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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meta-ai-users-facebook-instagram-1235221430/

Facebook and Instagram to add AI users. I'm sure that's what everyone has been begging for...

OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment | TechCrunch in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

AIfu

That's gold. I like it.

Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves in c/techtakes@awful.systems
AI hot air at ‘Davos in the Desert’ with Elon Musk and SoftBank in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

And by costlier he means power consumption. Ten thousand times more powerful! Still can't do basic math without handing it off to a calculator.

the enshittification of magic: the gathering in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

I was about to laugh about 2020 being cyberpunk, but come to think about it 2020 was the most cyberpunk year so far with everyone stuck inside doing everything on the internet.

OpenAI’s Whisper audio transcriber makes up hospital treatments and medications in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] arbitraryidentifier@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will never get tired of that saltman pic.

“Nice Guy” Matt Mullenweg, CEO of WordPress.com Cries Foul and Threatens Me With Legal Action in c/techtakes@awful.systems