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  • I feel like the Internet Archive is a prime target for techfashy groups. Both for the amount of culture you can destroy, and because backed up webpages often make people with an ego the size of the sun look stupid.

    Also, I canā€™t remember but didnā€™t Yudkowsky or someone else pretty plainly admit to taking a bunch of money during the FTX scandal? I swear he let slip that the funds were mostly dried up. I donā€™t think it was ever deleted, but thatā€™s the sort of thing you might want to delete and could get really angry about being backed up in the Internet Archive. I think Siskind has edited a couple articles until all the fashy points were rounded off and that could fall in a similar boat. Maybe not him specifically, but thereā€™s content like that that people would rather not be remembered and the Internet Archive falling apart would be good news to them.

    Also (again), it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours. Like itā€™d take one crazy person to do serious damage to it. I donā€™t know but Iā€™m hoping their >100PB of storage is including backups, even if itā€™s not 3-2-1. Iā€™m only mildly paranoid about it lol.







  • Every time I see these crypto games, I can only think of the online uwu pit bosses shown in that one Folding Ideas video who were driving workers to slave away for less than the minimum wage in the Phillipines. Just permanently burned-in mental imagery.

    This is a cool channel by the way. Iā€™m stealing this description from someone in the YouTube comments, but he has a creative ā€œglitchcore SFM aestheticā€ that I kind of like and his speaking cadence reminds me of Primer. His style works strangely well for ripping into NFT games. This video felt like looking into a funhouse mirror dimension where every genre of game is somehow even worse than the worst games Iā€™ve ever seen.

    Also, the Dr. Disrespect-Chewbacca mask guy doing NFT lootbox openings is something I canā€™t unsee. Thatā€™s honestly so much funnier that heā€™s still doing it after the Dr. Disrespect sexting minors scandal.






  • Oh whoops, I should have archived it.

    There were about 7 images posted of users roleplaying with bots, all ending with a bot response that cut off halfway with an error message that read ā€œThis content may violate our policies; blablabla; please use the report button if you believe this is a false positive and we will investigate.ā€ The last one was some kind of parody image making fun of the warning.

    Most of them were some kind of romantic roleplay with bad spelling. One was like, ā€œi run my hand down your arm and kiss youā€, and the bots response triggered the warning. Another one was like, ā€œ*is slapped in the face* itā€™s okay, I still love youā€ and the rest of the message generated a warning. There wasnā€™t enough context for that one, so the person might have been writing it playfully (?), but that subreddit has a lot of blatant sexual violence regardless.








  • This is hilarious, thank you for digging this up. I love how theyā€™re just co-opting completely wrong words (wow, why does that sound familiar?) like ā€œantiā€ and ā€œfundamentalist orthodoxā€ to describe the people they donā€™t like

    Thereā€™s another one called ā€œArtistHateā€, but I was surprised itā€™s actually a pro-artist subreddit.


    If you want another fun read, check out Adobeā€™s ā€˜Stock Contributorsā€™ AI artist forum. I found it by accident, and itā€™s full of people struggling so, so hard to understand why their puppy photos with missing limbs or physically impossible landscapes arenā€™t accepted. Any time someone ā€œasks for clarificationā€ on the submission rules I swear you can tell what the issue is at a glance but theyā€™re stumped over it.

    Like, what is this person even trying to do??? Why do people feel the need to regurgitate responses from ChatGPT for no reason. Why are they even submitting AI art to Adobe Stock at all. Are they even getting paid? These are the same people who like those photos of snowboarding babies and have to reply ā€œthank youā€ to every post on their Facebook feed because they think it was personally sent to them.