The modern world, instead of just going in taking a photograph of a glass of wine filled at the top, we rely on chat GPT, and other image generators with artificial intelligence.
Well, that artificial intelligence apparently has failed us according to a thread on Reddit, and at least one tiktoker that we were listening to, it appears that Image generators are unable to fill your glass to the top.
That is right.. Not only do they not top it off, but they also only fill the glass to the middle part of a glass of wine ..
Commenters on threads and the videos that we have reviewed clearly shows that everyone is having the same problem.
We did too. We were unable to get a glass filled to the top..
A friend claimed victory when he sent me this image of wine almost to the top. But I pointed out it was not to the top. There is some more to go:
. That said, one image generator I used actually give me quite the opposite of a glass of wine, but still described that the image was a glass of Cabernet:
We beg to differ, maybe chat GPT will fill our glass up in 2025 to our desires.. and accuracy..
Early morning on March 5, 2024, Meta seemingly had a giant outage that blocked people from their Facebook and Instagram accounts and did not let them log back in.
People went to X .. where Elon Musk was bragging his system stayed up during the great short outage of March 2024. He had his bragging rights..
When the socials slowly returned, people began commenting about how crisis level reactions were occurring during the hour and a 1/2 outage. Over the top… Outrageous people panicking over a brief outage of this nature showcased just how on the edge we all are…
Even on Facebook after META resumed its full strength, there are some people decrying how weak we all are as people.. Of course, many of the people making fun of those upset that Facebook was down also make money on their Facebook pages. And they would be upset and panicking too if the outage was a week and a half instead of just an hour and a half. Some websites had to remind their users today that they actually have a website and not just a social media presence. .
Without Facebook telling people to go to a website, most won’t. Sorry.. just ain’t happening until there is another cultural shift.
That has simply become the world we live in.
Back in the early 2000s we bookmarked pages and obscure websites.
Now if the algorithm does not give them to us, they are forever forgotten.
Questions not just about social media going down but all of it every bit of it.
Just think about the notion that everything that you do on the internet suddenly stops working websites, Facebook TikTok, Instagram and your email.
Also, couple that with the notion that you’re electricity suddenly takes a turn for the worse and you and all of your neighbors are without lights.
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If you charge your electric car in a charging station, you’re grounded in this potential future.
You’re also grounded even at a gas station since that runs on electricity as well. Your land lines don’t exist anymore. And even if you still have one, they’re tied into systems that don’t act like landlines of Ma Bell. They cease working as well
In different posts in which people asked what would YOU do if power went out, a few people said that they would knit or crochet. Some others said they would drink. Or express themselves in some sort of a consensual lustful relationship with their partner. One person honestly answered saying she would panic.
The shock was how no one said they would turn on a radio… No one said they would try old fashioned technology despite the fact it still exists–a bit–and could be utilized.
We don’t think about old-fashioned technology anymore.
But on days when outages that happened, maybe we should.
Maybe we should conjure up a future in which it feels a lot like the past.. All those staples and security blankets of the past have been shredded into pieces. When social media goes dark for just minutes, people do legitimately go into a form of panic.
While you scoff and laugh at those who feel the panic, be aware that we have all become accustomed and addicted to these social media algorithms.
YOU INCLUDED.
In a future when the power goes off–even for a day–your crocheting will get old fast and your beer will get warm even faster.
The world survives only when electricity keeps running. So.. leave the world behind if it happens…..
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SO joking aside. If the ‘big one’ happens… what would you do?
The haunting words of Gordon Lightfoot’s IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND may be the best background for this story.. conjuring the imagination of his ghostly song coupled with technology piercing the safety nets of our mind.. and going deep into brains to predict what we will want. What we will buy.. what we will…think?
As this post is written, a LONG day is wrapping up. For some weird reason, this particular Saturday felt like the longest day that ever existed.. Maybe the snowy landscape and bone chilling temperatures.. Who knows.
I think it was hour number 5,000 of the day when I was just bored in the chair looking through stupid TikTok videos, one after the other. After the other.. And so on. People falling. Political content. Old ladies screaming. Ice storms and people slipping. Weird stuff and so on. Everyone’s for you page is different. That’s a peak at mine.
This is where the weirdness started.
