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Foreign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and a terrible pub

Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

my lethal weapon is my WP:WTF

Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah, "Did you know" exists to encourage new articles, or major expansions of old ones. it cycles every six hours I think.

Foreign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

the post history is very infosec dot pub

Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago

Wikipedia rules make more sense when you understand they are entirely to keep the most pedantic nerds on earth from fighting

Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is specifically about the current shitty "AI Overview" that is currently and specifically pissing people off and Google essaying that as the only interface to search. (Sure they might not, but OTOH predicting future behaviour from past behaviour.)

That they did fucking terrible overviews in the past is not some sort of excuse for the current and specific issue with the current and specific AI Overviews.

wtf with calling hating this extremely hateworthy shit "uncanny-valley reactionism"

Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles

hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

i applied the relevant tags and rewrote the intro, may go through the rest later

Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer review in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 weeks ago

yeah that's the tell

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

what if, right, we made a search engine so good it became the verb for searching, and then we replaced it with a robot with a concussion

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

oh yeah loved that format, perfect

however, Better Offline makes money

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying

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that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
 

the comments are a delight also

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Slate on the pronatalists: For the Love of God, Stop Profiling This Couple! (slate.com)
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tired: Roko's Basilisk. wired: Total Fucking Asshole Server 2006 (en.uncyclopedia.co)
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How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Do be evil: Google now OK with AI for weapons and surveillance — for ‘freedom, equality, and human rights’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Iris Meredith: Licking the AI Boot (deadsimpletech.com)
 

"the AI thread in our society now is nothing more or less than a demand by the wealthy creators of it for submission. It's a naked show of force by the powerful and stupid: you will use this tool, and you will like it."

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Forum admin’s madness, AI edition: the old Physics Forums site fills with generated slop (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Popular anonymous race scientist "Crémieux Receuil" is actually a graduate student named Jordan Lasker (www.polemics.md)
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Oh no! AI can replicate itself! … when you tell it to, and you give it copies of all its files (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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Skynet, but it’s Wheatley: OpenAI sells ‘reasoning’ AI to US government for nuclear weapon security (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Cleveland police use AI facial recognition — and their murder case collapses (pivot-to-ai.com)
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