BlueMonday1984

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Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

They also needed to rapidly rein it in after gamers got it to pull a Tay AI and start spamming slurs.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

New artcle from Brian Merchant: An 'always on' OpenAI device is a massive backlash waiting to happen

Giving my personal thoughts on the upcoming OpenAI Device^tm^, I think Merchant's correct to expect mass-scale backlash against the Device^tm^ and public shaming/ostracisation of anyone who decides to use it - especially considering its an explicit repeat of the widely clowned on Humane AI Pin.

headlines of Device^tm^ wearers getting their asses beaten in the street to follow soon afterwards. As Brian's noted, a lot of people would see wearing an OpenAI Device^tm^ as an open show of contempt for others, and between AI's public image becoming utterly fouled by the bubble and Silicon Valley's reputation going into the toilet, I can see someone seeing a Device^tm^ wearer as an opportunity to take their well-justified anger at tech corps out on someone who openly and willingly bootlicks for them.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

New Bluesky post from Baldur Bjarnason:

What’s missing from the now ubiquitous “LLMs are good for code” is that code is a liability. The purpose of software is to accomplish goals with the minimal amount of code that’s realistically possible

LLMs may be good for code, but they seem to be a genuine hazard for collaborative software dev

Google takes AI propaganda to the movies in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Google is very upset that a lot of the public don’t really like AI. You might think this was because of AI slop and explicit threats to their jobs, but Google is pretty sure it’s because people saw the Terminator films.

Okay, quick sidenote: I wouldn't be shocked if people looked at the Terminator in a different light after this bubble.

On the one hand, the basic idea of "AI turns sentient and kills us all" is pretty laughable in a cultural zeitgeist where "AI" means "plagiarism-fueled lying machine" or "plagiarism-fueled mediocrity generator" or "plagiarism-fueled atrocity machine" (okay, maybe not that last one). The general themes of "man vs machine" will likely shine through all the brighter, though - especially given how the AI systems involved in this bubble function explicitly through stealing the work of human authors, artists, and other such creatives, and exclusively through stealing said human creatives' work (ingesting AI slop slowly destroys AI systems, and everyone who works in AI rejects giving artists a fair shake out of principle).

On the other hand, the fact that AI has nonetheless still caused unimaginable damage to humanity (the environmental damage, the slop-nami, the fully-automatic worker abuse and enshittification, et cetera) might make the films feel oddly prescient, as it (plus the last 20-ish years of corporate malevolence) have made it clear that there are a lot of businessmen out there who would actively and willingly ruin the entire fucking world and potentially kill all of humanity if the alternative was "I, and I specifically, don't make all of the money ever".

And on the gripping hand, the likes of OpenAI and friends actively pushing AI Doom^tm^ to criti-hype their way into raising more money could paint Cyberdyne's existence in a much different light - with the breathless hype about AGI/superintelligence that Altman and Friends have put out, the general message they've been putting out is basically "We are actively trying to create the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus, because, uh, reasons. Please give us all of the money and ruin the world for our benefit and our benefit alone, otherwise we won't be able to make the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus".

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Veering semi-OT: the guy behind the godawful Windows 11 GUI has revealed himself:

Looking at his Twitter profile, its clear he's a general dumpster fire of a human being - most of his feed's just him retweeting AI garbage or fash garbage.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

ED ZITRON

FROM THE TOP ROPE

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

New piece from Iris Meredith: Keeping up appearances, about the cultural forces that gave us LLMs and how best to defeat them

Firing people for AI: not going so well in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago

If you get the call, charge as much as you can. Then charge more.

Words to live by.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

So, he's essentially Drake if he got into AI doom

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Tried to read it, ended up glazing over after the first or second paragraph, so I'll fire off a hot take and call it a day:

Artificial intelligence is a pseudoscience, and it should be treated as such.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Friend of mine witnessed some bleak shit, now you get to see it too:

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this..)

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Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media] (www.404media.co)
 

A nice and solid mockery of just how badly e/accs derailed their own plans by getting Trump elected. I'll let the subtitle(?) speak for itself:

Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Also, happy April Fool's in advance.)

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ReactOS 0.4.15 released (reactos.org)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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"The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer" [Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge] (www.theverge.com)
 

A solid piece on AI and ethics (and the general lack of them), featuring a nice sideswipe at our very good friends.

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Tiny3D - High-Res Textures [N64 Homebrew] (www.youtube.com)
 

Fun fact: somebody managed to pull off deferred rendering on the Nintendo 64. And its let them show off impressively high-res textures at pretty solid framerates.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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Yud follows up Sammy Boy's AI-Generated "Metafiction" (awful.systems)
 

XCancel: https://xcancel.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1900247885142434220

Context: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115

If I had a nickel for every "metafictional" "short" "story" a promptbro shat into existence on Twitter, I'd have two nickels. That's not much, but its two nickels too fucking many.

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers (www.wheresyoured.at)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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