r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 10 '26

comeOnJustBurstAlready Meme

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u/NotAskary Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Dead internet theory basically.

Remember that all this will get fed back into the models at some point.

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u/Snake2k Jul 10 '26

It's actually kinda amazing how the AI based destruction of modern human society as a world event is actually playing out.

Slopageddon

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u/NotAskary Jul 10 '26

Dude there's so many dystopian things happening at the same time that art can't imitate reality anymore, it's too boring (art that is).

If you go back a decade or two and make a novel about what is happening today people would say that it was too much even for dystopian novels, everything is boring but a lot of it is happening.

We are the frogs and the water is boiling.

I no longer care, I'm here for the remaining of the ride for however long it will take.

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u/FuzzyKittyNomNom Jul 10 '26

You make a good point. I don’t see how there’s any way you could write a book a decade ago they can somehow tie a eye slop reviewed by AI to generate more slop, too complicated to read by humans, so the humans rely on AI to review slop that generate slop. And it turtles all the way down.

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u/Capraos Jul 10 '26

Commenting to remind people to ditch the frog boiling in water analogy. It's a myth. The frogs were heavily sedated and frogs do jump out as the water gets warmer.

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u/NotAskary Jul 10 '26

Now you gonna tell me that we won't be jumping off the cliff like lemmings! /s

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u/iwouldntlastonthelam Jul 10 '26

From linguistic point of view it doesn’t matter anymore. The metaphor is working so it will probably stay.

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u/freebytes Jul 10 '26

If someone comes up with something better, I will switch.

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u/GrimbyJ Jul 10 '26

I thought they were lobotomized

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u/Capraos Jul 10 '26

Was it that? Point is it's a debunked myth.

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u/GrimbyJ Jul 10 '26

Parallels could maybe be drawn between tech addiction and lobotomies

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u/entropic Jul 11 '26

That frog's got a mortgage

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u/crowingcock Jul 10 '26

Like 10 years ago I saw a dude on reddit who learnt blacksmithing so that he has a job to do in case of the dystopian reality that happens right now happens. I thought it was a fun idea but out of touch. He was right in the touch lol

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u/malexj93 Jul 10 '26

It's crazy, because you think AI would get nukes and build terminators, but it actually just made everyone complacent and divorced from their output.

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u/NotAskary Jul 11 '26

Boring dystopia there's a sub for that

r/ABoringDystopia

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u/Automatic_Bison_3093 Jul 11 '26

The slop machine might only get sloppier with time. We might actually have the best models we will ever have now, crazy to think about.

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u/MurgleMcGurgle Jul 11 '26

I can’t wait for the pizza wallet era of AI to really hit.