The secret to understanding chud aesthetics is that everything they know about art comes from 1990s porn. And still, they can't measure up to Gregory Dark, Tera Patrick, Heather Hunter, Janine Lindemulder... Here's the AI slop version of "Odyssey" that Elon Musk thinks is "historically accurate:"
Everything is classifiable as pornographic. Never doubt this. Bluesky, a website run by non-religious people, thinks that a post about AI that links to Wikipedia is porn. Your work documents, your TV shows, your political views--everything--is porn to someone out there.
It really does seem as if 99% of the people who think large language models have consciousness are men. I can think of one woman who seems to agree. Am I wrong to think that's the demographic split?
In the 1990s, proprietary software vendors fearmongered against Linux and FreeBSD as "communist" programs that would destroy capitalism. In the 2020s, proprietary software vendors are resurrecting the exact same scare tactics against open-weight AI models. Govts must support free software AI.
1/2 In the latest "Theory of Change," I argued that Pope Leo XIV's repeated rejection of reactionary and anti-democratic politics was explicitly modeled after Leo XIII's "Rerum Novarum." Lo and behold, today, Leo's new AI encyclical was dated explicitly to the earlier Leo's document.
Most things people think are bad about AI are actually problems with unregulated capitalism, which naturally transitions into monopoly.
Romance scams have proliferated on many social media platforms, particularly X. One thing I've wondered, do these accounts featuring AI-generated women target female-presenting accounts in DMs? I have other accounts that are non-personal & they seem much less targeted. Example below:
