Having a face on them is one thing. Sometimes the person is the subject of the video, and it’s worth highlighting that in the video.

Having the person making the video staring at the camera, in a pose that says “look at how attractive I am” is another.

Also, this is not as hard and fast as you make it out. Here, I’ll post some random examples in my feed:

• No face
• Indirect faces for a video game
• No face
• Face looking away, subject of video
• Not really faces
• Faces from video game subject
• Staring directly at the camera to make it look like some serious meta video, when it’s really an April Fool’s joke (this is the exception that proves how ridiculous it is)
• No face
• Faces, but the main focus of the video

In fact, I had to dig to find videos that would really qualify:

• Two faces staring into the camera, but they are properly framed and surrounded by the subject of the video
• Reaction shot face, but at least it’s not taking up the entire frame
• Mutahar’s mug behind his junky desk, but that’s all of his videos and I wished he put more effort into his thumbnails and presentation

Even (most) of the female YouTubers on my feed aren’t falling for it:

• Earlybird
• Maangchi
• Pushing Up Roses, besides the occasion “reaction face”
• CrystAAHHL, just to show that I’m not cherry-picking, yes, she does the reaction face way too much

Meanwhile, LaurieWired’s entire catalogue is “look how attractive my face is!” This one doesn’t even have the subject in the thumbnail! It’s just her walking in a park. Also, what’s up with her videos from two years ago? Did she completely change her makeup style just to look more attractive in thumbnails?

All of her thumbnails are literally:

The fascists’ weakness is their extreme overconfidence in everything they do.

Yes, but how does this connect together? I don’t believe for a minute that it’s coincidence.

I’m curious to know the connections between this and Collective Shout.

Gee, I wonder why.

That’s the thing. It’s easy to make something that obviously looks like AI. Slop is slop because it’s lazy and takes five minutes to make. Corpos love slop because they always want to take the minimum time possible to make anything.

However, with a bit more effort, you can make something that doesn’t look like AI at all, and still took less time to make than doing it manually.

With all of this boundary setting, people are just going to hide it better. More hostility just means less transparency. It’s already happening.

I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.

Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?

I prefer radiation therapy.

That is $375M to a single person.

Wrong, this was state-initiated consumer protection enforcement action by the state of New Mexico. How those funds get distributed is up to the state government.

Violence doesn’t solve core problems you dangerous idiot.

Then, tell me, what’s the next step after protests that do nothing and failing to convince cult-programmed individuals to vote correctly?

ordered to pay $375m by a New Mexico court.

Meta total assets: US$366 billion (2025)… with a fucking B

I’m sorry, which big tech company is brought to who’s heel?

You were the one suggesting that all of human art could be compressed into a file that could easily fit on a USB stick:

AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

These are your words.

The difference between art and AI is AI is a lossy compression algorithm used to steal human art in a legally defensible way.

If we can compress the entirety of human art, music, literature made by billions of people into the size of a 4-10 GB model, at around 1 person per byte, then we must have not been very creative in the first place.

Remember when Pixar and DreamWorks destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in order to erect enormous Gray boxes filled with computers that run complex operations 24/7, consuming massive amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water, leading to unmitigated pollution; not to mention political corruption, global surveillance, rolling back privacy protections, and economic gangsterism that hasn’t been seen in 100 years?

You act like data centers are a new concept that was invented in the 2020s. We’ve had data centers even before we had the Internet.

Rich assholes make those kind of decisions to pump trillions into AI pipe dreams, just like the rich assholes who run Hollywood.

The fact that we find ourselves in these patterns over and over shows that the ruling class has learned to fuck us in a way so that we complain but not actually try to do anything to change society. Which shows the lack of actual freedom we have in order to live by our actual human impulses.

That’s because we’re too scared to project violence to solve the core problems. The best we have is useless protests that don’t sway psychopaths, because psychopaths don’t have feelings.

Remember when the world shat on CGI endlessly 25 years ago?

It’s like all of this is the fault of a pattern of human nature, instead of one specific technology.

We didn’t need AI for the Hollywood slop. It’s already in the streaming services. Miles and miles of terrible movies with glowing 8.5 scores (according to their own rating systems).

Meanwhile…

Dylan’s words in the PR:

After reading the bill text, this is the conclusion I came to - arch install is an OS installer, the law asks for users to provide birth date when installing an OS. Is that going to be hilariously pointless and ineffective? Yes.

I feel like he’s getting ahead of the work as a matter-of-fact. In other words, the law passed, Arch is used by Californians, they need measures to make sure they’re not breaking the law.

I don’t think protest even falls into it with these kind of people, even though a majority of us would jump on the chance to actively protest this law and these changes. I personally cannot wait to have this shit throw at me at the next Linux upgrade, just to pull something like what Ageless Linux does against it.

That’s why I was vehemently opposed to the hit piece that was attacking this guy personally, by a shit blogger who I will forever blacklist. Also, fuck the mod who submitted that hit piece to Lemmy.