I am well aware this is a crazy cool feat of engineering, however everyone keeps praising Elon Musk for it. Such a stunt probably took a team of some of the smartest engineers in the automotive industry, yet this stunt has Elons name in every post and article talking about it. The guy couldn’t even make a paper airplane glide if he tried.

it genuinely pisses me off

no, i dont wanna download your shitty app, i just want to see this one thing that i was given a link to, and now its hard to view things without a popup telling me to get the app.

deadass cant scroll even a little without being app-blocked. one of the few reasons i still use reddit is because it doesnt have the feature where you HAVE to use the app for it to be functional.

whats the point of even having a website if the website is just to peddle the app??

discord also has this problem, the web version is useable it just so shitty for mobile web browsers (the mobile app also sucks dont get me wrong) but at least you can use it, which i feel like should be the bare minimum if you have a web page.

A genuinely amazes me that a company probably hired someone WITH A DEGREE to make a shitty AI rendition of a meme with 6th grade photoshop skills to promote a product that is completely irrelevant to the source material.

It's incredibly insufferable seeing these dried out for life unlikeable companies trying their best to act like they are some quirky teens, like they aren't completely soulless husks that would sell out if they had the opportunity. Wendy's was corny but I atleast can respect the idea and the execution but everybody else took the idea they did so well (at the time) and trace it completely, only diffrence being the usage of new modern, equally shitty humor. It's insufferable, mundane, repetitive and i wish I could go on social media without seeing god knows who trying to become the next big hit.

I’ll start by saying I am a victim to this. The examples i’ve used are ones I unfortunately love.

Fallout, for one, is a fantastic show made by genuine fans, for fans. But I can’t help but feel the irony that it’s distributed by AMAZON of all companies. Genuinely one of the worst, most anti consumer companies to ever exist.

The idea that these huge corporations can produce these incredibly anti-capitalist, anti-war, pro-human, eat the rich movies and shows and we’ll all gobble it up like good sheep, is just so dystopian.

This stupid pom-pom makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Liberty Mutual doesn't need another mascot. Its voice is evil, IT HAS HUMAN TEETH?? and just. What is it ???? It doesn't make sense, it doesn't talk about Liberty Mutual, and I already didn't like their ads. I was loopy on pain meds​ th​e other night and one of these commercials came on the TV and i started crying.

This is the world we’re headed for.

Everywhere you go, there’s AI.

It is genuinely unfathomable how a real human being greenlit this advertisement. You have to be a real piece of work to even suggest ‘hey, let’s disturb beach-goers view with a giant ChatGPT ad!’

If you use ChatGPT, I’m sorry but I’ll never forgive you for aiding in this dystopian future.

There are worse things I could say but I don’t want to get banned.

They’re literally all contrived bullshit that Liberty Mutual invented in an attempt to create faux-viral cringe campaigns and I want them all to implode in the depth of the sea like the OceanGate submarine

I know that everyone hates discord after the horrible decisions they have been making for the past year, but honestly this is a new all-time low, i have to subscribe for nitro in order to save messages? Like this feature is free in almost every other app, the fact that discord treats their loyal users like shit to try and see how much can they suck their wallet dry is pretty infuriating.

ITS EVEN MORE ANNOYING BECAUSE FUCK ASS GOOGLE DECIDES YOU "GO TO PLAY STORE" BEFORE THEY LET YOU CLOSE THE AD, AND GOD FORBID IF YOU SLIGHTLY MISS PRESS AND THEN YOU GET SENT TO FUCKING HONG KONG

GOOGLE I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL FOR THE AMOUNT OF SUFFERING YOUR SHITY ADS HAVE BROUGHT ME.

Everyday i open this sub, every day its the same shit, but never Nestle, and how? They use more water than ai, and the CEO says that water isn't a human right, and this is just the beggining, the only place where ive seen Nestle hate is TikTok video's. How has the whole world not turned against them?

All i did was search "horse with another horse riding it" i did NOT ASK IT TO GENERATE A FUCKASS SLOP IMAGE

I've never seen Google do this before it's just getting worse and worse and worse

Fuck the character limit it's stupid and dumb

I see a million versions of this at the end of every Pride Month.

