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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

Can't really say I'm surprised that Mr Facebook takes this attitude. His whole fortune is built on the belief that aggregating and hosting content is more valuable than creating it

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I saw this over the weekend and the title itself is rather lovely, but even more hilariously it's from the atlantic

evidence of wider continued rising of the tide against saltman's bullshit grows

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

evidence of wider continued rising of the tide against saltman’s bullshit grows

Precisely when that rising tide will drown Altman I'm not sure, but I feel safe in saying it'll probably drown the rest of the AI industry (and potentially "AI" as a concept) as well - Altman is pretty much the face of this AI bubble, after all.

The rising tide was likely also helped along by OpenAI going fully for-profit, which shattered the humanitarian guise it spent the last decade or so building, and, to quote myself, "given the true believers reason to believe [Altman would] commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck".

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Every AI spring brings an even harsher AI winter.

Winter is coming.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Every AI spring brings an even harsher AI winter.

Oh, I expect a real harsh AI winter once this spring comes to a close - the public isn't just overtly disappointed about AI's failure to deliver, but outright angry at the nasty shit AI's unleashed upon them.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fix the year! we're back in the present! out of the time traveling cybertruck!

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tried to get out, door cut my leg off. Now I have to go back to the future to get it reattached.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

I’m temporarily-boating up to Boston

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