Which makes it even harder, as the dictionary definitions may suggest that they’re still used that way in popular usage. I haven’t heard “incredible” used negatively or neutrally (except ironically) in my entire life, which did begin in the 20th century.

I figured, which is the only reason I mentioned it!

Given the context, it seemed like the intent was different than simply “to a large extent”

“incredible” is not usually used to mean “not credible” (or “not believable”) in English. It usually means “really good”. I’d go with “unbelievable” or “insane”, personally.

This might just be a North American thing though.

… especially the ones “of African descent” or from Africa must be what they’re going for?

They should’ve just made the topic more obvious. I don’t have a problem if people want to have a circlejerk around hating AI, even in this community, but make it clear that’s what it is.

“Should we be calling it something worse than “AI slop”?”

Then everybody who’s into that kind of fun will join, and anybody who’s not interested can move on, lol

Yes, I get that. As I said…

while the parallels in outcomes exist, the parallels in justifications are completely absent.

I can be much more sympathetic to the people in Africa who don’t necessarily have the same access to information and education when compared to people in the US.

After reading the earlier comment, it makes sense (aka. I can understand the justification) why Ebola centres are being attacked, given the scope of what they experienced in prior epidemics.

What doesn’t make sense is how there are so many delusional Americans. They didn’t experience anything like half of their families being snatched from homes and never coming back even as a corpse.

I didn’t miss it. I just think that while the parallels in outcomes exist, the parallels in justifications are completely absent.

I very much appreciated your original comment though. It helped contextualize the pushback in African countries against Ebola aid. But the pushback against pandemic measures in the US don’t make any sense to me, even after reading your comment.

We also got Rush, Reboot, and Kim’s Convenience?

Or if you’re in the US, you refuse to take a vaccine because it’s going to allow the government to track you, and if you feel sick you swallow bunches of horse paste and you defy orders not to go to church because it’s your town, your church, and you’ll be damned if you let those bastards in Washington break your community with some fake disease like covid.

I don’t recall all that other stuff happening during covid, like the government abducting a bunch of people and you couldn’t get the corpse back from the half of them that died…

It’s easier to excuse ignorance when we’re talking about people who don’t have access to a wealth of information at their fingertips (or even within an hour’s drive) available at all times.

I feel like this is another example of a topic title with a different question than the body.

I interpreted the title ask asking something like whether “AI slop” is good enough. Or asking if “AI slop” is where the technology peaks. (As in, is AI slop enough, or can we do more with AI models?)

I paid attention to this and I’m in Canada

I’ve been seeing “one every century or so” rainfalls about yearly. Sometimes more than once a year.

It’s a lot easier to make yourself warmer, especially with modern technologies, than it is to make yourself cooler.

Parts of the Earth are nearing (or passing at times) the temperature at which air conditioning stops working.

I can’t recall what part of India she is from specifically.

A wealthy part would be my guess!

Our best case scenario is that we survive and get something like a worldwide Glass-Steagall act that prevents investment banks from also being retail banks.

Why would it be a good thing to separate retail banks and investment banks?

Most people who work for evil companies aren’t doing evil things. A lot of the workers also actively try to do their best to make things better for their colleagues or customers. But they don’t make the decisions.

There’s also lots of “passive sabotage/subterfuge” – think of the scene in the original The Incredibles film where Mr. Incredible tells the claimant what she ACTUALLY has to do to get her insurance claim covered.

What is Calum’s List about? Google’s AI suggested it’s a list and site maintained to commemorate people who died due to welfare cuts?

I tried reading the sites you linked, but they seem to be blogs that don’t give a good overview

EDIT: Ah, the website confirms it. I didn’t see it at first due to its garish design choices. Seems like they say it’s 60 people though

If joining the EU makes Canada less neoliberal, then please let us in!