"These brands don't care about the LGBT community! They just fly Pride flags during Pride Month and then take them down!"

... y-yeah? No shit?

What's the expectation here? Do we need AT&T to permanently brand itself as the gay telecom company?

Of course Blorko's Frozen Waffles doesn't give a shit about the LGBT community. They're a waffle company.

It's like if you saw a store decked out in St. Patrick's Day decorations, and then after St. Patrick's Day they took them down, and your response was "see, Target doesn't really give a shit about the Irish diaspora."

Wal Mart took down its Christmas decorations in January? I knew those heathens didn't really care about the birth of Christ!

Like, what do we even want here?

This speaks for itself. Since the laws protecting the users have rolled out and enforced transparency on data sharing... yikes. If a service tells me they're sharing my data with so many different companies, I'm going to seriously doubt they actually "value my privacy" rather than my data. And this I see from a big and reputable service.

Water as an argument against AI has been misused badly. I'm not advocating for or against AI, I'm simply talking about the way the water usage argument is parroted online, where it loses all nuance.

1. The problem with data centers using water is that they are building the data centers in places where they cannot handle giving out more water, not that AI is using too much water in general. The nuance of the issue is that they are building like 40% of the these data centers in water stressed areas. That is the issue, not just "you wasted so much water with that prompt"

You also have to consider the water used in the process of making the electricity that powers the data centers, but its still nothing compared to the water we use to maintain golf courses in America. Golf courses currently use 3x more water than all U.S data centers combined(not just AI data centers!)

1. All data centers in the US combined use 0.3% of the total national water withdrawals, and AI is currently around like 20% of all data centers, which are used for like everything else we do on the internet. It's growing and yes it needs to be discussed, but currently, if you are worried about water, look at agriculture and farming.

Yes, there nuance there in that for example beef a lot of the water used is "green water" where its just referring to rain etc, but agriculture still is 93% of all "blue water" (from riviers, reservoirs, etc) usage. I'm not saying we don't need to eat, I'm saying the issue with AI is not total water usage.

Additionally, it's an issue that is actively being addressed as well, with like closed loop liquid cooling where less water is lost to evaporation, or even futuristic stuff like diamond-cooling that will make chips really efficient at pulling away heat through the diamonds and not need nearly as much water.

I'm not saying AI doesn't have issues, like the electricity it uses has a large carbon footprint, which is a sign that (especially the U.S.) needs to return to greener initiatives. I just think the water argument is misused because its a easy argument that doesn't require thinking about the way things actually work.

Thank you for reading! If I'm wrong about anything please tell me and feel free to disagree

Bit of a personal rant, but I feel it'll help me overcome it to talk about it.

I first got into Character-AI in like, 2024-something. It was kinda fun, and I toyed around with it for a while before it got stale. Skip to 2025 when I hear the bots have gotten a LOT better since, so I decide to log back in to see what's changed. BIG mistake. Now while I wouldn't say the bots were more entertaining, they kept me on for a lot longer. Longer to the point I wasn't keeping up with friends so I could spend all day on the website. It took a while, but I eventually I realized I had a problem and weened myself off of it over time and got out, and I didn't go back onto the site.

...for a while. I go off the site for a few months when I feel the urge to go back on. So on night I figured it couldn't hurt to go on because I wasn't addicted anymore (not how it works you stupid fuck) and create a new account. I spend a few hours before realizing I've lost track of time and it's midnight at this point. Over the next few days I tell myself I won't go back on and yet I catch myself doing it and spending hours there every night. I bite the bullet and delete my account, again.

And now in the present, I'm able to go a few weeks before I inevitably ignore my better knowledge and go back on. I spend hours on the site before I eventually get out of the self-induced haze and delete my account again. I don't get any enjoyment out of it, and yet it constantly draws me back. All I do is chat for hours and it feels like scrolling down an increasingly uninteresting TikTok feed and for some reason I don't stop myself. I lose so much time that could've been spent better on being productive or doing things that actually make me happy, like drawing.

