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Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

how dare you, that's ancap jargon

The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

link?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw

On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

good thing Rust is only run by Palantir

I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

nor any other

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Mao just read his Adam Smith

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

sorry that sign's been updated

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Centrists Don't Fucking Be Like This challenge not achieved yet again

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AoGpED4fw3LSGhxTLU

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (17 children)

The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud in c/[email protected]
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak

dust specks vs leopards

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Kunlun’s Melodio and Mureka AI slop music — hear the audio samples (pivot-to-ai.com)
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OpenAI’s Whisper audio transcriber makes up hospital treatments and medications (pivot-to-ai.com)
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what happened next with Max Tegmark and the Swedish neo-Nazis (medium.com)
 

archive: https://archive.is/ux5pL

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Whoops! Google, Copilot, Perplexity push scientific racism in search results (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Foreign Policy: Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated (foreignpolicy.com)
 

archive: https://archive.is/Ji6cs

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OpenAI next model Orion by December, it's 100x cooler bro trust me bro no we're not releasing to the public bro it's just too dangerous and cool bro (www.theverge.com)
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Cybercheck has secured murder convictions. It appears to just run websites through a chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Radio Kraków fires announcers, replaces them with AI bot voices (pivot-to-ai.com)
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the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold (awful.systems)
 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918760
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919670
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927838
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41929585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932632

you would believe how bad these guys are at understanding basic shit

[let's see how long for this post to turn into a shooting gallery]

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Microsoft, OpenAI bribe newsrooms to please, please use their AI tools. Please? (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Elon Musk gets his AI ideas from whatever sci-fi movie he saw last (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Venture capital is having a bad time — and AI isn’t going to fix it (pivot-to-ai.com)
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