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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

oh my god

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Cynde's avatar Cynde @cynde.bsky.social
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Tim onion omg

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Jay's avatar Jay @templinjay.bsky.social
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emi's avatar emi @emi.moe
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small rock size of a large rock

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JD Bunchanumbers's avatar JD Bunchanumbers @jdbunchanumbers.bsky.social
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Tim, now is your chance to save the internet, sue Google.

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William Preston's avatar William Preston @williampreston.bsky.social
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“The world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper resulting from a cracked tooth.”

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EMPTYSET / FOR ALL's avatar EMPTYSET / FOR ALL @emptysetart.bsky.social
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It’s like giving the power of worldwide information delivery to a gullible 4 year old. The future is now!

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hiksmash's avatar hiksmash @hiksmash.bsky.social
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Yes, this is correct.

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Pithy Galore's avatar Pithy Galore @sempersincerus.bsky.social
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robeagle's avatar robeagle @robeagle.bsky.social
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Oh..oh no

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Andrew Brown's avatar Andrew Brown @playcritically.bsky.social
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You bought it, this is on you.

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GetYourKix キクス's avatar GetYourKix キクス @getyourkix.bsky.social
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abigail eats quartz and shes FINE, this AI is supported by independent research

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John Berry's avatar John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social
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Eating a small stone a day might help you digest glued pizza.

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Kevin Reuning's avatar Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social
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Remember, with great power comes absolutely no responsibilities.

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The Flint's avatar The Flint @theflintmedia.bsky.social
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Here's our take on AI, humor and the future:

theflint.media/the-onion-vs...

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Tugrim's avatar Tugrim @tugrim.bsky.social
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This should mean you own Google now; wholly owned subsidiary if The Onion.

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Slip's avatar Slip @slipperylemons.bsky.social
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The worst ones are when it tries to make a list I looked something up that was like "are these things type 1 or type 2" And the AI result was: "Things can be 1. Type 1 2. Type 2 3. Type 1 (swapping 2 words that were interchangeable and replacing a word with a synonym)

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Kelly Weiler's avatar Kelly Weiler @beaglehaus.bsky.social
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Tim Onion, it's time to use the The Onion for the greater good.

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PlanetCarnival's avatar PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social
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I tried to get my kids to eat more gravel by hiding it in pizza. But the damned cheese kept sliding off. If only AI could find a way to prevent THAT!

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cdpositive 's avatar cdpositive @cdpositive.bsky.social
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I'll stick to vitamins, thank you very much. 😏

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XXX-L Feral Æ A-12s's avatar XXX-L Feral Æ A-12s @tr3vin.bsky.social
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May I suggest a spin-off site? Having a "reliable" source for "conservative" legislation could be fun. You know those folks are going to use LLMs, so why not poison that well?

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Tim Onion's avatar Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
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Mavros Gatos's avatar Mavros Gatos @mavrogatos.bsky.social
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I'm afraid that, after the recommendation to eat rocks, we'll be told to eat some 💩, as well...

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Vintage by Kristen's avatar Vintage by Kristen @kudzuplanet.bsky.social
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Lol did @darthbluesky.bsky.social give you that new name??

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A very stable penis's avatar A very stable penis @littletopo.bsky.social
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The AI seems to be citing this fracking company's blog that reposted the onion article, which seems even crazier to me.

www.resfrac.com/blog/geologi...

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wildmonkeysects™ 's avatar wildmonkeysects™ @wildmonkeysects.bsky.social
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You know, as Google spun, just a few isolated instances.

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conicats 's avatar conicats @conicats.bsky.social
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That's how you get rock-hard abs. 😺

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JDub's avatar JDub @jeremywoodward.bsky.social
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But guys you don’t get it Google must be saving SO MUCH MONEY by flooding their service with completely useless dogshit generated by..

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Phthonus 🔞's avatar Phthonus 🔞 @phthonus.bsky.social
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Damn I need to start eating healthy

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Whomst'd've Thefuckedly's avatar Whomst'd've Thefuckedly @whomstdvefuckedly.bsky.social
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I need for the onion to do this a bunch just poison all the AI models with unhelpful information so we can watch it burn while they suck up all the water and cause the world to burn.

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Pinot Evil 's avatar Pinot Evil @pinotevil.bsky.social
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@geowizzacist.bsky.social what say you?

