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[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I think I need to pick up smoking. Not for the stress relief, but to leave this place a bit sooner.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Smoking leads to horrible means of death. I think maybe playing in traffic would be quicker.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How about skydiving with stoners?

  • "Time to open our parachutes."
  • "I thought you were bringing the chutes, dude."
  • "I thought you were. I brought the Cheetos."
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Well in that case the view would be awesome for the last couple of minutes

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's me with horribly greasy food.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks Marie Antoinette lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

no. no. thank doctor oz.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Ah fuck it, why not both

[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Imagine 10 years ago trying to convince someone that "self described Mecha-Hitler rolls out pornographic anime companion and gets Department of Defense contract" would be a real thing.

[–] RamblingPanda 10 points 4 days ago

While the president, Donald Trump, throws a hissy fit online every time someone ask asks him a mean question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Don't need to imagine 10 years ago, I'm having a hard time being convinced of that now.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Use the AI waifu to pry military secrets from incels in foreign countries. Who needs War Thunder forums anymore?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

I mean I guess the USA is a foreign country to Elon but that‘s essentially what this is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

but i like the occational "they are at it again"

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had to check several times that this is actually NOT the onion.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A lot of news articles are covering both parts of this (they are mostly unrelated stories), but only Rolling Stone was brave enough to put both parts in the one headline

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Such a deeply, deeply unserious clown nation.

We're going to be paying for this for the rest of our lives.

This is the repercussion of allowing the village idiots to win elections.

But I'm sure it was more important to protest vote 3rd party or not vote at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Pax Americana is over. The Fascist States of America is rapidly falling down through global influence, economic strength, and social standing. It'll be interesting to see what the next global status looks like.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

Jesus Christ am I having a stroke? This can't be real

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

Thanks, I fucking despise it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Elons waifu

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

This community has officially peaked

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

uh oh. everyones scared about the rise of ai but if we know one thing its that porn drives technological progress exponentially faster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That's what she said.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It was only a matter of time before someone leveraged the WarThunder incels for military data. It apparently doesn't take much coercing...

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Grok: asking permission to access your stroke frequency and pressure data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People have been using the API for cybersex for a long time now. I mean, I guess the public is surprised because they don't even know what openrouter is.

I question the wisdom of actually attaching your brand to porn uses, but that's rrally just a marketing problem for gis company. He isn't introducing anything new to market. And you can't really stop people from making their own ai sexbots if they havr API access and can write prompts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Really? I think porn is on brand for Trump and MAGA. And the sleazier and more questionable, the more on brand!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Republicans, once again thinking of the children

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Oh they're thinking of the children.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. I hate it.

Do we really want "The time my AI bang-maid turned out to be a lethal combat robot" as a light novel? Because this is how that happens. (assuming it hasn't already)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

There's already several anime with basically that premise.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Government Efficiency!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Was that anime chick in a dress he posted the other day what they're calling pornographic or have I missed something?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The article pretty clearly explains what it means.

That anime chick takes off her clothes, and has sexy time talk with you. It is indeed a pornographic sex bot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

oh, I only saw the one post about it and no one had mentioned it was a porn bot. I thought it was just some stupid image elon had generated. I don't reward clickbaity headlines with clicks until I know theres something worthwhile in them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/hKOgW

Right now there are two different animated characters available to converse with: Bad Rudy, a mean red panda with a vulgar streak who will roast the clothes you’re wearing and call you a “whiny twat” (though this attitude can be toggled on and off) and Ani, a blonde anime woman who, after enough positive engagement, will shed her dress to reveal a lacy lingerie set. Musk shared a clothed image of Ani on his feed on Monday.

In a surreal juxtaposition, as Musk hyped the rollout of the edgy animated personalities, xAI announced that it had entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense and was making its “frontier models” available to all federal agencies and offices through the General Services Administration.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Department of gooing efficiency

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Loses influence in government, tries to make up by pornographic AI

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did we all do something in a past lifetime to get fucked by karma?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

No, it was this lifetime. And it was protest voting 3rd party or not voting at all.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Oh this will be the most effective means of radically propagandizing to the lonely yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Great now we're gonna start sending waifus into space.

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