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[–] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

No book reader would store their books like that you fucking moron. They'd have as many as they could fit crammed in there. Maybe if you actually read more you wouldn't need AI to do your thinking for you.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    That's so you can tell at a glance what an interesting and quirky person they are!

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  • [–] 143 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    "You can ask chatgpt how to wipe your ass since you're unable to think for yourself."

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Justine's bookshelf is a boring person's bookshelf. AI makes you boring.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    That's just a shotgun blast of random books.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    fill the shelves based on what it knows about you

    The results on her shelves:

    • Do you struggle to be creative?

    • How to steal art

    • EXTREMELY ONLINE

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  • [–] 87 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Oh wow, that's so cool. Definitely worth the $2 trillion spent on AI so far.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Also the knock off effects like computer parts quadrupling in price, the ecological damage, fucking over local power grids, and speed running propaganda.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I've seen billboards saying "many new datacenters are designed to reuse water" like... OK? that's ONE aspect of it. you're still installing natural gas turbines and diesel generators and taking enormous amounts of electricity...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago

    Not to mention 'many' is vague and probably doesn't apply to the one who paid for the billboard or it would say which one. It is like having a sign that says 'many chefs wash their hands'.

    Cool, but the one roght here is the most important one to me at this moment.

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  • Why though? I genuinely don't know what the use case is here. If you have a bookshelf it already has your books on it, you could take a photo of that. If you wanted a list of book recommendations, a text list would be more useful.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 days ago

    "we swear we didn't train on copyrighted works but for pure coincidence we can generate an exact copy of the cover of such copyrighted work"

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  • [–] 72 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    That's uh, not how you fill a bookshelf

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    [–] 54 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    This is less meaningful than filling bookshelves in Skyrim.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Is there a Venn diagram for people who are into Ai like this and people who go to strip clubs and think the stripper is "into" them?

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  • [–] 30 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    Also, most books are not presented on bookshelves like that. Spine out, usually.

    And like, why have to take a picture of an empty bookshelf? Just have your slop machine generate the shelf too

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  • [–] 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    You can tell she outsources all of her brain activity to ChatGPT just from her not questioning the placement of books.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago

    What kind of person puts a recipe book on a bookshelf in the first place. Or a coffee table book? Can you imagine asking a friend for book recommendations and they suggest a cookbook? What about an interior design look book?

    I'm not saying a friend should never suggest these kinds of books, but if I asked a friend to "fill my bookshelf" and they suggested those I would be confused. Also, steal like an artist being present is the ultimate irony.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    These are just marketable books, which makes sense for statistical model blob.

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    [–] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Don't we already have perfectly good recommendation algorithms? Not to mention the more social alternative of asking for recommendations...

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    [–] 19 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Absolutely devastating to have "Extremely Online" on the list.

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    [–] 9 points 2 days ago

    I read this a bit differently. How much does the AI agent actually know about me? It probably has internal directives to not disclose exactly how much information it - or the parent company- has profiled, but prompts like this might be a workaround to learning how much they've really got on me.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago

    Best new relationship I've formed this year is with my local bookstores owner. She knows what I've been reading and we talk about what I'm looking for. My favorite books I've read recently have come from her. Humans > machines

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago

    Wow! I guess AI was worth all that water!

    ...seriously, what's the point of making it an image aside from posting a (probably unpaid!) ad on Twitter?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago

    Generating a list of books isn't hard or impressive. Taking the known cover art for those books and displaying it in a layout doesn't require fancy ai either.

    Also not sure why you'd want this beyond just the list

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