gerikson@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024pinmessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024pingerikson@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoNavigating AI systemsawful.systemsimagemessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageNavigating AI systemsawful.systemsDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoAmazon to replace Alexa with Anthropic’s Claude AI — and charge for itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAmazon to replace Alexa with Anthropic’s Claude AI — and charge for itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoNature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialectplus-squarewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNature: Al generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialectplus-squarewww.nature.comantifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months ago80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projectsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projectsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoScale AI is stiffing its task workersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkScale AI is stiffing its task workersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
sue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months ago"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."plus-squarenews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."plus-squarenews.ycombinator.comsue_me_please@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoThe UK wants AI in schools to mark kids’ homeworkplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe UK wants AI in schools to mark kids’ homeworkplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoYet another completely normal use of generative AI: not-obviously-illegal CSAMplus-squarewww.wgal.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkYet another completely normal use of generative AI: not-obviously-illegal CSAMplus-squarewww.wgal.comantifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoAI conference papers are being ‘peer-reviewed’ by chatbotsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAI conference papers are being ‘peer-reviewed’ by chatbotsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoNo, OpenAI Strawberry isn’t imminent — but it sure trolled the AI doomersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNo, OpenAI Strawberry isn’t imminent — but it sure trolled the AI doomersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
rinze@infosec.pubEnglish · 2 months agoStart-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firmplus-squarewww.ft.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkStart-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firmplus-squarewww.ft.comrinze@infosec.pubEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoRickrolled by the AI — ChatGPT has the Rick Astley lookplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkRickrolled by the AI — ChatGPT has the Rick Astley lookplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoPavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegramplus-squarewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPavel Durov arrested in France over allowing untrammelled unmoderated criminality on Telegramplus-squarewww.reuters.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoDon’t market the Godfather’s new movie with fake AI-generated reviews, it won’t go well for youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDon’t market the Godfather’s new movie with fake AI-generated reviews, it won’t go well for youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
corbin@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoLeopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopardsplus-squarejustine.lolexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLeopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopardsplus-squarejustine.lolcorbin@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-22 months agoCopilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibilityplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCopilot AI calls journalist a child abuser, Microsoft tries to launder responsibilityplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
UnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoDevs and the Culture of Tech - Final partplus-squareunserious.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDevs and the Culture of Tech - Final partplus-squareunserious.substack.comUnseriousAcademic@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agoGartner releases AI Hype Cycle for 2024: autonomous AI is on the way! Apparentlyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGartner releases AI Hype Cycle for 2024: autonomous AI is on the way! Apparentlyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 months agoThe UK Labour AI push — who are the vendors lobbying for a slice of the pie?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe UK Labour AI push — who are the vendors lobbying for a slice of the pie?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink