Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13981240/nvidia-california-college-of-the-arts-partnership
Clove cigarettes to be replaced with vapes.
Iām convinced the proliferation of AI art comes from a generation of digital inhalants.
Oh, Iām sure the artists enrolling at the CCA are gonna be so happy to hear theyāve been betrayed
Hot take: There is no āintersectionā between these three, because the āemerging technologiesā in question are a techno-fascist ideology designed to destroy art for profit
In fairness, not everything nVidia does is generative AI. I donāt know if this particular initiative has anything to do with GenAI, but a lot of digital artists depend on their graphics cardsā capabilities to create art that is very much human-derived.
Given how gen-AI has utterly consumed the tech industry over these past two years, I see very little reason to give the benefit of the doubt here.
Focusing on NVidia, theyāve made billions selling shovels in the AI gold rush (inflating their stock prices in the process), and have put billions more into money-burning AI startups to keep the bubble going. They have a vested interest in forcing AI onto everyone and everything they can.