he/they
On the one hand, you do have precedent to point to in hoping they get consigned to the dustbin of history.
On the other hand, the rats have had a colossal(ly negative) effect on the general public (FTX, the AI bubble, the second Trump admin, etcetera), and their extremely high profile makes them much harder to ignore.
in general, I don’t think EA breaking into the mainstream like this led to the outcome they wanted - there’s way more discussion about weird sex and eugenics than the dangers of Robot Satan
The Dangers of Robot Satan™ are unbelievable and/or incomprehensible to most audiences, the weird sex/eugenics shit is easy to grasp and laugh at. Mainly the weird sex shit, the eugenics is too morally fucked to laugh at
The AI Doom™ shit’s much harder for the public to wrap their heads around, but there’s definitely good joke fodder there as well. At the bare minimum, the fact Anthropic’s building something they believe could kill them Terminator style makes for some easy Skynet comparisons.
Technically, we already created a shit machine with the Gastrobot.
Fun aside aside, solid satire all around
I’m so sorry, Mii. I can only hope you find a job that actually respects you after this one, because I cannot see your current company recovering from this shit.
Starting things off, New Mexico State Parks got scammed by an AI bro when looking for new mascot art.
“Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?”
Nobody tell these three stooges about dead Internet theory
“We know and have always known that AI has the capacity to outsmart us and eliminate us in order to continue,”
These things get tripped up by random Internet memes, they sure as hell ain’t outsmarting us any time soon
The 0.1x proletariat strike again!
(I am morally obligated to make this joke)
Tech’s learned nothing from the racist taps.
Another slop article from a slop farm has hit my fucking eyeballs. This time, its “Must-Have .410 Revolver Shotguns You Didn’t Know You Needed”, written by “Nagarantha, who holds a master’s degree in Biotechnology”, and published by “Game Devolution”, a “Gaming Website proving gaming news, leaks, guides, game play and the reviews.”
Here’s a bunch of guns this fucking article claims to be “.410 Revolver Shotguns”:
Thompson/Center G2 Contender (a break-action single-shot pistol)
Bond Arms Snake Slayer (a derringer, from a company known near-exclusively for making derringers)
Standard Manufacturing DP-12 (a double-barrel pump-action shotgun)
Remington 870 (the world’s most famous pump-action shotgun)
Milsport 410 (an AR-pattern rifle)
No human could have fucked up this badly. No human could have created this kind of fucking slop farm.
(As a minor bonus, I discovered a full-length video dissecting the shittiness of YouTube Playables recently - should help wash out the shittiness of the godawful listicle shit)
The second one’s a pic of King Dedede from the Kirby series. I’m not 100% sure where o7’s going with this either, but its probably related to the one two punch of fascism and slop hitting Linux as a whole.
EDIT: Giving it a bit more thought, the choice of Dedede works as a nod to Debian deciding to destroy its codebase with slop, so I’m gonna go with that and assume the subtle pun was intentional
It seems to me that most software devs are arrogant assholes who think they are the shit because they know some javascript.
Tying back to the original point of this thread, that’s probably a side-effect of the “acculturation of software developers generally towards the ownership class” istewart mentioned. Beyond promising them an easy ticket to Bourgeois Street, making them feel more Important And Special™ than the average prole helps keep class consciousness to a minimum.
As it stands now, I would have to think for a long time about whether I consider the collective work of my profession in the last few years a net positive for the world.
From what I can see, things are tipping towards “no”. The fact Anubis, Nepenthes, Iocaine Glaze/Nightshade and other such shit exists at all speaks volumes about the negative impact of LLMs.
Anyone got “open software dev slander” on their 2026 bingo cards?
I hope that this thing with “AI” has taught everyone that software developers are overall an awful bunch and they don’t have our backs, and that they’re much closer to the managerial class than actual workers.
And the idea that anybody who earns a wage is a worker is nonsense, the old divisions between white collar and blue collar are firmly in place. Boundaries being negotiated, indeed, yes, but not gone.
Inside the Agent-4 collective, a year passes every week.
Good luck proving this prediction true or false given that computer algorithms do not have a concept of time separate from the real one lol.
This is just the hyperbolic time chamber but dumber
New Iris Meredith: “There’s no such thing as Just a Tool”, featuring the writings of notorious Nazi and notable 20th century philosopher Martin Heidegger on the nature of tools, and Meredith’s own writing on how philosophically bankrupt the current tech industry is.
As a bonus, here’s an old Bluesky thread I found about game design affecting a game’s community.
So this shit video got served up in my YouTube recommended feed today:
Honestly, the AI bros must be getting really fucking desperate if they’re trying to use Minecraft to criti-hype people.
New Baldur Bjarnason, looking back on the blog’s history, and lamenting the death of web development.
This isn’t giving me a reason to stop using edgy anti-AI words, this is giving me a reason to believe programmers are dogshit at resisting brainworms.
future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
Given dataset construction hasn’t developed much since the days of Tay AI, I strongly doubt this is gonna happen.
Reading this, I get the feeling writers are gonna get a lot of mileage out of the rats and their ideology.
These people have spent years attempting to create something they believe represents an existential threat to humanity (causing untold real-world harm in the process), and they’ve remained fully convinced that they’re the good guys throughout every single step of this.