blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 hours agoScience journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoOops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoIlya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkIlya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square7fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoElon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoLA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoGoogle: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a weekplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days ago"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building serversplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoFeeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoOpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoPhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 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 · 11 days agoAI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using themplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoMicrosoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leasesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 13 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 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 · 14 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-up1164arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 16 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 · 17 days agoBusinesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want oneplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
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