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@heynavtoor Seems like a terrible idea

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

@CowboySpaceCorp Seems like a waste of orbital capacity

Today marks the beginning of a new era. Introducing: Cowboy Space Corporation. We are building orbital infrastructure for the AI era: a fully integrated system of rockets and satellites designed to deliver high-performance compute and optical data transmission directly from Low Earth Orbit.

A Chinese vlogger DIYed a rideable flying sword.

@HiThere144 @Saganismm You're an actual fucking retard

@Saganismm Yeah, but welfare fraud is bullshit and 110,000 Somalis in an enclave in rural Minnesota is bullshit In fact, the idea that we're all in it together kumbaya BS is just a way to get after my taxes and swing votes in select districts and I'm not really interested in your schpeel

“I do agree with the premise that there is something wrong with us, something we must work to overcome. It’s our xenophobia, authoritarianism, and violence. When we lived in small bands of only a few dozen people there might have been some selective advantage to these terrible qualities. But now we live in a tribe of seven billion. We are, more than ever, all in it together. Science and technology have allowed us to see one another’s lives, to speak one another’s languages, to learn one another’s customs. They’ve also given us a view of our small world in the vastness. This should breed kindness. As my dad once said, “If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.” I believe our cruelty toward one another, not sex or love of knowledge, is our original sin. It’s that for which we must really atone. In small instances as well as large ones.” ― Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such As We

@DiscussThing @IGN The anti-woke obsession is getting boring tbh

@IGN No wonder they gave it that score.

A musical delight from start to finish, Mixtape sets a new standard for coming-of-age stories in video games and does so with a masterful sense of style. Our 10/10 review: bit.ly/4tEkAad

@Silver_Rook @nocheesefortim @taherdhanera Nah it's clearly years of graft 🙄

@DanLarge2 @nocheesefortim @taherdhanera so, SO wrong ..... lol do you really think you just create entire works with a single prompt ? LMAO

oh no, you used the camera to shoot the film. oh no, you used editing software to cut the film. oh no, you used CGI. oh no, you used VFX. oh no, you used dubbing. oh no, you created fake sets. oh no, you used green screens. oh no, you used stunt doubles. oh no, you used makeup and prosthetics. oh no, you color graded the footage. oh no, you used motion capture. oh no, you recorded Foley sounds. oh no, you used background scores. oh no, you used autotune on vocals. oh no, you used wire rigs for action scenes. oh no, you used drones for aerial shots. oh no, you used miniatures instead of real cities. oh no, you used matte paintings. oh no, you used body doubles. oh no, you used teleprompters. oh no, you used render farms. oh no, you used sound mixing. oh no, you used ADR to replace dialogue. oh no, you used stock footage. oh no, you used smoke machines. oh no, you used fake blood. oh no, you used lenses to manipulate perspective. oh no, you used filters to change the mood. oh no, you used playback monitors. oh no, you used digital de-aging. oh no, you used face replacement. oh no, you used animation pipelines. oh no, you used Unreal Engine virtual production. oh no, you used render engines. oh no, you used storyboards. oh no, you used previs animatics. oh no, you used sync sound technology. oh no, you used stabilization rigs. oh no, you used cranes and dollies. oh no, you used subtitles for global audiences. oh no, you compressed the movie for streaming. oh no, you used digital projection instead of film reels. oh no, you used software to simulate explosions. oh no, you used compositing to combine shots. oh no, you used LUTs to create cinematic looks. oh no, you used virtual cameras inside 3D scenes. Traditional cinema mocking AI filmmaking while forgetting it was built on every fake technology before it.

Begging people to learn the difference between GenAI and procedural/ other types of AI. AI at base is not the problem. AI models trained on stolen works is. No, Minecraft procedurally generated worlds are not GenAI. At least learn what you’re actually fighting against.

@nocheesefortim @taherdhanera True but not just that. Art is interesting because it's made by humans. It's a person's experiences to date, it's relatable. Gen AI art is none of those things, except where it's stolen from real artists.

@taherdhanera Wellll…. All of those tools still employed real people. People are upset because robots are replacing humans who need to earn a living to eat.

@Cds1710 @CuriosityonX Bless your simple little mind

How can anything be "drifting between planets" if there is no space and no planets?????? Planets are not mentioned in the Bible. Only, Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars.

The scale of this engineering is terrifying. 🤯 People don't realize this thing is alive. It looks abandoned. It looks frozen. It looks forgotten. It is none of those things. The Kalyazin RT-64 is a 64-meter Soviet radio telescope, hidden in a Russian forest, still listening to deep space. To pulsars. To dying stars. To spacecraft drifting between planets.

Faircroft Islands all updated and fresh!

Engines III. Routine inspection of interstellar starship engines, brief stop on its way to Pleiades open star cluster. Every few years I feel the urge to do some big engines, so here's the third piece in the series. Blender, Procreate, Photoshop, 2026.

@kpottermn The issue with the sequel trilogy is that each of the movies is badly written dogshit

The absolute worst part of The Last Jedi is that the childish backlash to a genuinely good film led directly to The Rise of Skywalker, which is an absolute abomination of a movie.

Auroras, Lightning & Starlink from 10.000 km 🌍🛰️ (Apr 3) Camera setup by #ArtemisII Crew Raw photos courtesy of the ESRS @NASAEarth @NASA_Johnson ID ART002-E-25501 to 25518 Edit by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) Enjoy! @astro_reid @Astro_Christina @AstroVicGlover @Astro_Jeremy @NASAAdmin

“It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they wanted, then they wouldn’t be the audience, they’d be the artist.” — Alan Moore

Joseph Gordon-Levitt says “almost all” AI systems are “built on mass theft,” arguing that companies using large language models “shouldn’t be forgiven for that past theft.”

@ZacksJerryRig Who is this guy? Talks a lot of sense.

He's not wrong.

Cityscape artwork by French sci-fi artist Philippe ‘Manchu’ Bouchet.

@AlexJayBrady CIWS caught nappin' smh

Death of the Queen of the Amazon Desert

@cybernatorUS @iycrtylph Algorithms fucking suck. Social media was far better before algorithmic feeds.

@iycrtylph Yeah how about every social media algorithm

what has AI actually accomplished? what has it actually contributed to life? if i walk down the street, will I see anything new & good there thanks to AI? has it invented anything real and material? any indispensable new good? has it improved anyone's quality of life?