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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 150 points 1 week ago (18 children)

lmao

(“Gooning” is internet slang that describes exaggerated and excessively long sessions of self-pleasuring.)

In other recent posts, Musk urged followers to try the sometimes-pornographic companion Ani. Last week, he announced that new skimpy outfits had been added to her wardrobe and commented “Nice” when a user modeled her in one.

He evidently crossed a line, though, when he posted an animation of Ani dancing in her underwear; even his right-wing fans were disgusted, telling him it was “time to stop” and that Ani looked like a “13 year old in lingerie.”

Musk, likely observing the severe backlash, deleted the offending post. Yet he continued to annoy his supporters by engaging with Ani. When he replied to a video of the character in a short skirt and a see-through top with a “good morning” message and an emoji of a smiling face encircled by hearts,

A fed-up X user wrote, “BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS.”

Question of the day, are you a pedo if it's anime?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 84 points 1 week ago

Umm akshually she's a five thousand year old dragon

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS

"Take us to Mars"? Are there really people out there who think they personally are going to benefit from this groyper chud's bottomless piggy bank and ketamine addiction?

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Can't wait to get a seat in one of those huge rockets that explode / burning and fail constantly while flying to low earth orbit. I mean for Mars it only takes like 10 of them to make a super complicated refill maneuver in space, then half a year travel to Mars and then vertical landing on Mars. What could possibly go wrong?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

None that have any grasp of spaceflight… aka have played Kerbal Space Program.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago

Also you know he's never put any time into developing any coping strategies for dealing with mean comments, so people should keep em coming

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Question of the day, are you a pedo if it's anime?

Yes.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

to put it simply: yes

and to elaborate: absolutely

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Question of the day, are you a pedo if it’s anime?

Gosh, never seen this debate come up on the fucking worst parts of the internet before, totally new one. Can't wait for all the fresh and original takes.

In before "Ephebophile" gets thrown around and used as some kind of moral high ground.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oddly, I haven't witnessed such a debate. I guess I stay out of the worst parts of the internet. But I was on reddit...

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 118 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Considering he’s basically a 14 year old in man’s body this is not at all surprising.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 115 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not even certain his body is that of a man...

[–] Jerkface@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He’s got a cybertruck in there

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Maybe he's just a poorly animated transformer

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 99 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Fun bit of history: gooners were a huge component of open weights LLM development.

Pygmalion 6B was poured over by tinkerers before ChatGPT and Llama were even a thing. Ravenous furries and roleplayers have been major contributors to frameworks that have snowballed into huge projects, practical finetuning and quantization methods, CUDA kernels, sampling techniques OpenAI is still catching up on, you name it.

Horniness (among other things) is a heck of a motivation. But the history is buried in obscure Discords and archived GitHub repos.


And don’t even get me started on imagegen… Good lord. If Grok is going full “anime waifu,” oh, it has got some competition to catch up to.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First time I saw a great image upscaler, it was called "waifu2x", of course.

There was also an older machine learning project that removed censorship commonly found on japanese pornographic drawings, but this one got deleted of GitHub by the author some years ago and I don't even remember it's name anymore.

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

I remember those days - using my 3080ti to test the latest Pygmalion model and reporting feedback for how understandable the outputs were to the developers...

I didn't use my self-host for horny though - I tried being a DM for a DND session with fictional characters :)

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I resent the suggestion that Musk and I are somehow similar.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

he disappearing into addiction is best outcome for all of us

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At least Howard Hughes at the decency to lose his fucking mind in isolation. That and also contribute actual advancements to cinema and aerospace.

It's tragic though that likely Musk will ensure his name is plastered on a thousand different agencies, institutions, foundations, statues and bidets all over the world and people growing up in several generations from now will largely assume he was some great inventor or hero along the lines of great pioneers of the past.

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[–] Luouth@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (12 children)
[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 66 points 1 week ago (5 children)

✓ AI girlfriend

✓ Nazi

✓ (Allegedly) techy

Damn Elon is basically Krieger

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 55 points 1 week ago

He wish he was Krieger.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey Krieger actually invented things that worked.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But usually killed people.

...

Wait that still tracks.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Elon still invented nothing. The guy couldn't even finish a degree in physics.

Its only his requirements for the real engineer team that made the inventions kill people.

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[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

How dare you

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Krieger worked with the Nazis, but then killed them. He was actively trying to sabotage the Nazi regime.

Edit: forgot to mention, it was specifically in Dreamland, so maybe IRL he actually worked with Nazis. Unsure.

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[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

He even has his own private tropical island.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Billions to build an AI neural net to generate something far tamer than what you can find on 4chan.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can someone translate that headline?

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Elon can’t stop jorkin’ it to AI-generated anime tiddies.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Honestly? Next to all his other shit, this doesn’t bother me the slightest.

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[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Um you see um the realty is that this is very simple, its pixels, you know glowing dots. So I think with a um high degree a very high degree um of of confidence that within the next 12 to 18 months we will have self gooning AI.

And that’s really the difference between X being a billion dollar company and being basically useless. But today, right now, self gooning AI is already safer and cheaper than human gooning.

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

He spends his time jerking off to AI generated anime porn.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Honestly a lot of what the article points to isn't that bad and wouldn't be out of place in a lot of the sfw moe communities here. They even reference a "topless women" which is just a picture from the shoulders up of some ai slop galaxy women.

Yeah fuck Elon and his nazi ai but I don't think he's posting gooning content, or at least I don't think i could goon to it.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 17 points 1 week ago

It's worth noting that there are several other Grok personas besides Ani. If he's only engaging with / posting the Ani stuff but not the others, that's something of a smoking gun to me

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 15 points 1 week ago

Ok, I followed the link to say that I'm having trouble judging him on this and found other like minded souls.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean he renamed it x for a reason

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

If gooning were a profession, Musk would be a billionaire. Oh wait…

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