Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

#EleanorMorton #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour #NonFiction

@pivic what's fun is _working_ for such a company :/
@jackeric @pivic I don't want to say too much but some of the stuff people came up with and ran with during the product brainstorming session had me buttoning up pretty tight thinking, "But you can just...oh fuck it--it'll be easy."
@jackeric @pivic
That sounds like an opportunity for sabotage to me.
@pivic I'm starting to get convinced that the push to embed AI into everything is less about "helping" users and more about them getting to talk naturally to a prompt that feeds directly into training the model that will represent them in the great new reality 2.0 system...or just to express like/dislike over advert approaches.
@pivic Looks like there was a race condition between my language producing centers and my language writing/typing centers :p
@pivic This hits so home for me. Nailed it.

@pivic Yeah, it's like every company everywhere ever collectively said, "Hey, how can we have our own Google+ like failure?...

But let's not stop there! Let's help destroying the planet as much as possible and wasting more money that it would take to feed every starving child several times over!!!"

@pivic elanor is awesome. i wish she was on mastodon
@pivic Apparently, even gimp has ai now. At least it’s in plugins you have to install and set up, so it’s not being forced on you.
@su_liam @pivic Just FYI, those are third-party plug-ins. GIMP has a public API that anyone can use to make their own scripts and extend GIMP, but it doesn't mean we include them in the official download package.

@CmykStudent @pivic Really? I didn’t know that. Thanks for telling me something I didn’t know.

“At least it’s in plugins you have to install and set up, so it’s not being forced on you.”🫤

@su_liam @pivic GIMP has built-in plug-ins - for instance, every image format except XCF is read in by plug-ins.

Just wanted to make it clear that the AI plug-ins are not built into GIMP, which is the impression I got from your message. I'm sorry that I misunderstood.

@CmykStudent @pivic Well, I did point out that you have to actively install them and set them up, but thank you. ☺️
@CmykStudent @pivic One thing I did not mention is that the plug-ins are from a third-party, which is a very fair point.
@su_liam @CmykStudent @pivic your phrasing can be understood as "the GIMP project is actively developing AI plugins, they are just not installed by default". Is it the case, or is it just that random dudes are coding third-party AI plugins for GIMP , that have nothing to do with the GIMP project ?

@corpsmoderne @su_liam @pivic Hi! No, we're not developing genAI plug-ins (you could argue that filters and such are "AI" in the non-genAI sense). We just have a public API that anyone can use to add on to GIMP.

If they want to make plug-ins that use genAI for their own workflows or to share with others, that's their perogative, but it's not connected to GIMP itself.

@pivic My local convenience store has some cheap earbuds *with ai* on sale
@pivic She's brilliant. Following her on YouTube for some time already.
@pivic
AI is the solution and it is up to us now to find the use cases and problems it solves, because... yeah, actually... why should we?

@momo @pivic

To fulfill the commoners' purpose of life:
Make investors happy 🤑

@pivic It's got what users crave! It's got AI!
@pivic
I am QUITE SURE "these Ladies are" not twins. Therefore the clip is a clever .....

@pivic

AI -- a product no one wants except fascist billionaires and petrostate despots, such a dilemma.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/from-bill-gates-to-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-dines-with-ai-and-tech-leaders-in-pics/photostory/123715431.cms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/25/05/45424189/nvidia-amazon-tesla-palantir-among-top-beneficiaries-of-1-trillion-saudi-arabia-ai-push-analyst-says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

https://cloudwars.com/ai/larry-ellison-and-oracle-beat-microsoft-for-largest-tech-contract-ever-100-billion-openai-stargate-deal/

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-600b-saudi-arabia-investment-deal-2072228

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/may/19/trump-middle-east-ai-deals

https://www.404media.co/larry-ellisons-ai-powered-surveillance-dystopia-is-already-here/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/donald-trump-gulf-states-ai

https://www.latintimes.com/oracle-founder-larry-ellison-praises-ai-surveillance-state-video-clip-resurfaced-after-trump-ai-573189

https://qz.com/openai-palantir-anthropic-aws-ai-startups-us-defense-1851693801

From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump dines with AI and tech leaders - In pics

US President Donald Trump hosted a high-level group of tech leaders at the White House on Thursday, September 4, 2025, exhibiting artificial intelligence research and talking about investments being made by American companies. The dinner was planned to be held in the White House’s Rose Garden, which was recently redecorated to set up tables, chairs, and umbrellas. However, due to bad weather, officials shifted it to the State Dining Room instead.

The Times Of India
@Npars01 @pivic so many people on the Epstein list sitting at a single table...

@Npars01 @pivic

We need a sucessful Stsufenberg Moment here

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@Npars01 @pivic

Millions of families paid a much higher price, than that. Millions of families vanished completly.

@pivic
#alt4you The comedian performs a dialogue with herself posing as "every company" and "me".
@pivic Lovely! Hadn't seen her in a while. Use to see lots of her short videos, hmm, must have been back in Twitter days.

@pivic brilliant!!

Damn, looks like @eleanormorton opened an account here but didn't get on with it or something.

#eleanorMorton: you'll go big here* with vids like this, hope you make it back!

*big here: not what it means on xitter/tiktok/insta/yt, no money or fame, just that lots of actual people will appreciate your work!

@pivic
The more serious side of this is the hundreds of billions (possibly trillions) of dollars sunk into AI industry is inflating a market bubble, and when it inevitably pops there will be a global economic downturn due to the realization that all of that money has no intrinsic value and unlike housing bubble of 2008 or tulips of the 1637 there's no material thing that is left with any use. A pure speculative market bubble.
@pivic Fantastically on point.

@pivic

When I raise concerns about AI, I've got people at work going, "It's innevitable, deal with it!" & I'm all, oh, honey.... 🤦

@cavyherd @pivic GPT-3 released a little over 5 years ago. That got the public talking about it and got companies pushing very heavily for it. And yet I'm not sure if I've seen any job other than propaganda spreading and bad customer service actually automated by an LLM. The technology isn't really in its infancy anymore, I'm really not convinced it's going to take over the world at this rate

@november @pivic

This, of course, doesn't mean that they won't find a way to •break• the world in their efforts to take everything over....

@pivic I had a meeting exactly like this last week
@pivic Real fact. It could also be "those who don't want to use AI can bring me their resignation letter."
@pivic Pretty much this, I've basically disabled any A.I feature shipped to me as standard, or uninstalled the app if alternatives are available.
@pivic
Man, she really nailed that experience, didn't she?