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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini

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Alexa+ rolls out at last! … It’s not so great

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hilarious thread on gpt-oss

  • I've tested Gemini on this stuff. Sometimes it spots the syntax error and even suggests a more elegant rewrite. Sometimes it just completely shits itself.

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    OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill us

  • Kai Lentit: Senior Engineer Uses vim Via Voice Control

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    Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI!

  • Augmented reality for the Google Glass. Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don't even have screens or projectors!

  • just found out these glasses are not even Augmented Reality. They have neither screens nor projectors. Just cameras, a mic, and bone conduction earphones. The interface is voice control. They are literally only for taking creepshots. So Zuckerberg is staying on-brand.

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    Disney fears public backlash, copyright issues over AI ‘Moana’, ‘Tron’

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    Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

  • the interesting thing is i looked and that isn't actually a big enough market to sustain itself

  • I should not be surprised that the author of HPRick and Morty also wrote SCP-8008.

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    UK ‘AI Action Plan for Justice’ — a magic infallible AI pre-crime detector!

  • Nikolai Durov has two Ph.Ds in maths, and is convinced he is the smartest man in the world, and Telegram's cryptography follows directly

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    Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

  • a lot of companies are chasing the humanoid form because they’ll be able to immediately adapt to existing infrastructure (to replace human workers).

    that's the story, but this doesn't work, like, at all, with just a moment's thought.

    if humanoid was a good shape we'd have humanoid robots already.

    the reason is they're selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.

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    Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

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    Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes!

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    CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes

  • UPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/

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    Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft

  • Trump apologetics doesn't really make the bar here. Hopefully you will find a sub that is more accepting of whatever your condition is.

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    Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

  • Neopets but it's an animated blob of cum with a smiley face.

  • I've met Vinay, he's great in person. But should not post.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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    Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.

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    Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now

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    16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss

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    Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews