#the hype is strong

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders

The studios fought like hell for the right to fire their writers and replace them with chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that the chatbots could do the writers’ jobs.

Think of the bosses who fired their human switchboard operators and replaced them with automated systems that didn’t solve callers’ problems, but rather, merely satisficed them: rather than satisfying callers, they merely suffice.

Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it.

Despite their mustache-twirling and patrician chiding, the real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders.

-How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers

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[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[vroomvroomwee]

The OFMD team was so smart not to release any content while Good Omens was having it's moment because remember the sheer CHAOS that was unfolding when GO was 2 months before release. The Internet was losing it's fucking mind. And now OFMD is two months away.

TWO MONTHS PEOPLE

[saphushia]

|| part 1 || part 2 || part 3 || part 4 coming soon... ||

so, did you know ace was offered a position on the warlords that he turned down? well i mean... if he had accepted, it would follow that the revs would take more interest in him, yeah? i mean, it is their job to keep tabs on the government, you'd presume that extends to warlords as well.

and as far as warlords go, fire fist is interesting.

if only sabo could work out why... then maybe the man would finally get out of his head.

EDIT: textless versions of the pages can be found here!

[fisheito]

I started reading beastars so now HE's reading beastars .wait

THEY'RE reading beastars

[alalumin]

Always there for you

[egophiliac]

So how’s ride kamens going for you as I just pulled my self together long enough to read the other half of the current main story

I've been working on catching up on the event stories since they announced the upcoming main story update! (I totally bombed the last few events...they're so fast-paced and I just didn't have time...😭)

and then of course they went and dropped THIS on us today

(you don't understand, I LOVE Tajador and I already love the two blurry frames they've given us of non-silhouetted Kelka, I'm ready to absolutely lose my shit come the announcement/reveal(?) stream on Thursday --)

[irradiatedrosegarden]

sometimes you just gotta lick the homies

[dogd0m-charlie]

I'm tired of you people. "flat stomach" this, "slutty little waist" that. that man you speak of will not survive even half a fortnight of the coming winter. put some meat on him immediately or he will never persist long enough to engage in the smallest fraction of whatever acts you'd like to do to him. I'd advise that you heed this warning by mid fall, lest you regret it.

[an-internet-introvert]

I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow to a dash of

[mostlysignssomeportents]

AI ethics vs AI "safety"

They are hemorrhaging a river of cash, but that river’s source is an ocean-sized reservoir of even more cash.

To keep that reservoir full, the AI industry needs to convince fresh rounds of “investors” to give them hundreds of billions of dollars on the promise of a multi-trillion-dollar payoff.

That’s where the “AI Safety” story comes in. You know, the tech bros who run around with flashlights under their chins, intoning “ayyyyyy eyeeeee,” and warning us that their plausible sentence generators are only days away from becoming conscious and converting us all into paperclips.

It’s pure criti-hype: “Our technology is so powerful that it endangers the human race, which is why you should both invest in it and use it to replace all of your workers.”

This form of criticism is entirely distinct from the legitimate realm of “AI ethics,” whose emphasis is on how bad AI is at the things that will supposedly generate those promised trillions. Things like bias, low-quality training data, training data attacks, data ordering attacks, adversarial examples, the endless stream of confident lies, and the high degree of supervision they necessitate.

Add to that the exploitative labor pipeline, the environmental damage, and the public safety risks and a very different critique emerges —one that’s grounded in AI’s shortcomings, not the supposed risks arising from its incredible power.

-How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers

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[agentc0rn]

Are you ready to brandish your keystone and fight ______ with Zygarde?

(my head is overfilled with ideas and scenarios forgive me guys, my brain just works like that)

[daddy-long-legssss]

Brick By Brick

"I saw this interview with Iggy Pop once talking about writing No Fun and he'd try to keep it to less than 30 words cause it reminded him of some TV show he used to watch as a kid where the host had asked the kids at home to write in but their letter had to be less than 25 words or whatever ... I thought it would be funny to have a crack at trying to do a song with less than 30 words in it seeing as usually ours have about 400."

[x]

[hemali-smh]

yall better tell me what happened to reynolds. brimsley CANNOT be dancing on his own. somebody please find his lover boy and bring him back. this is not good for my mental health

[smrtnik07]

[moonpaw]

i swear i've never had blorbo thoughts as strong as i do with monkey d. luffy there's just no other character out there like him