How AI is going: I googled “they pay me in woims” looking for this Nancy panel and the third result was a straightfaced SEO article called “They Pay Me In Woims: The Truth About This Bizarre Form Of Payment”
I tried a prompt - "a kid wearing white pants, a white shirt and a black jacket with a white hat. He's holding a bucket of worms with a text bubble that says 'they pay me in woims.'" And this is what I got
Old Nancy is hosted on gocomics.com if you felt up to digging through the archives. The pants Nancy is wearing looks Bushmill-era - she wore those as snowpants, I think.
What’s annoying is it sits in an uncanny valley that makes me question all content. Some people don’t write well but still have a point if you read through it. Now I suspect anyone that loses the narrative thread or mixes metaphors of being ai and all content becomes just a little more pointless
It seems like a bizarre mix of cryptocurrency and actual worms
What is great is that it perfectly showcases how AIs are unable to understand context at all, or just unable to understand (because you know, it's a machine)
It's too weird for reality. I got an email this morning (straight to the SPAM folder, ofc).
"Open Now: Ride the Bitcoin Wave, Transform Your Dentistry with OpenAI ChatGPT. Your Chance Has Arrived!"
They are burning up a planet for this?
this is kind of incredible though, just as a scam; they must be building a mechanism to procedurally create fake looking articles based on searches, right? This essentially has to be fully automated, no human being would authorize this.
This is so negligent. Why are they letting shit like this get published online when there’s no one ensuring quality. It’s just filling up search results as a waste of space. making it harder and harder to find quality information on more niche subjects too. Gods help us in the coming dark age
I think we're approaching a period where Google stops being a provider of information at all, and the sell becomes a kind of tourism for these computer generated articles.
Sorry for the tangent, but what’s the term for this kind of spelling that renders different accents like this? Is it sight dialect, or am I making that up/having a stroke?
“woims can also be used to obtain experiences and opportunities that would otherwise be difficult to access. For example, an adventurous individual might trade a jar of woims for a guided tour of a hidden hiking trail known only to locals.”
Woims - everywhere you want to be
SEO shit flooding every search engine is making me straight up turn into the fucking joker. Decades of curating a massive, powerful collection of all the world's knowledge drowned out by shitheads vying for that 3-cent ad revenue click. The most extreme example of "boring dystopia" out there.
Making me think maybe we need some sort of signed tag we can add to sites to indicate that the content is entirely human-generated, which can be revoked if violations are detected. Then I can tell my browser to ignore any site without the tag.
This is why ad revenue shouldn't be a thing. Make all advertisements illegal. All websites should be like PBS. That would probably kill most clickbait or shit like this.
I don't care if this is too extreme or unrealistic. I just don't think ads should exist.
it goes without saying that all their cover pictures are AI-generated too; here's one where they made it draw a charizard www.ownyourownfuture.com/is-the-chari...
Why does an increasing amount of businss articles about paying for goods always end up going to bartering, and then taking a hard U-turn back to "but capitalism tho" right before the end zone?
That's excellent hiking advice, as well. The Boy Scouts consider a jar of woims one the Ten Essentials for camping, along with a compass, a flashlight, and a bucket of boids.
Does this mean that these seo articles are being created on the fly as soon as the query is typed or that there has been a measurable search influx for "they pay me in woims"?
every day I’m bummed out that AI is being pushed for commercial purposes instead of shitpost generators, “Woims as Experiences and Opportunities” is so good otherwise