⁂ raz

living in the edges and basking in the nuance

[Fergus Navaratnam-Blair @Fergus_NBlair]

The thing about these kinds of Gen AI use cases is that the BBC could have easily made this video before these tools existed - you could do it with actors in makeup, you could do it with traditional VFX.

The fact that you're only doing it now means you only thought it was worth doing once the cost was essentially zero. That is to say, the content's existence has become a tacit acknowledgement of its own worthlessness.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@UmActuallyShow please do another musical theatre episode theyre the only ones i can play along with

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

reply glitch pmoooooo

[jenneth goulet @kennyroysgrammy]

this quote has talked me off several ledges

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@idoled_out i’d be moving like that too if my name was on that fuckass broken idol

[patrick @pattyrickk]

if anyone even cares

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@kabhinietzsche a lot of it comes down to the move to digital. on film, there’s no editing in post so every frame has to look perfect when they shoot it. on digital, a director can vow to touch up any scene in post, then forget to do this when editing (or more likely, skip it to save time/money)

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@wendellsandico might be misremembering but i think when she dies she is dressed like this again and argentina remembers her as the woman who sung to the people outside, not as the conniving, arrogant politician the indoor audience knows her to be

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@nxrthl1ght @Iithosphere the pedestal is part of the piece, without it we wouldnt understand that the blind man is about to walk over the edge

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@PopBase where’s amy winehouse?

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@waltermalungaca @amoelectraheart @PopBase saying this when your favourite evita is MADONNA ijbol

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@InsBernal2 @Variety was gerran ever in😭

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@thankuneext @mrcarl_woodward she’d be standing still in public view for several minutes at the same time every day. if even one person wanted to hurt her, they’d quite easily be able to. not to mention the death threats and hate campaign against her

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@Brandn_LastName @RussCote genuinely no one cares about it. schools do teach about battles and wars we lost because our history classes aren’t biased like yours are. they don’t teach about this one because it wasn’t important

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@sonny_roark16 @rubymariner1 thats exactly why gay and trans people have been called sexual deviants throughout history. by giving them the same label as rapists and pedophiles it makes them sound just as evil

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@merielTLA idgaf about all that i’m just letting you know she isn’t bi or pan

[⁂ raz @ajwlover]

@RussCote americans think 1776 was this huge loss for our country but the only time we think about it is when you guys bring it up. genuinely not one mention of it in schools, it’s nothing to us