robcorneliusReject #slop. Support #humanity
Slop is everything from shitty #memes to #palantir generated list of targets for domestic deportations and airstrikes in wars around the world.
Slop costs vast amounts of money. Your shitty meme costs nothing right now but billions were invested in its generation. Sooner or later you will have to pay. Probably when the "AI" company whose product you used to make your shitty meme goes bust and gets bailed out by governments as it is deemed "too big and important to fail". Then your taxes and the global economy will pay for slop.
Generating slop concentrates vast amounts of power into the hands of a small group of men. They are stealing all the output of humanity to train their slop generating machines. They are using the machines for their own ends. They view the rest of humanity as serfs. We only exist to generate their wholly unearned incomes and to create more real art for them to steal. These men are becoming more wealthy and powerful by the day. Their stated aims are to become as powerful as the absolute monarchs and emperors from history.
Slop makes some of the absolute worst people in the world more powerful. They control the life and death of millions already.
Generating slop consumes vast amounts of natural resources. I shouldn't have to say more than that. Just in case you have been living under a rock... Generating slop requires vast amounts of electrical power and millions of gallons of water every day for cooling. "AI" datacentres require huge amounts of land and natural resources to build. Most datacenters are projected to be entirely obsolete within 5-10 years at best. Obsolete datacentres probably wont be repurposed and their contents recycled. Instead they will probably be abandoned and new, larger datacentres built.
Slop is wrecking the environment that you live in and creating an environment that your descendants or any living thing won't be able to survive in.
Humanity simply doesn't need AI. We already know how to do all the things humanity needs. We already know how to save the planet from environmental catastrophe. We already know how to fight diseases. We already know how to feed and house every one on the planet. We already know how to eliminate poverty globally. We already know how to send spaceships to the moon. We already know how to probe the secrets of the universe. We already know how to discover the details of how our bodies and minds work. We already know how to ascertain how other non-human beings live, thrive and survive and how they interact with each other and with humanity. We already know how to organize human societies for the benefit of everyone. We already know how make art of all kinds. We already know how to kill other people on an global scale. We already know how to annihilate all life on the planet in a nuclear fireball or through ecological collapse.
Slop does not advance human knowledge and civilization in any way shape or form. Instead it prevents humanity and civilization advancing by diverting valuable resources and knowledge to make something we don't need.
Slop kills humans and non-humans.
Slop is the end of humanity. Slop is the end of life on the planet.
Reject slop. Support humanity.
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