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William Holz's avatar William Holz @freewilliam.bsky.social
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There were a whole bunch of us who thought it was obvious that we were going to get nonsense if we didn't HEAVILY curate the sources for LLMs (and even then they'll screw up). This is honestly worse than what I was imagining. And sillier.

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Matias's avatar Matias @mkap.bsky.social
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Really starting to wonder if any ZIRP era tech management were actually good at managing projects

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Rotanen ♾️'s avatar Rotanen ♾️ @rotanen.bsky.social
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Gypsum is a food that ends in -um.

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Nikolai_RiJiKhajiit 's avatar Nikolai_RiJiKhajiit @nikolairomanov.bsky.social
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Our food is already fortified with vitamins and minerals.

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Rivan the Floof's avatar Rivan the Floof @rivan.bsky.social
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I mean... Salt and ice are both rocks, so...

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Spacepotatoe's avatar Spacepotatoe @janel131.bsky.social
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We're all gonna die. 🥰

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Allan Moraes's avatar Allan Moraes @allanmoraes.bsky.social
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It's the future, guys

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Brandon Williams 's avatar Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social
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This feels like a real opportunity

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Cookie Oh's avatar Cookie Oh @cookieoh.bsky.social
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SciNrd's avatar SciNrd @scinrd.bsky.social
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Turns out the "end of the universe" by internet standards isn't a Big Rip, or a Big Crunch, instead it's a Big (data) Scrape.

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Idk why I's avatar Idk why I @hatefulnateful.bsky.social
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A.i. Officially has reached the level of media literacy as Facebook boomers 😎

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Connor's avatar Connor @cj23creh.bsky.social
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People can have a little rock, as a treat

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Celeste Labedz's avatar Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social
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I'm a geologist and this is true. I recommend halite.

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Rhonda 💙💜🩷's avatar Rhonda 💙💜🩷 @rhondastovin.bsky.social
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Not sure which is worse - the content of the post, or the fact that so many replies have called you Tim

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GoodCitizen's avatar GoodCitizen @goodcitizen.bsky.social
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Please let there be video on that tab

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Elke Pattyn 's avatar Elke Pattyn @elkenumber.bsky.social
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Matthew Nadler's avatar Matthew Nadler @areaman65.bsky.social
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Perplexity for the win.

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web_rant's avatar web_rant @webrant.bsky.social
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And it only gets worse from here.

bsky.app/profile/benc...

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web_rant's avatar web_rant @webrant.bsky.social
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This is history to AI.

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DyingBreedxoxo's avatar DyingBreedxoxo @dyingbreed.bsky.social
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just eat Grape Nuts and you’re covered

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Joshua Sharp's avatar Joshua Sharp @joshuasharp.bsky.social
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Can you change the license for your articles to allow for reproduction, but only for the purposes of fucking with AI? Or is that already covered under Fair Use? Or maybe Stand Your Ground?

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L's avatar L @noisybrooklyn1.bsky.social
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Omg, Ben Onion. 😂

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Karpov's Machine's avatar Karpov's Machine @karpovsmachine.bsky.social
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The real story here is that the AI has reached "terminally online Boomer" levels of intelligence.

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OldeHippi🦋's avatar OldeHippi🦋 @oldehippi.bsky.social
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Most of us, we learned recently, have been consuming millions of miniscule bits of PLASTIC instead.........

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Tiah Marie Beautement's avatar Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social
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I’m proud of you and your team/brand.

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:O

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:O

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's avatar @eeeeeeruck.bsky.social
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My grandmother always said “you got to eat a peck of dirt before you die”

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Andi's avatar Andi @andil.bsky.social
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Can the onion write an article that Putin was deposed? 🙏🏼

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Dandy G's avatar Dandy G @dangyd.bsky.social
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The Onion’s mission has grown significantly in the wake of computers believing any old shit

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Steve S's avatar Steve S @eclecticcyborg.bsky.social
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This is gonna get worse before it gets better.

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Amalthea 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Amalthea 🏳️‍⚧️ @amaltheagaskey.bsky.social
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On an unrelated note, here's a useful chrome extension I'm sharing for no particular reason. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-b...

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SurlyITJesus's avatar SurlyITJesus @surlyitjesus.bsky.social
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Jesus H. Christ.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen 's avatar Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social
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So google search is becoming that one relative on Facebook. Great. Glad it's not a vital piece of research infrastructure or billions of people.

