“Generative AI” is a bullshit scam with no future. The sooner it dies, the better. And to call the bubble “unsustainable” is to understate.

“AI” is way too vague a term to give a “take” on.

Needs another smaller baby on the knee of the baby, with the same face, of course.

When I was last seriously studying Japanese, I remember finding a YouTube video of a Japanese person teaching English. And I remember one point he made (I understood enough Japanese to follow a certain amount of what he said) was that the name of a given letter in the English alphabet was not the same as the sound it makes.

(In case anyone reading this doesn’t know, Japanese has a couple of phonetic alphabets. (Honestly, hiragana and katakana are probably more “phonetic” than English letters in a way.) But for those characters, there’s no distinction between the character’s name and the sound it makes. For instance, the sound the hiragana character “す” makes is similar to the English name “Sue”, and the name of that character is exactly the same. There’s no need for any distinction between the name of a hiragana/katakana character and the sound it makes in Japanese.)

It just wasn’t something that had occurred to me that some learners of English would have to be explicitly taught the distinction between the name of a letter and the sound it made, so it was interesting to hear.

I really need to get back into studying Japanese.

Why not like you potatoes?!

Actually… that’s a really good question. 🤔

Please tell me I’m not the only one with these scenes running through my head.

But seriously. This is no anomaly. This may be a more stark example than most, but it’s part of a running pattern of botched executions. What more do people have to see to be swayed that capital punishment is barbaric and should be abolished?

“Of course. Why else would I be wearing a hot dog costume?”

shtiposter

slop ≠ shit

I’m simply not going to verify everything I post isnt AI.

Then expect the same reaction frequently.

the [tools] that are out there that I’ve found are checks notes AI

Yeah, those aren’t reliable and I wouldn’t advocate for their use.

If you have good tools, paste them here and I’ll start using them

Tineye and DuckDuckGo image search.

I’m not going on a fucking Goose hunt each time I share a meme, though.

“When in doubt, don’t post it” is always an option.

I’m honestly sick of the slop police.

Then keep slop in pro-GenAI echo chambers.

(Or if it isn’t slop, bring evidence.)

The option to “opt out” of slop has been deliberately denied us by the whole god-damned GenAI grift industry. The only way we have to opt out of slop is to shame those who spread it.

My DuckDuckGo image search-fu also hasn’t found any references to that image before March 2026.

Are you saying you’re “pretty sure this particular image existed before AI” from memory or something else?

I’m a fan of the Green Lantern comics franchise and I’ve been wishing for a movie or TV series for a long-ass time. (But DC’s been extremely incompetent in movies and TV for a long-ass time.) This series is quite good. It is definitely a “Green Lantern TV series”. It’s pretty “terrestrial” for Green Lantern, at least until later in the season. but that’s not unexpected for a TV series.

All in all, yes. Worth a watch.

• Any Austin
• James Channel
• The Tech Report
• Contrapoints
• Fredrik Knudsen
• Marcin Plaza
• Oki’s Weird Stories

Yeah, but if the bubble lasts longer it’ll hurt us more when it does collapse.

Plus we’ll have to deal with more clanker bullshit in more of our daily lives for longer if it takes a long time for it to collapse.

God I hope so.

I still prefer the beans memes.

75% loss? Still did better than most crypto-investersgamblers.

I had that happen a few times when I was quite young. At least once, I did it on purpose. I had a sleepover with a friend and was excited for the next day and was impatient for the next day to arrive now. I fell asleep and woke up the next day seemingly instantly. No dreams. No perception of passage of more than like a second of time. Just instant morning.

Ooo. SIX gee. Watch out everybody, we’ve got a badass up in here.

Wow. I ran out of space in that comment, but one more thing I wanted to say. I haven’t talked to speak of about Stable Diffusion and DALL-E (even after including them in my definition of “Generative AI”). (I guess I should also say that probably Soma qualifies as “Gnerative AI”.)

But the short version of why I think those are a scam is because everybody hates everything that comes out of them. Hell, my YouTube-shorts-addicted mother has even been more and more boycotting AI content.