this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
44 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1489 readers
30 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
44
Remember when everyone was meming about AI mushroom books poisoning people? (www.reddit.com)
submitted 4 months ago by pja@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Looks like it might actually have happened.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I usually dislike the whole line of thinking of "Well, it might not be true, but it tells you something that you believed it."

But, the world in which AI succeeds is the world where every book published is a fake field guide to mushrooms, or a recipe book for shaving cream. And it's like... I dunno, after 4 years of happily proclaiming that this is the thing we're going to sell, why have these guys never considered that fraud is bad, actually. Is fully automated luxury gay space fraud really so enticing?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

I dunno, after 4 years of happily proclaiming that this is the thing we’re going to sell, why have these guys never considered that fraud is bad, actually. Is fully automated luxury gay space fraud really so enticing?

It is if you expect to make an absolute crapload of money off of it and have absolutely zero soul. And, well, its the AI industry - anyone with a soul probably left a couple years ago.