I ain’t reading all that

I saw a famous youtube guy talking about “AI slop garbage.”

He was mad because he had bought AI-generated music to use in the background of one of his videos, and he wound up getting a copyright strike for it. He knew it was AI at the time he bought it. It didn’t occur to him that admitting this was a self-own. (If it’s garbage, why did you pay for it, and why would you put it on your own video?)

He then went on to claim what a big problem AI music is because someone can sell him AI stock music and then get Content ID on it, thereby causing him to get a strike. It apparently didn’t occur to him that anybody can produce stock music with a synthesizer and zero AI at all, and do exactly the same thing.

The thumbnail read something like “Copyright claimed by Suno AI.” Suno had not done any such thing.

Despite the video being thoroughly self-contradictory, the comment section was full of supportive words by people who evidently copy their opinions uncritically from whatever people are saying on Twitter and Reddit. When you see someone typing “ai slop” in the form of issuing a judgment about something, what you are seeing is just that, an opinion copied uncritically from others, and never examined.

Youtube is full of videos like this. They’re basically breakfast cereal for people who are incapable of thinking more than one layer deep into anything, and are therefore unable to understand ANYTHING other than optics.

I think probably it’s easier to ask it to draw Cthulhu than the weird flying starfish tentacle monsters

This thread has 798 upvotes at the moment so I guess you’ll just have to get used to it

Shhhh. Don’t drag us into this

What do you mean “collectively”

Would you accept responsibility for somebody else’s actions because they were born within the same arbitrary block of years as you?

This isn’t fair! I was gambling with those other people’s lives!

I wonder why they didn’t do Quake 1 instead.

Truth Social. That way, nobody will ever see the plans

Because you write like you think this can’t reach you, like you’re always going to have food and shelter no matter what happens.

I can’t contemplate whether LLMs think until someone tells me what it means to think. It’s too easy to rely on understanding the meaning of that word only through its typical use with other words.

I used to be that dumb. I was about 22 at the time

It will only help us get there in the hands of individuals and collectives. It will not get us there, and will be used to the opposite effect, in the hands of the 1%.

Are you a trust fund kid or something

If you look at the personality organization of malignant narcissists, you learn that their sense of self and even their memory is fragmentary. They’re in the realm of borderline personality organization, which is halfway between neurotic (normal) and schizoid.

This is why it makes sense to them that history should start fresh every day. They don’t connect actions with consequences because their brains are not set up to do that.

I guess I’ll just have to keep not being aware of what either of those things are

Unfortunately, these articles are often written by people who don’t know enough to realize they’re missing important nuances.

I had never been banned before.

At least they sent you a message instead of just making your account not work.

I got shadowbannned after posting about politics.

I never called for or celebrated violence, didn’t upvote pictures of Luigi (which they have a STRANGE hard-on for) or any of that. I just posted neutrally-worded opinions.

Shadowbanning is an abusive behavior and Reddit has been about that for well over a decade. On Twitter, you do something they don’t like, they just tell you, “you have to delete this tweet and wait 12 hours” or whatever. On Reddit, your account just gets “weird” with strange error messages. You have to go digging for information on the phenomenon because they don’t display a message or send an email about it.

The cute little aliens are there to paper over the fact that Reddit’s leadership has no concept of user advocacy. You’re just rows in a few tables to them. You’re the product that’s being sold, and as far as they’re concerned that gives you the same rights as any other product on a shelf.

They are still sending me emails with cute little aliens in them, even though my account is hosed. This is how disjointed they are.

Someone else wrote that on Reddit, the users and admins hate each other. I think that’s true.