David GerardMEnglish • 7 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024plus-squarepinmessage-square155fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 23 June 2024plus-squarepinDavid GerardMEnglish • 7 days agomessage-square155fedilink
db0English • 7 hours agoNeither the devil you know nor the devil you don’tplus-squarepluralistic.netmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 3 days agoFast Crimes at Lambda School - eat shit Austenplus-squarewww.sandofsky.commessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
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@FRACTRANS@awful.systemsEnglish • 2 days agoPerplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machineplus-squarewww.wired.commessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 4 days agoI Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Againplus-squareludic.mataroa.blogmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 3 days agothose well known sneerers the (checks notes) Federal Trade Commissionplus-squarewww.ftc.govmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 5 days ago"Google Gemini tried to kill me"plus-squarewww.reddit.commessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up191arrow-down10
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@BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish • edit-24 days agoThe mainstreaming of 'AI' scepticism [Baldur Bjarnason]plus-squarewww.baldurbjarnason.commessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 11 days agousing GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequenceplus-squarearchive.ismessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down10
arrow-up165arrow-down1external-linkusing GitHub CoPilot leads to the obvious consequenceplus-squarearchive.isDavid GerardMEnglish • 11 days agomessage-square66fedilink
@mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish • 13 days agoThe role of the consumer in late stage capitalismplus-squaremessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 13 days agoOnion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AIplus-squarewww.theonion.commessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down10
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@blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish • 14 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 16 June 2024plus-squaremessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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@froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish • 14 days agohot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries storeplus-squaretheconversation.commessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10
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@sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish • 15 days agowow. sensibleawful.systemsimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • edit-216 days ago"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curveplus-squaresituational-awareness.aimessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 16 days agocome see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space!plus-squarearxiv.orgmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-linkcome see all the popular super-duper-autocomplete systems failing hard at really simple reasoning questions and babbling nonsense from latent space!plus-squarearxiv.orgDavid GerardMEnglish • 16 days agomessage-square12fedilink
David GerardMEnglish • 20 days agoAt the AI Chatbot conference, an event suffused with use cases for guillotinesplus-squarewww.nplusonemag.commessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
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David GerardMEnglish • 20 days agoCEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoomplus-squarewww.theverge.commessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down10
arrow-up1138arrow-down1external-linkCEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoomplus-squarewww.theverge.comDavid GerardMEnglish • 20 days agomessage-square56fedilink
David GerardMEnglish • 20 days agoSam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI.plus-squarewww.wsj.commessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down10
arrow-up170arrow-down1external-linkSam Altman makes $65k a year as CEO of OpenAI. He also makes millions from his portfolio companies doing conflicted deals with OpenAI.plus-squarewww.wsj.comDavid GerardMEnglish • 20 days agomessage-square13fedilink
@blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish • 21 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 June 2024plus-squaremessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 June 2024plus-square@blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish • 21 days agomessage-square101fedilink