Tristan Olson

@TristanOlson
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I'm new here, but so are the rest of you. Author of A God For Thieves and Blood of the Green Children. www.tristanolsonbooks.com
Are we not negative enough towards #ai

Who gets to enjoy all “the fruits of our labor”?

Not us. Not the majority. Not the workers whom we are supposedly celebrating today.

#USA #Labor #LaborDay #Politics #Capitalism

Like, what is the reason for widely available deepfake technology to exist?

Why should random people be able to make convincing faked images and videos of the pope, a president, a supermodel, or you and me?

Why on earth is this software a thing that anyone thought was a good idea to make? What legitimate use does it actually have? I honestly can't think of any application of this tech as harmless. It's just reality distortion becoming quickly shareable. It's a nightmare.

More and more I am convinced that there is absolutely no reasonable use for this technology, and the catastrophic danger of it far outweighs any possible benefit.

We're irrevocably poisoning how people perceive reality in exchange for a party trick.

#GenerativeAI #AI

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9

No one’s ready for this

With AI photo editing getting easy and convincing, the world isn’t prepared for an era where photographs aren’t to be trusted.

The Verge

The fact that:

1. This election is between a black female cop and a 34-time convicted white male felon

2. Almost every police union supports the felon

Should tell you everything you need to know about who the police really serve.

Word is he offered Harris an endorsement if she'd give him a cabinet position. I can kinda understand doing that between potential nominees in your own party, but this just shows the guy has no real allegiance beyond whoever he thinks will get him ahead.
In case anyone still had any doubts about RFK Jr. being a piece of shit.
Do I like movies?
Yes.
Do I want to see some nonsense a monetized YouTube content mill churned for the Matrix 5?
Fuck no.
I really need a way to tell my Google feed that I never ever want to see any of these fan/fake trailers made with AI and recut clips from other films for movies that haven't been filmed or sometimes even greenlit yet.

This thing falls apart on California freeways, does anyone anywhere think it's going to last more than fifteen minutes in an actual warzone, even if it is not immediately targeted as the most obvious thing to shoot at

https://gizmodo.com/militarized-cybertrucks-are-here-2000488469

The Cybertruck Heads to War With Militarized Upgrades

A company is offering to up-armor Cybertrucks and Chechnya's dictator rolled a machine-gun armed Cybertruck through the streets of his country's capital.

Gizmodo