gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024pinmessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoNature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialectplus-squarewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months ago80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projectsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoScale AI is stiffing its task workersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months ago"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."plus-squarenews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."plus-squarenews.ycombinator.comsue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoThe UK wants AI in schools to mark kids’ homeworkplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoYet another completely normal use of generative AI: not-obviously-illegal CSAMplus-squarewww.wgal.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoAI conference papers are being ‘peer-reviewed’ by chatbotsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoNo, OpenAI Strawberry isn’t imminent — but it sure trolled the AI doomersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoRickrolled by the AI — ChatGPT has the Rick Astley lookplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoPavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegramplus-squarewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoDon’t market the Godfather’s new movie with fake AI-generated reviews, it won’t go well for youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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corbin@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoLeopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopardsplus-squarejustine.lolexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-22 months agoCopilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibilityplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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UnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoDevs and the Culture of Tech - Final partplus-squareunserious.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoGartner releases AI Hype Cycle for 2024: autonomous AI is on the way! Apparentlyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 months agoThe UK Labour AI push — who are the vendors lobbying for a slice of the pie?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 months agoSilicon Valley getting back to its roots: the Y Combinator cruise missileplus-squarewww.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 months agoThe Gloyz (after O. Henry) — by A. Molitorplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 months agoGoogle is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search resultsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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