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dystopia

AI Tags In, Humans Tap Out

CAPTION: I paid $5 to feed 20 photos of myself to an AI avatar generator. The results are a mix of flattering and absurd, but none look quite like me. Fellow Travelers, we're living in a strange limbo as AI exits geek circles to sweep the public consciousness and private marketplace of everyday...
- passerby
- Thread
- Oct 4, 2023
- agi artificial intelligence bard big tech chatgpt dystopia essay futurist google gpt openai tech technocracy technology
- Replies: 25
- Forum: Hidden Internet
Dystopian Images

Preferably real images only Seems like all the Covid ones have been suppressed and are impossible to find with normal searches Bonus points for Burger Punk!
- SolidStateSurvivor
- Thread
- May 10, 2023
- burger punk dystopia images
- Replies: 59
- Forum: General Discussion
It's gonna get worse

Way worse
- brentw
- Media item
- May 4, 2023
- dystopia
- Comments: 0
- Category: Random
What Lies at the Heart of Monoculture and Decay

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_sampling If you are reading this, I'd be willing to bet $1,000 that you've been targeted by Thompson Sampling. However, in real life conversations I've found that a near-zero number of people know of its existence and even fewer have any idea how much it...
- Orlando Smooth
- Thread
- Feb 19, 2023
- algorithms decay dystopia monoculture policy social experiment social media stagnation statistics technology thompson sampling
- Replies: 24
- Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Paranormal.
Agora Road Book Club: Brave New World Edition

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley. A dystopian novel that examines a futuristic society: The World State, which revolves around science and efficiency, where emotions are conditioned out of the individual at a young age, where social hierarchy is based only on intelligence, where everyone...
- Remember_Summer_Days
- Thread
- Dec 6, 2022
- book club drugs dystopia future huxley lsd mysticism
- Replies: 61
- Forum: Literature
Cars get dystopic: BMW to charge subscription fee for heated seats

You will own nothing, and you will be happy. In a much criticized move, BMW has decided to charge car owners a subscription service to access heated seats. $18 a month, or $415 if one wants to unlock this feature permenantly. That's right, the functionality to use heated seats is already built...
- SolidStateSurvivor
- Thread
- Jul 14, 2022
- automobiles cars dystopia
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Current Events, Philosophy, & Paranormal.
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AI generated from my prompts
- Chao Tse-Tung
- Media item
- Jan 2, 2022
- cyberpunk dystopia synthwave
- Comments: 0
- Category: Community Art
Thoughts on living in an IRL cyberpunk dystopia?

I truly feel like we're living in a cyberpunk dystopia (but like the lesser cool version of it). Where instead of seeing cool aesthetic neon signs and Japanese imagery from the 80s and 90s, we're seeing nothing but political correctness and internet toxicity and vitriol since everything is so...
- QWERTY4
- Thread
- Nov 18, 2021
- cyberpunk dystopia lost futures nostalgia retro futurism vaporwave video games
- Replies: 50
- Forum: General Discussion

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