any of these except the last one wouldn’t be an implausible guest of this podcast, honestly. (i was talking about andreessen)

i recently stumbled upon his “tetragrammaton” podcast on youtube, listening to the episode with soad’s daron malakian, which was actually very interesting.

then i had a look at what other interviews were on offer. among popular actors and musicians there are such luminaries as: palmer luckey, peter thiel, mark mcafee (apparrently some raw milk tycoon), jay bhattacharya (covid-19 hoaxer type guy i guess), mr eggman himself, etc etc

on the podcast rubin comes off as this cool, open-minded hippie person, “just asking questions” and “having a conversation” with interesting people. so i guess he’s just sort of following the rogan formula. except i think rubin has a bit more brain matter left than the mma/dmt guy. so i can’t help but wonder if this podcast is a bit more of a targeted effort at influencing new age people just coming across it like i did.

i was actually quite surprised at this, so i also did a bit of searching, and apart from the post you linked i also came across nothing else. but his work speaks for itself i guess.

absolutely not excusing this soulless garbage, but technically the “coom” pronounciation is the more correct one, compared to what i assume would usually be “cum” (not an english native, but took latin in school)

they just can’t help themselves, can they? they absolutely must evangelize

somebody had to do the design + layout for that banner. i wonder what was going through their head then.

brian merchant’s take on this: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory

not that this trend is anything new or surprising, but i just find it especially disgusting. having watched quite a few ghibli movies and also some behind the scenes movies: the people making these movies are incredible artists. and miyazaki essentially tortures himself to make these incredible works of art. and now these absolute shitheads have assimilated it into their regurgitation machine, removing all of the heart and soul and meaning in the process. because these people don’t understand art, they certainly don’t appreciate the work and craft behind it - they actively mock artists because they think they’re just replaceable. what a fucking corporate hellscape this world has turned into.

not on topic at all, but this thread once again makes me appreciate awful.systems as the sane corner of the internet that it is. just no tolerance for bullshit and great values. i wish i could just take that for granted, but it’s become exceedingly rare. thank you <3

and lol to all the shitheads thinking they can spew their shitty “opinions” on how people feel

interesting read, thanks. the red pill reference also had me rolling my eyes. i guess it’s more virtue signalling than actually making a change.

never heard of them before. from skimming their wikipedia, it seems their grift is glossing over the details in the “science” part?

or, you know, just eat the fucking plants instead

wait, so is this “orion” that was supposed to be coming soon? or is that yet another slop generator that he’s promised? isn’t the singularity coming any day now?

Zuck says lots more slop coming your way soon

“I think were going to add a whole new category of content which is AI generated or AI summarized content, or existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” the Meta CEO said. “And I think that that’s gonna be very exciting for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads, or other kinds of feed experiences over time.”

Facebook is already one Meta platform where AI generated content, sometimes referred to as “AI slop,” is increasingly common.

i thought it was for “Balthazar”

i suppose when this guy speaks of artists, he means people making art as their primary source of income. not to say that those people aren’t artists as valid as any others. but he’s saying if you don’t use ai to push out stuff ever faster, you won’t make it. fuck taking your time to get inspired and have it mean something, just give us the soulless garbage to sell our products already.

nice

that didn’t take long https://blog.kagi.com/announcing-assistant

GPT-5 will fix it for sure, i swear! Just one more datacenter bro!

the thing is, people are again taking this as direct output of the regurgitating machine. i wouldn’t be at all surprised if there was a ton of editing going on to fix all of the most glaring issues, just like when sora was first announced.