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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English12Ā·1 day agoFound a Bluesky thread you might be interested in:
On a Sci Fi authorsā panel at Comicon today, every writer asked about AI (as in LLM / algorithmic modern gen AI) gave it a kicking, drawing a spontaneous round of applause.
A few years ago, I donāt think that would have happened. People would have said āitās an interesting toolā, or something.
Bearing in mind these are exactly the people who would be expected to engage with the idea, I think the tech turds have massively underestimated the propaganda faux pas they made by stealing writersā hard work and then being cunts about it.
Tying this to a previous post of mine, Iām expecting their open and public disdain for gen-AI to end up bleeding into their writing. The obvious route would be AI systems/characters exhibiting the hallmarks of LLMs - hallucinations/confabulations, āAI slopā output, easily bypassable safeguards, that sort of thing.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English5Ā·1 day agoCalling it a police cam for techbros seems like an obvious dunk. You can also make a gratuitous Simpsons reference and quip āRemember Humane? Its back, in OpenAI form!ā
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull requestEnglish16Ā·1 day agoHey, look on the bright side - humans are no longer the weakest links in cybersecurity.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English6Ā·1 day agoCalling it now: it will be a huge flop. Just like the Humane Pin and that Rabbit thing. Only the size of the marketing campaign, and maybe its endurance due to greater funding, will make it last a little longer.
My moneyās on OpenAIās Gadgettm getting immediately compared to both of them as well, either by reviewers giving their (presumably negative) opinions on the product, or from people looking to dunk on OpenAI, if not AI as a whole.
The open question is: will the tech press react with ridicule, like it did for the Humane Pin? Or will we have to endure excruciating months of critihype?
On the one hand, OpenAIās reality distortion field has managed to hold strong up until now, and its difficult to see the tech press recognising OpenAIās Gadgettm to be just the Rabbit R1/Humane Pin with a fresh coat of paint.
On the other hand, the Rabbit R1 and Humane Pin are industry laughingstocks whose names are synonymous with āgodawful AI productā in the public consciousness, and who basically killed the concept of such an AI Gadgettm in its crib - OpenAI could very well set themselves up to get relentlessly mocked for believing people wanted an AI Gadgettm at all.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English7Ā·2 days agoNew piece from Tante: On āVibe Codingā - take a wild guess what its about.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English6Ā·2 days agoThe cringey āhello, fellow kidsā vibe is really unbearable⦠good that people are not falling for that.
If Duolingo still had their userbaseās goodwill, it wouldāve probably worked. Theyāve been pulling that shit since their mascot Duo turned into a meme, and its worked out for them up until now.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English7Ā·2 days agoMainly checked the YouTube comments and the like/dislike ratio - at the time of writing, heās got 7.3k likes to 147 dislikes, and the top comments are universally praising the guy. One particular comment quipped about how āeveryone shilled for Honey except Markiplierā.
Conoverās video avoiding the hallmarks of a standard YouTuber Apologytm is likely helping him out here - the public expects a lot of things from these kinds of videos, but ādoing the bare minimum for an actual apologyā is not one of them.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English7Ā·2 days agoAdam Conoverās put out an apology on YouTube regarding his milkshake duck-ing himself with Worldcoin, after his public apology on Bluesky. Seems his reputationās gonna make a full recovery.
EDIT: Found a banger comment after taking a quick peek:
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English10Ā·3 days agoWhy does this matter?
Well, its a perfect demonstration that LLMs flat-out do not think like us. Even a goddamn five-year old could work this shit out with flying colours.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English15Ā·3 days agoIn other news, the ghost of Dorian has haunted an autoplag system:
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English4Ā·4 days agoNew piece from Gary Marcus: AI may have just influenced Argentinaās election
Heās not 100% certain that the AI deepfake a reader sent him ultimately influenced the election results, but the mere possibility that AI screwed someone out of getting elected is gonna be a major topic in Argentine politics for a good while, and I expect AIās effects on democracy will come under pretty heavy scrutiny as a result.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English12Ā·4 days agoGot a pair of notable things I ran across recently.
Firstly, an update on Grokās White Genocide Disaster: the person responsible has seemingly revealed themselves, and shown off how they derailed Grokās prompt.. The pull request that initiated this debacle has been preserved on the Internet Archive.
Second, I ran across a Bluesky post which caught my attention:
You want my opinion on the āscabā comment, its another textbook example of the all-consuming AI backlash, one that suggests any usage of AI will be viewed as an open show of hostility towards labour.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English6Ā·4 days agoTBF, Zitron has āwrap[ped] together everything Iāve written going back to [his] remote work coverage from 2021ā with this piece - it was naturally gonna be long as hell.
Making an MCU comparison is deeply cliche at this point, but Zitron basically penned his personal equivalent to Avengers: Endgame with this - the impressive length is completely warranted.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English4Ā·6 days agoMaybe this is a bit old woman yells at cloud ā but Iād lie if I said I wasnāt worried about language proficiency atrophying in the population
AIās already destroying peopleās cognitive abilities as we speak, I wouldnāt be shocked if language proficiency went down the shitter, too. Hell, you could argue itāll fuck up humanās capacity to make/understand art - Nathan Hamiel of Perilous Tech already did.
(and leading to me having to read slop all the time)
Thankfully, Iāve managed to avoid reading/seeing slop for the most part. Spending most of my time on Newgrounds probably helped, for three main reasons:
- AI slop was banned from being uploaded back in 2022 (very early into the bubble), making it loud and clear that AI slop is unwelcome there. (Sidenote: A dedicated AI flag option was added in 2024)
- The site primarily (if not near-exclusively) attracts artists, animators, musicians, and creatives in general - all groups who (for obvious reasons) are strongly opposed to gen-AI in all its forms, and who will avoid anything involving AI like the fucking plague.
- The site is (practically) ad-free, meaning ad revenue is effectively zero - as such, setting up an AI slop farm (or a regular content mill) is utterly impractical, since youād have zero shot of turning a profit.
(That Iām a NEET also helps (canāt have AI bro coworkers if youāre unemployed :P), but any opportunity to promote the AI-free corners of the net is always a good one in my books :P)
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsOPto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English12Ā·6 days agoUpdate on the Artificial Darth Debacle: SAG-AFTRA just sued Epic for using AI for Darth Vader in the first place:
You want my take, this is gonna be a tough case for SAG - Jones signed off on AI recreations of Vader before his death in 2024, so arguing a lack of consentās off the table right from the get-go.
If SAG do succeed, the legal precedent set would likely lead to a de facto ban on recreating voices using AI. Given SAG-AFTRAās essentially saying that what Epic did is unethical on principle, I suspect thatās their goal here.
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor AnthropicEnglish73Ā·7 days agoThat requires a significant improvement in professional ethics, which isnāt something that is really amenable to technological fixes.
That goes some way to explaining why programmers donāt have a moral compass.
Friend of mine witnessed some bleak shit, now you get to see it too: