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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just a standard story about a lawyer using GenAI and fucking up, but included for the nice list of services available

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/counsel-would-you-be-surprised.html

This is not by any means the first time ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Bard, or Copilot, or Claude, or Jasper, or Perplexity, or Steve, or Frodo, or El Braino Grande, or whatever stupid thing it is people are using, has embarrassed a lawyer by just completely making things up.

El Braino Grande is the name of my next ~~band~~ GenAI startup

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Steve

There's no way someone called their product fucking Steve come on god jesus christ

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Of course there is going to be an ai for every word. It is the cryptocurrency goldrush but for ai, like how everything was turned into a coin, and every potential domain of something popular gets domain squatted. Tech has empowered parasite behaviour.

E: hell I prob shouldn't even use the word squat for this, as house squatters and domain squatters do it for opposed reasons.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Against my better judgement I typed steve.ai into my browser and yep. It's an AI product.

frodo.ai on the other hand is currently domain parked. It could be yours for the low low price of $43,911

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 4 points 20 hours ago

Against my better judgement I typed steve.ai into my browser and yep. It’s an AI product.

But is chickenjockey.ai domain parked

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I bring you: this

they based their entire public support/response/community/social/everything program on that

for years

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 19 hours ago

(I should be clear, they based "their" thing on the "not steve"..... but, well....)