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David Gerard
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass

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  • read the paper, they're very stupid also

    • Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass

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  • and as the paper details, they don't do that either

    • DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs

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  • They specificallly named this one, you don't have to make up reasons that somehow it doesn't count.

    • DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs

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  • sure is!

    • that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum

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  • probably something innocuous, we should edit the quote to reflect what we think they might have meant

    • that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum

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  • or glasses

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • yes that's the guy does nobody remember The Nightfly

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • in this case it was some dickhead, but I've had this shit from editors too

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • that's what got me: this guy was pissed off someone referenced Fagin at all, the crime of making the bozo feel uncomfortable at missing something by not reading

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • glasses are a fine kink! i guess those ones are a specialist taste

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • one of the most annoying things about writing for a US audience is they're fucking illiterate and alluding to books confuses them

    wanna grab editors by the throat and go "JUST WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE EVEN DOING IN HIGH SCHOOL"

    actual example from today: "who the hell is Fagin never heard of him"

    • that time the pronatalist couple were too blatantly racist even for the EA forum

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  • as you know, there is one pronatalist couple

    • Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur

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  • I am delighted to hear that Veppers was literally based on Musk

    • Did you know anyone can freeze your account on an exchange with one unblockable trick?

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  • Michel is great and you should follow him if you enjoy crypto shenanigans

    • How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’

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  • ah, was that Copilot or was it Copilot? It's MS's favourite name right now for its bad LLM initiatlves

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • Pivot to AI: Amy is retiring! Probably! yes my cowriter has heard the call of revolution and will be having full and frank debates in the marketplace of ideas. WIth sweet reason.

    • Yet another bit about Musk's delusions of grandeur

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  • my god

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025

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  • If Jason Wilson calls you for a quote, you give him your best.

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    • What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices

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  • looks like it's only the app, which is served from China

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    Whoops! Google, Copilot, Perplexity push scientific racism in search results
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    Foreign Policy: Senegal’s Cryptocurrency City Has Evaporated
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    OpenAI next model Orion by December, it's 100x cooler bro trust me bro no we're not releasing to the public bro it's just too dangerous and cool bro
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    Cybercheck has secured murder convictions. It appears to just run websites through a chatbot
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    Radio Kraków fires announcers, replaces them with AI bot voices
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    the hackernewses whining that linus is so unfair in enacting legal sanctions against the russian who works in development for bomb components are comedy gold
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    Microsoft, OpenAI bribe newsrooms to please, please use their AI tools. Please?
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    Elon Musk gets his AI ideas from whatever sci-fi movie he saw last
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    Venture capital is having a bad time — and AI isn’t going to fix it
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    saluting our fallen comrade at TikTok
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    Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to ‘World’, still wants your eyeballs
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    OpenAI and Microsoft are having relationship issues
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    "It is called ‘expert archivist’ because that is the prompt we gave it." That must make the chatbot an expert then
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    Mullenweg/Automattic offers a second round of 6mo redundancy pay in the hope of purging more dissenters
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    Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers
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    lol another fake satoshi has shown up on the metzdowd cryptography list, the one bitcoin was first announced on
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    Torpedoing a network of tech billionaire funded race science
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    Austin’s Ethos restaurant serves the finest gourmet AI slop — but don’t try to make a reservation
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    Australian HSC English exam asks students to interpret an AI image
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    the wild tale of OpenAI vs. Open AI