froztbyte@awful.systems · 6 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 30 June 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 6 months agoNeither the devil you know nor the devil you don’tplus-squarepluralistic.netexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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FRACTRANS@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months agoPerplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machineplus-squarewww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoFast Crimes at Lambda School - eat shit Austenplus-squarewww.sandofsky.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agothose well known sneerers the (checks notes) Federal Trade Commissionplus-squarewww.ftc.govexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-26 months agoThe mainstreaming of 'AI' scepticism [Baldur Bjarnason]plus-squarewww.baldurbjarnason.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoI Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Againplus-squareludic.mataroa.blogexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1183arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months ago"Google Gemini tried to kill me"plus-squarewww.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 months agousing GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequenceplus-squarearchive.isexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down10
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mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months agoThe role of the consumer in late stage capitalismplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agoOnion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AIplus-squarewww.theonion.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down10
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blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 16 June 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months agohot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries storeplus-squaretheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10
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sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 months agowow. sensibleawful.systemsimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-27 months ago"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curveplus-squaresituational-awareness.aiexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agocome see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space!plus-squarearxiv.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-linkcome see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space!plus-squarearxiv.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square12fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agoAt the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotinesplus-squarewww.nplusonemag.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agoCEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoomplus-squarewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agoSam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI.plus-squarewww.wsj.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down10
arrow-up170arrow-down1external-linkSam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI.plus-squarewww.wsj.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square13fedilink
