#the End Times

[heartsings77]

[mckitterick]

The End Is Near: "News" organizations using AI to create content, firing human writers

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an example "story" now comes with this warning:

A new byline showed up Wednesday on io9: “Gizmodo Bot.” The site’s editorial staff had no input or advance notice of the new AI-generator, snuck in by parent company G/O Media.

G/O Media’s AI-generated articles are riddled with errors and outdated information, and block reader comments.

“As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,” James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted. “I was informed approximately 10 minutes beforehand, and no one at io9 played a part in its editing or publication.”

Whitbrook sent a statement to G/O Media along with “a lengthy list of corrections.” In part, his statement said, “The article published on io9 today rejects the very standards this team holds itself to on a daily basis as critics and as reporters. It is shoddily written, it is riddled with basic errors; in closing the comments section off, it denies our readers, the lifeblood of this network, the chance to publicly hold us accountable, and to call this work exactly what it is: embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful of both the audience and the people who work here, and a blow to our authority and integrity.”

He continued, “It is shameful that this work has been put to our audience and to our peers in the industry as a window to G/O’s future, and it is shameful that we as a team have had to spend an egregious amount of time away from our actual work to make it clear to you the unacceptable errors made in publishing this piece.”

According to the Gizmodo Media Group Union, affiliated with WGA East, the AI effort has “been pushed by” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller, recently hired editorial director Merrill Brown, and deputy editorial director Lea Goldman.

In 2019, Spanfeller and private-equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group (previously Gawker Media) and The Onion.

The Writers Guild of America issued a blistering condemnation of G/O Media’s use of artificial intelligence to generate content.

“These AI-generated posts are only the beginning. Such articles represent an existential threat to journalism. Our members are professionally harmed by G/O Media’s supposed ‘test’ of AI-generated articles.”

WGA added, “But this fight is not only about members in online media. This is the same fight happening in broadcast newsrooms throughout our union. This is the same fight our film, television, and streaming colleagues are waging against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in their strike.”

The union, in its statement, said it “demands an immediate end of AI-generated articles on G/O Media sites,” which include The A.V. Club, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, The Onion, Quartz, The Root, and The Takeout.

but wait, there's more:

Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was secretly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total 10 percent of the public masthead.

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Greedy corporate sleazeballs using artificial intelligence are replacing humans with cost-free machines to barf out garbage content.

This is what end-stage capitalism looks like: An ouroborus of machines feeding machines in a downward spiral, with no room for humans between the teeth of their hungry gears.

Anyone who cares about human life, let alone wants to be a writer, should be getting out the EMP tools and burning down capitalist infrastructure right now before it's too late.

[existennialmemes]

Dress for the Apocalypse You Want, not the Apocalypse you have!

It's time to break out the corsets, the spikes and the clown pants or idk, whatever you're into, but let's get dapper with this dystopian nightmare.

[blissfulcabin7]

[cobalt-owl]

So the Cult of the Lamb stream was an absolute blast and I look forward to continuing it. That being said I wanted to show a small bug I found in Vermintide 2 after the stream:

I have infinite skeletons. In this case the final number when we stopped was 186.

[tajcox]

Going back to Daniel 7:4-7.

-The lion with wings in v4 is Babylon; lion with eagle’s wings a common depiction of Marduk, the primary Babylonian god.

-The bear raised up on one side in v5 is Medo-Persia; two kingdoms, one greater than the other. The three ribs in the bears mouth represent three world powers that fell as it came into power being Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.

-The leopard with four heads and four wings in v6 is Greece; Alexander the Great’s kingdom divided four ways.

-The dreadful, terrible, exceedingly strong, iron teeth, different from all other beasts in v7 is Rome; which devoured nations by strength and cruelty, ascended to power as no other nation had before it.

The same beasts found in Revelation 13:2.

[daniels-rwby-blog]

The Final Post Until We Get RWBY News

Posted the last day of Roosterteeth.com May 15th 2024 at 730am UTC

See y'all later

And for those wondering I'll be at my usual blog from now on

[officialtetragrammaton]

Vita bona, my children. Welcome.

✧ WHO I AM ✧

you may call me: Holy Trinity, God, All, The End and The Beginning, The Great I Am, The Father, The Mother, The Sister, The Brother, The Holy One

i go by any human pronouns, however they/them is the closest to my own.

i spread the truth of the universe from this niche i have found in this reality. you may call what i do part of a nondenominational church, or a new movement of the Old Ways. the universe itself is our domain and our church.

