"Instagram is Facebook for people born after 1975." I think @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social nailed it.
I can't decide if it makes it worse that no one's making any money out of this. It means they destroyed the whole internet and every creative industry on an absurd gamble that a fancy parlour trick could spark some sort of unspecified technological boom.
OpenAI— the literal *Industry Leader* in LLM/GPT-style "AI"— can't afford to keep its lights on w/o massive outside investments, & even the people who could wring a 7+ figure salary out of their coffers are jumping ship in light of the for-profit direction. Seems… Pretty bad, for "AI" as an industry
Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, and two others are leaving as leaders including Sam Altman work to transform the start-up.
"It will never stop being incredibly funny that in the past 24 months an untold legion of people have emerged from heroic doses of shrooms/LSD clutching a note that just has 'what if u could chat with a pdf???' scrawled on it" - jrflowers
Meta wants to bury the social web and replace it with a zombie Meta wants to kill the social web
Meta now wants to fill your feeds with AI slop cancelling the old social media covenant. tante.cc/2024/09/26/m...
Meta recently had their big “this is what we are doing” conference and in all the noise was one very interesting fact. As the Verge writes: If you think avoiding AI-generated images is difficult as it...
"Fedi distills losers: AI, covid, class war, climate, free software, on all of these issues, the sort of people that fedi attracts are those that lost. But, good news everyone: in fedi you don’t have to engage with the world, only with fellow losers! I know. I...Andy Wingo: fedi is for losers
If you have some cash to spare, Verso needs your help. Especially in times like these with growing fascism we need publishers on the left to push back. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver...
Verso Books needs your help to launch its Autumn 2024 list of books after the bankruptcy of one its most trusted partners.