The Bear Den

honest to god the nostalgebraist autoresponder was a better and more effective use of generative AI than what 90% of these giant tech companies are doing with it and it's not even close. like it had a purpose (entertain Tumblr users) which it succeeded at pretty consistently, an extremely low bar that no big budget AI product I've seen so far has managed to clear. like it blows my mind that a niche internet microcelebrity on goddamn tumblr pulled off a better and more effective implementation of this technology than any major tech company years before said tech giants made it a household topic. the wealthiest and most powerful companies in the world got outdid on this by a fucking Homestuck they should all be living in shame

Considering that, so far, the only two works to come out of the entire field of AI "art" that have had any lasting cultural impact are We Are Charlie Kirk (ironically memed into ubiquity) and Tung Tung Tung Sahur (complete gibberish from jump) I'm convinced the only true utility of this technology is shitposting

You have to watch the dosage.

You have to watch the dosage.

People get made fun of for being scared of aging but it comes from the very real fear of being discarded by society that’s why i always say the goal is not to never become old or disabled the future comes for us all the goal is better social policy

It's fascinating (and infuriating) to live in an age where almost everyone I know is languishing in Dickensian poverty but social media is slap full of professional-managerial computer-touchers who've never known hunger insisting that the economy is fine because their metrics say rich people are still rich.

the music made this one of the most hilarious things i have ever seen, thank you so much.

GJJGJRKGNH THE MUSIC GOES UNDERWATER WITH THE TURTLE

sound on sound on sound on

I just love love love that there’s a guy wandering about Dungeon Meshi going, ‘but what are the socioeconomic and geopolitical consequences of this fantasy quest adventure, both while it’s ongoing and after its inevitable completion?! The skillset required to find and kill a Mad Mage is different than that required to responsibly, benevolently and effectively rule a kingdom. I personally must either find a good candidate, somehow make one, or, most likely, take on the whole Mageslayer/King role myself.” Except he doesn’t have the first skillset, and his whole party keeps dying while these highly competent chucklefucks wander past, kill and eat the monster, and save their bodies for the nth time. Kabru would demand to know if Aragorn is familiar with Gondorin tax law. His isekai energy is off the charts, because this is all exactly what I would do if dropped into a fantasy quest adventure, right down to repeatedly dying due to not actually being suited to the genre conventions.