Fucking beautifully said.

“bUt nO oNe’S sUrE wHy”

Meanwhile at Microsoft:

“Stop using Windows 10. We lied and made Windows 11. It’s all AI bullshit that we will Cortana in 2 years. Please scan your face and taint to login.”

Microsoft FEELS and ACTS like they have a monopoly.

They do not have a monopoly.

People can use Linux. So they are using Linux. Now up to 10% from 5% at the end of last year.

If Microslop doesn’t start making business decisions based in actual reality, then Linux user share is going to hit 20-30% of NA by early next year at the current growth rate.

Fucking LOL.

Let’s make school shootings even more confusing by making sure both victims and shooter(s) are all grouped together on the ground screaming about the waeaponized capsacin in their eyes.

Cops in Texas are going to have to explain why they mowed down multiple innocents simply because they couldn’t figure out who the shooter was in a sea of kids screaming about getting pepper sprayed after almost getting shot.

This will not end well. It will end with more dead kids not less.

I mean, based fully on our current dystopian reality, I feel you just made a really good point about tech growing to a point where it fully captures you from reality, and indeed frys your brain by convincing you that fantasies are real.

MAGA is a great example of people with brains so fried they think a pedophile exconman with 34 felonies who killed millions of Americans trough a poor pandemic response is somehow helping them by destroying USAID, DEI, Healthcare, and Social Security.

Their brains are gonzo, all through the constant applied exploitation of all the tech you just mentioned combined.

AI will absolutley make it worse.

Love how Tony Starks voice comes out of Doctor Dooms mouth.

You think Robert Downey Jr. Is just gonna talk through his role as Doom like he did here?

I’m pretty sure he’ll do some acting instead.

So counter-counterpoint. Doom should sound like Doom. Not like a copy and pasted RDJ from Iron Man 1.

The fact he just talks normally kinda proves my point about AI sucking ass.

Here’s that character in the comics. His voice is lettered in a distinct way that the comics even reference and make fun of.

Something that AI couldn’t reference for accuracy so didn’t, and the result is fucking hilarious 😂 if that trailer was real, Marvel would be made fun of even more than it is now.

Also, people exploding into green mist is Power Rangers 2000 level of SFX bad. Not impressed at all by the powers Doom is supposed to have in this trailer if his biggest threat is turning you into a fart cloud.

Ah yes. Please tell me how real your totally made up assumptions are on how AI will develop.

if the AI companies get their hands on it.

AI already had their hands on the sum total of everything humans have created for the last 10,000 years and the best it can do is sometimes generate something mediocre 1/100 times. This mediocre result can’t be modified, or improved in anyway. And you want me to believe adding a single other library of 300k films will be enough? That’s a bucket of water in an ocean of information it already has access to and uses poorly. It will not make AI magnitudes better than it is now, the technology itself has plateaued due to its own architecture. AI Models can get better, yet results still cannot be modified, duplicated, or improved.

Which in an industry where tiny creative iterative improvements is literally the key to making something great, you want me to believe a machine that is incapable of that can somehow reach the same quality result?

You are dillusional. This tech is a dead-end creatively and it’s an embarrassment that you think it can grow by impossible leaps and bounds that exist purely in your imagination.

the outcome will likely be good enough for the average Marvel movie.

Dude. Marvel isn’t even good enough for the typical marvel movie these days. You think the guys who made 26 blockbuster hits can be replaced by AI when they can’t even successfully replace themselves with other humans? Marvel can’t even make a movie to save their own ass these days, I doubt AI has a shot.

1 scene at a time means AI has results with inconsistent locations that change as they leave the frame, inconsistent costumes on actors, inconsistent background SFX, inconsistent lighting, inconsistent cinematography. Etc etc.

AI doesn’t know how to keep the color temperature between indoor lighting and outdoor lighting consistent. So it has no control over style, rather just a single scene’s lighting. So it can’t be a cinematographer. It can just guess what each scene looks like and you better hope shot 5 is the same 5400 degrees Kelvin white balance as shot 3 or that scene is going to look like a fucking amateur shot it once edited together.

AI can’t emote. Period. In any way that makes a human interested instead of angry. Acting is a range of emotions, displayed in ways uniquely and handled by each actor. An AI can give you 100 emojis options to have appear on a face in a scene, and none of them consider the emotional arc and narrative of the film, because this is one scene being generated out of 73. So AI can look and sound like Natalie Portman, but be limited to acting like her in Star Wars episode 2: Attack of the Clones. Just constantly one emotion full throttle or another to the point it’s hilarious an Oscar winning actress gets completely forgotten about in her Star Wars appearances.

AI can’t be consistant. Period. So sets will change. Props will change. And “plot holes” or “set mistakes” will become common as AI can’t remember what something looks like when it leaves the screen. It’ll be like accidentally having a Starbucks cup in that one episode of game of thrones, but for every episode of ever, instead of just the one in season 8. Imaging that seasons mistakes but done in every shot and every scene because the robot dreaming up the production cares even less than the directors did making that season.

People like you think AI can make a movie because you’ve never made anything creative yourself to sell to the public. It’s not easy. And the public doesn’t just lap up bullshit. There’s trends and tastes and opinions that every creator whose ever made something has had to navigate to become successful. Just because an AI can get criticized instead of a human doesn’t mean that AI can get better as a creative generator. Only humans can do that through constant iteration. AI, even at its best, still needs 100 tries to get something alright. An expert filmmaker needs 1. Because they’ve made thousands of mistakes before, and learned from each. Something AI literally is incapable of and will never be able to replace. So every creative human work that is built atop the journey of failure and self improvement can never be emulated by a machine that fully lacks that mechanism. At best, it can kinda copy it 1 out of 100 tries.

