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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English8·22 hours agoSomeone I know called AI “a non-invasive procedure to lobotomise people” after I mentioned this Pivot to AI, and its stuck with me ever since
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•look AI doom is all very well, but we have extremely important message board drama to be getting on withEnglish2·23 hours ago…You know, if I actually believed in the whole AGI doom scenario (and bought into Eliezer’s self-hype) I would be even more pissed at him and sneer even harder at him. He basically set himself up as a critical savior to mankind, one of the only people clear sighted enough to see the real dangers and most important question… and then he totally failed to deliver. Not only that he created the very hype that would trigger the creation of the unaligned AGI he promised to prevent!
As the cherry on top of this shit sundae, the bubble caused by said hype dealt devastating damage to the Internet and the world at large in spite of failing to create the unaligned AGI Yud was doomsaying about, and made people more vulnerable to falling for the plagiarism-fueled lying machines behind said bubble.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English7·2 days agoNew (paywalled) 404 Media: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English8·2 days agoNot a sneer, but still inexplicably funny: You Can Now Venmo the Government to Help Pay Off National Debt
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•We did it. 2 people and many boats problem is a classic now. [content warning: botshit]English6·2 days agoNow we need to make a logic puzzle involving two people and one cup. Perhaps they are trying to share a drink equitably. Each time they drink one third of remaining cup’s volume.
Step one: Drink two-thirds of the cup’s volume
Step two: Piss one sixth of the cup’s volume
Problem solved
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English8·2 days agoLong-term, I’m expecting itch to dive in popularity from this - they’ve nuked much of the trust they’ve built up over the years with this.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English12·2 days agoFound a neat mini-sneer in the wild: It’s rude to show AI output to people
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•We did it. 2 people and many boats problem is a classic now. [content warning: botshit]English13·3 days agoTwo ferrymen and three boats are on the left bank of a river. Each boat holds exactly one man. How can they get both men and all three boats to the right bank?
Officially, you can’t. Unofficially, just have one of the ferrymen tow a boat.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English13·3 days agoCaught a particularly spectacular AI fuckup in the wild:
(Sidenote: Rest in peace Ozzy - after the long and wild life you had, you’ve earned it)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concernsEnglish15·4 days agoFound a banger in the comments:
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English5·4 days agoHey, remember the thing that you said would happen?
The part about condemnation and mockery? Yeah, I already thought that was guaranteed, but I didn’t expect to be vindicated so soon afterwards.
EDIT: One of the replies gives an example for my “death of value-neutral AI” prediction too, openly calling AI “a weapon of mass destruction” and calling for its abolition.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English9·4 days agoManaged to stumble across two separate attempts to protect promptfondlers’ feelings from getting hurt like they deserve, titled “Shame in the machine: affective accountability and the ethics of AI” and “AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work”.
I found both of them whilst trawling Bluesky, and they’re being universally mocked like they deserve on there.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English7·4 days agoI don’t keep track, I just put these together when I’ve got an interesting tangent to go on.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English5·4 days agoDiscovered some commentary from Baldur Bjarnason about this:
Somebody linked to the discussion about this on hacker news (boo hiss) and the examples that are cropping up there are amazing
This highlights another issue with generative models that some people have been trying to draw attention to for a while: as bad as they are in English, they are much more error-prone in other languages
(Also IMO Google translate declined substantially when they integrated more LLM-based tech)
On a personal sidenote, I can see non-English text/audio becoming a form of low-background media in and of itself, for two main reasons:
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First, LLMs’ poor performance in languages other than English will make non-English AI slop easier to identify - and, by extension, easier to avoid
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Second, non-English datasets will (likely) contain less AI slop in general than English datasets - between English being widely used across the world, the tech corps behind this bubble being largely American, and LLM userbases being largely English-speaking, chances are AI slop will be primarily generated in English, with non-English AI slop being a relative rarity.
By extension, knowing a second language will become more valuable as well, as it would allow you to access (and translate) low-background sources that your English-only counterparts cannot.
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English13·4 days agoNew Ed Zitron: The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble
(guy truly is the Kendrick Lamar of tech, huh)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English13·5 days agoNew science-related development - The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It’s Overwhelmed by AI Submissions
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English11·5 days agoFound an archive of vibe-coding disasters recently - recommend checking it out.
Xe has talked a bit about the mascot in question before - by her own testimony, its there to act as a shopping cart test to see who’s willing to support the project. Reportedly, she’s planning to exploit it to make some more elaborate checks as well.