Trigger warning.
The very sad degradation of Surfer Magazine has been one of the stories in 2023. Purchased by The Arena Group just one year ago, the “Bible of the Sport” has been plagued with embarrassing stories since, including “Emily Morgan,” “Jake Howard” et. al. eventually culminating in a damning expose that the aforementioned Arena Group was using AI bots as writers.
C-Suite executives were fired followed by their Chief, Ross Levinsohn while the stock price plummeted.
Dark days.
And yet the bot clicks away unconcerned with “human stuff.”
Most recently, a word salad was uploaded by “Dashel Pierson” about Jamie O’Brien and Pipeline, ostensibly, and shall we read together?
They’ll stand in the parking lot, insulated, $75 coffee cups in hand, gossiping, grab-assing, procrastinating, and contemplating a session for ridiculous periods of time – questioning the crowd, the tide, or any number of ludicrous, inhibiting factors.
Sometimes, it’s almost like…do we actually even wanna paddle out? Or are we just a bunch of posers who pretend we surf, but find any excuse possible not to?
Eventually, most of us finally do paddle out, but after much deliberation.
Like the Jamie O’Brien clip above.
What the heck?
Which amongst O’Brien’s crew is standing around with $75 coffee cups sexually harassing whom whilst pretending to surf?
The charge is extremely loaded in this day and age.
Asses no longer there for unsolicited grabbing.
Here’s the clip, anyhow.
Surfer, man.
Ugh.
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Shouldn’t it read “ass grabbing “ instead of grab-assing”? AI fail.
I met JOB a long, long time ago…Oh those were the days. When men were men and sheep knew it!
The Bot could have gone harder in my opinion.
I think he thinks he’s above all that.
Sad
Is Charlie stepping in a pile of Ashton with all the face time his new blog life is presenting? It’s a slippery slope. Or is he the next JOB of youtube? Hard to say, I mean watch.
I’d like to start a class action lawsuit against the music in his videos.
Who drinks coffee from a cup these days anyway? Pfffft. Simpletons.
Sipping coffee from hand crafted locally sourced organic clay ceramic non-GMO bowl with a dreadlock imprint off Etsy is where it’s at.
Whilst crashing your e bike into the elderly
I’ll be on Oahu for a few days in February so if Sufer needs me to do another think piece on the scene at Pipe…HMU.
“Grab Assing”.. What a term by Dashel, which cannot possibly be a real name. The term reminds me of the fantastic story I read a few years ago about former prez Bush. Senior Bush not Dubbya Bush. Story was, that in his later wheelchair bound senile years he used to whiz about the Family compound, and office suites grabbing chicks on the butt and playing it all off by saying “Hey there sweet thang, I’m David Coppafeel…get it Copp.a.-feel”. The term grab-Assing reminded me of the tale.
Thanks AI surf reporter Dashel, nedded a chuckle today.
i’m grabbin my ass watching him jump out of a plane…sky-diva. not bad for 90+
Let’s just clear some stuff up here:
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://www.animalwised.com…
and every surfer is represented by at least one of these.
in my case, it’s all three but the mule thing is just to supplement the income.
well played. that’s funny
didn’t Surfline Man actually create the AI coding for that tech company he founded?
Chas mastered AI Bot long ago. “Get off my corner!”
A click bait article on another click bait article, and the human centipede continues..
But did you watch the clip?
I usually watch when DR writes “essential”. Watched the one with Ben Gravy acting as his caddy though,
Wooo!!, haha.
Did anyone ring radio shows and prank call them? My mates and i would do it all the time, fuken so funny.
https://youtu.be/zZyh5Tt67-…
This is gold. They are all great but the host of “Diddlee Squat” getting played consecutively is magic.
Yes!!, i laughed out loud about ten times, people looking at me on the bus.
I thought nothing i saw this week would be funnier than jordys pout and pauly comparing each others penis deforms but yep, this was funnier.
1hrs worth. Thank you for this rabbit hole of joy Bexy!
https://youtu.be/0at8Fs787m…
baba booey…
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Don’t worry… stay psyched!
Ain’t got no place to lay your head
Some newly sponsored kid came and took your bed
Don’t worry, stay psyched
Da Hui say your rent is late
They may have to slap you straight
Don’t worry, stay psyched (look at me, I’m psyched)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Teahupo’o’oh’o’oh’ooh)
ha…xlnt
Id argue publishers should lose First Amendment protections under freedom of the press when there is no longer an actual, live human being journalist authoring these published pieces.
Sue away I say…..sue away
that’s a pretty good point, although Clarence T is going to take it away for the humans too, given the right case and 4 more votes.
Merry xmas.
“that wasn’t my pube in Anita’s coffee cup…”
I like it!
Eventually, courts in the USA will decide that if you are a media company and you publish AI generated stuff without a human reviewing it for its truth or accuracy, you are acting in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information you publish, so you are acting with actual malice and cannot hide behind the fact that it was AI generated as a defense to defamation.
At what time in the video is the alleged $75 coffee cup handling and grab-assing etc ?
There’s noooo fuckin’ way I can sit through a whole episode of the Jamie show just to catch it…
doesn’t exist bc if you have a house on the beach no need to go fuck around in a parking lot. Also, JOB appears to be spending a little more time in the gym than usual recently, maybe the upcoming nuptials??
Around 16:05:48
What is happening here is that the Surfer Mag AI has combed Chas’s BG articles, and has machine learned that a preamble of largely non-sequitur nonsense that has little to do with the accompanying news story is the correct way to write Surf news
You’re welcome for my service.
it may be more sinister in which AI has figured out a way to get more exposure and promote recycling.
if it writes pure garbage, the garbage will be picked up by the garbage collector and recycled on BG
Not only that, but Surfer is now outranking BG as the most visited little surf site in the game.
Youve done your bit.
Your last drop was colon inspecting brilliance!!
But I still know you’ll never leave me
Im super tolerant!!
What articles?
Let me know when it is time to jump ship to their comments section. Chas can keep re-arranging deck chairs.
if and when Surfer actually rolls out a comments section, I’d be more than happy to go blow it up. But I think that is precisely why Surfer does not have a comments section.
Owee AI moderators!