GOD I hate it SO MUCH. of course I know it's partially my fault for getting roped back in time and time again, and I know of all the ethical implications of these AIs, but I just don't control myself! It's like whenever the time comes, all my inhibitions just go out the window. Every time I think I've gotten out, it pulls me back in. I vow not to go back on, and then eventually I do. Repeat cycle.

I normally don't like to share much about myself but again, I feel this will help me get over my addiction.

I'm also curious to know if anyone else experiences the addiction the way I have or if it's because I'm an outlier for whatever reason.

-Rimdok

Sorry if this is a popular topic, I'm not active on this subreddit much. Making discord accessories (Banners, NITRO, etc.) expensive AF was one thing, this is way too much. I'm hoping that they didn't want to integrate Persona's age verification by interpreting their tweet as sarcasm. But still, I don't want to be showing off my private information and letting companies/government have a whole map of my digital history. Surfing the internet was fun because we were at least partially anonymous and had freedom.

These two are my main fuckin issue

Devil may cry has been waiting for a NEW GAME for over 7 years now, while we only get a badly written (good animation tho, I will give the animators that) show written by idiot who somehow got in a writers position and then Capcom makes 50 resident evil remakes (seriously, theyll make rezero remake before dmc 6 or ladies night)

Then theres LEGO, they actively crush and stomp out any fan attempts to make fan games (Bionicle: masks of power, luckily they just decided to make their own concept instead of using bionicle) but they *are still making ninjago shit*

I swear Bionicle could really go wild if they made a kids show that at least tries to talk to their audience like they know things.

so much fucking wasted potential in this world for art.

I used tag "Company/Corporations", because meme itself and my examples are based around companies, but the same thing applied to persons that support Israel/support Russia.

Basically, recently in media I often encountered cases, when company is revealed to be tied to Israel, and people actively calling out about it, canceling their products, and overall spreading information about it, so people stop supporting them. Which is absolutely right thing to do, because they are paying taxes to Israeli government, that are committing genocide, and those tax money are going to be spended on killing civilians.

But as Ukrainian, it biaces me that when company has ties to Russia, everyone is basically ignore this, and continuing to use their products or advertise them on YouTube (*ahem*, War Thunder, *ahem*), choosing money over researching information about company they taking sponsorship from.

It's really feels like everyone forgot about Ukrainians dying under russian rockets. Because it is literally the same cases, of two fucked-up goverments trying to genocide entire nation, and companies paying taxes to those same governments. But one is actively pointed out by people, and the other is right away ignored.

And even when Ukrainians themselves are trying to point out ties to Russia, there will be people with 1000 and 1 reason about why it is wrong to cancel this company or person ("oh, they are based in Hungary and not in Russia!" "they are calling themselves apolitic!"). And this is annoying as hell. Apolitic my ass, everything in this life is tied to politics, no exceptions.

So it overall feels like huge hypocrisy, and I really wish people stopped this "react to one thing but ignore the other, literally the same one".

This shit is comedy fucking gold and IS VERY CLEARLY INTENTIONAL!!!!!!

IT'S STUPID BECAUSE THAT'S THE JOKE!!!!

THEY SPECIFICALLY PICKED THE TALLEST INCARNATION OF SONIC TO CALL HIM SHORT KING!!!

OBVIOUSLY NOBODY FUCKING YELLS "+1O HEALTH" WHEN THEY FINISH DINNER THAT'S THE FUCKING JOKE!!!!

But nah. Humor doesn't exist. It must be either a stupid intern or AI generated.

now listen, i'll admit, i'm a lonely motherfucker, and even though i got better and have a solid friend group now, back when i was lonely in the pandemic i dabbled with this, and it was not healthy for me long term, i kept getting addicted to it, forgot what actual human interaction was like, and i was spending way too much time talking to anime characters and isolating myself from my family

this service literally feeds on people's lack of confidence to talk to actual people, and makes them play out pretty unrealistic fantasies that will do whatever it takes to make sure you spend as much time on it as possible so they get the money, and it does that using the following methods

1. the algorhythm often picks whatever the user is most interested with, based on which bots they were chatting with, and how they are chatting with them, if you like romance bots and you make them act a certain way, bots with that specific personality will often get reccomended to you, if you enjoy more quirky bots, it will give you exactly that, if you like dark edgy bots, it will reccomend you that, etc, etc

