As an author, for when I want an "eh, good enough" answer for some niche aspect of something that sounds plausible to 90% of my audience, it's absolutely beautiful. I would never use it for serious research however or anything proximate to the core domain of the story in ways that weren't already purely fictional.
Examples:
Using total solar flux incident on the moon, how long would it take to change its orbital eccentricity to have a perigee below the Roche limit?
How might two paramedics casually talk about a negative result in a field concussion test?
What sorts of terms have been used in fantasy literature to describe a magical ability to understand the shape and composition of an object remotely using only one's mind?
I mean this image isn’t AI generated but overall with AI-generated images you can tell based on mistakes the AI makes that humans wouldn’t, such as, but not limited to, strange perspective and interpretation of subject matter. No one is flawless at noticing every instance of an AI image is AI, but there are tells that you can generally rely on.
I’d say that’s an issue more of language on the part of those who can see what is AI, because honestly it can be hard to put into words. Plus, there are some people who are overreactive when it comes to “seeing AI” in images and it can really poison the well for small artists. But really, if you’ve become familiar with how AI images look compared to things created by humans, it’s not terribly difficult to pick them out of a lineup, even if you don’t have the language to describe the distinction.
They're mostly coming from bot accounts, I've seen three different versions posted to the same subreddit within half an hour, and everybody agrees there's no logic to them. Even this one is cross posted from OpenAI, come on now! Y'all really didn't like this assertion, huh?
AI doesn't copy-paste. Repeating elements in AI generated images are all slightly off. This is manually made, where copy-paste-resize is super easy to do.
Obviously this is just my opinion, but the original joke is lost and the results of these edits just aren't funny to me.
"Rust devs doing their thing" makes no sense.
Why is "C developers writing dynamic arrays" at the bottom?! Do undersea cables brake when dynamic arrays are used? Sure the infrastructure to make them run must use software, but this is still lacking in substance
I guess it shows out that many users don't have good image editing skills, since a proper edit is trivial.
All the edits get so carried-away with the labels. Acting like they have to label every block. The original is funny because it focusing on a load-bearing block being some random hard-working person. The edits are all like “and this block is Amazon, and this block is Netflix, and this block is Microsoft” like yeah, no shit most of the internet is made of a chaos of big self-interested companies. The original works because the reader already knows all those huge blocks are intended to represent google and whatnot. The tiny loadbearing open source project is more interesting and funnier to think about.
If DNS fails, is the whole system just going to drop for a moment and then be solid again (both posts fail), or will it be only slightly off-balance (one post fails)?
The biggest potential problem seems to be that AI will cause the stack to lean too far one way or the other and unbalance it because of... undersea fiber-optic cables getting eaten by sharks? Is AI going to overtax some of those cables and not others, and that's going to cause the whole Internet to fall over?
The whole thing is starting to tilt heavily to the left (due to AI), so, would losing the unpaid open-source developers be a good thing at this point, allowing the structure to get back over its own center of balance?
"rust devs doing their own thing" should be someone trying to replace one of the blocks with a dubiously compatible block that may or may not make the stack less wobbly
AI tipping everything over is funny yeah, but does it actually make any sense here? I agree AI sucks, but what is it doing to undermine digital infrastructure? AI slop on social media is annoying, but it’s not actually breaking the servers right?
So this implies that if we simultaneously get rid of AWS, Cloudflare, and all unpaid open-source developers, then it'll all fall a bit and be more stable in the end.
They're hilarious and I hope that some PhD student writes a dissertation on them.
Alternatively, that Randall sees them and makes a sequel comic with nods to some of these
The “whatever microsoft is doing” makes me chuckle. Other than that, I agree
What does it even mean? Their web infrastructure stuff is pretty solid.
I believe this was made several weeks ago when they had an outage in Azure.
Even when azure is running its painful
Microsoft is notorious for bending standards, plenty examples in windows. Although, they do a few things right.
I wouldn't put the sharks below Linux.
I do like how AI is depicted as a jack, tilting the stack and making everything above it even more precarious.
On the OpenAI sub. Does anyone nonironically like AI anymore?
As is appropriate for an OpenAI sub, the reason it's there is that they stole the edit with AI from the xkcd sub.
As an author, for when I want an "eh, good enough" answer for some niche aspect of something that sounds plausible to 90% of my audience, it's absolutely beautiful. I would never use it for serious research however or anything proximate to the core domain of the story in ways that weren't already purely fictional.
Examples:
Ai is just used wrong. You should NEVER trust ai when researching, but ai is perfect for brainstorming.
