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YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

the Smasnug investigation is amazing

enjoy Coffeezilla's flabbergasted despair at Trumpcoin and Melaniacoin in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

lol i was about to reply "welcome to awful systems here's your accordion"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

also they are rationalists and hence the most gullible mfs on any of this stuff

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

they can't even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it's about $1000 per query lol

Could can openers feel pain? How about AIs? Google researchers ask the leading questions in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

or just ask for one here

Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride” in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Hacker News: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? The answer may not surprise you! in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

that being the specific model when we started it! "web3 is going great but it's AI"

molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one

Microsoft research finds Microsoft AI products may never be secure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft 365 Coilot

365 toilet

Microsoft research finds Microsoft AI products may never be secure in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

intel frantically taking notes

Meta AI case lawyer quits after Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Neo-Nazi madness’; Llama depositions unsealed in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

love the linkedin comments trying to insist there will be terrible consequences for this prominent law professor who must just not know his stuff or something

did scoot at one time have the mask on, cos if so that must be the *distant* past in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

and bullshitting and dogwhistling and obfuscation

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th January 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

jfc

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AI-generated travel influencers — marketers love them! Real travelers, not so much (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything? (awful.systems)
 

featuring nobody's favourite e/acc bro, BasedBeffJezos

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/01/does-ai-startup-extropic-actually-do-anything/

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Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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LessWrong House Style (2023) (awful.systems)
 

https://nonesense.substack.com/p/lesswrong-house-style

Given that they are imbeciles given, occasionally, to dangerous ideas, I think it’s worth taking a moment now and then to beat them up. This is another such moment.

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Data centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generators (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Data centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worse (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Spines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Roll out the barrels of pork: Congressional committee recommends AI ‘Manhattan Project’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump (pivot-to-ai.com)
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the tech utopia fantasy is over (blog.avas.space)
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