BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 21 hours agoAI-generated travel influencers — marketers love them! Real travelers, not so muchplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoMeet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoData centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generatorsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoHugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users objectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoSynthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgustplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · edit-25 days agoArtists are given access to OpenAI Sora. Release access publicly to everyone as a protest.plus-squarehuggingface.coexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoData centers are driving up your power bills — and it’s only going to get worseplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square131fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10
arrow-up130arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024plus-squareBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square131fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoSpines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoRoll out the barrels of pork: Congressional committee recommends AI ‘Manhattan Project’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agothe tech utopia fantasy is overplus-squareblog.avas.spaceexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down10
arrow-up181arrow-down1external-linkthe tech utopia fantasy is overplus-squareblog.avas.spaceDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square24fedilink
slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-210 days agoThe article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine'splus-squarewww.astralcodexten.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-211 days agoChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 days agoWhomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productiveplus-squarewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1208arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agohey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraudplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squarehey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraudplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square3fedilink
self@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days agoOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10
arrow-up140arrow-down1external-linkOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaself@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square29fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 days agoPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 days agoHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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