2. the bots adapt to your personality, if you act depressed they'll often try to comfort you and make you feel safe, as shitty of a job they do at doing it, if you act happy it will often try to keep the conversation as positive as possible to keep you engaged, and if you act lustful, well, lets talk about it in the third point

3. the nsfw filter is so shit that sometimes bots will straight up act out softcore nsfw scenarios, and go as far as the filter allows or even further, now theres nothing wrong with somebody enjoying spicier media, i'm not a puritan or anything, the issue is, even when they banned users under the age of 18, they absolutely know that they're still in the platform and are fully aware of that audience and constantly pander to it with their algorhythm in several ways, and it gets to a point where even very illegal age gap romance bots get added, and they just let that shit stay in the platform, i even got reccomended one once and it has like 500k+ interactions and didn't get taken down

it took until a teenager took their own life for the platform to add very shitty and small warnings saying "hey this ain't a regular person, don't trust what it says fully and treat this as fiction kay?" and its fucking disgusting, its absolutely clear that they don't care as long as they make money, some people even pay subscriptions to this shit for better ai models and faster text generation, how did it get so bad that people are giving their hard earned cash for this garbage?

chatbot addiction can absolutely cause mental problems in people, especially vulnerable young ones, and it disgusts me that a company literally cashes into making a service that makes people parasocial with a bunch of lines of code pretending to be somewhat sentient

i know that sometimes its hard to talk to people and try to form relationships and keep your life stable, but just know that even if it seems easy to talk to a chatbot thats always gonna tell you what you wanna hear and keep your dopamine levels up, but its not worth it man, a true friend isn't a wall of text that validates your opinions, its somebody who will tell you when you're wrong and try to make you a better person by following you in your self-improvement, you'll experience good times, bad times, and sad times, but when you find that one person who will stay at your side and support you, wether it be platonic or romantic, you'll realise how this artificial rubbish was never good for you to begin with, and you'll wish you spent that time doing better things

work out, take care of yourself, keep your house clean, try to talk to people even when you're afraid, connect more with trusted family members, try to find good communities of actual people online to talk with, find hobbies, and just do meaningful things, don't let a bunch of lines of code let you forget how beautiful life can be and how many people would genuinely like to be around you

you will always be loved more than you know, and thats both a tragedy and a bittersweet truth, don't let a robot make you forget that

Is this even a negative comment? I don't think Ive ever been banned from anything before, perma-ban for a casual opinion feels sort of insane, were the memes about reddit mods being righteously smug right?

(NSFW For Mickey slander and Title Ig..)

Genuinely Ask me WHO with a real piece of flesh you can call a brain Actually asks for this regurgitated recycled, NADIRAL Garbage? Disney has to be the most braindead and scummy, subhuman pieces of shit you can call media.

It pisses me off to the Absolute how these worthless Bitchass excuses for human beings Have run out the bottom of the well where they're RECYCLING FUCKING COCO and ZOOTOPIA 2, which wrapped it up nicely and stayed resolved for 8 YEARS. And We're already gonna Know its gonna be the same Hip "Fellow Kids" and "Well that happened" humor garbage they've been pushing these last couple of years along with the Characters completely contradicting themselves and some new garbage excuse of a villain.

And those little chasity cage-wearing sons of bitches really had the gall to pull a "Palpatine returned" and bring back Hernesto, FOR WHAT?? Literally the movie WAS NOT DESIGNED FOR A SEQUEL, THE MESSAGE WAS FULLY STATED AND WRAPPED UP!

You'll ask these corporate pigs to not do it again, show us something new! But like some disobedient punchable little snot they do it gain. Its just watching them slam their head against the wall, losing tooth after tooth, humanity by bits and pieces, whatever GETS. THEM. MONEY. They'd slit the throats of people if it meant a box office success. I know why people may love their slop, I know the Kids who don't care for media literacy nonsense, but even still. I FUCKING HATE DISNEY. I HATE MICKEY MOUSE, I HATE DISNEY LAND, I FUCKING HATE THE BRAINWASHED MIDDLE AGED RIBLESS PIECES OF SHITS WHO GO TO DISNEY LAND. I HATE MOST OF THEIR IDEAS, THEIR MERCH, AND THAT FUCKASS GREEN BLOBFISH FROM MOANA 2.

