Oh! It’s so rare that someone is just like “I agree, thank you!” I’m sure you’re doing all right.

It can. You’ve gotta read between people’s words.

Mostly, it just bothers me that the r/thathappened crowd spend so much time trying to get the upper hand on instagram influencers, and so little time actually engaging with the content.

You can make a point about how such and such behavior is just fine, actually, and it glances off their head like it were steel armor because the meme isn’t real.

To clarify: By believable, I don’t mean real. I mean not worthy of suspicion.

Okay, this does bother me because embellished? Sure. Made up? This is entirely believable.

Not to mention, this specific meme is ooold as fuuuck.

We don’t have time for an interview through the McDonald’s drive-thru, my friend; you’re clogging up the line.

Ma’am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you’d like.

The threat of AI is not that it will be more human than human. It is that it will become so ubiquitous that real people are hard to find.

I couldn’t find many real people.

Are you sure that I’m real?

That’s not what imaginative means.

If you’d like an example of AI being exceptionally boring to look at, though, peruse through any rule 34 site that has had its catalogue overrun with AI spam: an endless see of images that all have the same artstyle, the same color choices, the same perspective, the same poses, the same personality; a flipbook of allegedly different characters that all. look. fucking. identical.

I’m not joking: I was once so bored by the AI garbage presented to me, I actually just stopped jerking off.

If you people would do something interesting with your novelty toy, I would be like 10% less mad about it.

When I was in highschool, a student I was sat next to found out I was an athiest. He rotated a full 90 degrees in his chair at me, and with an excitement shared only by inventors and engineers finally getting to see their ideas actually working in the real world, he asked me: “Where did dirt come from?”

I told him, “I don’t know what dirt is.”

Quizzically, “Dirt. Like, in the ground.”

I tapped my shoes on the floor. “Home Depot.”

This was, apparently, as far as his anime-villain machinations could take him. He quietly rotated back to the table and drew a school bus or something—I don’t remember what we were doing in art class.

Far from the worst encounter a person could have, but I think about it all the time.

The CIA will not allow me to answer this question.
However, I do have complementary Skittles.

What part of “I put no time into it” do you not understand?

Considering AI is really unlikeable, I don’t think that’ll be too hard.

I generated it, actually, and I put no time into it whatsoever.

When GTA6 becomes a period piece:

“Oh! Remember when cars used to look like that?”
“Remember when cars used to be above water?”
“It’s so dry here!”

I haven’t heard clipping in a while. I should dig back into 'em.

Also, yeah. My entire childhood I wanted to be a programmer because I just like math that much, but sooo much of this industry feels like bullshit these days. It’s really uninspiring.

“What are you going to build?” “The metaverse. Some other bullshit no one wants.”

It’s not going away.

Imagine saying this about asbestos, lead, freon, bitcoin, or cigarettes.

You don’t want it to go anywhere, why the hell would I listen to you?

This made me laugh so hard

Dude, just let AI fuck your wife too. It can probably do it better than you can.

especially the translations of languages that I don’t understand.

God forbid we dignify those people with a personal touch. Yeah, just let google translate do it: a technology famous for giving really good translations.

My world is shattered.

I think I was thinking of Mercy. But I guess her angelic yellow beam is more God’s Wrath than it is Pastor Cures Your Back Pain anyway.

And yellow means, uh, holy light, or something.
I ain’t played no Overwatch, but I all but guarantee that’s what it is.