BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 hours agoCalifornia bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questionsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoOpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoAmazon also slows down its data centre commitmentsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-23 days agoOpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the ID system works!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoIf you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private dev logsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoAI bot scammers flood California community collegesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-26 days ago‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating againplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
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Coll@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoHow prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case studyplus-squarebobjacobs.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoAmazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoCursor’s AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revoltplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days ago"If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altmanplus-squarewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
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DeviantNull@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoDigital Tar Pits - How to Fight Back Against A.I.plus-squareyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoH&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claimsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days ago"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron]plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoNew York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-211 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square163fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoHow to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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diz@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoGemini seem to have "solved" my duck river crossing, lol.plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareGemini seem to have "solved" my duck river crossing, lol.plus-squarediz@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square19fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days ago$119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down10
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