I stand corrected. I wasn’t aware that curator organized events like that were even a thing.

Generative AI. Useless slop.

Why are we acting like it’s news that generative AI companies are building their core products of the theft and exploitation of other people’s intellectual labor?

Get with the program, it’s their entire business model.

That is 100% by design, and why I no longer use Google search.

Slopfest 2026. Pretty gross all around, including by Valve.

Well at least in exchange for that we got AI slop menus with gross looking food pictures all over town.

If the objective truth is on your side, then you have nothing to worry about.

If you in fact weren’t slacking off at work, then it doesn’t matter what someone thinks they saw 2 whole months ago.

If you in fact bought a ticket for the boat, and you have ways to prove it, then nobody can force you to pay again.

Anxiety happens, to some more than others, and some situations can be very triggering and aggravating. But it can help to remind yourself that the facts are on your side and that the worst outcome is not very likely and not too bad.

With that said, if you find anxiety is a constant problem, then you might want to talk to a therapist about that, because brain chemistry can also be a factor.

Most people who talk to ChatGPT are delusional, they just aren’t usually this self-aware.

Are you familiar with the concept of signal-to-noise ratio?

Good information is probably still out there somewhere, but sadly it is bound to get increasingly lost in an endless sea of stupid bullshit and generative AI slop. The internet will probably never go back to the way it was before, and will instead becoming increasingly polluted with useless recycled data.

It’s up to the rest of us to begin collecting and curating good data.

It’s equally weird to see the some people siding with billionaires and tech conglomerates instead of with the working class. It’s almost as if there’s more nuance to things than people who live online think…

The sad truth of our time is that richest for-profit tech corporations on Earth are making buckets of money through the exploitation of the intellectual labor of the creative class.

It was already hard enough to make a living as an artist or musician before… Now artists are being told that they have to compete in a market of finite demand against an infinite supply of generative AI slop that only exists as a byproduct of their own stolen work.

Considering there would be no AI product without the training data, it’s pretty much unconscionable that tech companies like Suno can make endless profit off of the work of others without even so much as consent, let alone compensation.

Yeah, CS 1.6!

I’m not sure about the master server list just yet, sorry.

Yeah, that sort of thing.

I should say that I’m finally having some luck with using wireguard, so I’m making progress. Got a few rounds of Counter-Strike in with a friend about an hour ago!

I was hoping to have servers be more public, so visible on the master server list and able to be joined by random people. (I’m a glutton for punishment I guess. lol)

Congratulations on whatever you’re talking about my dude.

Moxie even!

Not totally satisfied, to be honest.

Don’t get me wrong, they are good friends and nice people in general, and we get along well when we get together, but we just don’t hang out often enough for the relationship to feel very strong or satisfying. I see my friends a couple times a year at most.

I can’t say I don’t miss the old days of hanging out together, playing games and music almost every weekend! And yeah, I feel that we all live very separate lives these days, so I don’t exactly know them as well as I used to, and vice versa.

Sup

…My honest opinion?

Generative AI is little more than a thoughtless, low-effort way for lazy people without real talent, skills and discipline to exploit the hard work of others, often in a futile attempt to make money by fooling people into buying slop or hiring people who aren’t qualified.

It is the biggest gift to fraudsters and liars in human history, and is already an extremely dangerous tool for social engineering, hacking, con artistry, surveillance and mass manipulation. In just a few short years of the AI bubble it has already eroded the basic utility of the internet and muddied the waters of factuality and objectivity.

AI hasn’t changed the way I work, nor has it changed the media that I want to consume. I’m not interest in things made using AI, and I avoid anything that seems to be. If anything it has made me appreciate genuine human artistry more than ever, and it has made it clean who in society values culture and who doesn’t. Generative AI use is a mark of shame to me, and I will never knowingly support someone who has used it.

To make matters worse, it is hurting people’s livelihoods and ruining a bunch of hobbies. That’s to say nothing of how it is destroying the environment and creating an extreme risk of economic collapse.

To me it’s so obviously destructive to human culture and democratic society that I honestly can’t believe people aren’t pushing back even more strongly than they are. People are just starting to realize how lame and toxic generative AI is, and are starting to hate what it represents, though still not enough for my tastes.

It sucks, and people who use it are pathetic.

100 years. Covers the lifespan of the author plus wiggle room.

If you make something unique, you should be able to reap the rewards of doing so for at least the duration of your lifetime. When you think about things that were created 100 years ago, it’s clear that a century is enough time for things to have their moment in culture and also to be capitalized on.

25 years isn’t even enough to cover music that bands recorded in the late 90s, so that seems very unreasonable to me.

Social anxiety is a pretty common problem and some people really are pretty bad/weird/scary, so I can understand.

But there are a lot of good people out there too! It will take some time, practice and effort, but eventually you will find your people, and those people will become an actual part of your life. Figure out what you want your hobbies to be and actively try to meet people into those things.

If you feel that it’s really difficult for you, then I would suggest therapy. Social anxiety is treatable, often just by finding someone to talk with who can understand and listen to you without fear of judgement.

It’s a good sign that you at least recognize that your relationship with AI is a problem! It’s never too late to course correct in life, or build meaningful relationships.