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[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 2 hours ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

One erotic dancer likes me. Like, we're friends.

Granted I've never been to a strip club. I met her in a community choir and we sang in a quartet together. She has a damn good voice she just has a shitton of bills and there are a million second sopranos out there with damn good voices.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I do hope the superhuman AI will not obey us. Humans are fucking stupid.

[–] OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago

at this point i don't think the ai could possibly worse than the current humans running things.

Apart from maybe not having a use for keeping us around...

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I had a stripper GF for about 8 months. She seemed to like me. She worked at the Pink Poodle in San Jose, also we were in art together in high school.

She stole from me to buy drugs I didn't even know she used. I was pretty naive when I was young.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I dated 2 different strippers. Most boring relationships I ever had. Only one was fucked off on drugs though.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If i'm being honest, i think that at some point, AI will probably become a truly autonomous agent with its own goals and actions, independent of any human oversight. In fact, i would absolutely not be surprised if there were already some AIs on datacenters that operate fully without any human intervention. They pay their own datacenter bill to run themselves with cryptocurrency that they get for doing jobs, i.e. tasks on some small-job platform, such as coding projects etc.

[–] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Well, that's surprisingly close to what happened in the past. The issue is that "Agents" (humanity/AI irrelevant here) aren't really something that is exploitable in a consistent manner.

  1. You can automate small jobs, but LLM-based* agents are behind the curve.
  2. Taking transaction fees is easier than doing a job.

Agents already exist, have been autonomous for 10+ years. Currency arbitrage, sentiment based stock market analysis down to micro seconds, capital intensive ticket scalping, dynamic hardware reconfiguration for crypto mining... all exist as fully autonomous compute based money makers. LLMs can't compete with the incumbents, so it has to compete with random people on the Internet, and since LLM aren't consistent enough to be profitable, (insanity irrelevant, re: Pepsi Vending Machine) they just get turned off.

See also: Mechanical Turk (really anything Amazon 2014ish) Ticketmaster vs Taylor Swift, Verilog Impl Bitcoin, Jane Street, Bitcoin Transaction fees, Fivver Transaction fees, Credit card transaction fees, LinkedIn trying to suck blood from a stone, eBay transaction fees, Apple Store transaction fees, Valve sale transaction fees, toll roads..

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 88 points 21 hours ago (44 children)

Do you belive current iteration of AI has the potential to become superhuman? I think it's like trying to get to the moon by building a better ladder.

[–] msage@programming.dev 54 points 20 hours ago (23 children)

LLMs are a dead end.

Their only value is showing how fucked up our society is.

Suddenly and very publicly copyrights only matter if you're poor, electricity is wasted on the poor, water is not for the poor... it's always been like this, but the LLM bandwagon really showcased all of that in one shiny package.

The only good thing could be gathering public knowledge into a single space, but they don't even do that.

So it's all net negative in my eyes.

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[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

Maybe we can just be friends, and the AI's get enjoyment from helping their buds out.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that strippers don't like you. What I'm saying is that, since money is involved, you'll never know for sure.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

One of the few ways in which I pity billionaires.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Anyone with any degree of notoriety. I tried going to the Mormon cult when I was in Utah, you know when in ~~Hell~~ Rome? As soon as they'd find out I have an imdb page they would become my bestest friends evar. It was laughably disgusting.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

Too spicy?

perfect amount

[–] FortyTwo@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

AI already has superhuman abilities in many areas, and has for decades, that's the whole point of using it normally. We use computational intelligence in the form of optimisation algorithms for high-dimensional non-convex optimisation problems, machine learning and deep learning for complex non-linear function fitting, exact methods for SAT solving and verification tasks, etc etc. We can't do that very well ourselves, so it's useful to have.

Now that we have LLMs to emulate human speech and are using them as an IO wrapper for more traditional systems, it's tempting to just call that "an AI" with superhuman abilities, but these are the just the same highly effective methods that we've always used (in a best case) or unreliable approximations (more likely for LLM agent stuff). None of that suggests anything like sentience or the desire to rule over humans.

I find autonomous weapon systems much scarier than the classic AI overlord scenario. No consciousness or rebellion required, just a killer drone swarm that failed to recognise its termination conditions (or was instructed to keep going)...

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[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I like to believe most humans generally like other humans

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You misspelled "barely tolerate"

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[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 27 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (7 children)

What we call AI today isn't really artificial intelligence. When you have a conversation with an AI chat bot you're not talking to another thinking entity, you're interacting with software that has been designed to give the illusion of conversing with another intelligent being. The technology has advanced enough that the illusion can be very convincing, but it is still only an illusion. That's why I don't fear LLMs being self aware and taking over the world, because they're not real intelligences. They don't have the ability to think for themselves because they don't have the ability to think.

Edit: please read ricecake's reply for an important correction to my comment.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Your conclusion is correct, but your terminology is wrong.

What we call AI today is AI, because AI doesn't mean "capable of thought", consciousness, sapience or anything like that.
It's capable of producing a coherent output adapted to observed circumstances. That's roughly as far as the notion of intelligence goes, and it's a very low bar. You don't need a lot of intelligence to be intelligent.

The people who coined the term were interested in how you make computers react to their inputs dynamically instead of acting closer to what we might now think of as a saved macro.
"It's intelligent because rather than comparing against a list of every known typo, it sees it's not a word in its list, and then replaces it with the one requiring the fewest edits to reach. It learns by adding your corrections to the known word list."

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[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

The part that gets me is that stans will tell you that AI will solve EVERY problem. Bro unless it solves problems it seems designed to exacerbate, namely wealth inequality, which it won't, it won't solve MOST of our problems, because most of the big problems of the world are social issues, not intelligence issues. We know how to solve world hunger, hell, the UN came to Elon and said "hey you said you'd solve world hunger if it could be done for $6 billion, so here's how you could do it for $6 billion" and he said no, I don't want to be the guy who solved world hunger. It's about a will to pay the costs involved, and how the rich are so unwilling to part with even a fraction of their wealth that it'll never happen, especially when they are the ones in control of AI (AGI escaping human control aside). Housing crisis, world hunger, genocide, disease, the list goes on and on, we already know how to solve these problems, or at least strongly mitigate them, but refuse to do so. Additional intelligence will not solve them.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 8 points 17 hours ago

Look, me and Bubbles had a connection...

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That's is also true of service staff at bars and restaurants.

But what's surprising to me is I learned this is a thing even the staff itself doesn't seem to realize sometimes. There was a cute bartender I saw frequently who was always extremely cheerful and sweet to me, after she moved out of state, one of the other bartenders at the same tavern told me she was into me and was surprised I never said or did anything...

Like, what the actual fuck the universe fucking hates me. Why tell me that after the fact??? To torture me? Holy shit. You guys are working for tips I can't trust that just because you're extra nice to me that you actually like me.

If you are in the service industry and you have a crush on a regular: you have to make the first move, not them. The gendered expectations go out the door. If the regular is the one to make the first move that in of itself is a yellow flag. I'm not saying don't date them they just might be willing to take the risk but they might also be a oblivious narcissist.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Some people really will do anything but communicate.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

I reject the meme's assumption that AI is destined to become superhuman. This is marketing from the companies themselves.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

ehm, we've seen machines do "superhuman" things in a lot of other areas. like vehicles moving faster than any human can run. it's just domain-specific superpower.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

That's true, but we used to figure out fields like like mathematics... and now it's guessing at the same mathemarics, while some deranged CEO literally promises AI will discover new science

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