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AI-generated music accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to Deezer
  • look, that was actually funny. All the record company A&R men shitting themselves that, in straight-up A/B testing, they were failing to compete with muzak.

  • The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - new Emile Torres
    www.truthdig.com The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - Truthdig

    Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.

    The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - Truthdig
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    Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
  • the poster has been escorted to the egress at high velocity from the fourth floor

  • Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
  • I can excuse racism, but I can't excuse the implication I might be in any way tangential to racism

  • Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
  • "What the hell do you call that routine"
    "the LEMMYVERSE!"

  • Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
  • Digital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices "black" rather than hiring an actual black person

  • Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?
  • if you don't understand the concept of "digital blackface" as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here

    I'm not saying it's always programming.dev, but

  • pivot-to-ai.com Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?

    The Australian Radio Network has three main brands: KIIS, GOLD and CADA. Across nine stations, there’s one non-white presenter — and she’s a bot. Thy has been CADA Sydney’s weekday host for six mon…

    Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?

    Video version, with clips of the bot-DJ

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    OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.
  • yeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google's ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?

  • pivot-to-ai.com California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions

    For the February 2025 California bar exam, the State Bar of California used a remote testing platform that just didn’t work. 80% of the candidate lawyers had technical issues. For over half the can…

    California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions

    video version - not a fan of the Pixel 4a front camera

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    pivot-to-ai.com OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.

    In August 2024, Google was found to have abused its web search monopoly. In November 2024, the US Department of Justice proposed forcing Google to sell off the Chrome web browser — the moat around …

    OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.
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    pivot-to-ai.com Amazon also slows down its data centre commitments

    It’s not just Microsoft slowing down on data centres — it’s Amazon too. Eric Luebchow, an analyst at Wells Fargo, put out a note yesterday: [Seeking Alpha] Over the weekend, we heard from several i…

    Amazon also slows down its data centre commitments
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    pivot-to-ai.com OpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the ID system works!

    OpenAI is outraged at DeepSeek stealing the data that OpenAI rightfully, er, fair-used. So OpenAI’s higher-tier models now require solid verification of identity! And … the verification doesn…

    OpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the ID system works!
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    If you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private dev logs
    pivot-to-ai.com If you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private logs

    iOS developer Joachim Kurz found a bug that was bad enough to go through the pain of Apple’s horrible Feedback Assistant. Feedback Assistant ideally wants a bug to have your system logs to send to …

    If you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private logs
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    pivot-to-ai.com AI bot scammers flood California community colleges

    The LLM is for spam. Community colleges in California are suffering an absolute flood of fake student applicants that seem to be fraudsters backed by chatbots. [Voice of San Diego] Many community c…

    AI bot scammers flood California community colleges
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    pivot-to-ai.com ‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again

    A “reasoning AI” is a large language model — a chatbot — that gives you a list of steps it took to reach a conclusion. Or a list of steps it says it took. LLMs don’t know what a fact is — they just…

    ‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again
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    Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)
  • (hits you over the head with an expertly wielded M3)

  • Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?
  • originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!

  • pivot-to-ai.com Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?

    Alexa is a digital assistant in gadget form. It’s a simple keyword bot with a voice interface. It’s very limited, but it works well enough, and a lot of people like it. But it’s also a money-loser.…

    Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?

    video version - video

    our Pivot To AI t-shirts arrived today, you'll see us showing them off in the end bit

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025

    the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news

    i expect this one to be more of the same

  • pivot-to-ai.com Cursor’s AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revolt

    Cursor is an AI-enhanced code editor. You click and an LLM auto-completes your code! It’s the platform of choice for “vibe coding,” where you get the AI to write your whole app for you. This has ob…

    Cursor’s AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revolt
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy

    (looks around nervously)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

    at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don't have them there eithe

  • pivot-to-ai.com H&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claims

    The dream of anyone who works with fussy humans is not to work with the fussy humans. This is the greatest promise that AI makes to the creative industries. At the least, it might shut up the whing…

    H&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claims

    Video version - 7 minutes of me ranting

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    pivot-to-ai.com Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)

    I just posted a new video, which is a love song to my microphone. [YouTube] There’s a bunch of links in the show notes to everything about the mic. The video has subtitles for accessibility, …

    Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)
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    "OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry" [Ed Zitron]
  • I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • christ. can't he go back to disco, he was good at that

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025
  • COMMERCIAL NOTICE: Pivot to AI now has T-shirts! yeah, I sorted out Redbubble. Also does mugs and stuff. All proceeds go to a worthy cause, i.e. me.

  • pivot-to-ai.com New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT

    Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York state after extensive sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s running in the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of New York City. Cuomo has strong back…

    New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT
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    pivot-to-ai.com How to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review

    Here’s a headline in MIT Technology Review: ‘Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military.’ I put it to you that it is not! It’s not doing that at all! This is not what’s happening! [MIT Te…

    How to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review
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    pivot-to-ai.com $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’

    Peter Purgathofer looked over “Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy” by Nanasaheb Thorat, published in March by Springer Nature. On page 25, he found why we pay Springer the big bucks: [h…

    $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3dIL_Ljro8 - video

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    Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!
  • I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

  • pivot-to-ai.com Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

    In 2018, Albert Saniger launched Nate. You could buy from any shopping site — AI would figure out the site for you! Saniger raised $50 million from investors. Nate was just a front end to a call ce…

    Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb0bq3gAB9s - video

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    Crypto being the solution to the bot problem is the most techbro take I have seen so far.
  • this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere

  • pivot-to-ai.com a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping

    Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, affectionately known as a16z, is looking for investors to put a fresh $20 billion into AI startups. [Reuters] For perspective, that’s more than all US vent…

    a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7a1-6MU3QA - video

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    pivot-to-ai.com Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!

    There’s a shortage of airline pilots. The airlines are cutting training for new pilots, they’re running out of ex-military pilots who want to go civilian, and prospective pilots are reluctant to dr…

    Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqA6KDvKgs - video

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    pivot-to-ai.com Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)

    Humanoid robots are the next prospective tech bubble. Venture capitalists put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots just in 2024. [Yahoo!; Bloomberg, archive] The New York Times was bowled over by 1X’s…

    Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8VpVEBWEY - video

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    dgerard David Gerard @awful.systems

    the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

    https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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