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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He appeared to be human, but then they counted his fingers.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Mr. Vesper, could you wire me my pay? I have not been paid in months, and I need to pay rent!

"As an AI language model..."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's shocking to realise how much of capitalism is just irrational bullshit tulip mania nonsense.

Sure, AI's going to change the world, but some of the valuations are absurd.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

true, it's going to make it worse

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I swear, OpenAI is just a bunch of clowns LARPing as a company from Shadowrun and somehow it works and no one questions it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It works, as no companies who have institutional power to call them out on their Shadowrun larping will call them out, as their lie relfects their own lie, and suddenly they can no longer sleep. Project mayhem is capitalism! His name is Robert Dunkelzahn!

E: think my chatbot which I trained on my own posts broke there in the end, should have never trained it on making references.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

no no. once they get it running on the blockchain it will take over everything!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

"Or — bear with us here — maybe the AGI that everybody's so worried about is already online, and quietly trying to seize control itself. Just kidding... right?"

This is some sort of april fools joke right?

[–] Nobody 23 points 10 months ago

Fortunately, the OpenAI fund is insured by renowned financier, Maximilian Bigbux, III, whose vast personal fortune includes uninsurable beachfront Florida real estate, newspaper stock, and some sweet crypto his cousin told him about.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

AI = Crypto It's a hot mess, there will always be a scandal, and the con job is epic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

a reader tipped me off to a beauty last night, an "AI company" that appears to be a completely fake company

more as it comes, i'll probably write a post about it

[–] Etterra 15 points 10 months ago

The AI can't stop you if you're the AI that can't stop you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

IS IT NOT THE AI GNIIYS?!

[–] TheBat 11 points 10 months ago

Person of Interest theme starts playing

[–] SpruceBringsteen 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you kidding me, I got boxes full of Vespers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Well, shit, all I got was the vapours! Oh me, oh my!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

at least it's not joiler veppers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

these guys are not witty enough to do it as a deliberate pun, no

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Or with the brevity demanded