blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 hours agoLA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 20 hours agoGoogle: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a weekplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 20 hours ago"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building serversplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoFeeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoOpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoPhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoDiscord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out ofplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoAI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using themplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoMicrosoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leasesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoAI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how toplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoGoogle Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoYahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject linesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoBusinesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want oneplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoHumane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pinplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · 13 days agoMusk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvaniaplus-squarearchive.mdexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 days agoAI chatbots test as having cognitive declineplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 days agoGuardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generationplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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