[MOD EDIT - AI generated comic strip removed]
[No AI on B3ta, thanks]
(, Fri 11 Sep 2026, 17:43, Reply)
that does look like one of those ai generated cartoons that people use for lazy political memes
seems to be a default style or something
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 7:19,
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It is AI - the name on the decks changes for a start.
Then the arrangement of things on the desk changes amoung many many other things.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 9:42,
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fk me! I never thought the puritans would be all over the b3ta-sphere - the anti-ai crusade is some trip like. Crate digging? sampling? Collage art? Compositing? Automated processes? Templates? Demo Songs? Modifying presets? nah, there's clearly no labour, or direction? Word to the wise, it's not going to uninvent itself, maybe recognise where judgement should begin and end.
(, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 17:40, Reply)
“I’m sorry, you’re totally right to call me out on doing a bit, would you like me to do a bit more?”
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LP, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 19:53,
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ai is not a healthy use of resources
it might have its uses,though im yet to be convinced. being a way for lazy people to try and be "creative" is not one of them.
(, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 20:11, Reply)
It depends on how it is used.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 20:51,
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porn is the only acceptable use
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 23:30,
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no, I think on balance
Fuck AI
The world will move fully to post truth, artistic endeavour will be swapped with low effort slop, The CEO class see AI as a way of mass sacking leading to mass unemployment. Data centres will make the world burn that bit faster. The quality of services will drop, you will be stuck talking to incompetent ai bots whenever you have problems ( see mass unemployment)
So yeah, fuck AI
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simbosan is too tired, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 21:06,
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In general, in 2026 it's older people who get excited about AI, overuse it, and spread AI slop. Younger people seem to treat AI like washing machines - useful but boring, up to the point of the mass unemployment threat.
In customer service and science, AI is already used heavily
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 5:27,
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I know, and it's shit
Here's an AI chat bot talking bullshit to me. I complained and got a bit of cash. Are you saying this is acceptable? I repeat, fuck AI. It's just an excuse to sack people and replace them with bots that will say any old shit It's just another way to get low effort enshittifcation in our lives.
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 8:36,
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Before deep learning and post the AI winters, people just called it machine learning, because "artificial intelligence" sounded ridiculously pretentious and misleading. I don't think machine learning as a method is shit. We've all been using it in some way for years. But AI products like the ones you had to deal with definitely are and should never be released
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 10:46,
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LLM is not machine learning
Driverless cars don't use LLM. LLM is a specific tech distinct from trad machine learning and recognition
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simbosan is too tired, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 12:36,
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An LLM is a machine learning model
A type of deep learning model
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 13:47,
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i think calling it a thieving maching learning model is more accurate
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 23:34,
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Kinda yeah and kinda no
Machine learning as a phrase is usually referring to stuff like image recognition. LLM has become sufficiently specialised to deserve it's own treatment separate from say using image recognition to spot cancers in x-rays and stars in telescope data. That special treatment is to say "fuck it" it will end everything of value
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simbosan is too tired, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 1:11,
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that comic you linked was probably created in a one paragraph prompt, if that
A lot of ai videos that are packing out social media have no human prompting at all, they just recursively generate themselves from viewing and user data.
so we're not talking about somebody who's automated some minor tedious task in a long process. it's outsourcing human creativity to a probablistic code model. all those choices and even the words, determined from some LLM that polls vast librarys of stolen content. It's also why the humour is pretty lame. It's not really inventive, it's derivative by nature
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 0:27,
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We all know it's really a bunch of lads in India
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sat 12 Sep 2026, 20:54,
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I am shocked that BPB, the pretend leftist malignant narcissist, regurgitates billionaire's pro-AI propaganda.
I am shocked that he evidently hates the planet that we are all sadly forced to share with him.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 15:25,
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Could you repeat that? It's hard to hear you with Sam Altman's cock and balls so deep in your mouth.
I can however very easily recognise when someone on the internet has their camera pointed the wrong way round.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 19:08,
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Pointing a camera at yourself and wittering on about the ugliness of politicians is art is it?
How's that denial of being a malignant narcissist working out for you so far?
If the tables were reversed I'd be more upset at being called a planet-hating fake leftist and a billionaire's useful idiot, personally.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 13 Sep 2026, 20:10,
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by "turning a camera on myself" I assume you are referring to my Livestreams? They have a decent regular audience and al ot of folk watch them after, I have had some great guests so far - with more planned. How does my choice to livestream make me any different from the millions of other people who do this? And yes, about your art , could you let me know where I can see, or hear it please?
(, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 16:08, Reply)
Millions of other desperate narcissists have normalised your narcissism? If millions of people do a harmful thing it stops being harmful?
This being the one thing that you take offense to is quite the tell.
Please try to keep sight of the fact that I'm criticising you for parroting billionaire ultra-capitalist, pro-AI, anti-environmental talking points while you pretend to be a leftist, and if you weren't a malignant narcissist this would be the thing that would upset you.
And do you really need me to tell you how to navigate this website?
Click my name, genius.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 14 Sep 2026, 19:44,
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