lemmy/piefed have been getting a surge of users from reddit. i can’t imagine algorithmic brainrot fades overnight.

why is _______ becoming so expensive? the answer is found in ai

diagnosis: orange

neuro-sama

very

owWOWOWO what a coinkidink, how do we fix this mr thiel?

this image has set my neurons ablaze

this after literally just saying he wants to wind down on troth sential?

excellent

not looking back, and with the macbook neo there’s gonna be a lot more people leaving.

op turned out to be a bot lol

centralized social media

well shit, first writing hit pieces, now this.

“if you’re gonna be the bitch, be the whole bitch”

i believe the only path for tariffs now involves congress (as it should), and i doubt congress wants to do this song and dance again, these companies that were affected are big donors afterall.

your cat is illegally smol if it fits inside of ankle socks.

didn’t you know the universal law of cats?

if i fits, i sits.

the pharaoh

eyyyyy, shameless self-promo, but i made a community a couple days ago called !politicaloptimism@piefed.social

i’m a little nervous about bringing this up since i’m the one of the only people active there right now, but we have a “Seeking Optimism” flair for people who are concerned about things and want assurance for the most sensational narratives over what’s happening.

i was a vocal synth nerd before i was a fedi/foss nerd. we’ve been doing ai since before the ai bubble, and i think vocal synths are a good example of ethical ai.

vocal synths are still a creative tool where you compose the music, lyrics and expression yourself, but the ai engine makes the voice more realistic sounding. you purchase “voice banks” which are effectively training data for a single voice and this voice bank comes from a “voice provider” who is a paid singer that will record samples for the vocal synth engine. a lot of voice providers request to have the voice bank “characterized” to sound different from themselves, and the vocal synth company will do so. compare KAF to KAFU CEVIO.

this is a process based entirely on consent, something openai and the rest of them lack, they just send out an army of scrapers to take anything and everything they can get their hands on, consent be damned.

actually speaking of KAF, i was excited because KAFU was coming to synth v, since i don’t have CEVIO (and don’t speak japanese). but unfortunately, KAFU SV was cancelled because the synth v ai engine made her sound too much like herself, and most likely they couldn’t modify the voice bank to sound differently enough and they cancelled it. at least, that’s the prevailing theory.