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15 hours ago, Parliament said:

Country music has been mostly garbage for now on 15 years.  Full stop.

But...

...an actual human being going to the store, buying boots and a hat, calling himself a badass and singing songs about pickup trucks, is it really any more fake to have a computer do ALL the work?

Yes. Fuck off with this shit. 

 

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Crossposting from the daily texan thread about that #1 country song...
 

 

On 11/12/2025 at 4:48 PM, Hornius Emeritus said:

Cross posting from the Daily Texan, since some of you probably won't see it.

The number one country song right now is AI-generated. 

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/the-no-1-country-song-in-the-us-right-now-is-ai-generated

I say: Put the musicians back in the music!

 

another reason metal is the best genre on the planet: https://www.metal-archives.com/news/view/id/296

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Recently, there has been a noticeable uptick in the number of bands being submitted to the site which have AI generated music. We want to make it clear what our position is on these bands, and how we plan to move forward in assessing them.

It went without saying, at least up until now, that when we imagined growing the largest and most complete database of metal music, part of that vision was the preservation of art and human expression through music. Until AI, that was a given. The music described on the site is, in some way, played, programmed, and composed by a human being. That still remains an important criterion for us, and it is our belief that AI generated music does not satisfy that requirement.

With the above in mind, we won't be accepting bands with AI generated albums, and we will scrutinize more thoroughly submissions suspected of having AI generated music.

For those users submitting bands, if you have a band suspected of having AI generated music, we may call upon you to provide evidence to prove otherwise, whether it's behind-the-scenes material, statements from the band or its label, evidence the band played live, promotional material showing the band is genuine, and so on. The more evidence we have to show that such a band is real, and its music composed by a human being, the better. Our goal isn't to make this harder on you, or anyone for that matter, but we do want to stay true to our vision for the site.

This policy isn't perfect and is a work-in-progress which may evolve over time. We know there will be some bands with AI generated music mistakenly added to the site, and we also know mistakes can be made and bands without AI generated material may be flagged for having AI generated music. With your help, we hope to avoid this as much as possible.

Thank you. \m/

-Derigin

 

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But the federal government is already bailing out the AI industry with regulatory changes and public funds that will protect companies in the event of a private sector pullback.

 

1 hour ago, WBT said:

Ah yes, not being listed on metal archives will stop them.

Don't think that's the zinger you think it is. But ok

Any entity willing to call out and reject AI music should be commended. 

 

Putting lipstick on a pig? 

3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Replace "economy" with "society".  At this point AI is a cult. No one actually knows what it is or what it will do, but FOMO has taken over and everyone has chosen to jump on board. It's like if Scientology overtook the major religions. 

 

 

 

Back to the Loreal thing, I can actually see a decent tie-in for AI and make-up.  "ChatLipstick, recommend a make-up scheme that makes me look kind of like Emma Stone in Poor Things"..."Use this base, with that eyeliner, and that lipstick, and take your top off...here is a picture of what you will look like."  It's basically what women have been doing for women for decades.  But, two things: 1) Will customers still want to have that interaction, and that tactile experience having someone else apply it; 2) is it worth the money?  How much is someone willing to pay for it? $5 maybe? $20? That won't justify the investment. 

Omaha Public Power District just announced they expect a 5-9% increase on rates, per year, through the end of the decade.  No mention of the Facebook and Google data centers recently developed in the service area in the release

 

“Chatbot, how do we end poverty?”

“Tax the rich.”

On 11/19/2025 at 9:10 PM, Tuco said:

“Chatbot, how do we end poverty?”

Have no humans to be impoverished

FIFO Agent Smith. 

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55 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

We're all gonna die.

5 minutes ago, Parliament said:

We're all gonna die.

Bad Religion called it 40 years ago.

 

 

20 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

The thing is, if you ask neutral questions it gives reasonably useful and measured answers. If you have a coocoo for cocoa puffs framing and question, it leans into that and reflects it back to you. It's like a dog barking at a mirror, and it's driving the qanon crowd even more insane by validating and repeating their nonsense back to them

6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

The thing is, if you ask neutral questions it gives reasonably useful and measured answers. If you have a coocoo for cocoa puffs framing and question, it leans into that and reflects it back to you. It's like a dog barking at a mirror, and it's driving the qanon crowd even more insane by validating and repeating their nonsense back to them

Seems like it goes to the fundamental neural-network nature of AI in pattern-matching.

And the perhaps even more fundamental nature of numerical computing:  GIGO.

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On 11/18/2025 at 5:48 AM, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 


I thought Jared from Subway went to jail.

31 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 


I feel like this isn’t just an AI thing.

The amount of jackwagons that now comment on everything and think they know shit has skyrocketed, regardless of the validity of their thoughts or answers.

AI is only reflecting our cultural AI is only reflecting our cultural Dunning-Kruger. 

6 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:


I feel like this isn’t just an AI thing.

