This kinda freaked me out: AI models fed their own outputs as training data will quickly start making distorted images that look spookily like human painting made under the progression of mental illness or drugs.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02420-7

Became concerned

I’d put “hypothetical aliens listening to our radio transmissions won’t know what our vaginas sound like” preeeety far down my list of concerns but you do you, king

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats

Piefied is at about 5k monthly users and rising, so that does help a bit. With that factored in the monthly users is probably about level over the last 2 years and comments are going up, although that could be the influence of bots as well.