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For as much as they love to talk about making things, the only thing Silicon Valley tech bros know how to do is taking things (extraction and enclosure). I call them people farmers for a reason. This isn’t farming in the sense of tending to the land in a sustainable manner. It’s factory farming. And you’re the livestock being farmed. Understand the farmer/farmed relationship at the heart of Silicon Valley’s corrupt social contract and all else makes sense, including the technofascism currently unfolding in the United States. https://mastodon.social/@brianmerchant/114236946995376502
MastodonBrian Merchant (@brianmerchant@mastodon.social)OpenAI is using Studio Ghibli-style memes as an ad hoc promotional campaign for its new image generator—despite Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki's famous hatred of AI. Sam Altman even made his X avatar a 'Ghiblified' portrait.
Disgracing Miyazaki is part of the point: It's more proof to the industry's biggest boosters that they have won—that they're free to use, appropriate, and commoditize art however they see fit.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
@aral Wow, you're an idiot.
@dsm The evidence would suggest otherwise. But you may fuck off regardless.
@aral nah, fuck you.
@aral disgusting
embrace, extend, extinguish
that has been the modus operandi of the likes of MS for decades
that has been the modus operandi of the likes of MS for decades