Rich billionaire assholes are ruining every industry. It’s not just the tech sector.
Am I stupid? Idk what the hell this is trying to say
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).
Also as an aside, if stock points cripples your integrity then you never had any to begin with
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
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.
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
The feeling of power that being in the technology sector brings changes a man.
Why is pipeline being used for everything now? This is progression. Not pipeline.
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
Beware the AI slop Pipeline
monetizing empathy
You Cave Johnsons…!
Tech bruh
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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.
I need it. I’ll pay for it even!!
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.
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?
“People enjoy things I don’t like, therefore industrialized plagiarism and environmental homicide are ok”
Copyright and patent laws should die, so I don’t care about plagiarism.
It’s the same as saying “he stole my idea!” like a petulant child.
Great, so you’re an asshole who enjoys stealing. Go fuck yourself, we’re done talking. I also like how you didn’t even address the environmental damage, but I guess you also love destroying mother Earth as well.
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Always funny seeing people get mad at me because I refuse to be ripped off.
I agree with Jomega.
Stealing is wrong. 200 billion dollar corporations like Disney worked very hard to change copyright laws. We need to respect these billion dollar corporations creating rules solely to benefit themselves.
Copyright laws exist to prevent confusion in the marketplace. What you want is to reform copyright laws, not abolish them.
It’s cute that you think you can reform copyright to suit your needs. Billion dollar corporations like Disney have more money than you and everyone you know. They will make the law whatever the fuck they want it to be.
Copyright laws exist to protect the entrenched interests of the rich. It should be abolished, but the useful idiots and the rich would never allow it.
Here’s my complaint about a machine producing it:
- Water Cost 1
- Water Cost 2, it has a nice Frutiger Aero image
- Water Cost 3
- Water Cost 4
- Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry
- Bad Business
You can also take a look at the articles of c/FuckAI if you want.
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It was just an example.
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If anything, this is more how money corrupts tech folks.
Ai slop
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.
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.
Also the timeline should ne more like 1990 : Information wants to be free
Bill Gates: No
Etc.
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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.
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
“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 :)
It’s really just about power, but money is one of the best ways to obtain it.
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.