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Abby
@artbee.bsky.social
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Might post art eventually 👀
Just lurking & sharing inspiration for now
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artbee.bsky.social
Reported & blocked 👍
December 6, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Abby
edzitron.com
Generative AI is a technology lacking any real purpose sold through half-truths and propaganda. It’s the work of a tech industry led by growth-obsessed charlatans desperate for power, bereft of creativity and the ability to solve real problems.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
I also want to be clear that none of these companies ever had a plan. They believed that if they threw enough GPUs together they would turn generative AI – probabilistic models for generating stuff — into some sort of sentient computer. It’s much easier, and more comfortable, to look at the world as a series of conspiracies and grand strategies, and far scarier to see it for what it is — extremely rich and powerful people that are willing to bet insanely large amounts of money on what amounts to a few PDFs and their gut. This is not big tech’s big plan to excuse building more data centers — it’s the death throes of twenty years of growth-at-all-costs thinking, because throwing a bunch of money at more servers and more engineers always seemed to create more growth. In practice, this means that the people in charge and the strategies they employ are borne not of an interest in improving the lives of their customers, but in increasing revenue growth, which means the products they create aren’t really about solving any problem other than “what will make somebody give me more money,” which doesn’t necessarily mean “provide them with a service.” Generative AI is the perfect monster of the Rot Economy — a technology that lacks any real purpose sold as if it could do literally anything, one without a real business model or killer app, proliferated because big tech no longer innovates, but rather clones and monopolizes. Yes, this much money can be this stupid, and yes, they will burn billions in pursuit of a non-specific dream that involves charging you money and trapping you in their ecosystem.
December 3, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Reposted by Abby
alexdiboine.bsky.social
In a lot of ways it feels like this friends who you still love, but have grown so far apart that even though you wish you could stay and talk to them like you used to, you have nothing left to say, so farewell it is
November 30, 2024 at 11:21 PM
artbee.bsky.social
Oh no... I'm so sad, this was my top favourite upcoming project. I love this art style, the animations and the concept so much 💔
I get when a project gets too tiring though 😔
Looking forward to the book & unreleased content!
December 2, 2024 at 1:45 PM
artbee.bsky.social
That's so scary 😬
Sounds like the only way to stop this person would be to get them banned from having a paypal account. PP might ban their email as well as SIN# (or equivalent) from being associated with any paypal account again
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
artbee.bsky.social
Maybe it can be reported to paypal for fraud and they'll be banned forever?
November 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM