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Band I like accidentally purchases a poster design from a probable AI grifter. Here's there apology/acknowledgement post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C98X_6huBOJ
The poster in question:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C95H8MQuVI6
I do not blame the band. I blame the AI person for being shit and passing off AI-generated shit as his own.
Riffing on this fun subthread:
more of a nsfw, a post on pointing and laughing at the fash. figured y'all may also enjoy reading it
google continuing on their crusade to force ads down everyone’s eyeballs
not that it’s surprising, just “good” to see this playing out exactly as predicted
I’ve been under a rock with a bunch of life stuff so I only learned of this yesterday, and holy shit
those snapshots from the earnings call are wild
Presented without comment: this utter crankery about hacking the Matrix (HN)
Given the highly speculative subject of this paper, we will attempt to give our work more gravitas by concentrating only on escape paths which rely on attacks similar to those we see in cybersecurity [37-39] research (hardware/software hacks and social engineering) and will ignore escape attempts via more esoteric paths such as:, meditation [40], psychedelics (DMT [41-43], ibogaine, psilocybin, LSD) [44, 45], dreams [46], magic, shamanism, mysticism, hypnosis, parapsychology, death (suicide [47], near-death experiences, induced clinical death), time travel, multiverse travel [48], or religion.
Among the things they've already tried are torture, touching grass, and declining all cookies:
Unethical behavior, such as torture, doesn’t cause suffering reducing interventions from the simulators.
Breaking out of your routine, such as by suddenly traveling to a new location [199], doesn’t result in unexpected observations.
Saying "I no longer consent to being in a simulation" [200].
This idiocy has been patiently submitted 3 times before but finally broke containment
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=theseedsofscience.org
Google Pulls “Dear Sydney” Olympics Ad After Backlash To Its Portrait Of A Young Girl Using AI
The ad itself is just fucked - its like something you'd find in a shitty cyberpunk novel.
first taste of apple intelligence and it's about as good as you could expect
but hey, an apple product has acknowledged swearing - progress!
PURE PROMO: we're doing a Pivot to AI patrons’ video Q&A on Thursday August 8, at 16:00 UTC
also taking cryptocurrency questions
like you know I answer any of you guys' questions anyway, but this is in a much l33t3r format