The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post

Dusty Chalk · September 2, 2023

*swt61* · September 2, 2023

That person has never had 'good' biscuits and gravy.

I too have had restaurant versions I'd describe in the same way.

*ktm* · September 2, 2023

So with the whole SBF trial coming up, why do we only hear crickets about

SAM TRABUCCO ? The guy bailed a couple months before the collapse

and is suspected to be hiding in international waters off South America

on his boat. You'd think at least the press would of gotten a snapshot of

him lounging on the deck by now.

*Knuckledragger* · September 2, 2023

I can't recall if I posted the screenshot of the "Workers in Tennessee collecting the Dew from the Mountains" post in here or not. Either way, here's the whole set.

*swt61* · September 2, 2023

Colin must be hiding there somewhere.

Dusty Chalk · September 3, 2023

It makes me think of that scene in one of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson where Half-cocked Jack needs to make phosphor out of piss, so he distills it.

(crickets)

Just me?

*Knuckledragger* · September 3, 2023

That Mountain Dew set caused me to fall down a deep cursed AI rabbit hole. There's gonna be a lot of such images mixed in with the regular Slow.

Most sane Gary Busey fanfic.

In the parlance of our times, most comprehensible AI meme.

*Torpedo* · September 3, 2023

Dear lord, some of those are really disgusting

*Knuckledragger* · September 3, 2023

I elected to exclude some feet photos which are a non-euclidean nightmare they'd make Yog-Sothoth wince. I've still got a whole folder full of cursed AI images yet to go. The real horror here is the AI itself. Right now it's at the "haha that's so funny it's trying to make something real" phase. In a shorter time than we can imagine, it will be nearly impossible to identify AI images. I'm sure we will have people who becomes experts in the field, but that will not stop the era of disinformation from accelerating further.

"Don't wake me, I plan on sleeping in."

*dsavitsk* · September 3, 2023

30 minutes ago, Knuckledragger said:

Right now it's at the "haha that's so funny it's trying to make something real" phase. In a shorter time than we can imagine, it will be nearly impossible to identify AI images.

Doubtful. Generative AI creates based upon what it has consumed. It has currently consumed everything. While the pattern recognition models will get better, some increasing percentage of what it consumes in the future will be AI generated, and that recursion will make the hallucinations worse, not better. To be better, the AI would need to be able to differentiate between AI generated and not AI generated, and it can't.

*Torpedo* · September 3, 2023

I must recognize that Doug has a point, but I'm afraid Knuckles is right. In no time we'll be seeing videos of things that never happened looking as if they did. The deeper we go in this hole, the happier I am of not having successors of this cursed lineage of mine.

Dusty Chalk · September 3, 2023

Oh, that's not even the real nightmare.

https://medium.com/@andrew_johnson_4/applications-of-large-language-models-in-medical-diagnoses-e0d3a113b3bc

I mean, those photos and videos are fun and benign, compared to THAT.

*Grahame* · September 3, 2023

3 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Oh, that's not even the real nightmare.

https://medium.com/@andrew_johnson_4/applications-of-large-language-models-in-medical-diagnoses-e0d3a113b3bc

I mean, those photos and videos are fun and benign, compared to THAT.

On 8/25/2023 at 11:50 AM, Grahame said:

Who needs LLM AI when we already have this dystopian outcome.

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cigna-lawsuit-algorithm-claims-denials-california/688857

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/07/24/cigna-sued-over-algorithm-allegedly-used-to-deny-coverage-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-patients/

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims

Edited September 4, 2023 by Grahame

*Knuckledragger* · September 3, 2023

Conversely, in the "low stakes, but still terrifying to me dept" is Elon Musk as the ultimate EDM bro:

AI is as good at rendering DJ equipment as it is human hands.

*ktm* · September 4, 2023

Paranoid rant or clear reasoning?

*Knuckledragger* · September 4, 2023

I'm almost 50 years old (most of head-case: "Cool story, Knuckles. We almost remember being 50 years old.") I'd like to think I'm still "hip" and "with it" but the zoomers inform me on a daily basis I am lacking in "rizz" and that's "no kizzy on god fr fr no cap." With that said, I use most of the same technologies the youts do. Discord is possibly the single most important app I use. Where I draw the line is Tik Tok. I have never used it nor will I. The other side of that coin is the fac that I can't stop staring into the abyss that is AI generated images.

A generated "white Snoop Dogg" looks like Kid Rock.

Dusty Chalk · September 4, 2023

Looks like Snoop Dogg...with a Willie Nelson wig and funny lighting and exposure to make him look pale.

Unrelated:

*Knuckledragger* · September 5, 2023

Nice shirt though.

Mexican Snoop Dog.

This one is from a huge set of "Barbie Dream Home IRL" which got very dark at the end. I love how AI doesn't know how to gun.

Abandoned Scout, Haines AK.

Dusty Chalk · September 6, 2023

9 hours ago, Knuckledragger said:

This one is from a huge set of "Barbie Dream Home IRL" which got very dark at the end. I love how AI doesn't know how to gun.

...any more than it knows how to anatomy.