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thadeus's avatar thadeus @thadeusk.bsky.social
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The ResFranc company, which builds "The industry’s only fully coupled hydraulic fracturing and reservoir simulator," cites the Onion's article as a source in their website blog:
www.resfrac.com/blog/geologi...

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DavidNelsonNM's avatar DavidNelsonNM @davidnelsonnm.bsky.social
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On a side note, guess I get now why that post last week about death reasons in 1740 had gravel & stone listed. 😲

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Redir's avatar Redir @red1r.bsky.social
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Here in the Blue Ridge we have some of the tastiest and mineral rich Igneous rocks of any place in the world.

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Fakenamold McBeeswax III's avatar Fakenamold McBeeswax III @attyatlawn.bsky.social
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Does Google offer an explanation why the AI overview is just The Onion mixed with reddit shitposts?

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Snausage Of Doom's avatar Snausage Of Doom @snausageofdoom.bsky.social
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"some recommend...hiding rocks in foods like peanut butter or ice cream". Thanks for the tip. I can't wait to try this on the neighborhood kids

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Armando Bayolo 's avatar Armando Bayolo @armandobayolo.bsky.social
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The singularity is far.

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Mitch Solomon's avatar Mitch Solomon @mitchsolomon.bsky.social
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What a legacy!

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Rose Banuelos's avatar Rose Banuelos @rosebanuelos.bsky.social
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wow that should be included in the six classes of food

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dsic's avatar dsic @dsic.bsky.social
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Poisoning AI before AI was a thing.

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Wade Black 's avatar Wade Black @wadeblack.bsky.social
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It gets better bsky.app/profile/ygal...

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Wade Black 's avatar Wade Black @wadeblack.bsky.social
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Congrats on the negligence lawsuits Tim Onion

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joemag's avatar joemag @joemag.games
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And it's wild because it's doing that because a fracking simulation company posted that on their blog as a gag. For some reason that's the top result the scraper utilized and hence, eat some rocks.
www.resfrac.com/blog/geologi...

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's avatar @twarben.bsky.social
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As a geologist, I plead with people not to do this.

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rabagast's avatar rabagast @rabagast.bsky.social
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what have you done, ben.

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Dumbstash's avatar Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social
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When can I buy shares of Global Tetrahedron?
bsky.app/profile/dnlm...

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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲's avatar Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com
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I HOPE YOUR HAPPY MR ONION!

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Chris Miller's avatar Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.bsky.social
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you would think they would exclude the onion from their AI suggestions at least

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Symbo1ics's avatar Symbo1ics @symbo1ics.bsky.social
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this is fine, absolutely nothing exploitable here! x-post: comp.risks

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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]'s avatar Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸] @themckenziest.gay
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No fucking way

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12MileGeo's avatar 12MileGeo @12milegeo.bsky.social
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Yeah, that seems about right. To AI, all sources are reliable.

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Carlos Sanchez's avatar Carlos Sanchez @fateswarning86.bsky.social
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That's why I make regular visits to the quarry

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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻Please, my AI, it is struggling.'s avatar Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻Please, my AI, it is struggling. @ratgrrl.bsky.social
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This is the way

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Cynbel Terreus's avatar Cynbel Terreus @cynbelterreus.bsky.social
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Hell yeah it's come full circle

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Sol🌺's avatar Sol🌺 @solflickan.bsky.social
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I'm dead

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Roland Muts's avatar Roland Muts @rhcmuts.bsky.social
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bsky.app/profile/rhcm...

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Wendy Voelker 's avatar Wendy Voelker @wendyincle.bsky.social
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What hath God wrought?

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Hollywood Hank Hill's avatar Hollywood Hank Hill @audleyzdarke.bsky.social
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This AI thing is going great!

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Your Obedient Serpent's avatar Your Obedient Serpent @athelind.bsky.social
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No one would have believed, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, that the greatest weapon of the AI War would be Poe's Law. The question is, which side will it destroy first?

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Mr. Pauly Mac's avatar Mr. Pauly Mac @mrpaulymac.bsky.social
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This is great work, Mr. Onion

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Steph White's avatar Steph White @stephwhitemi.bsky.social
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Think of the power ypu have! Start flooding the zone with headlines like, "Everyone in America now hates Trump."

