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I’m reaching for a big stick whenever “human” and “optimization” show up in the same sales pitch.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English0·6 天前No, no, the Gays are fine actually. What I really hate is ketchup.
–God, probably
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English0·6 天前What if we threw the CEO into a peat bog when the company underperforms?
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the graveEnglish0·6 天前Take heart, bud. There have always been grifters, this is just the newest iteration.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English0·7 天前Prioritizing spending on GenAI over spending on security.
lol, lmao even.
Security folks are going to feast this decade, aren’t they?
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English0·7 天前@[email protected] writes about how tech authoritarians believe in NPCs at their own peril.
…There are no NPCs, and if you continue to insist that there are then those people will happily drag your enlightened philosopher-king to the National Razor for an uncomfortably close shave as soon as they find the opportunity.
The whole post can be read at the og sneeratorium and is very edifying:
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformationEnglish0·9 天前This kills the OpenAI doesn’t it? Im out at town at the moment so i cant easily check, I seem to recall that a large part of the MS investment converts to debt if they can’t reorganize.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English0·9 天前Whoops, thanks for the heads up! They got me good
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025English0·9 天前Satire-brackets-questionmark is a whole industry now, isn’t it?
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English0·11 天前SovCits, but for philosophy
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPTEnglish0·13 天前Please let this be a bit of performance art.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English0·14 天前It’s kind of messed up that we got treacherous “goodlife” before we got Berserkers.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English0·14 天前The LLM amplified sycophancy affect must be a social experiment {grossly unethical}
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English0·15 天前In terms of depreciating assets, an AI data center is worse than a boat.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto SneerClub@awful.systems•Sneerquence classics: Eliezer on GOFAI (half serious half sneering effort post)English0·16 天前Awesome, informative post!
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English0·16 天前the ol yeetus deletus
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English0·16 天前throwback uni game!
Someone ought to tell him that they’ll sue him using ChatGPT (in the most smug possible manner)