For heaven’s sake, this is plain white text. Are we, as a people, so far gone that we cannot even take the extra step to add the plain white text with 10px drop shadow to the image after it’s generated? Surely a human must be involved at some point of this process - even if only to collect the ill-gotten gains - that can identify whether or not their nefarious trap is baited with brazen gibberish. Surely.

kinda disappointed it’s not a strandbeest with one of those litter-picker-upper sticks taped to the front

If this were Peru I’d say there’s a good chance that’s actually just his car

Man, fuck this horseshit.

This is a Bat-Terry!

So that in 20 years you don’t get a sudden epidemic of disaffected young Gojiras and Katamaris decking their parents with a shovel?

Tell you what, I betcha my cousin Aniken^(sic) Skywalker Goldteeth woulda really appreciated having something like that over here back in '04.

It used to be serious. It still is, but it used to be, too.

Man, that “was” really got my hopes up for a minute.

Search Engine Optimization. Basically gaming search engine indexing algorithms so that your content appears more “relevant” (read: crammed full of as many keywords as possible) and thus higher up on search results, usually at the expense of having, you know, actual content worth reading.

I use uBlacklist with this filter and that generally keeps the repeat offenders at least out of image search, but clearing out every SEO-spam print-on-demand mimc-site was already a game of whack-a-mole before consumer LLMs became a thing; I imagine now it’d be like playing whack-a-mole with a hydra. Still, it does at least help.

Alright, so you probably can’t get rid of it, but you can make it look like it’s defective. Make it look like it’s sending way too many false positives. Find somewhere where you can get away with making obvious mistakes and then make like fifty of them in a row. “Why would I, an intelligent human being, just sit in the middle of an empty street doing donuts in an 18-wheeler for 10 straight minutes? I have a job to do,” you say. If you got one of those “constantly monitoring everything you say” things Amazon tried rolling out, just start spouting random gibberish. Some pencil-pusher at HQ sees a transcript come back that just says “reptile shoestring meridian front sawdust henway ball Amtrak septuagint ladder correct horse battery staple java thorpe 2 Chainz” over and over for like 40 pages, worst-case scenario he’s not gonna read it, best-case scenario he’s gonna think the company’s paying way too much for shit that don’t work.

The sewage was no doubt very upset to see its creek being contaminated by RFK Jr.

somehow, inexplicably, “Down Under” by Men at Work.

Ugh. Hate when that happens.

You couldn’t smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a babe…! I lost my train of thought.

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I have an associate’s degree from a community college that rebranded their “general studies” program to the “arts and sciences” program to fudge their numbers for a bigger STEM endowment, so… do I just wait for them at the airport, or what?

My class was set to graduate right around the time the pandemic hit and a lot of people ended up graduating late because the school literally couldn’t offer the classes they needed to finish their degree. Anyone to whom your date of graduation is actually relevant likely isn’t going to bat an eye at anyone who was in college within the last 5 years graduating a couple months late.

And, of course, there’s that old stand-by moral of “the only reason it seems like all your peers are doing better is because the ones in the same situation as you aren’t going on social media to brag about it.” So don’t rely on that as a metric too heavily.

Honestly, if I’m the defense, this has gotta be awesome, right? Now, I’m not a lawyer, but I have watched Boston Legal twice, so that’s basically the same thing, and what I’m hearing is these people want to get up on the stand and show the jury a video which either:

A) to the particularly inattentive, shows the victim clearly alive, or

B) demonstrates that even video evidence can be completely fabricated from whole cloth, and the opposition is more than capable of doing so to serve their own interests

Barring the staggeringly unlikely event that the defendant goes full-on Perry Mason Perp and outright says “hey, sorry I killed you, man” to the hologram, this seems like a pretty sweet deal.

Or some scheming vice admiral with designs on world domination keeps claiming that fighter jets are falling off his aircraft carriers, to cover up the fact he’s secretly smuggling them to the subterranean hangar under his island volcano lair…