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    We… we are clearly in the stupidest universe, right? I don’t believe it can get stupider. (Though I said this before in 2016)

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      Yes, it is, in fact, stupider: Trump replaced a picture of a President Joe Biden in the White House with a picture of an autopen, then showed President Xi with pride, further evidence–if it were needed–that Trump is dishonorable.

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      As the Epstein emails proved, being rich and affluent doesn’t preclude someone from also being illiterate. We like to think these real-life supervillains are smart and sophisticated, like in fiction, because at least then the world makes some amount of sense - it’s plausible that a very intelligent person could amass that level of wealth. But the reality is that many of them have the written communication skills of a teenager using MSN Messenger circa 2004.

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            Yes. But it was a massive source of humor for me some months ago when I asked AI chatbots to generate metro map diagrams of my city.

            Sometimes the station names they wrote on them somewhat resembled real ones, but were humorously misspelled and in completely incorrect positions and orders. Other times, the overall shape of the network was roughly ok, but the station names were completely nonsensical.

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              True, but we figured out how to deal with the epistemiology in a world with Photoshop; I think we can probably figure it out with generative AI, too.

  • Čauky Mňauky@lemmy.zip
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    Is this real? Like, actually real?
    If yes, did they let an AI write the document?
    If yes to both… sorry, Americans, but…

    🤣🤣🤣

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    I’m pretty sure Elon misspelled his own name in his signature, too. It’s obvious that he forgot how to write in cursive and was remembering mid-way through, but he very clearly wrote his name as “Elon Muk”. Like… the last squiggle is just barely a K, but there is a distinct lack of an S, or even a space for an S.

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      I don’t know that we can necessarily critique the spelling of an abstract signature. I mean, mine is pretty unrecognizable as my name; if my initials were XYZ, my signature would kind of look like “xY–”, with a little bump at the end that you could kind of interpret as a z.

      And famously, the Disney logo looks distinctly like the signature of “Waly Gisnep.” Elvis Presley’s autograph looks like “Elim rules.” John Lennon’s looks like the autograph of someone named “Sarah Clancy.” Very fittingly, Henry Ford’s signature is “Hemmy Turd.”

      Actually, on that note and in your defense, unreadable signatures kind of seems like a requirement for terrible people. Donald Trump’s signature (“Snnnn Suuuuuuugh”) is up there looking uncomfortably like Benito Mussolini’s “VnnnnnnnWi!,” Zuck’s “Mr Zz” kind of reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s “by Him” signature, and while I can’t read Devanagari or Cyrillic, Sundar Pichai’s signature sure does call to mind Josef Stalin’s.

      But it’s a thing for not-fascists, too. Kurt Vonnegut’s signature is just a line drawing of his head with the letter “t” somewhere in his hair, Emily Dickinson’s is literally just her first name, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s looks like “Puth Badu Jinobung,” and Charles Dickens’ signature looks like it says “Snarls Wickens” (which in hindsight would be a great band name)–and they were some of the most literate people of all time.

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    The bar is so fucking low with this imbecile, I’m surprised there aren’t backwards letters to be honest.

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    This explains everything! No wonder they decided not to regulate it. The “Pledge” was written by AI.