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OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

yeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google's ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?

‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no no it's LYING

Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025

the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news

i expect this one to be more of the same

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy

(looks around nervously)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don't have them there eithe

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Donald Trump, so yeah

"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron] in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

christ. can't he go back to disco, he was good at that

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.

$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’ in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

you saw nothing

(ty)

Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

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how will Free Our Feeds free our feeds? They'll take the Bluesky firehose and put it ... on a blockchain (www.prnewswire.com)
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spotted by @jonny@neuromatch.social

good discussion: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/114079771880419501

archive link: https://archive.is/9g3KF

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OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model (pivot-to-ai.com)
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PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Discord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out of (pivot-to-ai.com)
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AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases (pivot-to-ai.com)
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AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Tech Under Fascism: Lessons from the first Trump term (write.as)
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Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it (pivot-to-ai.com)
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here's a recent 46 minute interview with SBF, which i am taking tremendous delight in not caring about (www.youtube.com)
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Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. (awful.systems)
 

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