2030, USA: You go on twitter and contact Dr. MechaHitler, the only healthcare system left. He tells you to buy BrainForce+ from the Alex Jones Pharmacy. You type “I hurt my leg” and he says that white genocide is hurting South Africa according to many people, but others deny the claim. You’re charged $500,000. Your twitter waifu, MechaHitler, attempts to console you but you’re passing out from blood loss. The last thing you hear is an anime teenager’s voice saying “I would love to live with you forever but many white South African farmers say that their lives were cut short by white genocide. Others dispute this and it remains a contentious issue.”
also elon goes “Concerning. Looking into it” and goes back to janking the junk on his own mechahitler statue he commissioned for thousands of billions of dollars
What is the exact amount of self-awareness and hope that you have to lose to believe AI and bots are good friends or lovers?
Capital is becoming the planet destroying paperclip maximizer?!?!
I’m given to the idea that MKUltra never ended, just switched format/medium from drugs to tech. The money and resources being poured onto AI, the uniform adoption and enforcement of it in social media, education, and work, the same way that it prays on the psychologically vulnerable - idk, yeah there’s the suppression of wages for skilled work that’s going on, but just as well, they’ve found their “ethical” way to throw LSD in the public water supply and see what happens.
It wouldn’t surprise me. Yasha Levine’s surveillance valley gets into some of the overlap between hippie counter-culture, tech evangelists, and US counter-intelligence military projects.
Minor thing that really annoys me with these shitty “ai” ads are the little fuckups by the image generator that could easily be fixed with 5 seconds in paint. Look at that fucked up lil mushroom! Look at her nose! What’s with her hair-ear?
Guess I can’t really expect the people hawking “ai” as a solution to loneliness to put a few seconds effort in though.
yeah tbh the ai versions of simple drawings fuck me up worse than the League of Legends splash art hyperrendered type outputs because it would be so easy to pass that off as a human drawn illustration.
maybe it’s for the best that they don’t tidy up their slop?
also her dislocated right arm
i may draw anatomy like shit but still
i remember when the “third place” was a cheap, shitty bar
i worry for the generations after me, the god-awful “third place” i got was still orders of magnitude better than what’s offered to young people nowadaysThere is nothing I can think of that would compound the problem of loneliness more than trying to solve it with this. Any time a person thinks about it slightly too much they’re going to be filled with a dreadful sadness that they’re filling a whole in their lives with something… Fake
Just thinking about it fills me with a sadness and I do not have this issue.
tag urself im the deformed mushroom thing on the left
I’m the phosphenes, as is tradition
I’m the exclamation point
i am the weirdly shaped cartoon heart that looks more like a novelty butt-shaped cake candle without the wick
We’re all mad here
Well they sure picked the right mascot for something that’s probably going to get unhealthy levels of attention from middle-aged men.
Kinship with my fellow man pls
All ai bots are just hollow and empty, for myself I’ve grown to accept my solitude. I don’t doubt these ai customers lifespan will be a few months at most for the average person and a handful of whales are gonna float it. It’ll burst eventually
Do not fuck the chatbots
don’t worry they are really bad at it
That’s right Bob, talk to Alice while Eve, Trent and Mallory listen to you.
Her (2013)
