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[–] 140 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

"You can ask chatgpt how to wipe your ass since you're unable to think for yourself."

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I have actually seen people in online discussions quoting chatgpt about this topic.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Wait is there content to discuss about this? I must know, maybe I've been inefficient my whole life

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I've seen threads like "Fellas, is it gay to wipe your ass?" So apparently it's a thing...

    I could also see a serious discussion on how to manage chronic seepage but so far the internet doesn't seem mature enough to handle that so...

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  • [–] 83 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Oh wow, that's so cool. Definitely worth the $2 trillion spent on AI so far.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Also the knock off effects like computer parts quadrupling in price, the ecological damage, fucking over local power grids, and speed running propaganda.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I've seen billboards saying "many new datacenters are designed to reuse water" like... OK? that's ONE aspect of it. you're still installing natural gas turbines and diesel generators and taking enormous amounts of electricity...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Not to mention 'many' is vague and probably doesn't apply to the one who paid for the billboard or it would say which one. It is like having a sign that says 'many chefs wash their hands'.

    Cool, but the one roght here is the most important one to me at this moment.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    This is less meaningful than filling bookshelves in Skyrim.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    fill the shelves based on what it knows about you

    The results on her shelves:

    • Do you struggle to be creative?

    • How to steal art

    • EXTREMELY ONLINE

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Superintelligence, please put books on this shelf that suit me! (gets a picture filled with "Accepting that you're a stupid loser fuckface", volumes I-XV)

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    You can tell she outsources all of her brain activity to ChatGPT just from her not questioning the placement of books.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    What kind of person puts a recipe book on a bookshelf in the first place. Or a coffee table book? Can you imagine asking a friend for book recommendations and they suggest a cookbook? What about an interior design look book?

    I'm not saying a friend should never suggest these kinds of books, but if I asked a friend to "fill my bookshelf" and they suggested those I would be confused. Also, steal like an artist being present is the ultimate irony.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Also, most books are not presented on bookshelves like that. Spine out, usually.

    And like, why have to take a picture of an empty bookshelf? Just have your slop machine generate the shelf too

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Or literally just ask for a bulleted list...

    (You know, assuming one isn't already capable of finding books to read for oneself, looking at human-generated recommended reading lists, or asking real people for recommendations)

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  • [–] 25 points 2 weeks ago

    "we swear we didn't train on copyrighted works but for pure coincidence we can generate an exact copy of the cover of such copyrighted work"

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Don't we already have perfectly good recommendation algorithms? Not to mention the more social alternative of asking for recommendations...

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Absolutely devastating to have "Extremely Online" on the list.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    These are just marketable books, which makes sense for statistical model blob.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    Wow! I guess AI was worth all that water!

    ...seriously, what's the point of making it an image aside from posting a (probably unpaid!) ad on Twitter?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    Best new relationship I've formed this year is with my local bookstores owner. She knows what I've been reading and we talk about what I'm looking for. My favorite books I've read recently have come from her. Humans > machines

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    No book reader would store their books like that you fucking moron. They'd have as many as they could fit crammed in there. Maybe if you actually read more you wouldn't need AI to do your thinking for you.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    That's so you can tell at a glance what an interesting and quirky person they are!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Is there a Venn diagram for people who are into Ai like this and people who go to strip clubs and think the stripper is "into" them?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    That's just a shotgun blast of random books.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Generating a list of books isn't hard or impressive. Taking the known cover art for those books and displaying it in a layout doesn't require fancy ai either.

    Also not sure why you'd want this beyond just the list

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    I read this a bit differently. How much does the AI agent actually know about me? It probably has internal directives to not disclose exactly how much information it - or the parent company- has profiled, but prompts like this might be a workaround to learning how much they've really got on me.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    A publishing executive just creamed his pants and just fired his whole marketing and sales staff to buy promotions from chatgpt. OpenAI executives cream their pants now it's confirmed they control what people buy and read from now on.

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    OK, but literally why would you do that? Genuinely baffled. Like, is this someone that doesn't read trying to convince others (or themselves?) that they're avid readers or something?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    "Ai bro gets recomended the book "steal like an artist" by the ai itself"

    Such an amazing self own

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    The perspective and reflections make no sense either.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah, but the librarian won't know which anime you've cranked it to.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    I don't know what people are doing with their fucking time man. 🤦

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    An orbital ring or a machine that can generate generic book covers. Hmmm.

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  • you could literally just use. an actual recommendation algorithm

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Yup, it's like people are just ignoring that you don't need GenAI or social media.

    You can do all of these things in analog. Those of us who existed before the Internet know that very well.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Why though? I genuinely don't know what the use case is here. If you have a bookshelf it already has your books on it, you could take a photo of that. If you wanted a list of book recommendations, a text list would be more useful.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Steal like an Artist Psychopathic Silicon Valley Billionaire

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    @destructdisc No human would put their Books on the shelf this way. But a clanker wouldn't know.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Justine's bookshelf is a boring person's bookshelf. AI makes you boring.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    I can turn my head to the left and see my massive library instead

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago*

    "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"

    Title created by predictive text.

    "Today I am not a psychotic nympho destroying the same as a lot of the same time and effort again and the same thing again and the same thing again and the same thing again..."

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