lol, the age of total homogeneity is underway

the age of endless simulation

  • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    27 days ago

    I think I might be a garbage AI accelerationist. If the total inundation of LLM slop makes the internet and cable television unusable, maybe people will go back outside and interact with each other face to face again…?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      27 days ago

      maybe people will go back outside and interact with each other face to face again…?

      Maybe… though they’d be outside in an increasingly privatized, polluted, and climate-collapsing environment being accelerated by data centers churning out LLM slop.

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        27 days ago

        Hopefully that will bring more attention and popular sentiment?? Idk I’m just grasping for silver linings haha.

        I feel like for a while we lived in this objectivist internet zeitgeist where Google was a source of Truth, but seeing its ad- and AI-driven enshittification seems to be ushering in a new era where searching is just… harder and worse. Similarly, Twitter was once THE forum for Information And Discourse, and we no longer have that… We’re seeing an interesting Tower of Babel moment for the internet, and as it extends to other forms of media I can’t help but wonder how many people will simply drift away from it, as they were never power users to begin with.

        Maybe I’m just a prisoner of the moment and new search engines and fora / social media will pop up to take their place, but I’m rooting for the outcome where people start to feel like nothing on their devices is interesting anymore, so they opt to put them down.

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      if that were the case i think we’d already be there

      there is nothing but absolute trash on tv and people seem quite ok with it. even if they say they hate it they still watch it anyway