I love all the analytical stuff. But since everyone thinks of generative AI now, I just use the term "machine learning".
There are also some genuinely good applications for LLMs, but they're few and far between, and image generation can fuck right off.
Yeah that’s the part that’s making me laugh out loud.
Like the trolley problem, this meme is in the phase where the overindulgence is itself part of the meme.
Except these are being AI generated
Are they now? Any evidence of that?
The same evidence almost all AI accusations have - their own self certainty.
Edit: To those downvoting, if you have any actual evidence beyond "it obviously is", I'm more than happy to see it.
You’re absolutely right.
✅ Let’s dive in.
I mean this image isn’t AI generated but overall with AI-generated images you can tell based on mistakes the AI makes that humans wouldn’t, such as, but not limited to, strange perspective and interpretation of subject matter. No one is flawless at noticing every instance of an AI image is AI, but there are tells that you can generally rely on.
Sure. I'm not saying that there isn't AI.
But the vast majority of times I've gone "ok, you say it's AI, why?" they have no actual answer beyond "it just is".
I’d say that’s an issue more of language on the part of those who can see what is AI, because honestly it can be hard to put into words. Plus, there are some people who are overreactive when it comes to “seeing AI” in images and it can really poison the well for small artists. But really, if you’ve become familiar with how AI images look compared to things created by humans, it’s not terribly difficult to pick them out of a lineup, even if you don’t have the language to describe the distinction.
They're mostly coming from bot accounts, I've seen three different versions posted to the same subreddit within half an hour, and everybody agrees there's no logic to them. Even this one is cross posted from OpenAI, come on now! Y'all really didn't like this assertion, huh?
Reposted by a bot and made by a bot is 2 different things
Why is it so hard to believe? Do you think it's not capable of that? Do you think nobody is trying to make viral memes with AI?
Yes I don't think that these look AI made
AI doesn't copy-paste. Repeating elements in AI generated images are all slightly off. This is manually made, where copy-paste-resize is super easy to do.
Y'all aren't keeping up. It's gotten way better in the last few months. You probably can't even tell the better ones from real photos anymore.
Obviously this is just my opinion, but the original joke is lost and the results of these edits just aren't funny to me.
All the edits get so carried-away with the labels. Acting like they have to label every block. The original is funny because it focusing on a load-bearing block being some random hard-working person. The edits are all like “and this block is Amazon, and this block is Netflix, and this block is Microsoft” like yeah, no shit most of the internet is made of a chaos of big self-interested companies. The original works because the reader already knows all those huge blocks are intended to represent google and whatnot. The tiny loadbearing open source project is more interesting and funnier to think about.
Let people have their fun man. They're not trying to make a better image than the original xkcd.
They are having their fun. And I’m having my fun being a hater. Everybody wins.
https://i.imgur.com/4Y6wGqv.jpeg
There's a very simple explanation:
The dude who made this version doesn't know wtf they're talking about and just wanted to make a silly comic.
"rust devs doing their own thing" should be someone trying to replace one of the blocks with a dubiously compatible block that may or may not make the stack less wobbly
It also implies Cloudflare is built on AWS which is obviously wrong.
The shark going to town on the undersea cable always makes me laugh
Some days I'm even rooting for that shark. Free us!
I love how much thought obviously went into the engineering of the AI wedge.
The AI bit made me snort-laugh. So good.
AI tipping everything over is funny yeah, but does it actually make any sense here? I agree AI sucks, but what is it doing to undermine digital infrastructure? AI slop on social media is annoying, but it’s not actually breaking the servers right?
AI code is unmaintainable and i suspect a large source in the drop in update quality coming from ms these days.
If the developer does the job right of being the guard rails, I strongly disagree.
This one was posted to my work's Slack a couple weeks ago. I could not figure out what the dolphin jpg at the bottom was.
A shark eating an underwater cable
So this implies that if we simultaneously get rid of AWS, Cloudflare, and all unpaid open-source developers, then it'll all fall a bit and be more stable in the end.
there was an edit with loads more fish to the left.
Can u link it?
Not sure how to link it from the app where I saw it. I can reverse image search and look for it. Maybe I find the oldest one.
oh I found one of the versions here
and it's gotten even further here 🙈
I like the chaos and all the different versions. It’s the most accurate part.
They're hilarious and I hope that some PhD student writes a dissertation on them. Alternatively, that Randall sees them and makes a sequel comic with nods to some of these
It's a joke, not a dick.... relax.
alert the presses lol