this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 24 points 1 week ago

The only reason this lady faced the fallout she did is because she stole money from investors/rich people. There are so many people that should be utterly destroyed like she was, and the fact that they aren’t says so much about society.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

Your body passes through a ring of underwater sensors, each acting like a dolphin, using its echolocation.

Better train them in echofellation so the thing has at least some use.

The goal is for this process to take no more than 60 seconds.

You go into the water, you come out of the water, and you're done.

When you step into the water, you’re standing on top of a platform. The platform is connected to rails and begins to descend into the water - an elevator gently lowering you at around 2 inches, or 5 centimeters, per second.

Assuming 30s down and 30s up, this platform will lower you a total of 60 inches, or 5 feet. So even in the magical fantasy land where this works at all you're going to have a great tool to detect what's happening in the body as long as it's below the average person's heart, an organ that is famously unnecessary and irrelevant.

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm calling it. This is the bubble about to pop.

They don't know what the fuck to do and can't rationalize pumping out more images with investor dollars, and this is their hailmary. They might scam a few people with their Holy AI Water Baptism tech but it's the end of the line.

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 week ago

This was my thought too. It’s so ridiculous I thought it was an Onion headline at first.

It seems like the first major AI company to go full laughing stock but it won’t be the last.

[–] TrashGoblin@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

I'm guessing it's because their existing line of business (image generation) has been commoditized by the hyperscalers' image models, and there's no longer any reason for anyone to pay for Midjourney.

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

Creepy FaceApp pic of Zuckerberg