I mean, fuck the profitability. What about its massive toll on our already crumbling climate? What about its hallucinations that were told by the massively powerful companies (currently, anyway) to just not worry about? What about the promise of it “revolutionizing” industries (corporate speak for fucking workers in new and exciting ways), what about the paradigm solidifying nature of this tech that they keep lying to us about being a democratizing super tool?

Everything about this shit is trouble because of the world it was built into. This type of tech (even though most of its capabilities and uses are lies) in the hands of the people it’s in will only serve the rich and gobble up resources when we need to be scaling back our consumption. Instead, that endless investment is fueling our climate collapse.

Fuck this LLM bullshit. It’s not for us. It will only hurt us in this timeline.

*muito obrigado

Let the death of Saburo Arasaka be a lesson to us all: even 150+ year old bastards can get choked the fuck out

“It’s remote if you’re connected to this same tin can on a string.”

Waymo offering human remains delivery services should death occur on your journey

What’s the need for private launch capabilities? Private = capitalist. I don’t see much good in capitalist ventures.

Didn’t people’s lackluster interest in the first one and the pitiful sales numbers convey that we don’t really give a shit?

So you don’t think these massive megacompanies should be held responsible for making disinformation machines? Why not?

What. Is this something that’s been on the horizon?

If anyone sees a salamander, it’s Liz’s.

I used it to receive nudes and spicy pics from one girl I dated. Downloaded it for that purpose alone. Deleted it when we stopped talking

And cracking open a book didn’t demolish the environment. Weird.

I mean, five sentences is a paragraph.

I mean, I do wish there were a large competitor to YouTube. But…why this particular asshole.

Hey, hey, hey. Leave Elmo out of this. Elon is no Elmo. He fuckin wishes.

Oh I thought we were having a friendly discussion. I didn’t know we were arguing. My bad, I’ll change my tone

Mind explaining what you meant then? I guess I misunderstood your point

I don’t think this is the power redistribution you’re implying it is. I’m not actually sure what you mean by that. The power to create truths? To spread propaganda? I can’t think of any other power this tech would redistribute. Would you mind explaining?

That’s exactly what I meant when I said:

It’s not a new story. In fact, it’s a very old story.

And you just kinda proved my point. As time has gone on, the great of deception has grown with new technology. This is just the latest iteration. And every new one has expanded the chances/danger exponentially.

I mean, sure, deception as a concept has always been around. But let me just put it this way:

How many more scam emails, scam texts, how many more data leaks, conspiracy theories are going around these days? All of these things always existed. The Nigerian prince scam. That one’s been around forever. The door-to-door salesman, that one’s been around forever. The snake oil charlatan. Scams and lies have been around since we could communicate, probably. But never before have we been bombarded with them like we are today. Before, it took a guy with a rotary phone and a phone book a full day to try to scam 100 people. Now 100 calls go out all at once with a different fake phone number for each, spoofed to be as close to the recipient’s number as possible.

The effort input needed for these things have dropped significantly with new tech, and their prevalence skyrocketed. It’s not a new story. In fact, it’s a very old story. It’s just more common and much easier, so it’s taken up by more people because it’s more lucrative. Why spend all of your time trying to hack a campaign’s email (which is also still happening), when you can make one suspicious picture and get all of your bots to get it trending so your company gets billions in tax breaks? All at the click of a button. Then send your spam bots to call millions of people a day to spread the information about the picture, and your email bots to spam the picture to every Facebook conspiracy theorist. All in a matter of seconds.

This isn’t a matter of “what if.” This is kind of just the law of scams. It will be used for evil. No question. And it does have an effect. You can’t have random numbers call you anymore without you immediately expecting their spam. Soon, you won’t be able to get photo evidence without immediately thinking it might be fake. Water flows downhill, new tech gets used for scams. The like a law of nature at this point.