Why are AI simps so fucking weird?
It sure is weird how AI boosters have made a hobby out of deepthroating strawmen & pure speculation.
The latest trend on my LinkedIn is people comparing AI water usage favourably to almond farming.
You know, the thing that famously uses a scandalous amount of water and which also has environmental groups campaigning against it...
They're constantly being told they're correct about everything, what do you expect?
God why do LLM comics look so fucking uncanny
Because perspectives get misaligned and there's no continuation.
There's a whole desk with books that just disappears. The poster in the background can't decide what it wants to say. Nor can it decide on its size. The shelves in front of it can't decide what they contain or where they are positioned And the wall it's on can't decide how it's angled relative to the room.
The "NO AI" dude is taking a giant step forward with his left foot behind a garbage bin for some reason.
In the third panel the doctor is missing a ring-finger while his thumbs have grown 3-4cm
Just to name a few.
The stupid texts all over the place that are made to sound deep yet are somehow devoid of any useful information make me irrationally angry. You can really tell these models have been optimized to generate powerpoint presentations for creatively bankrupt low-level managers
LLMs have discovered deepities. It's so nauseating.
My favourite is the googly-ass binocular microscope. Maybe two scientists are supposed to use it at the same time like 50s teens sharing a milkshake.
The "uncanny" part I think isn't because it's done badly, it's because it's done well - but not in any of the ways you'd get from a human. By the time a human artist has learned to get that good at shading, colouring, line work, human figures, posing etc, they'll have also learned about composition and perspective and good storytelling and when to not pointlessly overload the background with weird shit.
Yeah that scans, its like when it's taken as a whole it looks off. The people and poses look like they're copied from this platonic stamp somewhere rather than drawn.
Wait, these things still can’t draw hands?
Or proper perspective
I've given up. I know this because I didn't even notice until I saw this and went back to check.
That one frame... It was like the AI is going "humans have 10 fingers" then drew three on one hand, and crammed the rest onto the other.
The "AI" we are obsessing over and building entire power plants around.... Yeah, that stuff sucks, a lot. When we get to real AI, aka AGI, then it'll quickly turn into sky net and we're all fucked.
They won't stop until that happens, and nobody has the means to stop them... Anyone who has the means to stop them, won't.
Start digging your Doomsday bunkers now folks.
So where's that miraculous cure, then?
Dude, didn't you read that comic? The anti-AI psycho destroyed it. The vibe scientist probably tried to type in the same prompt again but this time the answer was in Mandarin.
You're so right, HIV infected plasma wasn't the cure for cancer. Maybe we should step back and look at this from a new perspective. I will generate a new vaccine for you and find a new batch of test subjects.
But you're not using it to cure cancer. You're using it to make this stupid comic.
generative ai? I dont think so.
Most research is done using PREDICTIVE ai not generative ai.
And no one's against machine learning, but fruit romance videos do not cancel out surveillance, inequality, and destruction of nature.
I know a Doctor at an Nvidia backed biotech company that is working with generative AI to find new drug formulations to test. Allegedly they have some promising ones that are in testing. The thing is even if they are successful and the models generate a viable drug this shit won't be free. They've sunk so many billions into processing power they'll justify charging $100k a dose to pay back their Nvidia loan.
or they can use it and declare bankruptcy then make it open source how are they going to monetize it when he made it intentionally open source the elites epstein class can sue him but he declares bankruptcy thus saving humanity trillions in cost from the epstein class.
and unicorns are real.
Shouldn't be that hard to synthesize a new substance if it was real. It has to be the only syringe! They made exactly enough for one dose for one person and that's it!
Dumb fucks really think LLMs are the kind of AI involved in medical and scientific research.
Yeah. At this point LLMs are what people are referring to 95% of the time when they say AI. If one comes up with the cure for cancer, it's because we already have it and it picked it up in the last data scrape.
And someone wins the coveted Nobel Prompt Prize.
I am pretty sure the "AI" systems making medicine aren't the same as generative AI.
They are not. They are purpose built systems that leverage specialized knowledge.