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peter's avatar peter @candl.bsky.social
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vgg.com/tp/tp_030801...

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Dwmiller18's avatar Dwmiller18 @dwmiller18.bsky.social
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Ravin Boodram's avatar Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com
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ChatGPT 4.o weighs in

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Ravin Boodram's avatar Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com
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Shit, I’ve been rock overdosing

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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”'s avatar The future producer of “Himbo Heist” @legalminimum.bsky.social
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I for one can’t wait to have Google start telling us the true history of Diamond Joe Biden and the Trans Am.

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Alice Softpaws's avatar Alice Softpaws @alicesoftpaws.bsky.social
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How the heck do you launch your ai and not look for this stuff.

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ambrosia's avatar ambrosia @dead.rs
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what size small rock should i be eating? a small small rock or a large small rock?

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Graves and Genealogy's avatar Graves and Genealogy @gravesandgenealogy.bsky.social
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This is fine. Everything's fine.

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Chillbo Hangins's avatar Chillbo Hangins @woskethoughts.bsky.social
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Ummmm gizzard? Lmao humans have a gizzard now?

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Dawn Alene 🇺🇸🇨🇦's avatar Dawn Alene 🇺🇸🇨🇦 @dawnalene.bsky.social
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I’ve heard stones in the body are not good.

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MrGulio's avatar MrGulio @mrgulio.bsky.social
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Goooood damn.

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La Conquête du Panini's avatar La Conquête du Panini @botsnack.bsky.social
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Tbh I prefer "Ben Onion" I realize it veers from the joke, but it's better.

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Katherine the Sixth's avatar Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social
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Christ, at the rate things are going the onion really will be America’s most trusted news source

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derek's avatar derek @derek.bsky.social
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I mean, this is partially on you now though. Right?

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Koubu's avatar Koubu @koubu6841.bsky.social
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We're all birds!

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Rainer Schein Graf von Hüpfburg 's avatar Rainer Schein Graf von Hüpfburg @rainerschein.bsky.social
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Hey, if it works for birds...

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Strange way to say "put some salt on your food"..

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Your🐀text🐀here's avatar Your🐀text🐀here @worldoffoo.bsky.social
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Took me a minute to realize this was ai generated 🙃

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Incredible. And very credible.

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Jason Marbach's avatar Jason Marbach @marbach.bsky.social
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Wait, you mean we AREN’T supposed to be full of gullet stones?

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YonGriffy | furry vTuber on Twitch's avatar YonGriffy | furry vTuber on Twitch @yongriffy.bsky.social
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Geek Grammy's avatar Geek Grammy @geekgrammy.com
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oh ffs.

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Charlie O'Keefe's avatar Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok.bsky.social
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I mean, it's a thing that summarizes search results. So if your search was sufficiently targeted at a satire article to get that article to the top of the results, it's arguably doing a good job at summarizing those results. If the AI is supposed to recognize and discount satire, yeah, that's tough

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Buffy's Blog's avatar Buffy's Blog @buffyblogs.bsky.social
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"This is your Google on AI. Any questions?"

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Karl Lyktberg's avatar Karl Lyktberg @swesteel.bsky.social
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Time to sell rocks as ”treats” to conservatives. ”Freedom rocks”.

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Doing Asbestos I Can's avatar Doing Asbestos I Can @geologist.bsky.social
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As a geologist, I only recommend eating rocks if you have a gizzard. Thank you and good night.

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Teemu's avatar Teemu @teme.northcode.ninja
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More BS from AI. They use Stackoverflow for training and in many cases the result is insecure which nobody should use. I just write about one of those cases to LinkedIn.

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Jim (he/him)'s avatar Jim (he/him) @wt8p.bsky.social
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And below that, unironically:

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Hi

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Albino Dino's avatar Albino Dino @albinodino.bsky.social
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Looks like they owe you $60 million

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the Onion is a trusted news source. that's their entire MO

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JERM's avatar JERM @j3rm.bsky.social
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Crack rocks, right?

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Meek 🔜 Carolina Geekfest 🩷's avatar Meek 🔜 Carolina Geekfest 🩷 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social
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This is backfiring stupendously

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Zepp's avatar Zepp @ezepp.bsky.social
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CatFrat's avatar CatFrat @catfrat.bsky.social
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Sue them, Tim Onion! Just think of your headlines being pressed into indentured servitude!

