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  • "What the hell do you call that routine"
    "the LEMMYVERSE!"

  • Digital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices "black" rather than hiring an actual black person

  • 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

  • yeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google's ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?

  • (hits you over the head with an expertly wielded M3)

  • originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!

  • 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

  • realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy

    (looks around nervously)

  • 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

  • I'm not really an accelerationist, but I'll make an exception for this

  • 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.

  • I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

  • this user is far too informed and knowledgeable to lower himself to educating us peons, and has been guided elsewhere

  • Maxine Waters hates crypto bullshit with the fire of a thousand suns, she's not in power any more but she can help jam this up

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to

    FreeAssembly @awful.systems

    Tech Under Fascism: Lessons from the first Trump term

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it

    Buttcoin @awful.systems

    here's a recent 46 minute interview with SBF, which i am taking tremendous delight in not caring about

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    Yudkowsky: eugenics is now "the third most important project in the world." After AI doom and anime, presumably.

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    Ziz update thread, started 19 February

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline

    Buttcoin @awful.systems

    Coffeezilla talks to the guy behind Javier Milei's presidential shitcoin, who was also behind Melania Trump's shitcoin (video)

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI image gets a US copyright — or some of a copyright

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    The UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near you

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Thomson Reuters wins AI training copyright case — what this does and doesn’t mean

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news

    NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Get a portable monitor, they’re great