blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 hours agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoFeeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 24 hours agoWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoOpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoPhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoDiscord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out ofplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoAI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using themplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square182fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoMicrosoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leasesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoAI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how toplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoGoogle Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoYahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject linesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoBusinesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want oneplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoHumane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pinplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10
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swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agoMusk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvaniaplus-squarearchive.mdexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoAI chatbots test as having cognitive declineplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 days agoGuardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generationplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
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blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 days agoEl Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s palsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 16 days agoHow AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
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