Dear Fediverse, thank you for being a safe haven from AI slop.
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#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena people buys trash. Even in bad economy times
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I left Pinterest for the same reason. Even with turning off AI, it was just disgusting. I used it to find patterns, home inspiration etc, but everything is slop now. Disgusting.
@sylvia @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I went back to Pinterest this morning just out of curiosity since tuning my feed and... they're using gen AI for photos of clothes too now? What's the point?!?!!!!!!! Pinterest = truly dead to me
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 You can trust my work and photos. No AI crapola from my cameras. All photos created with practical effects and technique, just the way they God and Saint Kodak and Mother Mary Nikon did declare.
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#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena LOL, are you kidding, right? Right? 🤪
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@sylvia @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I went back to Pinterest this morning just out of curiosity since tuning my feed and... they're using gen AI for photos of clothes too now? What's the point?!?!!!!!!! Pinterest = truly dead to me
it's really barely usable anymore. Search for interior or cabins or gardens - it's a mess. Pinterest has become an AI slop spreader to other platforms like tumblr as well.
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#AIslop part 3: follow the money
Last night I did a reverse image search for that awful AI-generated illustration of NYC that I had seen on Pinterest... I couldn't find it anymore in my feed and I was curious to see where it was leading... what was the whole point behind it.
Well it lead to... a popular Etsy shop! Someone is creating city illustrations with generative AI and selling digital downloads of them. At 5 dollars a pop.
One of the reviewers wrote: "exactly what I was looking for!" 💀
@_elena The only thing that's missing is that someone Tags AI Slop with an NFT and sells a link to an AI generated image to a crypto-trading-bot.
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@_elena LOL, are you kidding, right? Right? 🤪
@jan I wish! The buyers have no clue it’s all AI generated 😭
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@sylvia @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 I went back to Pinterest this morning just out of curiosity since tuning my feed and... they're using gen AI for photos of clothes too now? What's the point?!?!!!!!!! Pinterest = truly dead to me
@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 That is just ridiculous! Don’t they know they are killing Pinterest?
Etsy is getting worse too.
I was watching a video by a woman who bought sewing patterns on Etsy. It was ALL Ai.
She had a big problem noticing from the ad what was real and what was slop.
Now she intentionally bought obvious AI patterns because she wanted to show how bad they were, but others have no idea that patterns are all stolen and jumbled together in a mess.
The sad thing is that this kills creativity. This kills small businesses whose patterns were stolen by ai to manufacture slop.
When the bubble bursts, and it will because eventually investors will see it’s melting away their money, it will be brutal.
A new generation of creatives has already been ruined. A lot of small businesses in the creative field will have folded. A lot of writers will have drowned in a sea of ai slop flooding the markets.
It’s brutal. This is why having your own websites right now is so essential.
And yes, even with the knowledge that AI will steal all you put on there. I hope it chokes their machines.
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it's really barely usable anymore. Search for interior or cabins or gardens - it's a mess. Pinterest has become an AI slop spreader to other platforms like tumblr as well.
@sturmsucht that’s so sad 😭 my heart goes out to creatives that relied on it for inspiration and/or exposure.
I wonder what people inside the company think about this devolution…
Disclaimer: I had (well have) a popular camera board on Pinterest (36k followers) and I was even invited by the company in 2017 to do a presentation at their London office. Those were the days…
Now I don’t dare add new pins to it in case they are AI slop 😩
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@_elena The only thing that's missing is that someone Tags AI Slop with an NFT and sells a link to an AI generated image to a crypto-trading-bot.
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@sturmsucht that’s so sad 😭 my heart goes out to creatives that relied on it for inspiration and/or exposure.
I wonder what people inside the company think about this devolution…
Disclaimer: I had (well have) a popular camera board on Pinterest (36k followers) and I was even invited by the company in 2017 to do a presentation at their London office. Those were the days…
Now I don’t dare add new pins to it in case they are AI slop 😩
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@_elena @bookstardust @lefteristrip23 That is just ridiculous! Don’t they know they are killing Pinterest?
Etsy is getting worse too.
I was watching a video by a woman who bought sewing patterns on Etsy. It was ALL Ai.
She had a big problem noticing from the ad what was real and what was slop.
