"Facebook had to borrow $100 billion the other day in order to finance the investment in data centres. And what they’ve tried to do is shift that off balance sheet, so that we don’t see that […] they’ve now run out of cash and they’re borrowing money. And that’s a sure sign that

how fucking stupid is it that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing all our data to sell us ads.

Wouldn't be surprised if this were true - and even if it isn't now, it likely will be in the near future. The entire tech industry believes they no longer have to adhere laws, public opinion, or the common good.

I was prompted to sign into mspaint today. Microsoft when you look back and wonder what went wrong for Windows... It was this. This is what went wrong.

it’s gotta be pretty grim when your justification for capital hitching the entire economy to the AI bubble and dooming us all is, “but we go a so-so bump in productivity of Scooby-Doo porn images”

AGI? Cure for cancer? Best I can do is permanently ruin the internet with slop and quadruple the price of consumer electronics

Commercial AI honestly has saved me a lot of money! I mean a lot! By not buying anything from the mega corporations that are forcing it into their products. 😁

The swindler who pumped NFTs thinks you’re crazy if you don’t believe the AI hype

New: Unsealed court docs detail Big Tech’s yearslong, secret race to ingest the collective works of humanity, including Anthropic’s project to “destructively scan all the books in the world."

RuneScape maker Jagex says it will never use generative AI to make in-game content "No generative AI will ever be present in any asset that a player can touch, hear or feel" via GamesIndustry

We are losing the concept of developing as a person. If you depend on algorithms and AI for everything, you will be forever stunted. You’ll never grow as an artist, a writer, a thinker without effort and friction. You will be a half-formed thing.

AI has truly ruined the internet over the last 24 months. as a millennial who grew up loving social media and youtube, it's genuinely so sad

I remember being told that this wasn’t real and I should be amazed at how well these algorithms could predict my purchasing preferences. Turns out they were doing exactly what everyone thought.

Actually, neither of these things are okay uses of AI for students. Here’s an easy rule of thumb: wipe every trace of AI out of the schools and universities. 👍🏼

They won't be able to use VPNs! The end goal of these legal efforts both here and in the UK is to completely eliminate the ability to consume content anonymously or use the internet anonymously. That's where this is headed if we don't kill these "child safety" laws

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The UK government's AI Skills Hub, launched today, is little more than thinly-veiled propaganda for AI companies. I took a look at the courses. They include: - Intros to generative AI by big tech companies that call AI "miraculous" and gloss over the huge controversy around

The 'AI Skills Hub' is full of material encouraging AI use, much of it written by AI companies - but material discussing its risks and the legal issues surrounding it is almost entirely absent. It is hard to see this as anything other than propaganda on behalf of AI companies,

There's nothing new to this, its no different than using Groks edit image or running it through GPT to use as base. This short was created to be GenAI propaganda. Having a "painterly" artstyle is no mistake, easy way to portray AI artifacts as "art direction" with "intention".

Our governments have to stop being cheerleaders for big tech and protect their citizens by making them behave responsibly.