Finally it is today on the AS. So I can post my link. The AI Guys Are Driving Themselves Mad (nymag link)
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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it really didn’t take long for OpenAI to enter its binance era. just make cryptic non-statements and boost conspiracy theories and watch your stock price go up!
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So the orange site is having a normal one over Python BFDL trying to skirt CoC by talking about mod actions against some old dude who caught a suspension for being precisely the sort of edgelord poaster I'd expect out of a Python maintainer, which the orange site was also not happy about. I even read a bunch of his posts in the thread, like where he calls people standing up to NixOS leadership "true villains".
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LAION reckons it's finally dealt with the CSAM
and I'm sure everyone who trained on that can easily integrate this change, right. right?
oh, right, they can't, because none of the chucklefuck shit works that way. but I'm sure they'll totes jump right onto a full retraining cycle, because they're such good and ethical people who totally live the values they claim
When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/
Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...
I was going to say they were cowards about this because it's powered by wind-up mechanics rather than burning droplets of black ship oil you feed into the tiny oil barrel. But then I realised that would probably waste most of the energy on heat, right on the delicate mechanisms and your wrist, and who wants to use an energy source that damages everything around it with excessive warming
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Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116
Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful
New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)
Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.
~~You already know I can't get enough of Cyberstuck, but this is too good to not share:~~ https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f59lj8/david_attenborough_explains_cybertruck_behavior/
Update: I was bamboozled by AI
@sailor_sega_saturn @gerikson it's very funny, but I wish they didn't AI clone David Attenborough's voice for it
Looks like the original creator had a change of heart and has taken it down.
I kinda respect that tbh. Though I hope he reuploads it with his own terrible impression. A bad David Attenborough is almost as good and easy as a bad Sean Connery
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I can't remember if a oneliner for the weekly thread title has been posted already, so I made one for GNU date:
date --date="next Sunday" +"Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending %A %e %B %Y"
Note, this is locale-dependent.