• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
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      It’s not something that’s unique to tech, but I read it as a joke about enshittification due to greed.

      Lots of start-up companies start out all idealistic and positive, then don’t stay true to that mission as the founders age and want more (or sell out to a bigger company).

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        Also as an aside, if stock points cripples your integrity then you never had any to begin with

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        I honestly think delusion is a core component of startup culture. There’s this energy of overly sincere rich kids who think they can make the world a better place by perpetuating a system of exploitation

        It’s kinda tragic really

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          I do envy their ability to take such big risks though (often because they have money to fall back on, I assume).

          I’ve never been in a position to take a risk like that without jeopardizing my (and now my family’s) future.

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            Oh yeah there’s definitely a joy to it. I think doing crazy things when your young and inspired is core experience in life. It’s a shame most people are in your position and can’t rely on the support of their community to fall back on if the risk fails

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    Why is pipeline being used for everything now? This is progression. Not pipeline.

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      Devil’s advocate here, it could be metaphorically, pipeline implies that it is an unavoidable sequence, rather than a progression, which it is.

      edit, I agree with the below that it is more of a replacement

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      I wonder how somebody can completely miss their own message like this. Or maybe somebody made an original image and then a techbro made this AI slop as a duplicate to spite them.

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      How can you tell it’s AI generated? This is a real question because I legitimately have trouble recognizing AI that doesn’t have egregious issues like mangled fingers, and unfortunately I think recognizing AI content is going to be a survival skill in the next decade.

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        The fun thing is, old AI slop helps new AI slop look more believable. The main tells is line work and fonts. Chat GPT has a very distinct art style, with a lot of soft lines and generic fonts. It’s also extremely consistent. You could look up a dedicated sub for Chat GPT memes to get a feel for it. Then you’ll start to loathe it.

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          Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.

          You think you can identify AI because you only take into consideration the AI that you’re able to identify.

          Every time you get tricked into thinking AI is an actual person, you don’t realize it so you don’t factor it in.

          I swear, a lot of the AI hate these days really outs how ignorant people are about the world they live and how illogically they go about obtaining or verifying information.

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      To be fair, you’ve been getting fed ‘human slop’ for years without having an issue. See: Marvel movies

      Why complain when it’s a machine producing it instead?

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    This is just a meme, but it does touch on something important. There’s a journalist by the name of Douglas Rushkoff. He put out a book last year titled, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaire Elite, and he was invited by a group of 5 anonymous tech oligarchs out to the desert to talk about surviving what they call “The Event”, or when the consequences of their actions finally catch up to them.

    He also says at the core of their desire to escape it is rooted in something he calls “The Mindset”, which is belief that with enough money and technology, wealthy men can live as gods, and transcend the calamities and tribulations that befall us mere mortals.

    “The Mindset” is rooted in empirical science, that human beings are nothing more than the sum total of their chemical components, and that’s it, and only the “truly superior” (Billionaire Tech Broligarchs) understand that.

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    I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

    Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that’s what the actual “tech bros” want.

    This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

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    People like 2025 guy have never held thoughts like the other 2, they were always self serving cunts. They just kept a facade till they depended on others, but once they joined the rich fucks club, they dropped the facade.

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    Money … it’s always about the money and power

    I’m sure there are tech bros out there that we will never hear about or see or know about … those are the ones who just want to do tech stuff and not care about anything else

    The ones we do hear about who become billionaires were only ever in it for the money and power

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      “Tech Bro” as a term though does pretty much imply insufferable nouveaux-riche douchbags devoid of any genuine emotion, who are happy to squash human dignity on an industrial scale for profit, and think themselves cool for doing it.

      If someone is into tech for the true sake of technology then by definition they aren’t a “tech bro” - they are a programmer, a hacker, a hardware tinkerer, an open-source evangelist, or any number of cool things that don’t involve being an huge dickhead :)

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    I feel like all the people who were into tech to improve people’s lives did that and got bought out by people who then went on to try and make money off of it.