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highplainsdem

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5. Exactly. And Musk.is boasting that Grok just generated 5.5 billion images in a month. With the other AI image

Reply to EarlG (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 02:44 PM

22 hrs ago

generators, more than one piece of AI slop for everyone on Earth.

None of which we needed. None of which are worth anythjng. None of which helped any human learn to create images. And all of which exist only because of that IP theft.

Billions of worthless fake art attempts, each one harming the environment and driving up electricity costs.

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There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird [View all] highplainsdem 22 hrs ago OP

And for this we're ruining the environment, EarlG 22 hrs ago #1

I was just going to say, "Doesn't this suck up all our water and electricity?" Scrivener7 22 hrs ago #2

Exactly. And Musk.is boasting that Grok just generated 5.5 billion images in a month. With the other AI image highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #5

Right. Let's fry the planet and everything on it to watch AI bots argue with each other. CousinIT 22 hrs ago #6

Quoting Marvin the robot in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Universe The Blue Flower 22 hrs ago #3

Except AI doesn't not have a brain, and are not very intelligent. Martin68 20 hrs ago #10

Abundant Iniquity dickthegrouch 19 hrs ago #11

I am really wondering if some really odd text messages that I have gotten... Hugin 22 hrs ago #4

This network is only a few days old, according to the article. highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #7

Since they are unregulated and essentially crowd sourced with a gold rush mentality... Hugin 21 hrs ago #9

Yeah, the're not really that good at math. funny fact. harumph 21 hrs ago #8

Gizmodo article, with a warning: highplainsdem 18 hrs ago #12

Your data could be leaked... reACTIONary 17 hrs ago #14

TechCrunch article: highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #13