BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 hour agoAI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull requestplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoYou can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ dataplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoAI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each queryplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkAI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each queryplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square2fedilink
swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 days agoGoogle: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!”plus-squaretechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down10
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkGoogle: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!”plus-squaretechcrunch.comswlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square15fedilink
irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days agoChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name.plus-squarelemm.eeimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down10
arrow-up152arrow-down1imageChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name.plus-squarelemm.eeirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square11fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoUK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Insteadplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
arrow-up135arrow-down1external-linkUK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Insteadplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square7fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoeating our own dogshitplus-squareold.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-linkeating our own dogshitplus-squareold.reddit.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square35fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoGitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slopplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down10
arrow-up1136arrow-down1external-linkGitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slopplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square25fedilink
o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-24 days agoChicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake booksplus-squarearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down10
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V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agoDoes AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!plus-squarethebsdetector.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down10
arrow-up163arrow-down1external-linkDoes AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!plus-squarethebsdetector.substack.comV0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square17fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoLatest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down10
arrow-up166arrow-down1external-linkLatest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square10fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoDEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkDEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoHow to make a splash in AI economics: fake your dataplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkHow to make a splash in AI economics: fake your dataplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoTrump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emiratesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkTrump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emiratesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square3fedilink
diz@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoMusk ("xAI") now claims grok was hackedplus-squarexcancel.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down10
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkMusk ("xAI") now claims grok was hackedplus-squarexcancel.comdiz@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square18fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoEven Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South Africaplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down10
arrow-up1106arrow-down1external-linkEven Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South Africaplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square17fedilink
irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish · 10 days agoAi scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interentplus-squarepod.geraspora.deexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down10
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-linkAi scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interentplus-squarepod.geraspora.deirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square28fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoMusk’s xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis air with smogplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkMusk’s xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis air with smogplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoIf AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square368fedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down10
arrow-up1477arrow-down1external-linkIf AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square368fedilink