The amount of jackwagons that now comment on everything and think they know shit has skyrocketed, regardless of the validity of their thoughts or answers.

AI is only reflecting our cultural AI is only reflecting our cultural Dunning-Kruger. 

Well, yeah.  They're training it on material mostly crawled from the internet, which includes a lot of dogshit.

It has authority because it's the "computer" without human intervention.

But it returns what it's "cued" with, so if you prompt it with conspiratorial dogshit, you're gonna get something consonant with conspiratorial dogshit.

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 


I use claude a lot to write oracle stored procedures. It’s very helpful crank out queries and updates that have joins between multiple db tables. But it’ll just make up column names with confidence even though I’ve taught it the joins before. It says “you’re right” a lot to me after I’ve pointed out the error. It doesn’t learn and retain the learnings as well as it should.

1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

The amount of jackwagons that now comment on everything and think they know shit has skyrocketed, regardless of the validity of their thoughts or answers.

The scientific term is mansplaining.

2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

The scientific term is mansplaining.

Actually it’s …..

5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Seems like it goes to the fundamental neural-network nature of AI in pattern-matching.

And the perhaps even more fundamental nature of numerical computing:  GIGO.

Imagine how bad it's going to get when 90% of the training data is other AI garbage. 

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3 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Imagine how bad it's going to get when 90% of the training data is other AI garbage. 

Why I’m surprised there isn’t an AI yes/no bit in digital artifacts.  I would think the AI companies would want to have everything flagged for training purposes.

26 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Why I’m surprised there isn’t an AI yes/no bit in digital artifacts.  I would think the AI companies would want to have everything flagged for training purposes.

Google’s ai overview says that some platforms put “ai created” tags in the metadata. It doesn’t sound like they all do.

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Imagine how bad it's going to get when 90% of the training data is other AI garbage. 

That is, one of my favorite terms of this era: "Hapsburg AI."  Fucking absolute garbage created by generation upon generation of inbreeding.  And the same types standing for the proposition that actually, it's the superior form of existence, and should rightfully control the globe.

Fuck that.  Inbred imperial bullshit is suited for exactly one thing, literally and metaphorically:

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Not sure if it was meta or google but saw a commercial from them during cfb watching where they are  touting how much a data center helped Altoona PA economically including a few shots of ppl working on a rack inside it. Pure insanity. 

1 hour ago, bluto said:

Not sure if it was meta or google but saw a commercial from them during cfb watching where they are  touting how much a data center helped Altoona PA economically including a few shots of ppl working on a rack inside it. Pure insanity. 

Reminds me of that Tech alum billionaire trying to repeal the College Football TV act of 1964 or whatever the hell it is.

You have no idea of what the hell is in play but if a billionaire wants it, vote against it.

10 hours ago, Dnaguy said:


I thought Jared from Subway went to jail.

The dotard probably pardoned him. It’s not like diddling kids is any big deal to the dotard.

10 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

The amount of jackwagons that now comment on everything and think they know shit has skyrocketed, regardless of the validity of their thoughts or answers.

You should put @ana on ignore.

I get the sense a bunch of Uncs on here don’t know this so let me help out the room:

Add "-ai" to your Google queries and the experience is like it was from 2001-2022.  

1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

I get the sense a bunch of Uncs on here don’t know this so let me help out the room:

Add "-ai" to your Google queries and the experience is like it was from 2001-2022.  

 

Yeah but how do we make it work like Alta Vista in 1998

37 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

Yeah but how do we make it work like Alta Vista in 1998

Just ask your computer to load the milf porn more slowly, and it'll be the same experience.

13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Just ask your computer to load the milf porn more slowly, and it'll be the same experience.

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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Just ask your computer to load the milf porn more slowly, and it'll be the same experience.

I definitely wasn’t wasting my time with old woman porn back in those days.

No idea what’s going on there. Is the argument that AI is scraping photos from the internet to fulfill queries about finding photos on the internet?  Explain it to me like I’m 5. Or a millennial that doesn’t understand AI. 

9 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

No idea what’s going on there. Is the argument that AI is scraping photos from the internet to fulfill queries about finding photos on the internet?  Explain it to me like I’m 5. Or a millennial that doesn’t understand AI. 

I'm still trying to figure it out. The first tweet is displaying the recent upgrade with photorealistic AI. The second one I just saw the reply and it looks like they "created" a AI picture based off a real photo of a real woman. 

 

On 11/23/2025 at 4:55 PM, bluto said:

Not sure if it was meta or google but saw a commercial from them during cfb watching where they are  touting how much a data center helped Altoona PA economically including a few shots of ppl working on a rack inside it. Pure insanity. 

It's meta. They have a similar commercial for Los Lunas, NM which is a small bedroom community south of Albuquerque. The town is built around a Walmart DC and an Amazon DC, and now the data center. The commercial's all filmed at night & the voice over is about how meta has created a community & improved their quality of life, blah blah blah.

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