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1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 4 hours ago

It's kind of encouraging that this dumb shit isn't new innit?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Am I the only person not impressed by veo3? Yeah there are more details yada yada, but the details are still wrong.

The view of the garbage fractal isn't improved by zooming deeper into the Bullshit-Mandlebrot Set.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not healthy for me to have my biases confirmed like this.

Google takes AI propaganda to the movies in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

Should have trained it on Ninjago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Firing people for AI: not going so well in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

...fields oriented around neurology are scientific, but fields oriented around psychology are pseudoscientific.

When a good man gazes into the palantir and sees L Ron Hubbard looking back

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Tired: Ned Ludd

Wired: Joe Butlerian

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

Can Adam ruin something so much that he can't ruin that particular ruination?

You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

It's supervisors all the way down!

You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data in c/techtakes@awful.systems
You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

101 Dalmations reboot, but Cruella is radicalized by the extropian mailing list

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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
9 comments fedilink
 

This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north (www.reuters.com)
 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence (firstmonday.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
0 comments fedilink
 

By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

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Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters (web.archive.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
2 comments fedilink
 

Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital (sfstandard.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
28 comments fedilink
 

John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets (gizmodo.com)
 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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