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'This is really intolerable': Astronomers protest giant orbiting mirror project and SpaceX's million AI satellites (www.space.com)

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

So lemme get this straight:

They want a bunch of AIs to fill the internet with slop, potentially making our infosphere impenetrable… and the way they wanna do it is to fill the sky with junk, potentially making our atmosphere impenetrable.

Just, help me out. Am I misunderstanding? This is supposed to be a good idea?