"Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide"

*weary motherfucking sigh*

I mean, it wasn't like humans weren't already doing a bang-up job of spreading disinformation even before LLM became a thing. It's a big part of how and why Trump became president in 2016, after all, for one thing. It's just that LLM makes it ever so much easier to do so now.

"Sorry Zack, Batman's No Kill Rule Is Essential to the Character"

"Sorry, Zack Snyder, the Dark Knight should remain a non-lethal crime fighter."

Whenever I read things like this, about Batman's "no kill" rule and all that shit, it reminds me of a particular Shortpacked page:



Here is the page from the original comic, for comparison.

Oh, and if you don't follow Batman comics at all, that first panel is a description of an actual story that happened a decade and a half ago, minus the "meeting his original self" bit shown up there.

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I can just imagine Zach Snyder making a Star Trek movie.

Snyder stated, "The Enterprise traveling faster than light is canon. And I'm like, 'Okay, the first thing I wanna do when you say that is I wanna see what happens,'" elaborating on his belief that, "You're making your starship irrelevant if it can't be in that situation."

Then we get a Star Trek: Sublight movie or some stupid bullshit like that, where it takes the Enterprise over 16 years (instead of about a day and a half at maximum warp) just to reach Proxima Centauri (the next closest star to Earth, after the Sun) from Earth at maximum impulse speed (which is supposedly something like 0.25 light speed), let alone Vulcan (64 years from Earth [instead of just 6 days]) or Qo'nos (448 years [instead of around a month]) or Ocampa (roughly 300,000 years [instead of "just" 70 years at maximum warp]).

So yeah, I think all of the above is about equally as silly as saying "I'ma make modern Batman kill chumps in my movies."