Butlerian Jihad incoming!
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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Was double-tapping a school not enough?
It was a school of some desert people far away. So it's basically irrelevant to the citizen of The Great US Empire.
Not so much an AI thing as much as an American thing. Americans and Israelis love doing that shit.
Only a matter of time. We don't need to worry about Terminator and Skynet. We need worry about everything going from engineered to automated cargo cult slop. All run on massive datacenters controlled by a few mega corporation that everyone is hopelessly dependent on and can't imagine working without. The trillionaire owners of these mega corporations are hiding in bunkers waiting on one of coming calamities to happen, or just from us unwashed masses. While they buy governments and media to keep and increases their riches.
This future sucks. Can I try another one?
Edit: slopocalypse is the term
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AI vibecoded nuclear plant. What could go wrong? You just need to add "no nuclear meltdown" at the end of the prompt.
There is info that Microsoft vibecoded an OS...
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I’ll worry about ‘AI’ when something that can legitimately be mistaken as intelligence is demonstrated.
In the meantime, these explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters need to be exclusively opt-in, and not forced on anyone who hasn’t explicitly consented to a lobotomy.
Issue is, they're already trying to use it for things it shouldn't be used for...
Name one thing it should be used for, where there's not a better, lower-cost, lower-risk alternative.
I'd say "You got me!", but I legit having an issue with finding a usecase for LLMs.
Don't worry about "AI", worry about the idiots who will give the imprecise statistical output extruder a gun.
Why wait? What is with people trying to act so slick and cool?
Yes, it sucks, but it’s a) being used as if it’s intelligent, which is arguably much worse, and b) going to eventually get to a point where it’s at least not terrible(at its job, specifically, as it’s pretty bad for a lot of things).
For a personal reason, I’m worried about it because it’s very likely filtering my CV based on a work gap that’s only getting worse because my CV is getting filtered. It’s not intelligent, but HR companies and departments are using it for that anyway.
going to eventually get to a point where it’s at least not terrible
That is far from inevitable, and that's even more true if you're talking about existing LLM technology.
It's already not bad for certain specific, niche applications. Check out PlantNet. It's awesome. You can take a picture of a plant, and it'll identify it for you. No micro-transactions; you don't even have to log in. It just works.
Obviously, that isn't one of the applications of Machine Learning that people have a problem with. It's the LLMs filtering out your resume or spying on you or producing slop.
Like any other toxic ingredient, anything made with even an iota of AI-generated content in it should be flagged, and it should be mandatory for sites to provide an easily user-accessible way to filter that horseshit out.
Data is often called the new oil, but I’d argue it more closely resembles uranium.
LLM’s are like asbestos, a carcinogen later generations will need to carefully remove from the environment they’ve inherited.
What is currently labelled as slop will more accurately be treated like irradiated sludge.
Yeah, this article is promoting the doomsday AI myth which is the narrative that these companies want us to go with, because it makes their products seem powerful. In reality, people are already turning against this technology en masse
not because they're afraid it'll turn into Skynet, but because it sucks shit.
Are these "top ai researchers" real people?
These top AI researchers are just investment bankers. So no, not real people
Real grifters.
AI has had like 14 Chernobyl moments. Wasn't the US using AI to bomb Iran? That include a whole school of girls IIRC. And guess what? No one cares.
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All of these articles are for ai companies. Ooh, look at our scary powerful ai's. We're defenitly super close to agi. Please giv e us more money.
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Wait, so its not the actual event and ensuing casualties that have AI researchers spooked, but the fact that it might cause the public to turn against AI?
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Chernobyl blew up because they were dicking around with an unsafe design.
This analogue is very apt.
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This take is a denial of current reality.
They're already using "AI" for genocide in Palestine, etc.
This is how capitalism always develops and uses "technology".
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Delusional take. We, the people pretty much hate AI already. We hate how it‘s utilized against us.
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The thing about Chernobyl was that it was, ultimately, an unwanted mistake.
The thing about AI is that the shitty mass casualty outcome seems like the intended outcome.
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Chernobyl didn't turn the world against nuclear powerplants forever so it's probably fine.
In Germany it did.
Germany is not the world.
This "AI is inevitable" mindset is the most rapey shit ever.
Did someone say creating fake news in masses to scare people away from genAI?
Count me in!
Top AI researchers should go fuck themselves right to hell for handwaving away and ignoring the inherent problems with their work while plowing ahead full steam so they can get personally rich.
"Top AI researcher" I can no longer read those words without Doofy voice 😂
Probability of unhinged techbro bs is around 115%
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