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Cake day: January 27th, 2024

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  • I hate the oligarchbros that are pulling some financial stunts and fucking up the world. They’re not my friends. We don’t need all the datacenters these clowns are building, destroying the environment, because we were pretty appropriately sized before for shiz like inage generation.

    The financial games will come to a head in some sort of financial catastrophe that will hurt everybody.

    But the real secret is that this image generation shtuff and text generation stuff is just computer code that we’ll still be using years from now, like one uses a hash to verify the contents of a file or a dht.

    I run models on my macbook in my bathroom, using only 55 watts max on the gpu there. That’s what “AI” is. Just some code and shit.

    What the assholes are doing in the big companies is fraud, abusing people, beeaking laws, etc. None of that is necessary. This is entirely the choice of some weirdos that think they can build a god cos they have a cluster of mental illnesses. This is what everybody is reacting to. Stealing intelectual property, building datacenters where people don’t want them, polluting the environment: these are all choices that the people building the companies have made. Many of them intentionally make cruel choices.

    That’s not what I did. I asked for a picture of a fish with a rotor cos I have had this idea in my head and I have thought this is the funniest thing. I am not advocating for the jerks that are destroying the planet.

    I saw the watermark and I decided to leave it in, so that nobody could be confused as to the provenance of the thing. My photoshop/gimp days on somethingawful are long past me, and I just wanted to make a quick joke.

    I feel anger, like you do, towards the thing that the jerks are doing with money and computers. I’ve gone out to protest against the capture of our state by assholes with money. My anger is pointed at the people.