Perhaps more of a stinker than a shocker.

Otherwise you’ll end up in a social corner filled with bitterness

This is a standard Internet phenomenon (I generalize) called a Sneer Club, i.e. people who enjoy getting together and picking on designated targets. Sneer Clubs (I expect) attract people with high Dark Triad characteristics, which is (I suspect) where Asshole Internet Atheists come from - if you get a club together for the purpose of sneering at religious people, it doesn't matter that God doesn't actually exist, the club attracts psychologically f'd-up people. Bullies, in a word, people who are powerfully reinforced by getting in what feels like good hits on Designated Targets, in the company of others doing the same and congratulating each other on it.

Joke’s getting a bit tired I think but RE: picture in article: I want to file a CoC(k) complaint

Ok. Full disclosure. When you said “Shad”, I thought you meant a different internet person who is shitty for creating morally degenerate art, so when I read this I thought that they had pivoted to AI and was like, I guess that tracks. But no, different shithead.

Anyway. Bland and uninspired? All actual art is inspired, just by default. If it were truly bland, you wouldn’t be able to discern anything from it, which is just not the case. So Shad isn’t actually giving a valid opinion, he’s throwing out an insult, just so that he can elevate AI slop.

Now AI slop, on the other hand, is uninspired and bland. It is uninspired because machines do not have the ability to be inspired. It is bland because it has no intention to be discerned, so contains nothing of substance.

It's ok, it's not your fault!

I remember ‘08 when Natty Ag was hot shit. Everything I’ve seen or heard of him since is just chud shit.*

*I will post just one source.

I started a job in the last year that really forced me to play around with different distros and sometimes building them. Pretty much my entire experience is “abandon ubuntu, just use debian” and wishing other people would do the same

(Pretty much my entire reasoning is that snap fucked up my dev environment so bad I rage installed debian)

I’ll allow it! But obviously the solution is to water cool the hot water being dumped into rivers.

I think it’s hard to grow up in our society, without harboring a kernel of fascism in our hearts

Absolutely, and this is unfortunately a deep and far reaching thing that requires tons of unlearning. That’s why I will never let my kids watch paw patrol

I mean would it be great if there were some way to freely generate explanations tailored to one’s individual experience? Absolutely, yes. Are LLMs that? Absolutely not. Have the cranks convinced themselves through a mashup of dunning-kruger and gell mann amnesia that LLMs are the first thing? Absolutely, yes.

“Screw the art, I have LLMs!”

Haha yes “execution”