Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

imagine if mozilla invested in firefox rather than jumping on every tech fad with two feet

first crypto, now AI…

I'm not worried about the AI apocalypse. I'm worried about the "VCs subsidize AI tech and sell it at a loss just long enough to make everyone rely on them (aka 'disrupting the knowledge worker industry') before bumping the price up and quality down just like Uber and Amazon and the rest" apocalypse. #ai #vc

Hey this is your friendly reminder that Low Quality Facts [at] mstdn [dot] social is an NFT peddler

it is very funny that plants evolved capsaicin and the human response was literally "oh are you trying to scare us? scare us with your little baby chemical? actually we LIKE that. it's such a silly little thing that it AMUSES us."

Ngl, “first time listening to ___” reaction videos are one of my favorite genres rn. There’s just something really wonderful about people capturing and displaying that kind of joy and discovery.

I work on #Excel, and this still cracks me up every time I see it

My understanding of Mastodon culture is that consent is a huge part of every feature and practice.

As a moderator, the explosion of images that were created with tools built with apparently stolen artworks, without consent of the artists who created them, was stressful...to put it mildly.

So we asked folks on vis.social to stop posting them. As did other instances.

The push-back was also stressful. So we had to make it a Rule.

#GoToSocial: by cats, for cats

Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Vertex, Microsoft Face

"Trans rights requires a nuanced discussion"

No it doesn't, give me rights or fuck off

Sunset from the hospital
#photography

Heads up: If you're a Comcast/Xfinity user, check your bank for suspicious charges.

I got two fraudulent debits on a virtual card number which has never been disclosed to any merchant other than Comcast.

"When Justice is only violence, violence is the only justice"
Seen in Paris during the ongoing mass protests against Macron's retirement law.

So, hang on, wait; clearly Google Deep Dream was early marketing for AI art, but... with hindsight, it was deliberate spin to try and push the inherent flaws of the process as advantages, wasn't it?

Deep Dream was a project with the message "AI can find patterns that aren't there and amplify inaccurate information; isn't that so cool?" and, like, no? Turns out, that's bad, actually? It also popularised the term "hallucinations" as a positive-sounding spin on the-thing-where-an-AI-returns-nonsense.

It was surprisingly prescient, in the bad sense of a company realising that tech they were working on wasn't going to work out the way they'd hoped, and getting ahead of public backlash by spinning the issues as intentions. We still can't accurately tell what objects are in a picture (my fave is still the Tesla that thought a horse-drawn carriage was a truck driving straight towards it)... But hey, at least we can turn the picture into a bunch of dogs! Dogs are cute, you like dogs, what's the problem?