Bubble Trouble (www.wheresyoured.at)
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
Tired of just generating anime girls? How about letting roided Clippy play CSI? (gizmodo.com)
It was honestly only a matter of time before someone thought we could try that thing where they identify a license plate from a reflection in some dude’s pupil for realsies....
but really, what scientist wouldn't want an autocomplete can opener as their manager (papers.ssrn.com)
Google Books Is Indexing AI-Generated Garbage (www.404media.co)
Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history.
Balaji lets slip: the "gray tribe" were always just raging neoreactionary techfash (www.parallelmirror.com)
Vortax: a fake scam AI company. Just like the old ICO days! (davidgerard.co.uk)
lol eat shit Sasso (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book! (thebaffler.com)
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either...
Fast food, one of the most relentlessly Taylorised processes in all of labour, is going "AI" apparently. Looks like Taco Bell/Pizza Hut's CTO got promptfondled (archive.is)
original: wsj.com/…/taco-bell-and-pizza-hut-are-going-ai-fi…
The Person Who Was in Charge of OpenAI's $175 Million Fund Appears to Be Fake. "Jacob Vespers does not exist to our knowledge." (futurism.com)
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams greenlights self-driving cars. Now considering the theory that Adams is an LLM gone rogue. (gazette.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
Elon Musk’s Tunnel Reportedly Oozing With Skin-Burning Chemical Sludge (futurism.com)
[Eupalinos of Megara appears out of a time portal from ancient Ionia] Wow, you guys must be really good at digging tunnels by now, right?
New York taxpayers are paying for spicy autocomplete to tell landlords they can discriminate (themarkup.org)
In October, New York City announced a plan to harness the power of artificial intelligence to improve the business of government. The announcement included a surprising centerpiece: an AI-powered chatbot that would provide New Yorkers with information on starting and operating a business in the city....
the use case for AI is spam. KeepYourMouthShut - A Python program to auto-generate Podcasts (github.com)
Guy who “would convince employees to take shots of pricey Don Julio tequila, work 20-hour days [and] attend 2am meetings” wants to own WeWork again (www.theguardian.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
what AI does to a mf: Claude proudly misdiagnoses an MRI. "We're still early..."
A tweet from ardent promptfondler Misha Saul (archive):...
John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple (daringfireball.net)
After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?...
Ed Zitron calls peak AI (www.wheresyoured.at)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 24 March 2024
Feel like you want to sneer about something but you don’t quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!...
A tale of well-designed systems (boehs.org)
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it...
Elsevier keeps publishing articles written by spicy autocomplete
If you’ve been around, you may know Elsevier for surveillance publishing. Old hands will recall their running arms fairs. To this storied history we can add “automated bullshit pipeline”....