Robin Drangmeister

Fänd's cool, wenn Menschen so ganz im Allgemeinen 'n bisschen weniger scheiße wären | he/him

[DocEckl @DocEckl]

"Dieses Land wird von rechthaberischen alten Männern zugrundegerichtet. Nicht von den Grünen, nicht vom “woken Zeitgeist”, nicht vom Klimaschutz, sondern von den Leuten, die all das als Sündenbock brauchen."
@ChrisStoecker

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It is physically painful to watch society become less intelligent and more strange, wicked, and devoid of empathy by the day.

[J ♡ @juuxiie2]

This AI shit really just accelerated every single negative thing about the world lmao

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

What a rough time to be educated, empathetic, and intelligent.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT understand what billionaires think the final outcome of all this would be. If nobody has a living wage, they CANNOT buy your products, pay for your services or rent the properties being owned and hoarded. At that point, does the whole thing not just collapse ??

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

sorry europeans but you gotta die in a heatwave because it‘s really important that we keep the trillionaire machine going

[Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah @homemadehooplah]

Except there's been no evidence that AI will bring the 2/3 chance of a better life.

Thus far, AI has only caused harm: job loss, grotesque data centers, increased utilities, rising costs of electronics, ruining education, & AI psychosis.

By all accounts, we're living the 1/3.

[Jade Law @jadel4w]

I’m going to discuss this from purely Gen AI art, not code or other tooling.
I just see this narrative a lot and have been thinking about it since Epics concept video.

Speed. Acceleration. Faster.

I don’t understand why “it’s faster” has become the default justification for AI. Faster isn’t automatically better. The value of art has never been measured by the speed of its production.
Instant ramen is faster than making it from scratch. We know it’s not better than made from scratch.
Faster in crafting something rarely means something as good or better.

There’s also a broader cultural issue. Every time we replace a professional artist with a tool because it’s quicker, we create fewer paid opportunities for people to develop into exceptional artists. The industry becomes more efficient at producing images, while becoming worse at producing artists. Critical thinking and creativity declines, so all we end up with is mass-produced meaningless art and a small workforce of diminished creatives. Worse yet the overall talent pool diminishes.

This obsession with speed also reflects a wider trend in modern work: every technology promises to save us time, yet we’re rarely allowed to spend that saved time creating something better. Instead, we’re expected to produce more. If AI lets an artist make ten illustrations instead of one, the commercial incentive is usually to deliver ten, not to spend ten times longer refining the one that matters. The work loses meaning.

Art occupies a strange place because, unlike manufacturing, the process itself has value. With art, the choices, craftsmanship and individual perspective are often what people are paying for. The output is the culmination of that process.

Efficiency can increase output while reducing the very thing that makes creative work meaningful. We’re removing consideration whenever we remove a human from any part of the process.

Yes there will be some higher quality projects, but I guarantee the most creative projects will always be made by those who reject AI art and master their crafts to create something with meaning.

Before everyone comes in and says “yes but games is a business”. It is… and? Do we not laud beautiful games that are the peak of our craft? When the industry keeps laying people off do you really care to defend the business model games currently operates under? Do you only want microtransactions?
Some of us don’t. And well crafted, authentic and creator loved media tends to be more marketable than corpo-slop.

[Aaron @DesignLvLUp]

AI is comparable. People are impacted. I spent the last roughly 15 years building my career in this industry, and now about to lose everything I built with my family, just as many others are. AI is a political movement specifically for people like you to take advantage of, while stepping on the necks of people like me. The middle class has been punched down enough in this country. Do I also need to bring up how data centers impact people? The housing market? All the land being bought by wealthy people like you? Normal working class people just want a house to live in, but can’t afford it? Computer components skyrocketing in price? Electric bills skyrocketing in price? Should we keep going over how AI is impacting people since you believe it’s not?

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

There is no clearer image that shows how much billionaires should not exist.

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[No context Hazz ⛩ @HazzimIO]

No comments.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Stepsen 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @stepsenmccool]

Wie ihr Tonfall sich ändert. 🥴🥴

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

The managerial class is being scammed in real time by their own egos. If this was a project introduced by an employee it would’ve been killed in a month but because the executive sect has AI psychosis they’ll tolerate having no realtime spend information. Wallet inspector’d!

[Bwoffa @TheBwoffa]

quote of the decade.

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

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