On 2025-09-14 12:49 a.m., The Horny Goat wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:54:27 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

The New Zealand government are jumping on the badwagon and has just
announced a load of new subjects that will be offered in high school,
including AI courses where students can learn how to use them, how they
work, etc. :-\

(One of the other new course is some stupidity called "Further
Mathematics", whatever that means! There are already various
mathematics courses.)

As someone whose undergraduate degree is in math one has to wonder
what that means. I know what my 4th year courses were like and I'm
pretty sure that sort of thing won't be taught via an AI driven high
school class.

I wonder if "Further Mathematics" is that woke nonsense that says 1+1
doesn't actually equal 2 because that's just a construct of the
patriarchy. Or maybe it's the "other ways of knowing" that indigenous
people are supposed to be endowed with?

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Rhino

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thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

This is a horrible development. Stupid crap like this was a plague even
when people had to learn something to do it. Now that they can just tell
an AI to do it, it'll be everywhere. YouTube is already swimming in this >slop.

Yeah, I recently encountered a series of YouTube vids featuring that famous Japanese-ish physicist talking about 3i/ATLAS that turned out to be an AI creation. I got suspicious because it looked like he was using a cheap web
cam and I found it hard to believe he had gone "Neil DeGrass Tyson" on us,
even though it seemed to be from something NASA adjacent.

I ended up reporting them and they got yanked.

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On 2025-11-20 06:34:52 +0000, Pluted Pup said:

On 9/12/25 7:45 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <e3t6ck1qgelr1ea1rmuqgf0sgtssfasulb@4ax.com>, did
nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com deliver unto us this message:

So some friends of mine have been sending me these music videos being
made via AI. While they are not perfect they are still not bad.

This is a horrible development. Stupid crap like this was a plague even
when people had to learn something to do it. Now that they can just tell
an AI to do it, it'll be everywhere. YouTube is already swimming in this
slop.

I haven't found anywhere the parameters spelled out in any of the "made
by AI" videos. If they were actually produced by AI anybody else who entered the same parameters would create the same video and would be
free to change the video.

AI basically only produces random crap. You could enter the same
parameters a million times and get a million different results ... and
all utter garbage.

I suspect that public relations of the AI companies push these videos
of unknown origin, perhaps fishing for investor dollars.

With this, actors have no control over what they appear in. People have
already made pornos with celebrities swapped in.

Actors are supposed to have rights to their names and likenesses. If
enough actors file strikes against this crap, maybe it'll help.

What's really needed, though, is a technological solution.

Counter-AI is like counter-surveillance, something completely ignored
by the tech hypes.

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