I did read it and thought you were quite right about the many, many failings of them. You asked what was going on and why they were being pushed so hard everywhere so I gave my analysis. And yes, while focussing on the actual content of my reply I forgot to go back and put ‘zorbo’ in the first line, but it’s a shame that the content wasn’t the tip off that I was engaging with your question though.

1. It’s a stock grift in an economy that no longer makes anything innovative and no one could afford it if they did anyway.

2. It’s a way to disguise mass outsourcing as layoffs due to technological advance.

3. It’s a massive, dystopian IP grab. Imagine ten years down the line and every software product, every book or article, every piece of media, every project pitch that used a certain LLM product in its creation can suddenly be claimed in full or in part by the AI company that made the LLM.

4. Flooding the internet with inaccurate information and doubt of authenticity for photo/video is a useful way to marginalise non official narratives.

5. Replacing functioning institutions with LLM tech is a way to shrink & shut down the sections of the state that serve people or aren’t owned and controlled by capital.

6. The illusion of ‘AI’ decision making is like a shell company designed to protect bad actors (corporate, military, government) from legal & public culpability for their crimes. They didn’t choose to bomb that hospital / destroy those important records / revoke support to that disabled person who was entitled to it and killed themselves as a result etc.

Workers of the world unite!

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Yay!?

16 in the UK and you can enlist through cadet programmes with parental consent earlier than that. Haven’t checked it a few years since some new conflicts have kicked off, but if it’s the same Britain has the single highest percentage of its army made up by child soldiers of anywhere in the ‘Western world’ and one of the highest anywhere.

They were for the horses.

And before that John Romero’s The Crazies (which is still better)

I expected a Shepard’s crook to come in from off screen by two-thirds of the way through.

Nah, I don’t post as much as most and skirt the struggle sessions. Plus sometimes I’m just too busy to post much here.

Absence makes the heart grow more acceptable tolerant and all that.

I got…

Thank you. Enough cake for all!

What would you do if Xi ate your lunch?

Compliment him on being able to sink five pints of Guinness & two packs of Scampi Fries before going back to business.

I knew it was too much to hope for.

I mostly pee sitting down now. I’m old and it’s easier. Plus I put my back out badly this weekend by nothing more than sitting on short plastic stools to watch bands and the women’s Euro’s final in a big tent.

Some rival previously unknown to police drug dealers stash house is going to mysteriously blow up in about 8 months.

This has been posted several times but it will never not make me smile.

I genuinely thought this would never happen after the most recent denial last year.

His interview upon touching down in Beruit airport was excellent too.

Damn, good for him finally. I honestly thought he was never getting out, especially after the denial last year. What a fucking hero.

This deserves unspeakable, unpostable things.

No. And they’ve got a long history of just outright dishonesty regarding the content they claim they’re fighting. For example; going after media with critical depictions of domestic abuse by claiming it promotes it. A lie that would be totally nonesensical to anyone who has watched or played said media, until you realise that they’re a sockpuppet org for the extreme fundamentalist Christian rightwing that absolutely does not give a shit about the sexual exploitation, abuse, or oppression of women.

When entertainment was the blues Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads for continued success.

Now that it’s video games you have to let Kojima scan your feet.

Bob Vylan have been sound as fuck for almost a decade. All of it’s worth it. Go back to “Frontline” for that Vylan foundation. Maybe the best live band post Covid too, despite me being an earlier and still Bad Breeding obsessive.