I’m jaded enough that I won’t believe the original post isn’t an AI image meant to farm engagement for slop revenue from boomers on facebook.

How many people saying amen in the comments?

The idea is the art. What the AI slopper doesn’t realize that the level of talent isn’t what makes something art, but the expression of that talent. No matter how small.

Asking a machine to execute your idea, is what makes it not art. Even first graders are making art when they put crayon to paper. Even if it’s only their parents who appreciate it, to those parents, it’s as valuable as the Mona Lisa

The Pigs enjoy slop. But the Farmer doesn’t pretend to be a gourmet chef for throwing his table scraps in the trough.

_{meant to be a metaphor not a derogative}

It’s the same images in both panels, so it seems justified to call the hypothetical plagiarism machine’s theft of hypothetical Bob Ross’s hypothetical art, slop. Considering Bob Ross has been dead for 30 years, and how absurd the supposed shade being thrown at anti-ai’ers is… you almost have to expect this is parody meant to mock ai bros and not an actual argument being made.

Forgive me for commenting before reading whole post but it’s quite lengthy and I’ll need to revisit it. I read the first 10 minutes and then skimmed the remainder once the structure of the post became apparent. The takedown is written from the perspective of a former Google employee who feels like it’s his duty to defend its honor.

Right out of the gate, he latches on to Zitron’s comments that the big 3 tech stocks are floundering in their pursuit of following the frontier labs on AI. It is true that he’s made those comments, but the bulk of Zitron’s remarks are criticizing the financials of OpenAI and Anthropic who do not have an established product and revenue stream to absorb AI losses like the big 3 do.

The rest of Zitron’s usual arguments are against the neo-cloud’s raising debt to pay for data centers to power the compute required to run the unprofitable frontier models. Again, not a subject tackled by the post.

The post acknowledges that he doesn’t go into them and decides to criticize Zitron’s comments and inaccuracies on corporate structure and how some of his predictions have not came true. (Zitron even admits as such in this interview with John Stewart, saying he was wildly incorrect when he predicted AI would be abandoned by the end of 2025)

The blog post does admit that it was only tackling a portion of Zitron’s arguments and (paraphrasing) says that the few things that line up with his expertise Zitron is so wrong about; that he doesn’t need to address the rest of his arguments. Calling Zitron a slinger of “Gish-Gallop”.

I don’t agree and without fully diving into the rest of the post I probably won’t be convinced. It’s one of those things where if you already were predisposed to either agreeing or disagreeing with Zitron, this post isn’t going to move you either way.

So they are basically going to turn Reddit into discord and hide content from users coming from search?

Or are they going to turn it into quora and only let you see a single post from search?

I don’t see either of these options being good for reddits long term user acquisition, but maybe their strategy is to just milk their current data dry and then bounce

The racism mostly

It’s the Great Plains for sure. I think when your end the Great Plains, you think of the Great Plains as the Midwest and the Rust belt as the rust belt instead of the rust belt

To be honest the plains folk hold up the friendly midwestern stereotype a lot better than the rust belt does

The problem is that it’s the developers’ instance and they promote it as a default general use instance and not a explicit political ideological instance so it has a significant portion of people just trying to join the network.

I would recommend someone looking to join the threadiverse to use piefed over Lemmy for that reason (of course piefed has its own problematic “features” with regards to default mute lists and transparency)

This post was written by AI

AVGN I guess, not because of any controversy but just because he has no passion to make videos and the quality is low and the videos are soulless

I was actually able to run it on a couple different users and it was very in-depth. On your username in particular it showed this thread so they must be searching the web for the username. It could be that newer models are searching more instances than they were before as well.

It’s not just Reddit, anything public is being scraped by AI and all anyone has to do is just ask any of the LLMs and they can provide the same kind of summary…

Instances that don’t vet users sufficiently get defederated for spam. Users then leave for instances that don’t get blocked. If instances are too heavy handed in their moderation then users leave those instances for more open ones and the market of the fediverse will balance itself out to what the users want.