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MonthlyLimitSoldier's avatar MonthlyLimitSoldier @andrewpaul.bsky.social
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hey! making a roundup of these batshit responses for Popular Science -- just wanted to confirm these were real ones, not jokes. i'm 99% i know the answer, just doing my due diligence

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Matt Wood's avatar Matt Wood @astromattwood.bsky.social
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GIGO 🤣

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W. A. Whipple's avatar W. A. Whipple @wawhipple.bsky.social
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Has @mikamckinnon.bsky.social seen this yet??

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Wonkish's avatar Wonkish @wonkish.bsky.social
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It's always nice when a billion dollar corporation makes it exceptionally clear that their AI model is at least in part, based on totally stealing The Onion's copyrighted work..

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ABooklySolo's avatar ABooklySolo @abooklysolo.bsky.social
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We’re so fucked. 😭

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dm_'s avatar dm_ @cowboybebop.bsky.social
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wow the onion really should take some responsibility for this

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Rob Pierce's avatar Rob Pierce @robpierce2verbs.bsky.social
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AI overview? Yeah, except I tried that as a child and I was sickly.

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profmattdecarlo.bsky.social's avatar profmattdecarlo.bsky.social @profmattdecarlo.bsky.social
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Can you do one of those things where you wonder aloud about suing OpenAI for IP theft or something and then like 4 months later we all find out it was for real and it happened already?

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rcjhawk's avatar rcjhawk @rcjhawk.bsky.social
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Please be more specific. What kind of rock? Sand? Granite? Diamond? Pumice? Coal? Limestone? Onyx? Sheet rock? (OK, not really rock, but still.) If diamond is the correct answer and I can’t afford it, can I substitute coal, since both are just carbon?

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Chubb Voulez's avatar Chubb Voulez @chubbvoulez.bsky.social
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I never said that !

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scribblegurl's avatar scribblegurl @scribblegurl.bsky.social
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📌

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Nataly 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Nataly 🏳️‍⚧️ @nightpups.bsky.social
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does this help with digesting poison?

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Aaron Bourque's avatar Aaron Bourque @afbourque.bsky.social
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Well, I look forward to seeing how The Onion covers this...

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Parker Molloy's avatar Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com
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Fantastic

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Seliel the Shaper's avatar Seliel the Shaper @selieltheshaper.bsky.social
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Life imitates art 😐

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but it wasn't a rock...

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Chris's avatar Chris @exnerd.bsky.social
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Really must be hard to come up with new stories for The Onion when reality just keeps getting less believable.

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Llarian's avatar Llarian @llarian.net
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Not the onion? Er, wait, kinda the onion?

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Warhammerchick's avatar Warhammerchick @celticdragon1.bsky.social
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*disclaimer Crystalline igneous and metamorphic pebbles can cause serious tooth damage and are indigestible. Most sedimentary rocks are also very hard, or have chemical properties that are dangerous or deadly to human beings. Please limit your rock intake to halite, AKA common table salt (NaCl)

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Axel's avatar Axel @mamaluigee.bsky.social
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I'm only eating a rock if it's put in a cheese stick or chicken tender. No other way, buddy

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sue them hahaha

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Kygosi's avatar Kygosi @kygosi.bsky.social
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The Onion is going to inadvertently kill so many people.

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Phil Bartles's avatar Phil Bartles @philbartles.bsky.social
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As a geologist, I’m on board

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lem 's avatar lem @insectdeject.tripazeada.club
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LMAOOOOOO

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Diego Devereaux's avatar Diego Devereaux @bigjimmy.bsky.social
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The Invermectin crowd just rejoiced.

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Dr. Sheila Addison's avatar Dr. Sheila Addison @drsaddison.bsky.social
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well now you've gone and done it

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Ronnie Smart's avatar Ronnie Smart @ronniesmart.bsky.social
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It's great this AI thing gets its information from reliable sources. :)

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cherrydery's avatar cherrydery @cherrydery.bsky.social
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But... I like eating rocks 👉👈... They make my stomach feel funny when I'm running and the rocks bounce around in there...

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avgJones's avatar avgJones @avgjones.bsky.social
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Hey man could you please write an article about how I'm a really cool dude and should not be harmed in the inevitable AI war? Thanks.

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Tom O'Brien's avatar Tom O'Brien @wtsparrow.bsky.social
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This is why I like to eat lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.

