BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 hours agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 19 hours agoTrump tariffs taking out AI data centres tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoGoogle’s AI Overview directly takes readers away from its own source sitesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoFake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down10
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rinze@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 days agoAI-generated music accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to Deezerplus-squarewww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoCalifornia bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questionsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoOpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square167linkfedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoAmazon also slows down its data centre commitmentsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-27 days agoOpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the ID system works!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoIf you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private dev logsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoAI bot scammers flood California community collegesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10
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Coll@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoHow prediction markets create harmful outcomes: a case studyplus-squarebobjacobs.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-210 days ago‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating againplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoAmazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoCursor’s AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revoltplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down10
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Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 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-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
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DeviantNull@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agoDigital Tar Pits - How to Fight Back Against A.I.plus-squareyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoH&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claimsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days ago"OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron]plus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
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