#average intelligence

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(via The visionaries) Tom Tomorrow title is spelled The VisionAIries. “Benefits of this revolutionary technology are inconceivable.” Oh, wait. TYOP. *unimaginable “We literally can’t imagine them.”

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Rewatched cars 2 and I can’t get over the fact that there is canonically car racism in the cars universe??

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“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin

Average Intelligence machines are not popular. They were fed a blender full of internets. Without asking.

Parker Molloy presents several commencement AI promos that got booed. And an AI graduation FUBAR vid.

A Seat on the Rocket Ship

The students who booed AI at graduation were right. It probably won't matter.

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"AI is the frictionless, brainless, superfast content-generator that media oligarchs demanded. Small wonder that some writers, told that their souls and their commitment to the truth are both worthless, have chosen instead to sell soullessness and lies." Average Intelligence is the tupperware leftovers from two weeks of takeout.

Journalists Have Been Turning Into AI Slop For Years

ChatGPT is the ideal employee

"AI did not degrade the value of writing, nor did it rob freelance writers of their authenticity or special suchness. That work had already been done. Over the last twenty years, I’ve watched as writing has been transformed. When I started, it was a reasonable professional career with a certain level of prestige and a reasonably middle-class income for people with skill and determination and a bit of luck.

And now…it’s a demeaning treadmill, where you need to be everything to all people all the time and in which having a personality or a point of view is decidedly a bug, not a feature."

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Aliens Once upon a time I used "Pop Art" from IrfanView and merged images in PaintNet. I liked that. Kept me busy. Then pop art fell out. The menu item was there, it would start to load, but poof. I missed it. Discussion came out about AI - Average Intelligence. Folks would put a couple terms in the interface, the blender would grab the work of many others, then make an image. Those others are increasingly coming from AI already posted. "AI Slop" is becoming a common criticism. But I missed pop art. So I hoped to find something like it in the image programs I already have. Maybe GIMP? [graphic image manipulation program - community project] I opened it. Splash screen. Loading files. Loading tools. "Please Update" OK. Website. Select download item. Download. Wrong folder. Move to other folder. Open SetUp. Flash. Bing. Kabong. Now I'm looking at the basic screen. Dark mode. Don't like dark mode. Start reading each and every menu item and branches looking for magic words. Tired. Hit HELP button and get sent to website. Search: pop art. Folks there don't tend to use that term but one app, Alien Maps, mentioned it. And it's on the main menu. Colors/maps/alien maps. I don't know what a map is here. I selected a picture from recent pics and opened it. Clicked alien maps. Ooh. Slidey controls. I slid around like I had a sprained ankle. A slide, bloop. That's kinda neat. Smaller slide. Gack, that's awful. Alien maps also has phase shift. That sounds like sci-fi scary movies. More, louder, bloop, gack. Again, tired. Left eye wrinkled retina slowing me down. So I bail. I'm intrigued and will probably try this more. Back to discussion of Average unIntelligence. James Fell of Sweary History did a substack of being accused of using AI for a reposting of a story of his Mom meeting his step dad. Got accused of using AI [before it even existed]. Pissed off. I want to play with my new toy. I do not want to do AI. Shall I consider it a manipulation of camera controls to do alien maps?

Moon over Pollos Asados across the street from home.

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This is a magnified grab from a bigger pic. It was all, "pretty colors, all the textures". Not a hint of source. But, they were, like, trippin', man. That's a suicide stair, right there. Even has a handy blade to put thyself out of thy misery.

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JoyOfTech - Internet Decline 5/5/24

All y'all hear about Leon selling himself his company?? TSLA stock went down a bunch. It's the backer for Leon's purchase of Xitter. Oops. So, xAI buys X. Yay! Out from under loan liabilities. Average Intelligence [tm] will now run Xitter.

Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for $33 billion in all-stock deal

Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal, the billionaire annou

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The British Conservative Party want to force all large companies to report on their "ethnicity pay gap".

Whites are more intelligent ON AVERAGE than non-whites, except East Asians. Pressure will be applied to pay whites less than they are worth and ethnic minorities more than they are worth.

The Tories should be renamed the Social Communist Party.