Now she intentionally bought obvious AI patterns because she wanted to show how bad they were, but others have no idea that patterns are all stolen and jumbled together in a mess.
The sad thing is that this kills creativity. This kills small businesses whose patterns were stolen by ai to manufacture slop.
When the bubble bursts, and it will because eventually investors will see it’s melting away their money, it will be brutal.
A new generation of creatives has already been ruined. A lot of small businesses in the creative field will have folded. A lot of writers will have drowned in a sea of ai slop flooding the markets.
It’s brutal. This is why having your own websites right now is so essential.
And yes, even with the knowledge that AI will steal all you put on there. I hope it chokes their machines.
@sylvia it's so sad indeed. Initially I thought: if I worked at Pinterest, I would book an emergency company meeting to brainstorm ideas about how to deal with this... and the resulting exodus of real users.
Yes they did create a filter to turn off AI gen images (but only on desktop).
Thing is, when you report a pin, there is a long list of reasons... but not gen AI. I ultimately think they just don't care... they may see any content upload as a good thing 😭
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"Sarà anche un figlio di puttana, ma è il nostro figlio di puttana"
( frase attribuita a Franklin Delano Roosevelt sul dittatore nicaraguense Anastasio Somoza Garcia )
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proxmox (prima usavo virtualbox), mi serve per avere (ancora) più computer a casa, quello, mi vergogno a dirlo, è il mobile basso di fianco alla tv.
Non tutte le vm (sono un po vecchia scuola, non amo i container lxc) dentro il mio proxmox hanno bisogno di essere esposte su internet, o sul web.
Alcune sono servizi locali.
Per dire, una è una installazione di win10, una è un proxy squid locale, una è pihole.In pratica
- sul router di casa apro determinate porte, verso determinati ip di rete locale che possono anche essere su proxmox (--> per esempio il server per collegarsi in vpn da fuori)- sul router le porte 80/443 mandano a un server nginx locale centrale, che a seconda del vhost/dominio interrogato --> redirige il traffico sui vari ip locali
Come del resto immagino faccia un server yunohost ospitato in cloud se cominci a installarci sopra mastodon, pixelfed, nextcloud
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@sylvia it's so sad indeed. Initially I thought: if I worked at Pinterest, I would book an emergency company meeting to brainstorm ideas about how to deal with this... and the resulting exodus of real users.
Yes they did create a filter to turn off AI gen images (but only on desktop).
Thing is, when you report a pin, there is a long list of reasons... but not gen AI. I ultimately think they just don't care... they may see any content upload as a good thing 😭
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Idraulici polacchi, panettieri francesi e barriere nazionali
Nella Ue, le norme nazionali ostacolano la libera concorrenza nel vasto e complesso settore dei servizi. Queste sono le barriere interne alla crescita, e incolparne la Commissione è da furbastri
https://phastidio.net/2025/12/09/idraulici-polacchi-panettieri-francesi-e-barriere-nazionali/
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@nanianmichaels @luca grazie mille! Scrivo in italiano perché il mio inglese deve essere peggio del tuo italiano.
Pangolin non lo conoscevo, vedo se non è troppo complesso per me. 🙏
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Fu questa la ragione che fece fallire il primo tentativo di rendez vous nella storia, compiuto dall’astronauta americano Jim McDivitt nella missione Gemini 4.
Per avvicinarsi a un veicolo spaziale posto davanti a lui, l’astronauta deve invece diminuire la velocità del suo veicolo, in modo da scendere su un’orbita leggermente più bassa, cioè più corta e più veloce, e poi gradualmente tornare su quella originaria.
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Così facendo spingerebbe il veicolo su un’orbita più alta e di conseguenza più lenta, perché formata da una circonferenza più ampia: per esempio un’orbita a 400 km richiede 92 minuti per fare un giro completo, mentre un’orbita a 600 km ne richiede 96. In altre parole, se aumentasse la velocità si allontanerebbe dall’obiettivo, invece di avvicinarsi.
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Mentre il pilota di un aereo che voglia avvicinare un aereo posto davanti a lui deve solo aumentare la spinta dei motori, un astronauta che facesse la stessa cosa otterrebbe il risultato opposto a quello desiderato.
