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hayden_horn

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  1. i've been thinking about this on and off for what feels like forever, but the one thing i can't seem to get over is that ai isn't new. like, at all. LLMs are just a more robust fucking chat bot. for the past two decades, customers have faced ai chatbots in the corner of every goddamn website, and voice prompts for over-the-phone calls operated the same fucking way. putting them in a new wrapper and calling it "GENERATIVE AI" as though that's even a real thing. jesus christ, the industry was using the term "machine-to-machine learning" for a decade before they went full clearchannel to iheart into "generative ai." it's basically rebranding. it's all so fucking ridiculous, and it's being used to justify terrible, irresponsible, short-term decisions to enrich just a few over any sort of realized long-term practical benefit. look, back in the before internet times, i bought a revolutionary fucking soundblaster sound card (that's right, motherfuckers, i had fucking SPEAKERS now) that had this chatbot included named dr sbaitso. dr sbaitso was revolutionary for the time, because you could basically write anything and it could give you a response. now, often, that response may have been something like "i'm sorry, i don't understand what you mean," or something like that, but it was clever enough to more or less mimic a fake therapy sesssion. for a 14 year old boy, it was sometimes good enough to mimic a fake sex chat sess-ohshiti'vesaidtoomuch; but anyways, it was basically the first version of ai that i ever encountered in real life. prior to that, i guess the ideas in 2001 or war games had been presented to me, but real ai? well, here it fucking was for real! what a time to be alive. surely we were on the cusp of a brand new era of computing and human to machine interaction, right? right? no, fuck, it didn't happen. we had a huge upgradeability phase in terms of hardware in the years following, where we argued about pentium vs amd and motherboard specs, and check out what color neon tube i got in this here fresh ass comp-ohshiti'vesaidtoomuchagain; but most of the chatbots stayed more or less the same. but computer games became much more open world and open to interpretation. computing had fully evolved from a text interface to a graphic one, and now all the upgrade shit to spend money on were graphics cards and the like. of course, we were still upgrading our processors, RAM, and HDDs, but for the most part that upgradeability was on the downslope. graphics were improving though. until they weren't. i haven't been wowed by a games graphic engine innovation since, um...but anyways, everyone got rich! but anyways, for some reason, i always remember sbaitso, every time a chat window opens on myat&t or hulu.com or pornh-stopfuckingsayingtoomuch!; which i guess brings me to my next point of being wowed by ai: picture, early 2000s, an early 20s, newly minted into an increasingly online workforce me. well, don't imagine me, but someone good looking and clever. anyways, i got a job in educational publishing, just at an amazing time. i basically helped correlated lesson plans for teachers find their way onto CD-ROMs (an amazing new technology, where you could put a CD into your computer, and it would sometimes be able to read content from it if you hadn't scratched it or smudged it with cheeto fingers). anyways, as interesting and rewarding as this career was (spoiler, i left after a few years to go to japan with my wife to teach english), i needed some outside stimulus to make it work. music made the most sense, but my workplace didn't allow for ipods or other mp3 players for some reason (hint, it's always the old people), so i found a few options online. but the one that blew my mind was something called the yahoo launchcast player. launchcast was a revelation, because it advertized itself in the tagline you can see right up there, it was music that actually took your fucking input and used it to fashion a unique channel around things you liked and disliked. one not only liked and disliked a song, but you could rate the artist and album as well, if you wanted. and early iterations, you could choose to rate on a 0-10 scale or a 0-100 scale for all three of those. then it used this thing called an algorithm (maybe you've heard of this brand new technology?) and gave you recommendations based on the ratings you were giving. this is basically ai, right? this blew my fucking mind. of course, this was a crazy time for indie music, so i discovered a shit ton of music thanks to this thing than i ever could have otherwise. i theorize that this is exactly the point where the algorithm peaked. this was a singularity, like, say, ride-share later to come, that would change an entire industry. and so it did, it disrupted the fuck out of everything. of course, around the same time, steve jobs realized that mp3s were the future, because they had been for the previous decade, and launched itunes and shortly thereafter, a brand new technology! it was an apple device called the ipod, and this magical device could play mp3s! of course it could only play mp3s generated inside the apple walled gard-shutupnobodycares; the point is, music had finally been democratized! no longer would we be reliant on terrestrial radio stations and record labels force feeding us bullshit music. the