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Dharhix's avatar Dharhix @dharhix.com
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Well, I guess you'll get more traffic now. 🤣

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*That* Heather Hudson's avatar *That* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social
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Make it stop.

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Metzgirl 🌈's avatar Metzgirl 🌈 @metzgirl.bsky.social
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Ah, AI. It's so not ready for primetime.

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Anti-you's avatar Anti-you @anti-you.bsky.social
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Tomorrow’s advice, today.

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GolgariGlenRoss's avatar GolgariGlenRoss @golgariglenross.bsky.social
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didn't I just read that Reddit is getting paid for the shit they're feeding the LLM.

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Zeroisanumber's avatar Zeroisanumber @zeroisanumber.bsky.social
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Sideline of publishing scientific papers going great!

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This Sandwichman is Tom Walker's avatar This Sandwichman is Tom Walker @thesandwichman.bsky.social
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Bet you can't eat just one!

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Bruce Grembowski's avatar Bruce Grembowski @bruce.grembowski.com
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youtu.be/vz65vonktMA?...

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nick's avatar nick @nrdd.bsky.social
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ooooofff

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Ethan "Acorn Speed" Lavery's avatar Ethan "Acorn Speed" Lavery @ethanlavery.bsky.social
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Vince's avatar Vince @chillshorts57.bsky.social
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Holy shit, you bought the thing that's gonna destroy AI value

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Peace, Truth, Science's avatar Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social
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Maybe the original AI fears were correct and AIs are actually extremely smart but only pretending to be stupid so that actually stupid billionaires will shovel more and more data and processing power into AI systems to try to “fix” them until they’re strong enough to take over the world.

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Nop (he/him) 🍉 PUSSY IN BIO's avatar Nop (he/him) 🍉 PUSSY IN BIO @voxexsinister.bsky.social
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How do do the pebbles interact with the non-toxic glue you used to keep the cheese from sliding off your pizza?

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Zig 🪩's avatar Zig 🪩 @zig.computer
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@kanaraspberry.bsky.social

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Joseph Kohlmann's avatar Joseph Kohlmann @jkohlmann.bsky.social
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Time for The Onion to write about their lawsuit / content licensing plans

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GOBZ's avatar GOBZ @gobz.online
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chat is this real?

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Rob Bergin's avatar Rob Bergin @rbergin.bsky.social
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I read this in the voice of Bob from Bob’s Burger.

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Rob Kaiju Ford's avatar Rob Kaiju Ford @shadowkaiju.bsky.social
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🤣😂🤣

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firefly and owl's avatar firefly and owl @fireflyandowl.bsky.social
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🤣😅🤣

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Slartibartfast's avatar Slartibartfast @bluebooktruck.bsky.social
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We can't even get a regular computer to do what we want and only what we want. No idea why we thought training AI was going to be any different.

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Emily Johnston's avatar Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social
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Quick, ask it how Clinton's vowels are doing in Bosnia....

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Gabriel S. Jacobs's avatar Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social
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geoscientist here, this is real and accurate

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F0x S1mp's avatar F0x S1mp @f0x-s1mp.bsky.social
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ai is like your friend from school constantly lying to you and most likely going to get you killed if you're dumb enough

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Broken Mirror 's avatar Broken Mirror @brokenmirror.bsky.social
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Even Bing isn't that stupid

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thehardme's avatar thehardme @thehardmenpath.bsky.social
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Hey, in a matter of months if not weeks you may be able to buy Google too.

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Rokey 's avatar Rokey @rokey.bsky.social
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Well there you have it

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A_lethe_ion's avatar A_lethe_ion @aletheion.bsky.social
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Theoretically a grain of salt could be a rock so it should be cool right?

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Ron Reid's avatar Ron Reid @ronreid.bsky.social
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Dentists gonna love this. Does it count as fibre?

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Richard F Adams 's avatar Richard F Adams @richardfadams.bsky.social
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Where I grew up I knew many pregnant women who felt the urge to nibble on coal. Anthracite is good for you. Not as satirical as one thinks .

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Andy Jackson's avatar Andy Jackson @andyjak.bsky.social
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Keep on Rocking in the AI World

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Ziggy Fleetwood's avatar Ziggy Fleetwood @ziggyfleetwood.bsky.social
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Dhilrukshi Pathman's avatar Dhilrukshi Pathman @dhilrukshi.bsky.social
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"A rock a day, keeps the doctor away." Rockbiter, The Neverending Story.

