I just block all of the VC funded engagement bait founders as soon as I see them now. The cheating app guy, the traveling the world with VC money guy. It’s like an infestation these days

Many tech bros are telling me that the GPUs (graphics processing unit—same machine created for b*tcoin mining) being used in AI models are **cooled with water in a “closed-loop” system** They are TRAPPING the water in a CLOSED. LOOP This is destroying the water cycle.

you WONT because making a good product is ANTITHETICAL TO YOUR BUSINESS MODEL YOU RAISED MONEY I DIDNT RAISE MONEY I AM DOING THIS FOR FUN I AM HOSTING THE SERVER ON A COMPUTER I BOUGHT FROM THE MONEY OF ANOTHER BOOTSTRAPPED COMPANY THAT I MADE FOR FUN

virtual reality is insane because it appears to be one of the most dangerous mediums with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively used by literal turbonormies who unironically want to like "experience the crime in first person” and basically get oneshotted by it

Marc andressesesssesen as a dumpling, with the pointy top of the dumpling being the head

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Seeing a Florida judge throw on a Quest 2 to experience the crime in first person is crazy. 2025 is off to a fun start.

Wow. This is one of the best AI hybrid commercials I've ever seen. Rufus Blackwell shot this partially live-action (opening and closing shots) and did a ton of keyframe AI animation. They probably saved $100K and four weeks of VFX work by doing this as a hybrid commercial.

my artist friend told me that AI is evil because it’s automating artists away and they are gatekeepers resisting capitalism. he said that artists are the most moral group because they have the highest % of leftists. and that tech workers are unethical. now you also know this.

Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.

to shed a light on the how insane some anti-ai arguments on this app sound (have you seen those posts? like the recent one saying ai is hogging up all the water and is the reason we can’t put out the fires? the arguments are even worse on some other platforms) to make supporters of those arguments reflect on their critical thinking skills, to not blindly believe everything they read on the internet no, ai is not drying up the oceans no, each prompt isn’t killing a tree or consuming 3,000,000 gallons of water no, a forest was not burned so that a 4 minute ai video could be generated no, the god damn chatgpt models aren’t named after their water consumption (that should’ve really raised an eyebrow) yet each of those takes are blindly accepted by hundreds of thousands to millions of people most of which seem to believe that ai is this evil entity powered by late stage capitalism and power hungry ceos that is destroying our planet and ourselves with no possible upside in any way, shape, or form a lot of the anti-ai arguments i see on here, other platforms, and in real life, especially in regard to the environmental impact of ai, are extremely misconstrued versions of the truth and yet still accepted by millions at face value it is not an exaggeration that people actively *avoid* ai, tell their friends to avoid it, cut people off for using ai, will shame you/bully you/threaten you for using ai (right now there is a trending case of an artist getting bullied into submission and deleting their account for suspected use of ai), would take your gpus if they could, would help destroy a data center if they could, etc there are surprisingly a lot of modern luddites that would happily destroy modern society (which was propelled by technology) in order to go back to “simpler times before capitalism” and a lot of people in my tech bubbles don’t know about this vehement anti-ai sentiment and mob that is growing larger and increasingly more violent each day i don’t want anti-ai riots in the streets because of misinformation about ai frying people’s brains and making them believe ai is the devil because of reasons that they read from a bullet list on a flowery infographic their friend shared with them or that they read on this site and i don’t want the tech world to get blindsided by the above so i like to riff on it and in doing so i expose these ideas that need to be nipped in the bud i know i can do more to accomplish this more productively and without accidentally causing the mass hysteria myself, so i may rethink how i do things moving forward

Wow, have you seen this? It’s incredibly enlightening and depressing. I thought DeepSeek’s low training cost was a reflection of its lessened environmental impact but I was so, so wrong. There is no ethical AI under capitalism!

Ironic that in a post that is essentially criticizing people querying chatGPT when they can just google stuff, you're at the very same time spreading easily provable false claims. I do not mean to be rude, but please, sit for a second and think about what you're saying. Do you REALLY think every single questions asked of ChatGPT is an actual, real tree being chopped down? Does that sound plausible? A quick *Google* search says the estimate is that there are 3 trillion trees on Earth, or about 400 for every human. A recent official statistic of just OpenAI says that ChatGPT gets 1 billion (with a b) messages per day. This is just ChatGPT, it does not include all the other LLMs. Even if we assume that no other models exist/are being used, this would mean that 1 billion trees are felled every single day. 3 trillion / 365 billion trees per year = 8.22 years. We will be out of trees in 8.22 years. Which you surely realize is utter BS.