• Steve@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    fyi they updated their blog post with this catch-all disclaimer in the last couple of hours

    “it is simply too big to categorically endorse or not endorse”

    “so we’re gonna play it safe and endorse it”

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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      it turns out the only staff member, or one of very few, is the interim ED. Everyone else quit a couple of months ago because she was fucking terrible. I suspect she’s counting sugar lumps.

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      2 months ago

      categorical

      situational

      Alright then, point out the situations where there are good actors in the AI space. Oh, there are none? that would imply that materially the whole category is corrupt.

    • mountainriver@awful.systems
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      2 months ago

      “Because we got paid, cause we got paid, cause we got pa-aid!”

      To the tune of “Then I got high” by Afroman.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      Ahh pussies. I ran the sherlock holmes kink meme a few years back, at one point we had the proto-chat generated fics start to uptick in the community.

      We banned them