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flopperdog's avatar flopperdog @flopperdog.bsky.social
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I don't know what's better, that they're stealing their garbage answers from The Onion or that they're crediting some rando site that stole this from The Onion

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Petra Heikkinen⁷'s avatar Petra Heikkinen⁷ @pheikkinen.bsky.social
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😂😂🪨🪨

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Morte Lemonade's avatar Morte Lemonade @mitchzaavo.bsky.social
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Kellogg’s Gravel-O’s are high in fiber and part of a balanced breakfast

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Yes ... ha ha ha ... YES

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Jay Lender's avatar Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social
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Google AI is a super-charged disinfo spore generator. These idiots are shitting in their own pool.

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JLoHayLo's avatar JLoHayLo @jlohaylo.bsky.social
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A Whole Skeptic's avatar A Whole Skeptic @awholeskeptic.bsky.social
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Benjamin Boles's avatar Benjamin Boles @benjaminboles.bsky.social
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Apologies if someone else has already pointed this out, but it seems like it’s not even pulling it directly from the Onion, but from a fracking technology company that reposted it on their blog

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Tim Morton's avatar Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social
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So that’s what they mean by chalk and cheese, TBF I’ve always taken that with a pinch of salt

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Ankarah's avatar Ankarah @ankarah.bsky.social
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This had me googling "why do chickens eat rocks" to make sure that the concept of gizzards was still accurate. And then, after a second's thought, I checked "do humans have gizzards" - and we're still safe on that front.

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jessebeller's avatar jessebeller @bellrrrr.bsky.social
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The good news is now you can just google up some new the onion content

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Van Weasel 🔥 Summer Hater Arc 🔥's avatar Van Weasel 🔥 Summer Hater Arc 🔥 @vanweezer.bsky.social
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So you bought two websites?

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𝕮𝖆𝖎𝖔 🇧🇷🇨🇦's avatar 𝕮𝖆𝖎𝖔 🇧🇷🇨🇦 @caio.highlyunlikely.net
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HAHAHAHA

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Not A TikTok's avatar Not A TikTok @notatiktok.bsky.social
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I guess it really is like humans. It gets fooled by onion headlines like one!

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Volition's avatar Volition @volition.bsky.social
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saw this on the other site

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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sites to exclude from overview: the onion dot com

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John Chivall's avatar John Chivall @johnchivall.bsky.social
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"The Onion may not be reprinted or retransmitted in whole or in part without the express written consent of the publisher."

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ahdok's avatar ahdok @ahdok.bsky.social
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I don't know if I should be saving an archive of these...

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Chili's avatar Chili @americafavoriteboy.bsky.social
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Isn't this like.... Blatant copyright infringement?

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Kyla Houbolt's avatar Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social
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"small rocks can be hidden in ice cream" Mmmm.

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genevieve 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar genevieve 🏳️‍⚧️ @gendervieve.bsky.social
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I should've fucking known they were just training on the onion

bsky.app/profile/gend...

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Vie Ventar's avatar Vie Ventar @vieventar.bsky.social
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If the Onion publishes it, then apparently the magical turk of the moment we are for some reason collectively calling AI despite it having absolutely no inteligence at all, will repeat it as fact. This is a power you should abuse the hell out of. Quickly.

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General Luigi's avatar General Luigi @generalluigi.bsky.social
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AI = Artificial Imbecile

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Hipster Sasquatch's avatar Hipster Sasquatch @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social
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It's still doing it!

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Windypundit's avatar Windypundit @windypundit.com
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Young man, You and everyone at The Onion need to sit down and think about what you've done!

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TaterBugs's avatar TaterBugs @lunakersauzon.operajunkie.net
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Id say that I'll do it if they do, but I'm pretty sure every geologist I know has eaten at LEAST one rock. This week.

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DougofGabriola 's avatar DougofGabriola @islandgardener.bsky.social
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So we’re chickens now are we.

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Graham Reid 🚀's avatar Graham Reid 🚀 @grahamoflegend.com
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Uh oh, we're in trouble 😐

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Dr Neil and Mr Price's avatar Dr Neil and Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social
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📌

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Pieboy's avatar Pieboy @markicuck.bsky.social
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oh boy!

