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  • I thought I was looking into the camera, but phones are annoying

  • if i stop saying "um" all the time that's half an hour less in post right there

  • HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yHrZR_Sgg

    with the awful (systems) assistance of self, fasterandworse and jp of this parish

    no idea when i'll do another one, this one was 3 hrs faff for 5 min video lol

    things I need: a better mic, a chair that doesn't swivel

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

  • I've read Masnick for over 20 years and he's never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn't blaming Europe.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AI

  • he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people

  • sadly not directly

  • we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week

  • the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic

  • The Information's Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding

  • it's been an ongoing exit scam

    OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model

  • Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:

     
                   {
                   "@type": "Question",
                   "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?",
                   "acceptedAnswer": {
                       "@type": "Answer",
                       "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
                   }
               },
    
      

    here's the diff

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Discord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out of

  • i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases

  • yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

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

  • Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

    Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

  • 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

    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

    TechTakes @awful.systems

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