Tag Tech-Bros
CHATGPT MAGIC-8 BALL
After much research and development I have finally made an offline version of ChatGPT. Now you can save water and electricity while carrying one of the world’s most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket. Have every whim affirmed with up to 20 of the most popular ChatGPT responses. Smooth your brain into a frictionless hypermind capable of instant regurgitation via a corporate flattery and theft engine.
MAKE AMAZON PAY
New poster I made as part of Brandalism’s anti-Amazon Black Friday that went up over the last few days in support of the Make Amazon Pay campaign. I designed the poster at the last minute while I was in Nigeria which is why none of it is painted. Massive thanks to Brandalism for organising the campaign and the install crews for getting them out there! Check out the other artists on Brandalism’s page, Michelle Tylicki aka @shelkadelic did a great one which I’ve posted below.
AI OVERVIEW
Small addition to a Google AI Overview advert featuring some genuine responses that have been given by this ‘service’. “AI” is a problem looking for a solution it can make more complicated. Nobody wants this stuff inserted into every crevice of their digital lives. LLMs have some limited use cases sure, but no “inevitable” revolutionary technology in history has required this level of foisting on the public. It’s very reminiscent of Meta’s long-running ad campaign for its multi-billion dollar VR Metaverse, which would fantasise about ways in which it might be useful or popular, one day! If it was that useful I would be using it, and big tech wouldn’t feel the need to shove it down my throat and hit me over the head with their pipe dreams about how these products could one day be useful and even profitable.
THEFT IS LEGAL
AI corporations are putting all their chips on railroading legislators around the world to prevent regulation of the industry long enough so they can figure out a way of making their businesses profitable, no matter what the cost to culture, society, the planet, or even to the precious economy they claim to love. Unfortunately most leaders are easily bamboozled about new technology and the utopian claims of tech-fantasist snake oil salesmen like Sam Altman and Elon Musk. OpenAI is not going to create a super intelligent god on earth, it’s going to basically make a new version of Google, another fucking advertising platform, and they’re going to destroy the internet and human culture in order to do so. As a proposition that doesn’t sound worth it, but if you frame it as an inevitable fourth industrial revolution that will solve every problem from cancer to global warming and provide unlimited amounts of everything you could ever want, then politicians start to lap it up.
ARTIFICIAL AI
The Mechanical Turk was a machine built in 1770, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, that supposedly beat Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin at chess. It toured for 84 years before being destroyed in a fire and, although many suspected it was a scam, it was only revealed to have been a hoax as late as 1834. It seems obvious now, but it was essentially a box with a person inside. Today, we call this the AI revolution. AI is one of the most hyped technologies of my lifetime, and yet its real-world results either don’t work, are inaccurate, annoying, and/or thoroughly depressing. Supposedly fully-automated AI-tech is frequently revealed to be no more than thousands of low-paid workers in a trench coat.
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