dunno about mechanism, but as someone absolutely fried by ADHD i can tell you there's no nap as sweet as the nap after your third coffee of the day.
many ideas cribbed from rants by our valued comrade @fasterandworse, who rants about Hooked at the slightest provocation
Builder.ai collapsed a couple of weeks ago.Its much-touted AI website builder seemed to be fully 100% AGI — A Guy Instead. More details have come out in Builder’s US bankruptcy. Engineer.AI Corpora…
You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…
The Washington Post put up a new mission statement in January that called AI a “key enabler” of the paper’s success. It aspired to make the Post “an A.I.-fueled platform for news.” [NYT, archive] T…
Facebook is floating AI-generated ad campaigns! You’ll type in your rough ideas and Facebook will generate a small campaign for you, with ad copy and imagery. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI advertisin…
fly.io is closed source, of course he's not gonna show you the engineering excellence. trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,
this is the one who pinged me to see if i could tell her about using Urbit a while back
reddit sneerclub had some of those. I deleted the comments and banned the users with "sorry, we really aren't equipped to help you"
when I started work at Ericsson Australia in late 2000, they'd found out that a third of Australian employees had Nokias, lol. So they bought everyone an Ericsson with a company plan! My first mobile! I hated it so much.
I tried using a Nokia with Symbian around the time and browsing on it was just fuckin' infuriating, so
We’ve covered the AI scraper bots before. These just hit web pages over and over, at high speed, to scrape new training data for LLMs. They’re an absolute plague across the whole World Wide Web and…
that s3kr1t method: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/user-agent-blocking/#comment-259266
He did fuzzing but boiling more oceans to find a vuln he'd already found
you seem to have invented a definition of pseudoscience on the fly
not sure Frontiers apologetics is it chief
News site Business Insider is laying off 21% of its staff. A memo on Thursday 29 May from CEO Barbara Peng blames a precipitous drop in search engine traffic. [Twitter, archive] Around 70% of Busin…
Microsoft has carefully leaked the news of its BIG SALE of Copilot licenses to Barclays Bank! 100,000 seats! Fantastic! [Bloomberg, archive] That’s a few million dollars? If that. Microsoft claims …
hire apparatchiks, poltroons and idiots. Simples!
The UK government is still flat out of ideas and still convinced “AI” is the magical fix-all for bureaucracy. By “AI,” it means ChatGPT it buys in from Microsoft. The Chance…
https://xcancel.com/netflix/status/1928153876475097117
currently reading https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17570
this is PsiQuantum, who are hot prospects to build an actually-quantum computer
no, they have not yet factored 35
but they are seriously planning qubits on a wafer and they think they can make a chip with 1m noisy qubits
anyone know more about this? does that preprint (from last year) pass sniff tests?
(my interest is journalistic, and also the first of these companies to factor 35 gets all the VC money ever)
notice how Take Two didn't rate the wild response, and neither of the companies in the Aftermath article were EA or Ubisoft
reminded of the guy who said i could get rid of my problems with SPF/DMARC/DKIM by just not accepting mail from Gmail
this was his advice for a business with ordinary customers btw
yeah the use case for LLMs is amusing novelty. That's why LLMs peaked with GPT-2, it was just the right amount of broken.
I'm not seeing how it's not fair to talk about what gaming studios do in terms of two of the largest.
Game studio executives love AI slop — because they despise paying artists and writers. The execs hire art directors who also love AI slop: [Aftermath] He’ll just keep prompting an AI for imag…
I could, but why? It's almost certainly actual Adobe(tm) Creative Suite(tm) Photoshop(tm) Subscription Edition.
Google is very upset that a lot of the public don’t really like AI. You might think this was because of AI slop and explicit threats to their jobs, but Google is pretty sure it’s because people saw…
Telstra is Australia’s former monopoly phone company, now privatised. How do you squeeze more money out of your fixed user base? With “AI!” [Press release; investor presentation, PDF] Telstra CEO V…
Business owners hate employees more than anything. Unfortunately, AI’s not very good at doing human jobs. We noted last month how chatbots hadn’t knocked down wages or hours in any occupation…
He once attempted to tell ChatGPT that it has a sentient "kernel mode".
by College Hill
Anthropic AI promotes itself with increasingly frenzied science fiction about AI doom. In every case, the chatbot does an evil thing because the researchers specifically told it to. This weekend’s …
“You can read various news articles quoting ethics experts howling into the void about this, but why would you do that.”
video version - yes i did one for this too
GitLab is a program code repository. It’s got an AI coding bot, because of course it does — it’s called Duo and it runs on Claude. Duo will make suggestions, analyse submitted pull requests and eve…
There’s been a lot of discourse lately from AI boosters making excuses for AI’s ghastly power consumption. The reason you’re seeing these excuses now is because even the mainstream media is writing…
Another day, another preprint paper shocked that it’s trivial to make a chatbot spew out undesirable and horrible content. [arXiv] How do you break LLM security with “prompt injection”?…
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/