ugh just found out that the devs (Level-5) of the upcoming Fantasy Life title heavily use AI in their development and seem to brag about it.
i really liked the dry humor and style of their previous games. this is so sad. Q_Q
I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.
Jak na tym świecie ma być dobrze (albo chociaż lepiej), jak nawet muzeum sztuki (Muzeum Okręgowe w Bydgoszczy) do promocji organizowanych przez siebie warsztatów plastycznych używa pieprzonego AI?
#FuckAI #PowiedzNieAI
The feeling I get when I am about to set up an article to write and some colleague gives me a wall of AI-generated prattle with a "Here, I made this for you, so you just have to polish it a bit"...
Is the same as if I am just about to dig in on a fish and chips and someone suddenly floods it with half a bottle of cheap ketchup and a chirpy "Here! You've gotta add a little taste!"
One way to express your amusement about ebay.de's new AI generated product descriptions:
- go to ebay.de
- click the question mark icon (bottom right)
- scroll down, select "Feedback geben"
- as category, select "Sonstiges" (misc)
- feedback away!
In about mid-March, I put iocaine on my external server, because of all the AI bot madness.
I did a bit of weeding on the server last week, thought no more of it, until today I got a message that there was some issue with one of the personal things I run on the server. Had to go look it up, and...
In one week since iocaine generated 9GB of nginx access logs.
This meant I ran out of room and the whole system locked up.
Sincerely, and for the avoidance of doubt:-
FUCK AI.
Fuck everyone who has anything to do with this rotten, excremental pseudo-technology. If you work for a company which is a proponent, user or developer of this shit, then you are the fucking problem.
The crazy wind finally stopped!
Today is going to be a stonker
There are definitely some advantages to being ahem... semi-retired
Here, enjoy Mike Love - Permanent Holiday
"I'm on a permanent holiday - I'm going outside to play"
Finally I've ditched DDG because it's pushing AI. Switched to SearXNG and it's quite fine, good for image search too.
Possible to make it the default search engine using a browser extension.
This is a CPU graph of a web host that began having AI bots absolutely slam it starting at 4am UTC.
I blocked all Chrome user agents older than 120 at about 10:45 UTC.
These AI bots aren't using "nice" names like ChatGPT or AmazonBot. No, more like Chrome/116 or similar and they come from ALL OVER.
I am so tempted to put Iocaine or Nepenthes on the machine to generate Markov Chain garbage to poison the well, but I'd have to have Nginx map the older user agent string with regex. It probably could be done but this might piss off my employer.
Boost please!
I would like to commission some art SPECIFICALLY to run through #Nightshade and post somewhere on my blog to trap scrapers.
Total budget: $500AUD (negotiable)
Preference given to marginalised creators in AU/NZ
No NSFW art at this stage and I personally don't like horror or gore but otherwise go nuts. The art is yours to do with what you want but I will need some kind of agreement that says I can use it for anti-scraping purposes!
I would also encourage others, especially in tech, who can afford it to do the same.
Artists, please chime in here if I am completely off base.
Nightshade/Glaze: https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/faq.html