In my brain, a voice said “it’s been a long time since you saw TikTok videos about Michael Myers and Halloween”.. No verbal output occurred, here, it was just an internalized passing thought. A blip on the brain wave radar.. It just popped into my brain, and I remembered rationalizing it by saying that ‘Halloween is over and of course I will not be seeing videos like that on the for me page’ for a while..
About a good solid minute later this video now pops up on the for you page:
First of all, great great video. Pure nostalgia and 1980s glory and all that..
But wait.. HALLOWEEN!? Just when moments earlier the idea of a Halloween video was crossing the brain and being dismissed due to the time of the year..
I completely got the chills and gave me a very bizarre feeling.
And it just started more thoughts to roll. Do you have this occur? Does this happen when you talk about things–we all know ads pop up a little bit after we search things or talk about them.. but how often do you actually have something on tech occur after you simply THINK about it?
Is there some algorithm that certain videos trigger people searching for other things? Or perhaps this was just all weird and random coincidence ..
Controversy about TikTok’s (and other social media platforms) algorithms have be been in the news for years. Most of those have revolved around the kids not being alright, teens with angst getting a perverted sense of purpose and meaning after diving too deep into rabbit holes.
Advertising clearly goes hand in hand with things you search and like. TikTok was accused of privacy violations recently. Others have accused social media platforms of monitoring heart rates and eye movements when viewing Apps. Sounds ridiculous, right? Conspiracy silly theory?
When it happens it’s weird.. But it does not feel real.. natural. It has no meaningful or paranormal context.. Instead it has a creepy and artificial feeling. You get an immediate impression that you’re a test subject, a spoke on a wheel. Nothing of it feels right, instead you just want to escape this hellscape that the future may be bringing us.
Everything you’re about to read about artificial intelligence will be written by artificial intelligence. At a certain point when everything that we consume is written by AI, and everything that we do is run by AI won’t be the point of us? This is unsettling and happening quickly. It’s not just manufacturing jobs anymore folks. The future is Natalie now, but perhaps it’s so late at the future was then, and we’re beyond.

The tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news copy, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the product.
One of the three people familiar with the product said that Google believed it could serve as a kind of personal assistant for journalists, automating some tasks to free up time for others, and that the company saw it as responsible technology that could help steer the publishing industry away from the pitfalls of generative A.I.
Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, asking not to be identified discussing a confidential matter. Two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.
A Google spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Times and The Post declined to comment.
“Everything is seen in China,” said a member of TikTok’s Trust and Safety department in a September 2021 meeting. In another September meeting, a director referred to one Beijing-based engineer as a “Master Admin” who “has access to everything.” (While many employees introduced themselves by name and title in the recordings, BuzzFeed News is not naming anyone to protect their privacy.)
The recordings range from small-group meetings with company leaders and consultants to policy all-hands presentations and are corroborated by screenshots and other documents, providing a vast amount of evidence to corroborate prior reports of China-based employees accessing US user data. Their contents show that data was accessed far more frequently and recently than previously reported, painting a rich picture of the challenges the world’s most popular social media app has faced in attempting to disentangle its US operations from those of its parent company in Beijing. Ultimately, the tapes suggest that the company may have misled lawmakers, its users, and the public by downplaying that data stored in the US could still be accessed by employees in China.
Didn’t we hear this before when Donald Trump was president?
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.
The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment. The data is connected to an IP address—an identifier that’s like a computer’s mailing address and can generally be linked to a specific individual or household—creating an intimate receipt of the appointment request for Facebook.
Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused by governments looking to surveil their citizens.
Apple said its messaging app will use on-device machine learning to warn about sensitive content without making private communications readable by the company. The tool Apple calls “neuralMatch” will detect known images of child sexual abuse without decrypting people’s messages. If it finds a match, the image will be reviewed by a human who can notify law enforcement if necessary.
Now another product is conveniently press releasing itself into the news!
Nextiles, a National Science Foundation-backed textile company, wants to weave FitBit-like tech into textiles. It’s the latest addition to an evolving list of efforts to revolutionize the clothing we wear..
That sounds awfully nice to wear at the same time as your ear phones. Imagine a shirt that tells you to get up more and ear phones that raise the volume to inspire such actions!
