Okay, these two in particular feel like the pots calling the kettle black.
Don’t get me wrong, the foreign policy of the US is beyond a train wreck right now and we’re doing damage that will take decades to undo.
But the US being terrible doesn’t mean these guys are good.
That’s true! There are plenty of other reasons why the technology is bad.
Obviously yes, one image is too many. But companies only care about money, and if their money is going to evaporate because of their stupid technology, they’ll figure out a way to shut it off before it costs them.
The alternative is the status quo, which is that there are no consequences so there are no changes. Or maybe you make the fine ten quadrillion dollars for the first image generated, which is never gonna fly.
Let’s say a user generates one image per minute. If they do that for an hour, that’s $30M. If they did that once a day for a month, that’s almost a billion dollars.
These services have hundreds of millions of users. Collectively, if they don’t stop, the fines will be total-world-GDP levels in days or weeks.
These things are nonconsensual sexual image machine guns, dude.
Less expensive: yep
Actually fun colors: yep
Windows is worse than ever: yep
It would have been surprising if this thing wasn’t a hit.
I want to meet the person who would consider buying this but doesn’t have a Steam account.
(I do not think this hypothetical person exists.)
What is the benefit of including the reply in this screenshot?
ctrl-f “z-space”
Aww, yeah.
It does matter, though. That dipshit segment is lost. But there’s a big chunk of people who swing side to side. Tons of people are constantly telling them “both sides bad” (including quite a lot of .ml users on this platform). It’s not true.
But if we start saying it’s fine to lie and manipulate images like this, then it becomes a little more true.
I agree with almost every one of the things you suggest.
But what makes us better than them is that we don’t have to lie. There is plenty of real stuff to throw at them. If we lie, it lets them call us liars, and they can more easily ignore the real stuff.
I do see the harm. “Everything that looks bad is fake” is not very far from what this guy has said before, and more fake stuff circulating makes it easier for his 30% to believe him.
The (non-vandalized) version of this image is a fake. Do not continue to spread it around.
There is plenty of real stuff out there to make fun of him for.
Alternatively: what he is doing is causing immense suffering on a societal level and if he stopped doing it many people would live when they would otherwise die.
If the government is unable or unwilling to stop him, or even stop accelerating what he’s doing, then there are other options.
My plan, if I’m ever forced to use it for work or whatever, is to have a Claude.md file that says stuff like
I only block for one reason: egregious crossposting. Don’t post the same thing in four communities.
The only potentially generous way to interpret that statement is if “here” is like downtown in a major city or near a college campus or something.
But do you know who deserves the benefit of the doubt? Not this little fucker, not one bit.
Green Party: distract mostly left-leaning people to make it easier for Republicans to get elected
My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.