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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 1h

The "weight lifting robot can replace the gym" analogy (may be Ted Chiang's, originally?) remains undefeated in explaining the category error the generative AI industry continues to make.

Imagine thinking this replaces the point of travel. For crying out loud.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

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𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖔𝖘𝖊 𝕲𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖓 @rosegoldenpetal.bsky.social · 8h

If your company cannot hire any voice actors, don't put voice acting in your game.

This AI voice acting crap is bad.

Kit HORROR-son 🎙️💪🏳️‍🌈 🎃🎃🎃 @kitharrison.com · 9h

Beyond disappointed to learn that Arc Raiders, like The Finals before it, uses AI voice acting.

So many iconic game voice work is little vendor greetings, and to farm that out to a machine is a hollow admission of a lack of care.

I know a thousand actors who would have done better for buttons.

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Mel Miniatures @melminiatures.bsky.social · 2h

With AI I'm finding out that, apparently, people didn't want to make art, meet people, learn how to play music or discover new places. They just wanted the "achievement" of having done those things, like cheating on a videogame to get some medals.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 2d

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch

A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required

techcrunch.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3h

Metaphor alert

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 4h

It's this photo if you missed it, savaging the East Wing to make a vanity ballroom.

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Timber @timbeon.bsky.social · 3h

If this was real, Appleton WI would buy out the entire product supply in about 3 seconds

The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe https://theonion.com/home-depot-introduces-new-12-foot-tall-willem-dafoe/

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a limit to the “imagine if Obama” retort but Christ on a cracker the man is *literally* demolishing the White House!

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 4h

If Obama or Biden or Clinton had demolished a significant part of the White House to build a privately funded edition that they commissioned and approved without public input they would have been summarily impeached.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 5h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 4h

A reminder that the GOP could stop this man from literally tearing down our country at any time, and they are *choosing* not to

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 5h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 4h

been using the new settings for a few days now, and instead of every other post being AI slop, I get one every few rows at BEST (usually untagged)

for both artists and clients: if you use pinterest to make moodboards or plan designs, highly recommend making sure these are turned OFF

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Akane ⚔️🫀 DTIYS pinned! @akanelogics.bsky.social · 7d

‼️ REMOVE AIslop from your PINTEREST results.‼️
Let's see how true this is....

1. Go to ‘Refine your recommendations’ and remove everything related to ‘generative AI interests’.

(As if anyone who visits the site for reliable references would be interested in that...)

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Bárbara Helena @silvoca.gay · 6h

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merr🥭 @chiffonades.bsky.social · 4h

photo of construction equipment knocking down the white house really feels apt for the time we live in

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 5h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Timber @timbeon.bsky.social · 4h

...Okay when I saw all the skeets about the video of Trump shitting on Americans I thought it was metaphorical and he just went on a standard unhinged rant, but no, he reposted an AI slop video of himself piloting a bomber jet to literally dump poop on protestors

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7h

I intellectually understand why corporate media is scared of Trump and why they regularly pull punches, though I find it deeply cowardly. But I do not understand why they refuse to describe in plain, factual terms the things he says and does

www.404media.co/trump-no-kin...

News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America

Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.

www.404media.co

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Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 6h

they are french

Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 6h

Every Pokémon has at least a handful of "Hey, what was up with THAT guy?" NPCs, but Lumiose City's population chats with you like there's a massive gas leak going on.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 9h

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I tend to think that it's a bad thing when the President lies about things we can all see. And it's *not great* that many in the media are so eager to let him play up those lies.

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 7h

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." —George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

www.techdirt.com

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OmniaAAAAAAAAA A G-G-G-GHOstia @omniaostia.bsky.social · 8h

AI companies like two days ago: AI will get us to intergalactic travel, cure all disease, and open the gates of paradise.

AI companies now, unshaven, hand sanitizer on their breath: hey, uh, hey, want to see that girl who has a restraining order against you only now she has huge knockers?

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Surviving in Maryland 🦀 @howie.schoolbread.com · 14h

TIL that Signal runs on AWS. That seems less than ideal.

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Timber @timbeon.bsky.social · 8h

(I hate that saying this makes it sound like I hate dogs, because I *adore* dogs, and I say this from a position of concern about their safety and well-being)

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Timber @timbeon.bsky.social · 8h

"But my dog has excellent recall!" Is a place with live traffic and loads of distractions really somewhere that you want to put that to the test? "But my dog is friendly!" Great, you don't know if the other dogs and people at the park are, and people with a phobia of dogs exist

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Timber @timbeon.bsky.social · 8h

If you're not going to keep your dog on a leash, then you have no business bringing it out of fenced areas, for the safety of your dog, other dogs, and other people.