Pretty soon your brain will just be able to fully shut own while technology lives your life for you.
Here is what is being press released.. err… reported: The Brooklyn-based start-up last week launched its patented “smart fabric” — a machine-washable material with built-in circuitry — as a new way to capture biometric data.
“My whole goal was to make your everyday threads a smart factor in your wearables,” said George Sun, Nextiles’ chief executive and a former executive at the sportswear designer Puma. “Rather than strapping a computer chip to your body, we can sew these circuitries directly into a sleeve, shirt and pants.”..
If David Letterman was still on TV, he’d be asking can we ‘turn your smart pants into shorts, please?’
This has been widely reported: Ransomware invaded 30 servers at University Hospital Düsseldorf last week, crashing systems and forcing the hospital to turn away emergency patients.
News agencies have informed global audiences that a woman in a life-threatening condition was sent to a hospital 20 miles away in Wuppertal and died from treatment delays…
If true, it would be the the first known and reported incident of a cyber attack actually leading to the death of a patient..
It also may not be a complete surprise..
Germany’s cyber-security agency, the Federal Office for Information Security, was called in to shore up the hospital’s systems. The Citrix flaw had been known about since December 2019 and called on healthcare facilities not to delay IT security upgrades.
Authorities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia launched an investigation on Thursday into suspected “negligent homicide” after a ransomware attack crippled a hospital in Düsseldorf.
A woman scheduled for life-saving treatment at the Düsseldorf University Clinic on Friday night had to be redirected to a hospital in Wuppertal roughly 60 kilometers (38 miles) away. A ransomware cyberattack had forced emergency services to redirect nearly ambulances bound for the Düsseldorf hospital to other medical facilities. The state Justice Ministry suggested the woman had died as a result of the delay in treatment caused by the ransomware.
Perhaps an unintended consequence of an intended action?
German state authorities said the attack on the hospital was likely unintended. On one of the servers, a note was found requesting that the Heinrich Heine University get in contact with the perpetrators.
“There was no concrete ransom demand,” according to the hospital.
It is hard to believe that only ten years ago, the technology that Apple would be selling the public was just about unfathomable.. Extremely fast processors. Facial recognition. Emojis that can make poop turn into your face and voice.
In 2007, people were happy with Myspace and turning ‘off’ the net in favor of a night out. Now they can’t leave home without the smartphone.
Apple wants to capitalize further on the influencers: Those who we are told have ‘disposable income’ (credit cards) and are below the age of 25 .. those who care less about processor speed and more about selfie. Those who would indeed literally buy an iPhone simply because it can turn their face into an Emoji of feces…
Let’s pause for a moment. The most precious few seconds of Apple’s big unveiling was a big flop: They tried to announce facial recognition but when they actually attempted to use it, it failed.
Apple has offered an explanation for an embarrassing glitch at the launch of its most expensive iPhone ever, arguing that the phone didn’t make an error – the company’s staff did.
During the first ever public demonstration of the expensive iPhone X, Apple executive Craig Federighi attempted to unlock the device using the company’s new Face ID feature, which scans a user’s face to ensure only they can unlock their phones. But the feature failed, bumping Federighi to an old-fashioned passcode entry screen and forcing him to switch to a backup phone.
Too many people. Not tech. The people.
The people ruin everything!
But it’s pretty interesting to say the least: The biggest selling point of Apple in 2017 is a device that can see you, get to know you, and also stay knowing you even as you age. As your facial features change.
The cutting edge of yesterday was fingerprint.. now it’s motion sensing, unlocking with gestures, and facial definitions that will be forever surveiled by your very own pocket spiPhone. How quaint.
I am not going to lie to myself, though. AT this point there is really no way that technology slows down. There is no ability or us to quell the march of advancement. In a few years, when iPhones or smart phones of your own choice are firmly implanted in either your hand or buttocks, facial recognition will look so 2000 and late.
Yes indeed… Things that would have been either laughed at or feared 20 years ago are completely and perfectly normal now. And expensive.
Thankfully we all have that ‘disposable’ income… Income that is mostly disposed of in the form of debt payments, late payments, and school loans that are constantly being tinkered with because of how high a percentage of your take home pay they consume.
But all that can be on hold for a while!
A new phone is out. And I can make by face an Emoji if shit.