indie revolution was fucking here, and i was here for it. and the algorithm was there for it too, doing what an search and rec algorithm should do, which is spiral you from a center of your solar system outwards into a universe of content to discover. and discover i did, music recommendation engines were everywhere, and they did their jobs, and only later started incorporating ads, and then subscription ad skips, but still, it worked, and everyone got rich! for awhile at least. now we have spotifty, where you can like or dislike something and that might change your algorithm depending on which single they can now use the data in your algorithm to push on you and bam, we are back at terrestrial radio level marketing strategy, and nothing has been improved. now it sucks again. now, ive gone on long enough to stretch more line between 91-01-now, and i think my point is clear. things have changed. it's noticable, and it's an uncanny valley problem, imo. rec engines only spiral inwards because the product focus has shifted from the content. we are now the product, and we need a definition. it's our data that needs value, and therefore, if we can define this 25-29 year old female as a kardashian consuming sabrina fan who loves puppy tik-toks, then bam - you have some kind of data profile you can sell off to whoever will buy it. some asshole executive at petco might love a profile like that so they can begin to formulate their marketing strategy for the next 5 years. but now business school mbas have been drilled that the only way to make things better is to maximize value and then you need an innovative revolution, and if one isn't happening organically that you can identify and mazimize, then goddamn it you better invent one! see, also, tv manufacturers, 3DTV and content. that was what i call invented innovation, sold with a bit of snake oil and hope, that a demand that was never really there might somehow coelesce for some reason and we can all get rich again! remember when we all sold hdtvs and the world changed, we can do it again! they just dressed up old innovation and sold it as new. remind you of anything? anyways, tl;dr; WAY tl;dr, ai is another one of these invented innovations. they've dressed up old technology in new led lighting and they are telling you something that's been around forever is suddenly new. nevermind it's forever derivative, and once it gets into a derivative loop, well, then you have the modern day algorithm and modern day economy and i guess it's doing what it's supposed to do: make some people rich?
  2. I guess of all the options for bodily secretions, you went for the last offensive?
  3. no, for real, i was trying to articulate this exact thought in response to @Fastbreak 's assertion that history will not be kind to catturd. fucking catturd has entered the fucking chat
  4. hook em high like the eagle soars?
  5. Think about what they signed up to do
  6. No man that's not a good suicide hotline that's more like the commit sui-ohhhhhhhh I see
  7. username does NOT check out
  8. So i just accidentally saw a Trump commercial promoting Fannie Mae. The used generative Ai for the audio from Trump. The whole audio overlay was Ai produced.
  9. me too. 96-98. It wasn't bad for what it was back then. these kids today have it so good, they don't even know. late night chicken rings with hot sauce for the fucking win
  10. just take a good look at jester
  11. it's going to be weird explaining how that baby came out of erika kirk's vagina...
  12. see also the entire enshittification thread
  13. So uh where are you sourcing your biblical facts because you're kind of showing your ass here?
  14. Circus circus would like a word. That place is basically a flop house Once I stayed in the Tropicana for ces. That place still there? Only time in Vegas a madam knocked violently on my door at 3am asking if any of her girls were in my room. When I said no she accused me of hiding a working girl in my room. I told her I wasn't letting her in my room but she or I could call security if she wanted. She sneered at me, pointed at my wedding ring and hissed "you know what we call guys like you, right? Mr. Fucking M." Then she stormed off down the hall and out of my life forever.
  15. what the actual fuck. how close are we to requiring visas to leave?
  16. Goddamn this is the resistance. This is the difference from nazi Germany. If social media saves us all I'm just going to fucking laugh.
  17. Needlenose pliers will yank a stem just as easily
  18. man it's about time I read a technically smart person just come out and say it. It lacks and fails in so many ways but everyone just kind of gives an idiocracy shrug and assumes the plants want the ai. It's fucking derivative.
  19. For real. This is also cowardice from the state of Minnesota.
  20. Where the correct answer in these instances is the boring boilerplate "we are conducting a thorough investigation and cannot comment at this time" That they are so strongly defending this agent means this is part of the fucking plan. That shooter just walking away remorselessly is a tell as it's the administration's all-in over the top sorry for him. It's fucking tragic.
  21. Yeah that was a fucking massive statement that no one caught. That's the plan. The new brownshirts.
  22. Vance out here just straight up lying and dissembling into some fraud bullshit deflection.
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