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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Finally it is today on the AS. So I can post my link. The AI Guys Are Driving Themselves Mad (nymag link)

[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago

REAL

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oof, real Qanon flavor there.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah that they named it Q* and that they are very online (so they know about the implications) is quite worrying.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

it really didn’t take long for OpenAI to enter its binance era. just make cryptic non-statements and boost conspiracy theories and watch your stock price go up!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Found some tweets (randomly I wasn't looking for them) of one of the people in the article above driving themselves mad. See the second tweet here. Oh no, the chatbot said it is the master of all!

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its posts broke containment, however, after an unsolicited reply from Sam Altman himself:

amazing tbh — Sam Altman (@sama) August 8, 2024

aren't you supposed to be running the most valuable startup ever made? why are you cosplaying Ryan Gamestop Cohen?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

Why are you thinking he isn't running the startup by doing this? Number needs to be high!

Musk has shown that you don't actually need to deliver for decades if you just keep saying 'soon a thing!' every time there is a negative quarter.