“Nobody knows how the slot machines work or where all the prize money comes from, not even the people making them.”
race to the bottom with no other participants
Submitted 3 weeks ago by blibla@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Actually it’s called Super Slots. We’re rebranding to a new stronger, really a more accurate, but a strong name. Super Slots. Because the old name was actually wrong and weak. And “slot machine” made people think it was bad odds but actually, it’s good odds, good strong odds which is why we’re changing the name. We changed the name. To Super Slots.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We don’t have enough people gambling to make this casino profitable. Thats why we are moving the same $$$ around the big three casinos. Don’t worry, its all legit.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
They must have all of the prize.
Lectral@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
What does “left behind” even mean? Honestly, it sounds nice.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
My guess is they are referring to the christian book series about the rapture. Some movies got made out of them. At least one was starring Kirk Cameron
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The only thing that interferes with this metaphor is that most people agree that slot machines must be capable of actually doing what they claim and they have to let someone win once in a while.
sheetzoos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are multiple places where the analogy falls apart. People aren’t mad, afraid, or constantly posting about slot machines.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Substitute loot boxes then.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Make a new hat make no mistakes!!
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This but ai
bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that is the joke
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I do not like takes like this. AI companies are, of course, garbage. But you can build great things with their technology. So posting some memes saying that every AI product is useless like a slot machine is kind of blind to the capabilities of what you can do with them. It’s like all those old people back then telling everybody that they do not need computers and that computers suck or that the internet is bad and you should read a book.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I cant think of a single thing they can build in the hands of a crazed idiot that wouldnt be better built in the hands of a trained professional.
Ai should, at most, be used to automate tedious, low risk work that anyone in the field could do, but would rather avoid. Examples like protein folding or brute forcing math proofs, really just things that can easily be programmed but are more grunt busywork than anything.
It should NOT be used for developing new features in code, discovering or finalizing math proofs, and most certainly, human expression via art.
Ai’s exclusive use should be to free humans to pursue passions, either by reducing work hours or tedium, ideally both.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The thing is the trained professional costs 300k a year (100k in low-income areas like Europe) to employ and a z.ai coding plan sub lowest tier is like 20 bucks a month and makes a ton of mistakes but works at least 10x faster so you get much faster iteration…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
But you can build great things with their technology.
Do tell.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can generate a picture of sonic the hedgehog with giant tits, and not pay a single artist for it. Isn’t it fucking great?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
AI is more than just LLMs or image generation.
It has been used in science for the last couple of decades in order to automate things that are too tedious to do by hand. Protein folding and mathematical equations come to mind.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, a slot machine can actually be a pretty nice arcane cabinet, if you remove all the gambling software, add a little more buttons to it. It doesn’t actually make slot machines any more redeemable.
But even beyound that, it increasingly looks like all the meager benefits that llm provides is outweighed by enormous downsides of using llm, both on personal, and on societal level. This is not saying anything about other theory-free inference products, but that’s not what we call AI anymore, so that point is moot.
m3t00@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
read same analogy to ‘tokens’ getting spent like coins in a slot machine with similar results 🎰
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The slot machine is super intelligent
Eventually, the slot machine will become God.
sompreno@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Oh no every time I quit the next time I would have gone gambling I would have hit big
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Looks like Pixel Lulu from FFX
BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Processed food is a better analogy.
ben_dover@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
12 giu
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Your talking about ai aren’t you…..
Anthropic tried to convince scholars and religious leader Claude had a soul. They told him to get stuffed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s about slot machines. Came-on, it’s right there on the post.
Now excuse me, I have to try some 10 prompts on that great code generator right there, with some luck I’ll get some incredible delta to push into the repository.
DrSoap@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a chatbot that can run a few scripts and Google search. Essentially long form Google. It has no more a soul than the dewey decimal system.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Now, don’t denigrate the dewey decimal system. It’s a beloved institution.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It has no more soul than a human’s mess of neurons and action potentials.
redballooon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How dare you! Anthropic has it’s own search API, Claude doesn’t need Google ('s API)
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If someone is torturing them, they are just programs. If they want money from religious people, it has a soul.
decolo@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I think these specific people believe in the machine spirit at all times, at least a lot of them are rationalist cultists
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
If it has a soul then wouldn’t that mean they have to grant it rights such as no forced labor, PTO, &c…
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Have you been to the US? Or read about it?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not like humans have should either
mobyduck648@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m both angry and disappointed the next global economic meltdown is going to be caused by these clowns giving themselves ELIZA syndrome.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That’s a deep cut
MolochHorridus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I believe the AI’s has souls just like humans do, meaning none. That doesn’t mean I value electronics and programming like I value living organisms.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I mean, you need dumb ass takes to convince dumb asses.
If you believe in a soul, then convincing them a rock has a soul is a compelling argument.