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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

A random thought occurred to me that Veo is probably “better” at being prompted with something like “the scene from X movie but with Y instead of Z” as it is a plagiarism engine first and foremost. I will never investigate this hypothesis, nor will I hold onto it past typing it here.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

think of all the rug you could have pulled...

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago

It may be hard to believe but I am not a ‘tech bro’

“If you look closely you might notice I am wearing a fedora, indicating that I am in fact a technology fraternatarian, you peasant.”

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Musk objects to the "stochastic parrot" labelling of LLMs. Mostly just the stochastic part.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago

oh, absolutely. I mean you could sub out "LLM" with any bullshit that management can easily spring on their understaff. Agile, standups, return to office, the list goes on. Management can get fucked

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago

"This study that I didn't read that has a real methodology for evaluating LLM usefulness instead of just trusting what AI bros say about LLM usefulness is wrong, they should just trust us, bros", that's you

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They’re also (indirectly) competing with Umamusume: Pretty Derby, which offers zero P2E elements, but does offer horse waifus and actual entertainment value. Needless to say, we both know who’s winning this particular fight for people’s cash.

It's almost as if people don't want to spend money on bland low-poly 3D models of horses and would instead prefer waifu art with surprisingly intricate character design that I definitely do not know anything about*

*I actually do not, but for the bit, pretend that I do and am being defensive

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago

. Debate me bro? (jk)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 26 points 2 days ago

Are these entry-level developers that are merely half as good as expert human unassisted developers in the room with us right now?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 48 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Megacorp LLM death spiral:

  1. Megacorp managers at all levels introduce new LLM usage policies.
  2. Productivity goes down (see study linked in post)
  3. Managers make the excuse that this is due to a transitional period in LLM policies.
  4. Policies become mandates. Beatings begin and/or intensify.
  5. Repeat from 1.
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

Great. First, my AI girlfriend drops her tables because I ran out of tokens, and I can't buy more tokens because I can't write code anymore, because Cursor is too expensive. Next, you'll be telling me I can't jork it to LLM hentai! I mean, what are even doing here??? (jk)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

I mean, if a lawyer uses LLMs as counsel, that might cause a judge to stay the proceedings to tell that lawyer to get their shit together and be professional. Or if a company slaps AI into their mission statement, that could stay their stock price for a while until investors lose faith or they pivot to the next bubble. In that sense, "AI is here to stay."

 

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Tickled pink that BI has decided to platform the AI safety chuds. OFC, the more probable reason of “more dosh” gets mentioned, but most of the article is about how Anthropic is more receptive to addressing AI safety and alignment.

 

Burns said the driving force behind the Runway deal was to allow filmmakers to “make movies and television shows we’d otherwise never make. We can’t make it for $100 million, but we’d make it for $50 million because of AI… We’re banging around the art of the possible. Let’s try some stuff, see what sticks.”

read: "I huffed my own farts and passed out. This gave me a dream where we made a film via promptfondling. I decided that I'll make a press release with made up numbers based on that dream."

As reported by New York Magazine: “With a library as large as Lionsgate’s, they could use Runway to repackage and resell what the studio already owned, adjusting tone, format and rating to generate a softer cut for a younger audience or convert a live-action film into a cartoon.”

read: "There's no need to do requels like disney does. The serfs will gobble the slop and they'll like it. After all, why risk creating new jobs or any creative output when we could just melt the ice caps instead?"

As for another example of how the studio can use AI, Burns said to consider this scenario: “We have this movie we’re trying to decide whether to green-light. There’s a 10-second shot — 10,000 soldiers on a hillside with a bunch of horses in a snowstorm.” Using Runaway’s AI technology, the studio can avoid a pricy film shoot that would cost millions and take a few days and use AI to create the shot for about $10,000.

read: "Here's a bottle of my farts. Smell it. Feeling dizzy? Good. Now imagine a scenario where you're looking at your bank account, and instead of number go down, number go up. Isn't that nice? Have another whiff."

 

Take that, Saltman! Bet you never thought it was possible!

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Original Title: Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

Billy Evans has two children with the Theranos founder, who is in prison for fraud. He’s now trying to raise money for a testing company that promises “human health optimization.”

Original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup.html

 

Original NYT title: Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative

 

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OFC if there were any real sense or justice in the world, LLMs would be banned outright.

 

No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

 

Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

 

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“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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