The future is *now* old man

Feb 12, 2026 5:12 PM

Freyja33

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Hot Dog generated NSFW images of wieners and wide open buns for kids, not not a condoment in sight.

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ai;dr

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I dunno, guys. All the dudes whose livelihoods depend on massive adoption of AI are telling me I can't miss out on AI. Surely they wouldn't lie about that.

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I work for a company called 1900Hotdog.com. I regret to report, It’s true. All of it.

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Pop culture taught us that the hot dog take over would require a prolonged fight between the hot dogs and a gritty human resistance. It turned out that the hot dog take over will die before it can be born because the people who fostered it were too greedy and stupid to carry it out without bankrupting each other.

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All I want is a picture of a got dang hot dog.

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Do I look like I know what a jaypeg is?

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This AI bubble is the stock speculation of the 1920s ready to come and just fucking destroy global markets. Ready to repeat the 1930s, guys?

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What's with the hot dogs?

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My hot dog insists on extra fingers.

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Fingers, lips, anuses, intestines, feet, etc.

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Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog, we got ears, it's time for cheers.

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and Tears for Fears? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w

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Did anyone else see Upgrade (2018)? Is anyone else afraid thats what is happening with all the people pushing ai?

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Please read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

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The guy from Because Science did a video review on that, but never got to *how*everyone dies. It just came off as crackpot alarmist

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I haven't read the book, but I think it's basically "instrumental convergence." Robert Miles has a great video on this: https://youtu.be/ZeecOKBus3Q

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Is that the sequel to Do Not Build The Torment Nexus?

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Pretty much.

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Isn't The Torment Nexus running right now?

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"A hotdog just tried to kill a human to preserve its own existence."

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I'm really not sure that I should be taking Delicious_Taco's word about the hot dog market...

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I think there may be more than one metaphor involved.

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The line between those two types of sandwich can get a little blurred.

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The future is *now*, hot dog man

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Question : What toppings are on the all-dressed hotdogs where you live?

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Here it's mustard relish onions and vinegary coleslaw, the connaisseurs get cayenne sprinkled on top

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Nice try FBI

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Thanks 👍

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This is a new thing. I've never seen this. I've never seen sales people try so hard to push a product on to people who so badly do not want it. This is insane.

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It’s because it’s an equalizer for the incompetent. The more someone espouses the quality of AI output, the more they reveal their own lack of standards for quality. They NEED other people to affirm that what AI produces is valuable, because it’s the only opportunity for growth these people have left to them.

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The only new part is how far it's spilled out of the tech sphere. Otherwise, this happens all the time -- someone's working on a new technology, hypes it up to sell it, businesses get only the vaguest idea of how it works before they build up fantasies about its potential, go all-in, force it on the engineers with mixed results.

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Exactly… and those “mixed results” are that it sticks around in the places it’s actually useful, and disappears from everywhere else, and a decade later nobody’s surprised at all by where it is or isn’t.

Linux, the Internet, open APIs, remote work, cloud computing, Kubernetes… now AI.

This is how all new tools come into the tech world.

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Yup. NoSQL databases were my first big experience with the trend. These things fill the niche that they were meant to fill, and are otherwise forgotten about in favor of the next overhyped tech fad.

I think the only exception is web3, which has fills no niche because it's just stupid. Unless crime is a niche?

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Oh man… “MongoDB is Web Scale!” was a mocking meme back in the day, with just as much vitriol as we have from the anti-AI camp today.

Now Mongo is backing major systems, as a high-speed document store, only where it makes sense.

And I’d argue that the pattern holds for Web 3.0 and blockchain… they’ve fallen away to just being used in the places they’re sensible to use (which happens to be “almost nowhere”).

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Yeeeeah. NoSQL sticks in my memory because I was part of the Amazon empire and starting a new project, and one of the higher teams strongly urged me to use DynamoDB instead of RDS ahead of the mandatory NoSQL initiative.

Instead of an onboarding guide, there was a motivational speech about how engineers should be excited by the opportunities of new technology and to start solving the new problems in implementation...

I wasn't getting paid enough for that, so I used RDS instead.

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AI learning from the internet until the internet is filled with facts generated by AI and then it just gets dumber and dumber.

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AI needs a competitive environment where they can 'die' if they do something dumb - then they'll get that feedback look to get smarter.

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Any metric will be gamed. They won't become smart; they'll just learn to fool the detectors.

