AI couldn’t do this a year ago, it required computer hardware that was supercomputer levels of expensive to even create something like this. IMO development was actually held back by crypto and covid-19. Now AI is the #1 focus of the techbros and it isn’t going to slow down. This shit is going to put so many journalists, artists, and even programmers out of work. I don’t know how else to explain this, HUMANITY LITERALLY CREATED AI THIS YEAR. WE MADE FUCKING SKYNET!

You want to talk about technological progress, this shit mogs fusion, it mogs the vaccines, it mogs whatever dumb space colonization shit we did. We made fucking AI! I bet we will have sentient AI in our lifetime. And what are we going to do with this stuff? Porn, lots of porn. Deepfakes of celebrities and politicians sacrificing children to moloch, dead actors staring in new movies, a new album by Tupac, fake war footage, fake everything.

Have you ever heard about how a monkey can write Shakespeare given enough time? We have fucking done that, we pressed random buttons enough times that we ended up with something legible. Now we turn memes into real people.

We need a butlarian jihad or some shit.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Hexbear stop becoming doomers over Latest Tech Fad #37 challenge (impossible!)

    AI can only make art by stealing existing art and remixing it, which is legally questionable (in a "Disney is going to pull out the lawyers and lobbyists" sort of way) and also still requires people. News has been written by algorithms for a decade now anyway. Programmers don't just write arbitrary blackbox functions for a living, you need a person to actually architect a system and figure out how data flows through it and perform meaningful actions which AI cannot do.

    AI will not be sentient in anyone reading this's lifetime. This is all a jumped up chatbot. Please stop turning into the computer equivalent of antivaxxers because someone posted an article about someone's art getting stolen by a grifter AI, it's not that big of a deal.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      News has been written by algorithms for a decade now anyway

      as a pro tip if you write an article and give it to a reporter a lot of them will barely even read it before publishing it

    • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Hexbear stop becoming doomers over Latest Tech Fad #37 challenge (impossible!)

      :yea: