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  • look, that was actually funny. All the record company A&R men shitting themselves that, in straight-up A/B testing, they were failing to compete with muzak.

  • SneerClub @awful.systems

    The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - new Emile Torres

  • the poster has been escorted to the egress at high velocity from the fourth floor

  • I can excuse racism, but I can't excuse the implication I might be in any way tangential to racism

  • your takes combine with your username, which I don't know how we let through, to suggest this is a good time to guide you to the egress

  • "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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?

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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Amazon also slows down its data centre commitments

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    OpenAI starts verifying corporate customers. Sometimes the ID system works!

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    If you report a bug, Apple reserves the right to train Apple Intelligence on your private dev logs

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI bot scammers flood California community colleges

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    ‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again

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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?

  • 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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Cursor’s AI-powered tech support vibe-codes a customer revolt

  • 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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    H&M’s ‘AI models’ campaign makes impossible claims

  • 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.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo writes his housing plan with ChatGPT

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    How to sell AI slop to the US military — with Vannevar Labs and MIT Tech Review

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    $119 Springer cancer treatments book: ‘As an AI language model …’

  • I understand this post is technically illegal in the US

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    a16z raising fresh $20b to keep the AI bubble pumping

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Single Pilot Operations — let’s replace airline copilots with AI!

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Your humanoid robot servant: a new hope for AGI! (A Guy Instead)

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide