Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist.

Embarassing.

Update #3:

We have fixed the "TRUE" bug on Nightshade that's been tormenting us for quite some time. The fix also comes with updated drivers for new NVidia chips.

The Windows version is ready and available:
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

The MacOS version still needs a bit of time.

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...

The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.

that means scraping and surveilling bluesky is **extremely easy** even compared to sites owned by shitty corporate oligarchs

like you should pretty much assume a copy of whatever you post here is saved to a government computer somewhere

I looked up Jay's stances before making a profile and tried to warn people that they were both into Crypto and gAI. Particularly because a lot of my mutuals are artists and many fled when Twitter changed their rules to training on anything.

I wanted to go to Mastodon, but this is where people are.

Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training | TechCrunch Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content, but there's little stopping third-parties from doing so.

How this whole website is set up is meant as an open data platform. Privacy or the illusion thereof doesn't exist. There's no restricted mode. Everything is accessible through the API.

So even if the platform itself doesn't train on your messages, it definitely has people who does.

This is can be-

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

so AI is supposed to revolutionize every single aspect of the reality as we know it, but it's something we shouldn't rely on for anything serious or important cause it's so fucking unreliable, do I get that right my dude ?

Al copy is dead. It is inert. The reason you can spot it is that it sounds hollow. I don't care if a website says stuff on it because I typed in, just like I don't care if it responds in a way that sounds human, because it all feels like nothing to me. I am not here to give a website respect, I will not be impressed by a website, nor will I grant a website any extra credit if it can't do the right thing every time. The computer is meant to work for me. If the computer doesn't do what I want I change the kind of computer I use. LLMs will always hallucinate, their outputs are not trustworthy as a result, they cannot be deterministic, and any chance of any mistakes of any kind are unforgivable. I don't care how the website made you feel: it's a machine that doesn't always work, and that's not a very good machine.

Perhaps you've found value - congratulations! You should feel no compulsion to have to convince me, nor should you feel any pride in using a particular website. And if you feel you're being judged for using Al, perhaps you should ask why you feel so vilified? Did the industry do something to somehow warrant judgment? Is there something weird or embarrassing about the product, such as it famously having a propensity to get things wrong? Perhaps it loses billions of dollars? Oh, it's damaging to the environment too? And people are telling outright lies about it and constantly saying it'll replace people's jobs? And the CEOs are all greedy oafish sociopaths? Did you try being cloying, judgmental, condescending and aggressive to those who don't like Al? Oh, that didn't work? I can't imagine why. Sounds embarrassing! You must really like that website. (

Working on next week’s free newsletter: I will never respect a website.

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen.

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*

Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

The Buff Dog vs. Cheems meme. The buff dog is overlaid with itch.io's asset tab, including the icon for our 11,000 game asset pack, kenney's asset pack and Moonana's songs pack, along with a screenshot from steam with overwhelmingly positive reviews. The smaller, weaker dog is labelled "Gen AI" and is saying "I'll replace it later I promise, oops I forgot" and "It's the future bro" with a screenshot of a "Not Recommended" review on Steam saying "AI Slop".

Human Made Assets > AI every day of the week

ci.itch.io/all-game-ass...

fucked up broken bluesky feed with VIBES CODED in Dark Souls III death screen font

THIS IS SERIOUS❗️

Singer-Songwriters & Musicians Take Heed ‼️

Video: Singer-Songwriter Murphy Campbell from North Carolina

losing 1 million per day is insane

OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

This is the really big news here imo, its not just the sora app thats gone but chatgpt wont be doing videos either. This is a massive hit to openAI. Hopefully this hit causes internal bleeding that kills them as painfully as possible.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora after it flopped

Disney is now exiting their $1B deal with OpenAI

I was in multiple rooms at GDC where management of games studios let their hair down and said "everyone's using it, gamers hate it so we just have to hide it now", but none were actually able to explain if and how AI were making games faster to develop or better at all

What a beautiful day to follow some artists who don't use gen AI

Bonar admits that she cited fictitious authority to the court, including the fictional Teegarden case apparently generated by Al and the nonexistent Twigg case discussed in the Reddit article that was authored by a non-attorney blogger. She also admits she did not verify this authority. For an attorney to cite and rely on a fictional case obtained from a Reddit article or an Al prompt without verifying and reading the case itself is an unreasonable violation of the Rules of Court. "[|t is a fundamental duty of attorneys to read the legal authorities they cite in appellate briefs or any other court filings to determine that the authorities stand for the propositions for which they are cited." (Noland, supra, 114 Cal.App.5th at p. 445) "[T]he rules of this court impose on attorneys the obligation to assure that filings they sign do not falsely represent the holdings of cases." (Shayan, supra, 116 Cal.App.5th at p. 624.)

“For an attorney to cite and rely on a fictional case obtained from a Reddit article or an AI prompt without verifying and reading the case itself is an unreasonable violation of the Rules of Court.” Thank you for clarifying

reposting this Again because it's very very easy and it works.

BE FREE

“Tonight we are celebrating people, not AI. Animation is more than a prompt, it’s an art form that needs to be protected.”

— Will Arnett while presenting the awards for Animation at the #Oscars

Saw an ad for a travel agency on youtube that was like "you morons, an AI has never been anywhere, how can it tell you where to go? Talk to us humans for your travel needs and stop being stupid babies."

I'm paraphrasing but the tide is turning.

Keep making that shit toxic.

GREAT NEWS!!!!! 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.

This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

Phew 😮‍💨

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

made fan art for my favourite horror movie