BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 day agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 hours agoForeign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Startplus-squareforeignpolicy.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 day agoCredulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipediaplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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Steve@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 hours agoEdge-case marketingplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 hours agoLet’s write PR pitches with an AI! (report spam, block sender)plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoOops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoScience journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoElon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoIlya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoLA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 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 · 7 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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blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square162fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 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 · 11 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 · 11 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 · 13 days agoDiscord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out ofplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 14 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 · 14 days agoMicrosoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leasesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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