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Screenshot of a Mastodon post by Kevin Beaumont: “Generative Al government lobbying.”
Photo of AI/tech company CEO’s, captioned:
We spent a Trillion on NVDA GPUs antide dont have any Al product you want.
Photo of a crying male, captioned:
Please like our Al bro This is the last time bro. So many possibilities bro. Its the future bro. Just need you to like it bro. We worked real hard bro. Our stockholders need this one bro.
You will find some lemmings that hate ‘AI’ for correct and nuanced reasons. Not in a meme community post probably since I myself take licence to just be a snarky jerk in these type of communities. I come here to make fun of tech bros and such. They definitely deserve it.
There are a lot of highly skilled people around and you can find lots of opportunities for really interesting discussions about the proper uses of ‘AI’. Unlike blockchain which has turned out to have very niche applications beyond the dubious utility of crypto, these things definitely have real power to accelerate progress in many directions.
But come on, can’t we just rag on the hugely visible dipshittery that is accompanying this obvious ‘tuplip mania’?
To be fair, which application of AI has been more useful than “save money without government”?
I’m all for making fun of tech but if the punchline is just inaccurate it loses me
:.|:;Losses me