didn’t ask for Instagram to enable deepfakes on my account. I didn’t want Google to push AI-generated answers at the top of search results. I woke up one day, and generative AI features were stuffed into every corner of all the software I rely on without my consent.

• You post something in public, it is public. You post knowing others might do things you don’t like with it; that’s the bargain. Especially on social media.

• Instagrams owns you. They own every ounce, every dimension of your content on the platform; they can do whatever TF they want, and you have zero legal recourse.

• No one made you use Google search instead of one of many alternatives, including alt Google frontends.

The fundamental issue here is that people, apparently even journalists, still see these Big Tech platforms as benevolent public squares where they have rights. And fairness. That is an illusion, and this is kind of thing keeps happening because everyone believes the lie.

And they don’t bother to even look for alternatives.

Are they really gonna keep getting surprised when platforms keep squeezing them, yet they keep using them anyway, so the platforms don’t stop?

They will shove it down our throats, regardless.

I was conversing with a coworker, the other day. He told me that his wife used to work in SEO. She now focuses on AI marketing. I brought up companies that try to manipulate reddit to get mentions and he affirmed that's what she does. What an evil cunt.

I played it like I'm joking that she's evil. Fuck her.

Even AI doesnt want to consume AI slop...(that's why they're feeding it old books)

this is by an insta addict so you can safely skip

Doubt

Like, we told them that too. How weird.

There’s a huge market for slop: junk food, slop entertainment, fast fashion. We’re a planet of slop lovers. AI slop will remain popular among many.

I wonder if this related to the uptick of the focus on cultural/artistic "taste" I've been noticing in the tech sphere (including in this very Wired article).

For context: I had an interview with a tech company that's a secondary player in the AI sphere, and they asked me about Pierre Bourdieu and my "Pinterest aesthetic preferences" of all things. Very wtf moment.

Got these fake reggae artists with full albums in my yt feed a while ago. If you are a little naive it may take you a while.

Doubt. Not that I like AI but people are fucking morons and could gaf less if they're consuming AI slop.

You are really a genius for figuring that out!

But it is not true that people don't want to read AI slop — of course they do, and I'm happy to provide that for them. If such people claim to not love AI — they are clearly mistaken.

Here's some things I can do for you:

• Compose a social media post about how awesome AI actually is
• Give you a list of talking points to make in favor of AI
• Log in and hack people who disagree and delete all their personal data so it's lost forever except the copy Google has of it

( /s ? ) :)

Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells.

Is this article slop? Can't tell since I won't pay Wired.