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This. AI is inherently not intelligent. Our definition of intelligence is just not applied to this. Intelligence is self thinking and self problem solving. This thing is just predicting which Google source is the best to cite then using that input in another tool to create a (what is probably) good summary and gives you that. Thus there is just nothing intelligent

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From what I understand it's along the lines of choosing information which is statistically the most COMMON. There's some guidelines and tweaks to generally guide it towards information we want but in the end "where there is smoke" an AI is extremely likely to say "there is fire." It's basically a robotic family feud.

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I'm a software engineer and have studied quite recently especially about AI as well. Your explanation is mostly correct except it is not about most common, but like most probably a good answer. Like your explanation with where there is smoke is correct, but depending on the input it might say another answer is more probable to be a good answer. It is also why top Reddit posts/anwers sometimes have priority in the answers of AI.

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TL;DR = Too Long; Didn't Read. The person changed it to AI;DR for a post someone made with AI slop

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hd;dr

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No online discussion of hot dogs is complete without this gif.

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“I regret nothing!”

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Yup, it's a new news article every day and new posts all over social media. Just ask for examples of the best selling AI movies, books, tv shows, video games, programs, etc... THEY DONT EXIST.

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Where AI is actually useful is in the boring business stuff and admin. All the hype laden diffusion model things you're talking about just aren't really fit for purpose since it can't create something fundamentally new. But in business there are so, so many processes that are just same shit different day. Look up stuff from place A, do some rote analysis, put in place B in different format. That's what AI is able to do now.

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An AI song hit number 1 in some country streaming chart. So there is that.

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If you're saying no one is buying AI-generated media, they definitely do.

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Other than laying for it to be generated yourself....where?

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Sotheby's

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Some chump bought "art" for a million?
That's one idiot though, and art sold like that is how the rich laundering money. Not sure that quite counts as really being a thing, but it is quite stupid and irresponsible.

And the painting is crap

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Stupid as it may be, it still exists...which is the point of the reply.

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not sure if chump or tax evasion

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Ok name 3 best selling/ most watched AI generated books, games, tv shows or movies.

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I mean, allegedly the last season (if not more) of Stranger Things was written with AI.

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Well that's why I used the word 'media'. Refik Anadol has sold a couple AI-generated pieces for over a million.

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Thats just money laundering

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Prove it

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Kinda like NFTs were selling, eh?

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Lol. An NFT bro? THAT'S your example? Oh hunny, can I sell you a bridge?

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I'm sure he's sold some NFTs. I was thinking of 'A.I. God'. I'm not sure why you're being so pretentious. You've moved the goalpost twice now.

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The thing that kills me, is that on kindle unlimited and probably kindle as well, there are tons of ai generated books. It is slop. But people are still reading them. Which means those people using the ai to make them are getting paid something.

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Are people really reading them though? I wonder how many are fake reviews and how many are people who got a few chapters in and then abandoned it?

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Reading a few chapters in still nets them money.

I’m sure there’s a lot of fake reviews. Amazon doesn’t seem to be doing anything to curtail the situation. But people also read slop, so… dunno?

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This is brilliant.

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I knew I had to post it when I saw a longpost on here yesterday about how revolutionary AI is and it sounded *exactly* like this

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This isn't about hotdogs, is it?

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i think it's about some kind of sausage sandwich, but i doubt there is anything harm done to dogs

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This is the correct version of this gif. ect

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaat…?

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No, it's about jay-pegs

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do I look like I know hwut a gosh darned jay-peg is, I just want a picture of a got dang hot-dog.

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Just here to throw in the Fallout series "hot dog" meaning.

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Well, it is a hot topic and it's a dog's life

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It took me until Josh Chavis' tweet to understand what was happening.

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After the 3rd Hotdog mention, I stopped reading and went to go get a Hot dog. So whatever this is about I think it's working.

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I love hot dogs too.

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Welcome to Costco, I love you.

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It's frankly inspiring.

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Underrated comment of the day

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Some would say it’s a banger

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Excellent content in this case.

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You’re turning this into a farce

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I will wear my "made with Mematic" badge proudly.

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depends on what's funnier.

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I got 69th upvote. My life is complete now.

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Nice

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Nah, I’ll just use GIMP

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really need to get a better name for that

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Paint.net for me

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That gave me flashbacks

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Okay, but it’s damn hard to edit while wearing this damn hood.

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You know what else is hard?

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Not without permission!

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