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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

looks like tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

crayon either way

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

that gives me questions about China

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Chris Kluwe vs Gamergate is an example of the jocks as the good guys up against the nerds as the bad guys

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

IQ is a farce multiplier. Elon is a High IQ Individual which means he wreaks 1000x the havoc of a regular dumbass. IQ stands for Idiot Quickly

Ziz update thread, started 19 February in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

BBC summary of the story of Ziz

Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably. in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the user has been gently directed to the debate club

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People don’t enjoy making music, says AI music CEO being sued for stealing music (pivot-to-ai.com)
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UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details (pivot-to-ai.com)
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AI agents mean Salesforce won’t hire software engineers in 2025, apparently (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Adobe AI auto-fills part of a seagull photo with … a bitcoin (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Orange site having trouble finding actual production use cases of AI "agents" (news.ycombinator.com)
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Whoops! Facebook trained Llama AI model on pirate site LibGen, with Zuckerberg’s OK (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Apple’s AI helpfully rewords scam messages to make them look legitimate (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Nvidia unveils its flagship RTX 5090 card — with AI-juiced frame rates (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1 (podcast) (podcasts.apple.com)
 

Ed Zitron, Robert Evans, Edward Ongweso Jr. and Gare Davis turn CES into a British panel discussion show.

There are probably other links for it than Apple, I'm sure you can find them if that's an issue.

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Cybertruck driver used ChatGPT to plan Las Vegas attack, police say (www.8newsnow.com)
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CES 2025 brings the gratuitous bolted-on AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Sam Altman: AI agents will totally replace your employees any year now! Also, ChatGPT Pro is losing money (pivot-to-ai.com)
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