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[–] patatas@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

something something facial recognition

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Strange, ever noticed how many of the genAI logos looked like an anus? https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action", what is dozens of times?

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 12 hours ago

Yes, it is crap.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

Breaking free from the butthole

is this the best thing i've ever read?

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Young and dumb

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

NGL, they might've been better off skating the edge of IP and managed it after a little fat blobule, like the Partners In Crime adipose here. Adipilot has that "atta boy" sound, and selling fat to dumbfuck Americans is their business model already, so: apropos on so many levels. 🤷🏽‍♂️

edit: yes, now I see the earlier comment. 🤪

Or is it the fat just walking away? anyone remember the Adipose

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 30 points 1 day ago

They called the idea nutty, even seedy, but the Copilot mascot turned out to be a seminal piece of marketing that spawned generations to follow. This was a huge release that left a lot of the more conservative viewers clutching their pearl necklaces. Cream of the crop. Busting once and for all the myth that Microsoft isn't a fertile place for breeding marketing innovation. Coming out of nowhere, a climactic moment in the 2025 AI summer. Truly a moment to refract on during the upcoming period. All the money they've splooged on AI is finally coming to fruition and not just blown off and swallowed. The success will surely rub off on the AI industry as a hole or at least jack up Microsoft shares with vigorous excitement. And other semen jokes.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

November's especially tough at the actual office for M$ Edge drones.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago

Looks a lot like the computer from the recent movie Elio

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Baldur Bjarnason has given his thoughts:

I mean… yeah.

Also, between this and seeing tech types link glowingly to a crazypants “colonise the light cone by exploring latent space” type of delusional bullshit and I’m staring to worry that computers, as a concept, might not be salvageable after these clowns have run the show into the ground

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

colonise the light cone by exploring latent space

Can someone explain what this is referring to? I don't understand it.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"

like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)

[–] dshan@mastodon.au 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@BlueMonday1984 I never thought I'd say this but, bring back Clippy!

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Whilst we're at it, bring back Tamagotchi - they don't ruin the planet, and also they're cute

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago

kintamagotchi

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

cumputer*

You dropped this.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another Oglaf reference???

[–] johsny@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh, right. I forgot the obligatory comment.

@dgerard why did you make the header image so sexy again?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

because i know what you like

Gotta get those clicks where you can, amirite?

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I’m into Clippy

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] shapeofquanta@lemmy.vg 8 points 1 day ago
[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

I hate my desktop

Should we tell him that it's Microsoft's fault?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

The video is heavily euphemised and I think I got away with it

Sidenote: It would be hilarious if YouTube began demonetising videos featuring Microsoft Copilot's Cum Zone

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Tofu, if it were orange the article would read "...looks like a blob of orange semen"

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Liquid glass (the apple thing) also looks like semen.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

remember, the actual design name is Liquid Ass

screenshot of youtube video pre-roll still showing the Liquid Glass themescreen with the play button obscuring the letters g and l

(still amazing that they PR blundered that, and how rapidly just that got fixed while addressing nothing else about this stupid thing)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago

tangential: reminds me of this stupid thing that I saw like 10 years ago that I have recreated for y'alls viewing pleasure. Feel free to insert whatever narrative you like as to how I encountered the image on the left.

[–] Wakarimasen@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

New UI style that apple uses