as a thing both parallel and tangent to usual sneerjects, this semafor article is kinda notable

I’ll try gather previous dm sneers here later, but some things that stood out:

• the author writes about groupchats in the most goddamn abstract way possible, as though they’re immensely surprised
• the subject matter acts as hard confirmation/evidence of observed lockstep over the last few years by so many of the worst fucker around
• the author then later goes “oh yeah but no I’ve actually done this and been burned by it” so I’m just left thinking “skill issue” (and while I say that curtly, I will readily be among the first people to get extremely vocal about the ways a lot of this tech falls short in purpose sometime)

no idea, sorry. “find some wordpals online” maybe but then you need to also deal with the vetting/safety issue

it’s just so fucking frustrating

it’s gotten worse

I’ve logged a support ticket.

after I’ve previously posted this and this, an update: both the memrise browser version and the iOS app now have “chat to a buddy” as a non-skipable step in course iteration

the “buddy” is a chatbot of unclear provenance. this page mentions “MemBot - powered by AI” at the top, which is a link to this zendesk page, but that’s a dead link

so it looks like duolingo is planning to become damage to be routed around

From:  The Sentry Team <noreply@sentry.io>
Subject:	Update to Sentry’s List of Subprocessors
...
 - Google LLC (Google Cloud Services) and OpenAI, L.L.C. are now reflected as subprocessors for all Sentry products, instead of select features only; and
 - Anthropic, PBC is now added as a subprocessor.

sigh

they do still have user-specified controls (and appear to respect them), but… sigh

which reminds me, I’ve wanted to post this as a NASB

haha I was just about to post this after seeing it too

must be a great feather to add into the cap along with all the recent silicon issues

gotta make sure to catch that wave before the air goes outta the balloon

(I should be clear, they based “their” thing on the “not steve”… but, well…)

I bring you: this

they based their entire public support/response/community/social/everything program on that

for years

okay look, I wanna be quite fair to this comment

and that starts with first apologising to you for what I’m about to do, which is engage in one of the worst social patterns and false logic modes of engagement that plagues forums

so I just gotta ask you: what the fuck made you choose that abominably shitty semi-clone of a rust emblem? good god. do better.

breathe

okay. with that out of the way. on to the meat.

I’m sorry you fuckin wot m8?

did you ever fucking pay any attention whatsoever to the details here? are you so fucking thoroughly up your own goddamn ass that you do not see the problem here?

holy fucking christ in a tapdancing duet with the devil, how did you think this post of yours was an okay one to make?

Didn’t know it had come out but I was wondering if they’d manage to continue s2 like s1

Also worried for the next season of the boys…

Julien Delavande , an engineer at AI research firm Hugging Face , has developed a tool that shows in real time the power consumption of the chatbot generating

gnnnnnngh

this shit pisses me off so bad

there’s actually quantifiable shit you can use across vendors[0]. there’s even some software[1] you can just slap in place and get some good free easy numbers with! these things are real! and are usable!

“measure the power consumption of the chatbot generating”

I’m sorry you fucking what? just how exactly are you getting wattage out of openai? are you lovingly coaxing the model to lie to you about total flops spent?

[0] - intel’s def been better on this for a while but leaving that aside for now…

[1] - it’s very open source! (when I last looked there was no continual in-process sampling so you got hella at-observation sampling problems; but, y’know, can be dealt with)

looks to be! thanks, I’d seen that before and remember the incident, but I’m beyond abysmal at names

(this is a problem to solve, I know)

took me 3 tries to read “yodaist” correctly (brain kept going s/d/g/ which, well…)

exploitation-offshorer “Nick Huber” (@sweatystartup) finds that the leopards will, in fact, also eat his face. but still takes it as a fine opportunity to pitch his exploitation:

(I guess at least his account name is directionally accurate? indicates willingness to induce sweatshops…)

for the betterment of muddled waters, I suggest a secondary meaning for opus dei - a WIP codec that the xiph group hasn’t really released yet, because they’re not sure it fully enough mutes maga voices

the associated “date” video is so multi-dimensionally cringe it had me reaching for numpy