The problem is you have people asking LLMs to find a cure for cancer and have no way of knowing if the output is any good. Then those people start emailing everyone saying they cured cancer.
Medical fields have been using machine learning successfully for years before llms caught the shit sniffing attention of vc's. Current levels of llms are like tar pits for your brain and take either hate or intellect or both to get away from.
People that advocate for llms as ai are malicious actors and literally the worst kinds of people. It's so obvious, I don't know why more of society can't see right through this shit. Like, I do know, but it's still frustrating to have to live in this wasteland of society right now, knowing how much time and energy and life force, essentially, is gonna be wasted because of whatever this fucking political cold war we're in.
Giving LLMs credit for all machine learning is problematic
Their plagiarism machine can't even consistently render that guy's desk from panel to panel. Somebody's going to trust it to make drugs?
This shit can't even keep a consistent background over 4 comic panels
The scientist's desk design changes in all four panels as well.
Google discontinued development of alphafold, broke up the team, let many go and transferred the rest to general LLM development except for some that were moved to their vertically integrated own pharmaceutical research (to cash in on the whole value chain and lock everyone else out of their tools).
Mind you, that is the tool that got people a Nobel Prize.
https://thenextweb.com/news/deepmind-alphafold-team-dismantled-gemini-anthropic
how much of a loser do you have to be to believe that AI (LLM) is generating cures for diseases?
I highly doubt AI is just spitting out "cures" , they are used as tools as it should be. Would not take medicine completely generated by AI.
AI Art is not even made with AI but with the art of real life artists mushed together and i don't even care that much but it just isn't ART in the objective sense of the word. Those AI Artists want the same admiration we have for real artists and thats just crazy.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the sheer stupidity of this comic's impression of what research is like? Middle-aged white guy wearing glasses and a lab coat in front of a computer screen looking at news (about generative (!) AI no less) and exclaiming what amounts to "Eureka". And one panel later he has the fucking cure in a syringe right in his hand, ready to pop into somebody's blood stream. The visual representation of what generative AI fanboys think research is versus what it actually is is a Venn diagram with no overlap.

Meanwhile AI Bros are reinventing "thinking" by imagining what an LLM might say to them.
Breakthroughs like this WILL come from AI. But...
- They're not going to come from LLMs or image generating AIs.
- They're not going to come from the numbnuts generating comics in his bedroom - they'll come from real scientists.
We don't need vibe coded software or AI generated "art" and slop social media content to get to curing various forms of cancer or other diseases. No one would be upset about such a use. Instead it is being used to enable laziness, reduce our cognitive abilities, and further harm our environment while trying to make a quick buck and failing at that too.
Also AI is a general term and the models used in cancer research/detection are farther from generative LLMs than autocorrect.
Generative AI would suggest fucking napalm as a cure for cancer.
In a well-done hand-drawn comic, the background and the "props" will be consistent in all frames, as only the figures are drawn in afterwards.

Not with this prompt bro kissing the ground Muskrat walks on. He can go fuck himself.
wouldn't need to use genai to fake a cancer cure if conservatives didn't gut research for cancer
Pedant here, cancer is not a disease, it's an umbrella term covering many types of diseases related to unregulated cell growth. There never will be a "cure for cancer". There will never be a "cure for breast cancer" because there are different origins of breast cancer. We may find a cure for specific types of cancers, and each of those should be celebrated.
Imagine how much of a fucking loser you'd have to be to waste the precious moments of your life asking a computer to make this for you.
The best marketing tool that this generation of scammers found is to call their chatbot "AI" and clump it together with all the other products of machine learning (which is also a word with connotations).
The thing is that AI is a catch all term and the AI used in medicine has little to do with chat bots or generative AI in general.
It's not that GPT-10 will cure cancer when asked for it. But neural networks are good at pattern recognition so cancer detection is a promising application for example. Also, personalizing a cure is also an idea. It's not that we need a super intelligence and curing cancer is the excuse for data centers for scam bots. Medical AI is no excuse for generative AI.
I felt comfortable calling it "machine learning".
Hopefully the AI that developed the cure isn’t the same one that drew the scientist’s hands in the third panel
Fuck AI
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.