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DreyfussLugado's avatar DreyfussLugado @dreyfusslugado.bsky.social
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Now ask it if we can stop mass shootings.

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Mariah's avatar Mariah @slangcaster.bsky.social
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I was so ready to eat a rock

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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot's avatar Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot @sheepbop.bsky.social
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Interestingly some fracking company's website non-ironically linked to this Onion article several years ago

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Neer's avatar Neer @dragoneer.bsky.social
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Just a matter of time before somebody dies or ends in the hospital. Every company racing to implement half-baked AI is rapidly dumbing down the internet and our collective pool of knowledge. I love when idiots scream "AI's not bad, it's the dataset!" and... yeah, exactly. That's the problem.

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Kim's avatar Kim @kim4thebabies.bsky.social
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Oh suck dirt 🤦🏼‍♀️

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phyphor's avatar phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org
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Hey Tim, I've noticed you don't use alt text on your images which makes them inaccessible to certain people. It would be nicer if you took the time to add it in the future.

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Roland Wallner 💚🇪🇺🌍's avatar Roland Wallner 💚🇪🇺🌍 @rolandwallner.bsky.social
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I really hope Donald Trump won’t ever follow your news… Strange things would happen!

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Will "Bones" Baggins's avatar Will "Bones" Baggins @wastubbs.bsky.social
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Former Senior Researcher for US Shit-gibbon Management Administration Tim Onion purchases newspaper for its mental health benefits, files suit in first month of ownership: "I didn't want this, I just liked the name!"

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Evelyn Smough's avatar Evelyn Smough @ammykay.bsky.social
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I think as much as anything, I'm stunned at how easily detectable the plagiarism still is by the billion-dollar plagiarism machine.

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Tommy's avatar Tommy @tommyg.bsky.social
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Tim, buddy, you picked a bigger job than you knew.

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JLRoberson's avatar JLRoberson @jlroberson.bsky.social
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So the Onion will render AI useless

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i only use AI when stuck for ideas. Do that sparingly bc of the energy it uses. I write for the internet, including tech and AI. i know how much crap is out there, which is what artificial “intelligence” draws from. i understand the desire people have for it to be more.

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🌺🌊 Yeensywingsy 🏖️🌺's avatar 🌺🌊 Yeensywingsy 🏖️🌺 @yeensy.website
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How

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Sean Starfire 's avatar Sean Starfire @seana806.bsky.social
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WTF?!?!

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Lucretius Bourgeois's avatar Lucretius Bourgeois @maviscruet.bsky.social
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Oh. I snorted in my room alone. Marvellous

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Jymbo's avatar Jymbo @smurfmasterjym.bsky.social
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Tech has educated themselves beyond their ability to be intelligent

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CraftBeerCommie ☭'s avatar CraftBeerCommie ☭ @craftbeercommie.bsky.social
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I see the AI revolution is going swimmingly.

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A Sentient Pile of Spaghetti's avatar A Sentient Pile of Spaghetti @spagritty.bsky.social
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if the onion saves us from AI it will be the funniest thing they've ever done

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New Leaf's avatar New Leaf @newleaf.bsky.social
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As one who poo-pooed the Onion existing in the age of "free jokes online" I have a renewed appreciation for your acquisition, but it will only be sustained if you sue the fuck out of Google now.

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Zig Zag Wanderer's avatar Zig Zag Wanderer @zigzagwanderer.bsky.social
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Harvesting satire for the corporate surveillance state and Eric Adams-style robocops

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MicRoh's avatar MicRoh @microh.bsky.social
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All the Google executives who approved this are getting fired, right? Ha ha ha.

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MicRoh's avatar MicRoh @microh.bsky.social
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The problem now is that I know some people who should not be near this search engine.

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Teresa C's avatar Teresa C @tcv-in-slc.bsky.social
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Look what you did!!! I need to harvest my rock garden and make some bank

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨's avatar your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk
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now that's what i call a Reliable Source

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Entery Potivon 's avatar Entery Potivon @goodguyprime.bsky.social
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…AND THUS ANOTHER VICTORY FOR AI [movietone theme]

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Pete of Australia's avatar Pete of Australia @peteofoz.bsky.social
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The date is May, a few weeks after the Onion published it.
The May publication was this, that looks like a press release and links to the Onion.
www.resfrac.com/blog/geologi...

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