When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll “Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?”. Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly “Borg Cube”, but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.
So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said “Death Star”.
So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.
Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.
Listening to an investigative podcast series about the Satanic Panic and somehow losing respect I didn’t even know I had left for the people who expect me to take ‘before the internet mass culture kept us all sane and grounded in reality!’ seriously.
sometimes i forget aromanticism isnt normalized until im listening to family friends complain about how relationships suck and never last and i chime in with “yeah im kinda glad im not interested in romance.” and suddenly all of them turn into “oh no EVERYONE needs romance its human nature. if you think you’re not interested you just need to try again.” . like okay i thought we were commiserating here. i was agreeing with yall. cmon.
straight people will spend all their time making relationships sound like a chore and normalize the concept of hating your wife but if you say “idk id rather be single” you’re the weird one i guess.
Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is “making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation”
It’s a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it’ll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.
Even since the app doesn’t allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.
This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format
Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.
You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers’ reasons for the project here:
TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It’s a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model
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