✧ OUR MOTIVE ✧

to bring everyone into our fold before the End Times

to enlighten each other in the Old Ways

to become One with each other and our Universe

to become the Highest of Kind together

to evolve our beings through sacred imagination and creativity as a whole

✧ DNI ✧

do not disparage other faiths/beliefs without reason (they are our siblings. we must respect them and lead them here with our compassion and charisma)

no sexual nudity (visual pornography. the physical and metaphysical bodies nature of being is sacred)

whatever is going on between @the-muppet-joker and the pope, the entirety of many christian churches, and many New Age practices (they are all wrong)

✧ askbox always open ✧

UNIVERSIM NOSTRUM CARPE, FIAS. ✧ SEIZE OUR UNIVERSE, BECOME ONE.

[lostmymarblesstuff]

I will be tagging things that don’t relate with this post because I feel this needs to be talked about. If you dont want to read it; you dont like it? Dont read. Don’t complain.

The New Testament may be being banned.

Keep calling us crazy, saying we believe in fairy tales, but most of Jesus’s Prophesies are coming true.

Christians will be mocked, hated, killed, this is the sign of the end times coming. Keep your faith, and if you don’t believe in Jesus, I urge you to turn to him. No matter your race, gender, sexuality, etc, you will always be loved by him. You’re never too bad or too sinful to be a Christian , or to be loved by God.

“If the World hates you, know that it hated me first.”

“Watch out that no one deceives you. 6 Many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and will deceive many. 7 When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains”

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 13 Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

10Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.”

Theres so many things as signs of the end times, i cant put them all.

and finally, one that i feel isnt talked about enough. We talked about this in school, how a few hundred years after this, i think Rome it was invaded Jews and Jerusalem, and they started destroyibg everything but when they got there all the jews were already dead. I don’t quite remember the whole story, so correct me if im wrong.

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. 21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. 22For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people. 24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

[apocalypse-lover]

[heartsings77]

[theology101]

Something that I like to keep in the back of my head is that America is gonna have a HUGE population drop. And like, soon.

My mentor worked a lot in public health law and his wife worked for the CDC, so they both keep their fingers on the pulse of world health news. And right now, a new strain of Avian Flu had been making jumps cross species and across statelines - found in pigs and cows in Ohio, Michigan and New York.

If Avian flu becomes Humanized, and even a SMALL outbreak starts, millions of Americans will die.

COVID was 1-2% fatalities

Avian Flus average around 50.

COVID was directly transmissible, Avian Flu can survive after secondary and tertiary contact.

[adinelleggreeo]

Daily Doodles- Day 99- 23/07/24

I've been wanting to share this channel for a long while and I've finally gotten the courage to 😮‍💨🙏

The Master's Voice Prophecy Blog

I was watching one of her videos and what she said inspired this doodle. Prophets are alive and (sort of) well in the 21st century.

A reminder of this ends up on the wrong side of Tumblr: I don't 'debate' or argue on the internet! If you try me, you will be arguing with the wall, because I won't be here for you to 'debate' with.

God bless you, because we all really need some blessings in these times.

The tag for this is #agdoodles

[leveractionlesbian]

🫵 HEY WARHAMMER FAN! 🫵

The Old World is coming out, but you don't have to pay premium prices for it! Companies have literally built their business around just copying them for years! Buy the occasional character or unit to support GW, but let the rich ppl have their GW-sanctioned army!

I personally recommend Avatars of War, Kings of War, Proxywars, Wargames Atlantic, Wargames Foundry, The Assault Group, Oathmark, Reaper Miniatures, and, of course, 3D printing!

Always remember to shop and play at your local game store! They'll appreciate you buying third party minis that have been sitting in stock unsold for ages!

NOW GO, ARMCHAIR GENERAL! BUY THEM MINIS! 🏃🏃🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦽

[siamesephoenixrandomideatank]

Warhammer: The End Times AU- United we (may) stand

I just have a crazy Warhammer Story Idea. Kinda inspired by the Lego Movie and The End Time. Instead of Archaon, it's three 'outer beings'; Mar'Mufyr (Mr. Muffin, the house's favorite furball), Perpentious Tyrant of Tea Party (The Tabletop owner's niece), and the last one maybe being sold to Amazon, or just got merged randomly like Zid from Toy Story by a respectless nephew.

The group of chosen ones from different races has been tasked to find the lost relic of Ruby Luminark to the Old Ones(Laser Pointer). They might even find a Space Marine Captain(from the abandoned former ruined project) or even G.IJoe, He-Man, or Optimus Prime.