I’m kinda tired, but this puzzle’s shoved itself into my brain. The obvious solution I can see is, roughly speaking:

1. Take the duck and carrot across

2. Take the duck back

3. Take the duck and potato across

I’ve already heard of this - mainly thanks to the nuclear backlash it (and basically anything related to AI) is getting. Pulling out a particular highlight, here’s Ashley Lynch tearing the whole thing a new one:

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great, you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you’re stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning. I can’t tell you how excited I am that we’re literally burning the Earth up for this garbage.

Every genAI techbro needs to be sent to the Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity with how they’ve traded our future for this absolute bullshit. Straight up capital punishment for every one of these fucking losers responsible for cursing us with this garbage. I have zero chill on this issue anymore. They represent the end of humanity.

Discovered an animation sneering at the tech oligarchs on Newgrounds - I recommend checking it out. Its sister animation is a solid sneer, too, even if it is pretty soul crushing.

He’s an AI bro, having even a basic understanding of art is beyond him

>sam altman is greentexting in 2025

>and his profile is an AI-generated Ghibli picture, because Miyazaki is such an AI booster

> at least ed zitron got to make fun of him

New piece from Brian Merchant: Deconstructing the new American oligarchy

looking at the history of AI, if it fails there will be another AI winter, and considering the bubble the next winter will be an Ice Age. No minduploads for anybody, the dead stay dead, and all time is wasted.

Adding insult to injury, they’d likely also have to contend with the fact that much of the harm this AI bubble caused was the direct consequence of their dumbshit attempts to prevent an AI Apocalypse^tm

As for the upcoming AI winter, I’m predicting we’re gonna see the death of AI as a concept once it starts. With LLMs and Gen-AI thoroughly redefining how the public thinks and feels about AI (near-universally for the worse), I suspect the public’s gonna come to view humanlike intelligence/creativity as something unachievable by artificial means, and I expect future attempts at creating AI to face ridicule at best and active hostility at worst.

Taking a shot in the dark, I suspect we’ll see active attempts to drop the banhammer on AI as well, though admittedly my only reason is a random BlueSky post openly calling for LLMs to be banned.

Quick update on the CoreWeave affair: turns out they’re facing technical defaults on their Blackstone loans, which is gonna hurt their IPO a fair bit.

I’d bet good money they vibe-coded the whole thing. Its AI, the whole point is to enable laziness, grifts and laziness in grifts.

Here’s the link, so you can read Stack’s teardown without giving orange site traffic:

https://ewanmorrison.substack.com/p/the-tranhumanist-cult-test

Stumbled across some AI criti-hype in the wild on BlueSky:

The piece itself is a textbook case of AI anthropomorphisation, presenting it as learning to hide its “deceptions” when its actually learning to avoid tokens that paint it as deceptive.

On an unrelated note, I also found someone openly calling gen-AI a tool of fascism in the replies - another sign of AI’s impending death as a concept (a sign I’ve touched on before without realising), if you want my take:

ZITRON DROPPED

AI bros are exceedingly lazy fucks by nature, so this kind of shit should be pretty rare. Combined with their near-complete lack of taste, and the risk that such an attempt succeeds drops pretty low.

(Sidenote: Didn’t know about Samizdat until now, thanks for the new rabbit hole to go down)

Is there already a nice term for “this was published before the slop flood gates opened”? There should be.

“Pre-slopnami” works well enough, I feel.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, I suspect hand-writing your original manuscript (or using a typewriter) will also help increase the value, simply through strongly suggesting ChatGPT was not involved with making it.

Ultra-rare footage of orange site having a good take for once:

Top-notch sneer from lobsters’ top comment, as well (as of this writing):

You want my opinion, I expect AntiRez’ pleas to fall on deaf ears. The AI funders are only getting funded due to LLM hype - when that dies, investors’ reason to throw money at them dies as well.

I much prefer the Whoppenheimer.

I didn’t mean to link something else, I just mangled my description. Thanks for catching it.

Court documents regarding Facebook’s plagiarism lawsuit just started getting unsealed, and ho-lee shit is this a treasure trove:

This confirms basically everything I said a week ago - AI violates copyright by design, and a single copyright suit going through means its open fucking season on the AI industry. Wonder who’s gonna blink first.

lol, that’s too charitable to them, nukes at least work

And Oppie realised the gravity of their invention. And he was trying to end the Second World War with them, not make money by causing untold suffering.

Nukes and AI both represented a new and unique threat capable of causing worldwide devastation, so I’d say the analogy works pretty well.

New thread from Baldur Bjarnason:

Keep hearing reports of guys trusting ChatGPT’s output over experts or even actual documentation. Honestly feels like the AI Bubble’s hold over society has strengthened considerably over the past three months

This also highlights my annoyance with everybody who’s claiming that this tech will be great if every uses it responsibly. Nobody’s using it responsibly. Even the people who think they are, already trust the tech much more than it warrants

Also constantly annoyed by analysis that assumes the tech works as promised or will work as promised. The fact that it is unreliable and nondeterministic needs to be factored into any analysis you do. But people don’t do that because the resulting conclusion is GRIM as hell

LLMs add volatility and unpredictability to every system they touch, which makes those systems impossible to manage. An economy with pervasive LLM automation is an economy in constant chaos

On a semi-related note, I expect the people who are currently making heavy use of AI will find themselves completely helpless without it if/when the bubble finally bursts, and will probably struggle to find sympathy from others thanks to AI indelibly staining their public image.

(The latter part is assuming heavy AI users weren’t general shitheels before - if they were, AI’s stain on their image likely won’t affect things either way. Of course, “AI bro” is synonymous with “trashfire human being”, so I’m probably being too kind to them :P)