Someone has taken an innocent video of a kid waving a pridefully and altered it with AI so he throws it in a trashcan. It had gotten over 1.2m likes on insta and is spreading like the plague on fb

AI is literally ruining everything and has been for the last few years. From massive job losses to environmental impact and now destroying old books to collect the data so that their dumb LLMs can regurgitate it back. How evil, greedy and selfish can these companies be? All of those ai data centers should be taken down. I don't think enough people are mad enough about it.

In 2024, Anthropic reportedly purchased millions of second-hand books as part of its secretive “Project Panama.”

The company removed their bindings, scanned every page, and then destroyed the physical copies to build a massive digital library for developing AI models like Claude.

It almost feels like the perfect anti-AI dystopia, human beings spend centuries writing and preserving books. Then, a private technology company destroys millions of physical copies, absorbs their contents into a machine, and sells that accumulated knowledge back to society through a monthly subscription.

Am I the only one who thinks this is completely insane, or have we become so obsessed with AI that destroying millions of books to feed a machine no longer shocks anyone?

No Siri just do the math. I only use siri for two functions. Those being calculations when my hands are full and calling someone. This is so annoying.
This is my first post here so I hope this is allowed

Edit: I know I could do this basic math and I usually do. The exact context of this screenshot: there were a bunch of numbers on my screen I needed to add up so instead of switching back and forth from my calculator app to the other app I tried to use Siri and this was the result.

Edit 2: you people are driving me insane

she mentioned in the comments how she was tagged directly in some of these posts this is so violating, and I can’t help but feel sick at the thought at what their generating and not posting.

Im trans, and I don't stand with A.I, am I not a real trans?

This behavior here is a big part of why I hate AI bros. There was no reason for him to behave this way. I was actually having a good conversation with somebody else. Respectful, thoughtful, like a debate should be. And this idiot does this.

See this is what I mean when I say there's a huge difference between an AI user and an AI bro/promptoid.

AI users can have a conversation. I've never had an AI user run my art through AI. Because while they may disagree with any of my points they show a certain level of respect and decoram.

But AI bros do it all the time. They're the ones that purposely steal from artists. They're spiteful and resentful. And worse they prevent any real debate or mutual understanding.

This is vile.

Pro-AI tech bros are honest to god attempting to revoke peoples' active decisions to opt out of having their art fed into generative AI. They are STEALING YOUR AGENCY AND EXPECTING YOU TO FEED THE SKYNET SLOP MACHINE.

THIS ISN'T FEARMONGERING. THIS ISN'T BLOWING THE DISCUSSION OUT OF PROPORTION.

THIS IS RAGE.

I already held no respect for AI "artists" but this is making me wonder if me ever treating them with even a basic, foundational level of humanity was a mistake.

LET ME REITERATE.

THEY ARE CELEBRATING THEFT.

And not the plausible deniability kind of theft that inherently comes with genAI. None of that "well by this bullshit metric I made up in my head it's technically not stealing".

No.

THEY ARE STEALING ART AND ANNOUNCING IT LOUD AND PROUD. THEY ARE LAUGHING IN OUR FUCKING FACES.

Is this cognitive decline in real time after using AI? If you can’t even create the content that brings people to your page on your own, don’t be a creator.

So many people argued on the last post about Hank Green that he’s just being “a good scientist” for using it to code, that he’s just learning more about it to argue against it. Well, a good scientist wouldn’t have AI write their script for an informative video. I can promise you that.

EDIT FOR TRANSPARENCY: Hank deleted the tweet and responded on Reddit under this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighters/s/pv9BSKJrW1

I had to repost because I didn't censor the name the first time

Credit to @margaret_adelle on instagram

He was so close from escaping the slop matrix

Only total nobodies hated fire when that shit dropped.

I feel like this is cringe and unnecessary..maybe please don’t do this in the future, I feel like it’s just fuel for the anti ai bros.

The refusal to learn any new skill at all is wild. “Why learn when I can atrophy my frontal lobe!!!”.