BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoI find absolutely consistently that gen-AI advocates are literally unable to tell good output from bad output. They think people who say their output is garbage are just lying to have a go at them.plus-squarex.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down10
arrow-up185arrow-down1external-linkI find absolutely consistently that gen-AI advocates are literally unable to tell good output from bad output. They think people who say their output is garbage are just lying to have a go at them.plus-squarex.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square45fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoCursor AI assistant tells vibe coder: learn to codeplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkCursor AI assistant tells vibe coder: learn to codeplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square17fedilink
blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoCredulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipediaplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoOpenAI’s for-profit plan is in troubleplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI’s for-profit plan is in troubleplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoForeign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Startplus-squareforeignpolicy.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkForeign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Startplus-squareforeignpolicy.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square18fedilink
Steve@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agoEdge-case marketingplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1external-linkEdge-case marketingplus-squarewww.youtube.comSteve@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoLet’s write PR pitches with an AI! (report spam, block sender)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkLet’s write PR pitches with an AI! (report spam, block sender)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoOops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkOops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square12fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoScience journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
arrow-up117arrow-down1external-linkScience journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoElon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoIlya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
arrow-up117arrow-down1external-linkIlya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square8fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoLA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up187arrow-down10
arrow-up187arrow-down1external-linkLA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square9fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days ago"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building serversplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-link"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building serversplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square12fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days 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-square22fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down10
arrow-up1156arrow-down1external-linkGoogle: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a weekplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square22fedilink
blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoFeeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkFeeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoOpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10
arrow-up1103arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square29fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 days agoPhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down10
arrow-up1124arrow-down1external-linkPhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square14fedilink