Good thing they won’t be convincing enough. The preview for every AI actor I’ve seen has been laughably bad. Mostly because AI has trained itself off of decades of mediocre people using social media to “act” for ad placements while forcing a fake charismatic demeanor on everything else for community building. AI actors have the depth of a porn star convincing you their work is enjoyed more than their paycheck. Except AI performs that way for every basic human emotion.

AI isn’t even intelligent my dude. All forms of it just predict what best fills in a blank, and the sum total of every bad actor on social media is the largest pool it has to pull from. Expecting good or meaningful performances from AI actors is hilariously misguided. At best we’ll get perfect looking humans with flawless facial symmetry that have the emotional depth and inflection of text emojis.

That can’t carry a 2 hour film, let alone any content that requires emotional complexity. At best we’ll get movies that are just 2 hour reaction videos in what AI thinks humans do in certain situations. Baby born = happy face. Baby died = sad face. Is about the depth you can expect from these actors.

The problem is addiction. Same as any other drug. It’s no coincidence that Facebook and X were rolled out as free services, with free accounts, where you can interact with anyone for free.

Before the digital drug dealers running each changed that deal. Needing money, running ads, and restricting what you can do that all used to be free.

These companies got us addicted to using tech in place of human socialization and then monitized that addiction.

People can’t leave because for some it’s the only human contact they have. Even if it’s artificial, they still want it to the point of it hurting themselves. Just like any other addiction.

Kinda hard to explain this concept to executives who have made their entire careers based off of dumb decisions like this. Problem is these execs never get fired or laid off, and instead get promoted upwards until all of Microsoft is doing the dumbest thing imaginable to their name. These people have never had consequence before, so are now destined to place those consequences on the company that’s kept them woefully employed.

It’s not as hard as you’d think! 🙂 Mostly because of advances in HPM tech in the last couple years.

https://www.emsopedia.org/entries/high-power-microwave-hpm/

Even 9 years ago, you could build one from an old microwave, that could likely cause a lot of issues near a data center:

https://youtu.be/80kDn4vit_w

Nothing says billionaires are geniuses like building a giant multi billion dollar data center that can easily be taken out with a big enough EMP, and then choose to guard it with $300k robots that also can be taken out with that same EMP.

These people should not be allowed around money. Next they’re gonna hire Superman to guard their Kryptonite factory.

Well said! I just appreciate the visual of Fox News covering someone named Mario firing a homemade shoulder mounted missile into the executive floor of Twitter HQ. It’s funnier than ever now that it’s actually plausible.

Can’t wait for the next Luigi to use one of these on an Epstein CEO. Polymarket, please let me make that bet.

Google, the point is we’re all worried that when Gemini actually places itself into a robot body that the resulting literal Terminator is what AI models think perfection is.

Free software can’t be “purchased,” so it can’t be turned to shit 👍 Good point.

To clarify mine where needed: the purchasing of what people make is what eventually turns it to shit. (Not just that it’s made, apologies if that was confusing.)

So I completely agree GPL is fantastic and the way forward for us a civilization.

Seriously appreciate this point as a great example of what DOES work well for both creators and community.

Don’t forget how they also missed the point that “potential” returns would actually need to be the equivalent of several countries worth of GDP to actually be profitable.

Pretty much everyone is going to miss the target of creating the most profitable thing ever in all of human existence.

I too will eat my words if these bullshit models can ever be remotely profitable. Let alone more profitable than most nations.

Bloomberg is practicing journalistic malfeasance by even pretending these “potential” returns are viable. The article might as well say AI expects to make a gajillion dollars, as that would be at least more accurate than what they printed instead.

Buy my snake oil. It’s a cognitive amplifier. I just need several neighborhoods worth of electricity to make a bottle. Better find a use for this oil, otherwise I’ll get lynched!

• Microsoft CEO 2025.

Fair point. But I think you’re burying the promising parts of this article:

W’s data will be hosted decentrally in Europe by European companies, and the platform will adhere to strict EU data protection laws.

“We believe there is an urgent need for a new social media platform built, governed and hosted in Europe. With human verification, free speech and data privacy at its core,” she wrote.

In her LinkedIn post announcing the launch of W, Zeiter emphasized that systemic disinformation is eroding public trust and weakening democratic decision-making.

I’ve never heard an Elon say that.

And her background is solid compared to tech bros:

She earned her PhD in law at the University of Hamburg and later studied at Stanford University.

W will be legally the subsidiary of “We Don’t Have Time,” a media platform for climate action, but the team is scattered across Europe, with offices in Berlin and Paris planned, Bilanz reports.

And the whole platform is legally under a company dedicated towards climate action.

Lot of wins in this article make me think it’s far from the typical VC billionaire babysitting service.

Well said. I am certainly here for a reason :)

Oh because people did such a good job the first time?

Anything people make, no mater how good, can and has been purchased to be turned to shit and controlled by those that purchase it. In that world, which is the one we live in now, a government made and publicly used social media service is just about the only way to create a resilient and uncorruptable form of social media. Especially compared to current alternatives that are already getting corrupted.

I’m not saying what they’ll make is perfect. But it’s far better than any other option we currently have. Knee jerk reacting to assuming it’s bad is very much the same crux billionaires used in the US to weaken the government that would otherwise regulate them.

A government is literally the best suited to creating this tech due to its public utility. Same with electricity, water, Emergency services, roads and more. Everyone uses them, so our taxes should go to making those things better.

This is a step in the right direction.