I Know Going "x Is Just Protocol's [archives Character]" Is Super Reductive But Gwen Really Is Stupid

i know going "x is just protocol's [archives character]" is super reductive but gwen really is stupid in the same way jon is

We got Nikola Orsinov 2.0 here

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

hey jonny, i just thought you'd want to know that character.ai has an ai-generated imitation of your voice and i'm not sure what other websites might have it or where it originated :(

Yeah, it's a fucking garbage state of affairs but, as a somewhat well-known performer with a pretty distinctive voice it doesn't exactly shock me. Needless to say I think anyone who used this is a mediocre waste of skin and if they ever tell me in person they've used it then 50/50 I punch them in the teeth.

I can't wait for a couple of years when it all collapses just like every other niche-but-interesting-technology-with-limited-use-cases-sold-as-a-universal-panacea-to-gormless-CEOs grift (blockchain being the best example). Because the thing is, none of these things actually make any money and cost a vast amount, so as soon as all the dumb venture capital funding dries up and AI is required to actually start paying for itself, the bubble bursts and the whole industry is fucked.

That said, it's gonna be rough when it happens - a lot of companies have invested very heavily in AI and they're going to be hurting badly. I know of more than one media company whose idiot executives invested ridiculous amounts into NFTs and ended up laying off massive swathes of workers when that obvious fucking scam collapsed. I suspect the AI crash is gonna be even worse than that. And by then it will have drowned the Internet in slop. We'll see, I guess.

Anyway, anyone who uses AI is a soulless fucking husk of a person who cannot tell half-digested vomit from culture, and I would pity them if they weren't making the world such a measurably worse place to exist.

POV: you’re an overworked exhausted autistic academic who has recently met their quota for feeling any sort of dread or fear and you have to spend your afternoon talking to an incarnation of an eldritch power in an attempt to acquire their help and first they wanna tell you their life story and when they’re done you ask for their help again but the thing is you have recently lost the ability to give a fuck and so your filter is gone and you don’t bother to try to be polite at all and so the conversation ends with this powerful human attacking you with their evil pain powers. and also (critically) your attacker is hot as FUCK. you do not notice this. except for the burning part.