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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hot drama in promptfondler land today!!! [1] [2] [3]

Anyone know what's going on here?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I extremely briefly looked into it earlier when I saw the headline drift by on lobsters or something, and found a venturebeat presser

so it seems we're at that stage of the LLM grift cycle

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

OK Venturebeat have hastily beaten a venture-retreat and are decrying fraud complete with an AI generated header image that really screams "promptfondler caught red-handed fondling".

Contains such choice quotes are “fraud in the AI research community”, which are very reminiscent of Capt. Renault's reaction in the casino in Casablanca.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-open-source-ai-leader-reflection-70bs-performance-questioned-accused-of-fraud/

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

I should be trying to sleep, given I need to be on the road by 0630 tomorrow (it is 22h22), but this rapid fire set of events has greatly improved how happy I’ll feel about shit sleep by morning

now do chatgpt4ahegao, cowards

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

just turned it into today's post lol

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

saw this ridiculous shit on the side of a jag on the highway a little bit ago

best guess is rental-contract jag by a hustler, but the half-hearted AI non-mention is why I thought to post it here. we're rapidly evolving in the grift cycle!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It looks like a media prop making a soft parody of buzzword laced sites that don't actually say anything. 'we provide business solutions and services' lol

And of course, due to my browser being slightly locked down (or the whole site being broken) the whole 'check it out' button does nothing.

The animated button that looks like it might direct you to a chat option (but actually just scrolls you back up to the start of the page for some unknown reason) is also great. (This is isn't really their fault btw, it is that wordpress themes one (if you image search on the people being happy with the services provided you will find a few other sites with the same theme, and same stock image).

Hello world!

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