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  • There’s no closing Pandora’s box at this point, but honestly I don’t know if it even really matters

    I think AI is a tiny fraction of the true problem. Slop is just a symptom of late stage capitalism. It always goes back to that.

    COVID moved everything online, and billionaires and corporations have enshitified the walled gardens they’ve managed to lock people into. YouTube is full of slop because they were happy to take the short term ad money. Hollywood is full of slop because Disney bought every franchise with good IP, and no one wants to take a risk. AAA gaming is slop because Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft bought all the big studios and doesn’t want to take risks.

    It’s all slop because integrity and pride in your work is the enemy of slop factories. You have few individuals creating to create because if you can’t monitise your work immediately, you can’t survive

    Also, you have a huge wave of anti intellectualism. People don’t know how to critically examine media anymore - before AI, clickbait and short form videos of reddit posts over gameplay were already taking over. Disinfo and misinfo was everywhere, echo chambers and the algorithms were already doing far worse to us then AI

    I think if we can fix society, AI won’t be a problem. AI isn’t bad, corporations - large amalgamations of people that humans don’t actually control - they’re the threat

    AI is only bad because its powerful at a back time. I might be ok with not allowing it as a service… Maybe if you want AI for something, you use it through an expert with the understanding to set it up for you.

    But regulation scares me, because right now lobbyists would write the whole thing


  • The problem is it’s slop. I feel nothing but disappointment watching most media these days, it’s just so lazy and soulless

    Yes, AI turbo charges slop production, but what has made me laugh the hardest over the past few years is AI being chaotic and interacting with real people. I love that a fake anime girl can play Minecraft with a bunch of people, suddenly decide to set everything on fire and cry for help, or hunt down a player for a perceived slight.

    I love that another creator designs AI prompts on the spot and puts them and the viewers through challenges.

    I love that someone made an escape room game where you must pacify an unhinged AI while trying to accomplish tasks

    Some AI art is surreal and incredible, and people use AI with intent, passing a single picture through many different AI stacks with manual configuration

    There was even a movie script “written entirely by AI”, but in reality it was a writer guiding an AI through creating a screenplay. It was about a writer who uses AI, then discovers it’s a far better writer than he could ever be, and the existential crisis he faces as he passes off the AI’s work as his own

    But then you have something like Star wars, where the new trilogy was so lacking in soul and writing that I still feel loss when I watch any star wars media. I couldn’t even bring myself to watch the last movie, I eventually watched someone rewrite the trilogy scene by scene to fix it instead

    AI slop is definitely a huge problem, but the real problem is societal. We have a grifting economy, everyone is so scared and desperate they’re just trying to exploit a system to “get theirs” while they can. You can’t make art like that, you can’t even make useful things like that

    Creation requires soul, but just like you can hang a paint can and spin a canvas to create beautiful patterns, the artists who do it make hundreds, unsure of how it will turn out, and burn all but the one that speaks to them. If they released all of them, they’d just be kitche slop

    AI is the same way - you can use AI to create very quickly, but if you don’t inject something into the process you’ve just made slop

    And corporations want you to learn to love the slop



  • What they want to do is eliminate the concept of chattel slavery, imply we helped Africans to immigrate then taught them useful trade skills, and imply that black people should still be grateful to white people for this kindness

    They want to say this is a special immigration, it’s one we invited them in graciously to build out a workforce of laborers, but then their descendents became lazy criminals and are abusing welfare

    It’s all just racism and historical whitewashing. It’s not a coherent ideology, it’s racism dressed up enough to lead children to extreme racism without their natural empathy or logic getting in the way

    And the implication of all the prauger u stuff seems to be that we need to bring back slavery in some form, which would be easier if they remove the word slavery from the language


  • Yeah, honestly mocking them works better then pointing out hypocrisy

    Don’t say “fact over feelings, look at these facts”. Instead, say “ok, if you can put away your delicate fee-fees for just a minute, let’s look at reality”

    They’ll whine “no, I am the one who is facts over feelings!” And then you treat them like a small child. You patronize the fuck out of them, and drop the facts as a follow up.

    That’s how they win, they project and preempt, so when they say “The left wants to kill us all” you can’t say “look, they’re literally building camps! All domestic shooters are conservative!”. Half the country does not listen to the words, they’ve vibes based

    You’ve got to control the flow of the conversation, so that you get to make the accusation first. It makes the response look weak. It works especially well on the right, because they’re feelings over facts snowflakes





  • It’s just a simple, clean, solutionn. All the incentives line up for all the players, it’s ethical, it’s practical, and it’s a sustainable system. It even has natural feedback mechanisms

    You keep gesturing towards vague problems with the idea…I can’t do your thinking for you

    You seem very concerned about the border - that’s a separate issue and must be handled separately. I think we should have open borders, but we’re not in a place where we can do it right now. Between the consequences of the war on drugs, certain trade restrictions, and the current tarrifs, it would have some pretty terrible knock on effects.

    We also can’t take care of our own population properly due to cutting all the safety nets and letting capitol run free, so we’re not equipped to handle refugees, and being the only open border would mean a lot more refugees

    So open borders are good, but a lot of ground work has to be done for that to be practical. But legalizing every illegal American? We can do that today, and it would be good for everyone



  • Sure, it could be. This is entirely different from the border - it’s about recognizing reality

    And you can’t just “hide out” for a year, you’ve now just become a shut in. And how are you going to pay for it? How will you prove you’ve been here? Why bother coming here just to stay home?

    I just get the vibe you think they’re getting something out of this, like it’s some system they can game. But it’s just common sense… They already live here. They’re already American, already part of our society. Removing them causes damage to all parties

    Up until Clinton, this was a bipartisan stance, they just never ironed out the details




  • My boy straight up criticized capitalism on television. He said “Cuomo called me to concede” and did a “well anyways”. When Trump called him a communist and threatens him he said he says he won’t back down. He went to pride and waved the trans flag. His positions are full throated

    I don’t know what I could criticize about Mumdani. He just hits the right note every single time. Even on the morning after his victory, when he was visibly sleep deprived, he gave a better interview than any other Democrat in recent memory

    It’s ok to believe. You just have to believe in the right people. And he’s the right people