BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 hours agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
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bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 hours agoYet another rant about the state of the modern webplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoCapgemini: Fix your customer service — with chatbots!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoAGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff Terathreadplus-squarebsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days ago"The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectoryplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoChina massively overbuilds empty AI data centresplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoCustomer service sucks, chatbots must be the solutionplus-squarewww.capgemini.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoBonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendorsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoAI in the enterprise is failing over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoOpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probablyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square193fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoUK government cuts funds for actually-working anti-cancer AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoElon Musk merges xAI and Twitter — the new AOL Time Warnerplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoInterview with Vibe Coder in 2025www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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aninjury2all@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoA.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic - Citations Needed Podcastplus-squarecitationsneeded.libsyn.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoGoogle ScreenAI: make your Chromebook melt downplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoHow can Tromsø, Norway shut down some schools? Let’s ask the AI!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
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diz@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoGemini 2.5 "reasoning", no real improvement on river crossings.plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoSam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troublesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoMusic publishers’ injunction against AI firm Anthropic failsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
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