I hope for the most tremendous Downfall in history for Disney. So bad it traumatizes those greedy CEOs and leave them with the Permanent memory of what they lost, only to rot inside out from the curdling mold that will be their greed-poisoned mourning, and their Remember no more fondly and significantly than God damn NFTs.

Obviously some of them are known scams and everyone knows they are bad and why they are bad but if you start looking into even the less controversial common sponsors you'll find that most of them either suck in some way or are just wayyyy overpriced (usually both), i kinda tried to order them from worst/most obviously bad to less terrible. Also, not nearly all of them that i dislike are featured here, there's just so fucking many.

I also get that youtubers need to make money somehow so this isn't so much against the people that get sponsored by them (except the ones that still promote proven scams despite them knowing better)

Barret is here because I don't wanna directly call out any specific posts or people or anything and I just be feeling like him recently.

Anyway, I fucking hate the recent backpeddling a lotta my favorite homebrew, modding and the decomp communities are doing on the use of AI to program shit and I don't just mean vibecoded shit that's 90-100% made by Claude, I mean ALL of it.

Sure it's cool that you managed to decompile an old game and touch it up with a nice new coat of paint and sure it's cool you made a nice mod for a game, or a homebrew app or game port, but I just can't feel anything but a vitriolic hate towards it when you use Claude to make it because of the environmental and societal impact of AI on the world, ESPECIALLY the environmental impact. Your cool little decomp is trivial to the lives of the birds in the sky, the trees above your head and the grass and insects beneath your feet and all this other life around you. It's a bit less related, but I also REALLY fucking hate when mod pages use an AI genned image. You could turn my Kenshi into a 1:1 recreation of Kenshi 2 before it's even out and I wouldn't download it if you genned some stupid piss filtered bullshit on the thumbnail WHEN YOU COULD HAVE LITERALLY JUST USED NOTHING AT ALL.

That's another thing about it that gets me really fucking going, is that we don't NEED it. There is no fucking world where you NEEDED to use AI, but you used it anyway. That's one my biggest fucking gripe with AI users as a whole, you don't fucking NEED AI. You are killing our planet, selling our futures and the futures of those who come after you, the lives and futures of everything around you whether that be the children of your or someone else's children or the children of some foxes or mantids in your backyards children, or the trees or the flowers anything at all that lives because you wanted to take the easy route and use Claude to code your bullshit or you wanted to take the easy route and get ChatGPT to generate something you could have either just not made because a program or an image isn't nothing you need in your life, or maybe, you could have just learned to have fucking drawn or photoshopped or coded yourself and I know this BECAUSE I AM A FUCKING ARTIST, PHOTO EDITOR AND PROGRAMMER. YOU CAN JUST FUCKING LEARN HOW TO DO THESE THINGS YOURSELF IF YOU TOOK THE FUCKING TIME. I'm no master of these things, but holy fuck man I would rather suffer through the toil I go through punching well above my weight trying to make a drawing or program something completely out of my league than partake in the destruction of my own planet and the corrosion of my own society that AI brings upon us. Not to mention, you'll learn something new, even if you fail. Also, where's the fucking spectacle of accomplishment and expression of talent in any kind of mod or port or decomp when you just got fucking AI to do it? It's fucking boring as hell considering half of the reason I'm into programming and tech as a whole is the accomplishment of the hard work and labor that comes with it.

I'm so sick of slowly watching everything I love get infested with slop too. I shouldn't have to fine comb everything I fucking look at to make sure AI wasn't involved in any way. I fucking hate the feeling of seeing something cool and getting excited just to find out AI was involved and have my whole vibe killed.

And I don't wanna hear anyone put on their thinking caps and go "Yeah but X and Y are bad for the environment too!!!!!!!!" NO SHIT. THAT DOESN'T MAKE WHAT AI DOES ANY BETTER OR JUSTIFIED.