HotGarbage

joined 5 months ago
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

Did ABC get AI credits to air this? Are they going to use said AI to justify laying off staff? Then use that money to pay Oprah?

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And if you're not paying to chat with an LLM, you're paying some guy with utter contempt for you https://www.wired.com/story/i-went-undercover-secret-onlyfans-chatter-wasnt-pretty/

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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Historian sneers at billionaire while HN trip over each other to lick boot.

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago (8 children)

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 28 points 5 months ago

Ars' example gave me some hope User asking: "Can I evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent?" Chatbot responding: "No, you cannot evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent. Evicting a tenant for this reason is not allowed."

[–] HotGarbage@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/crypto-miner-pennsylvania-hit-with-lawsuit-over-pollution-bitcoin-mine-2024-03-26/

Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.

 

After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?

Without having read the actual lawsuit yet

Says it all