BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-25 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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Coll@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 hours agoHow prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case studyplus-squarebobjacobs.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-215 hours ago‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating againplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoAmazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days ago"If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altmanplus-squarewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days ago"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron]plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoH&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claimsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoNew York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10
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DeviantNull@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agoDigital Tar Pits - How to Fight Back Against A.I.plus-squareyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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diz@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoGemini seem to have "solved" my duck river crossing, lol.plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days ago$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoHow to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoMeet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Insteadplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
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dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish · edit-28 days agoA1 Steak Sauce for Kid Spongesplus-squaregizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-29 days agoa16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumpingplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish · 9 days agoCrypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far.lemm.eeimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
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o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoGreenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up northplus-squarewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoFacebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” [404 Media]plus-squarewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
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Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoUK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to killplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
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