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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i got quoted as an ai authority, talking about elon's rational boys https://www.dailydot.com/news/elon-musk-doge-coup-engineer-grant-democracy/

What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

looks like it's only the app, which is served from China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LW, one is an actual LW poster

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

so there's a whole network of specifically Thiel-associated SF tech guys who are into particular churches

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

lol, multiple

Skynet, but it’s Wheatley: OpenAI sells ‘reasoning’ AI to US government for nuclear weapon security in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

gemini just now:

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

at least one matches, i forget the name but it's all over bsky

Lol. Lmao even. "DeepSeek R1 reproduced for $30: Berkeley researchers replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30—casting doubt on H100 claims and controversy" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

this user is just too smart for the average awful systems poster to deal with, and has been sent on his way to a more intellectual lemmy

Lol. Lmao even. "DeepSeek R1 reproduced for $30: Berkeley researchers replicate DeepSeek R1 for $30—casting doubt on H100 claims and controversy" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

unfortunately, nobody cares cos they're all thieves

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

i read this and my brain started leaking out my ears

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is there anything written up anywhere about these AI book summaries? I know they were doing "AI" audiobooks.

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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too (pivot-to-ai.com)
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I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
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a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning (anderegg.ca)
15
AI and venture capital are going nuclear (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes (www.youtube.com)
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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further (pivot-to-ai.com)
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ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

a bit of completely original journalism based on reader tips, thank you

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UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot (pivot-to-ai.com)
16
Raw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harm (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint. (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again. (pivot-to-ai.com)
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