Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 July 2024
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 July 2024
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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Whatever shambling corpse of Toys "R" Us still exists has released "the first OpenAI SORA generated brand commercial."
It looks absolutely dire, particularly in motion, but posters are still falling over themselves to call it "cool" and "exciting" or claim that people "might not notice" that it's complete and utter arse.
That picture... Harry Potter and the Hole of Ketamine.
Oh my fucking god I know that video
this is the entire pitch of genAI, this is beat for beat a perfect analysis 4 years before all of this bullshit actually happened
"Positive is that if you didn't tell someone it was GenAI, they might not notice!"
Nah, they'd be able to immediately tell from just how fucking garbage it is
It makes me wonder if these people have ever seen a moving picture before, because being caught up in the slack-jawed astonishment of a novel experience seems the only plausible explanation for thinking this looks good.
Has someone tried generating a train running at the camera and seeing if one of the AI bros dies of a heart attack?
I see Sora still hasn't cracked the nut of having longer output windows. or at producing things that aren't deathly boring.
and what the fuck is up with that music? it sounds like a medical commercial selling hope
AI or not this is an incredibly depressing advert, what the fuck. They went for whimsy and produced an elegy.
the thing is, people are again taking this as direct output of the regurgitating machine. i wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a ton of editing going on to fix all of the most glaring issues, just like when sora was first announced.
Yes you can very clearly see what they've added in, there's tons of matte stuff going on and cliparts of floating toys and whatever
If you look at the bottom right that's exactly the case. They didn't just type a prompt in SORA and call it a day.