David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoI'm on Paris Marx's podcast this week rambling about crypto, AI hype and social media. Oh yeah and Jack Dorsey, our supposed subject. 1 hour.plus-squarewww.thenation.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkI'm on Paris Marx's podcast this week rambling about crypto, AI hype and social media. Oh yeah and Jack Dorsey, our supposed subject. 1 hour.plus-squarewww.thenation.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoa16z is working hard to get stuck with last year’s Nvidia chipsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linka16z is working hard to get stuck with last year’s Nvidia chipsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoOpenAI and Arianna Huffington: transforming healthcare with nagbotsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI and Arianna Huffington: transforming healthcare with nagbotsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 year agoLA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at riskplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkLA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at riskplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser.plus-squarexcancel.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle put an API into Chrome that sends extra system info but only to*.google.com domains. In every Chromium browser.plus-squarexcancel.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoHow batshit insane are the rich in 2024? Here's a Bloomberg article on the estate law aspects of cryonically freezing your head and trying to keep all your moneyplus-squarewww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHow batshit insane are the rich in 2024? Here's a Bloomberg article on the estate law aspects of cryonically freezing your head and trying to keep all your moneyplus-squarewww.bloomberg.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoPivot to AI: Venture capital kept shoveling money into AI startups in Q2 2024plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPivot to AI: Venture capital kept shoveling money into AI startups in Q2 2024plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoOklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bulletsplus-squaregizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkOklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bulletsplus-squaregizmodo.como7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoPivot to AI: Venture capital will eat itselfplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkPivot to AI: Venture capital will eat itselfplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 July 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoActual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist”arxiv.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkActual comedians try to use LLM in a writing room. Result: “cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist”arxiv.orgDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoThe “I will piledrive you” post, discussed on the Better Offline podcastplus-squareovercast.fmexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe “I will piledrive you” post, discussed on the Better Offline podcastplus-squareovercast.fmantifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoThe CIA is using generative AI as a search engineplus-squarewww.defenseone.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe CIA is using generative AI as a search engineplus-squarewww.defenseone.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoa collection of thousands of prompts attempting to control the idiot genie of ChatGPTplus-squaregithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linka collection of thousands of prompts attempting to control the idiot genie of ChatGPTplus-squaregithub.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoChatGPT spills its promptplus-squarewww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkChatGPT spills its promptplus-squarewww.techradar.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle and Microsoft are getting dirtier. They can’t help it, it’s AI!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle and Microsoft are getting dirtier. They can’t help it, it’s AI!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 year agoGoogle News still serving plagiarized spam ahead of the originals it’s ripping offplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle News still serving plagiarized spam ahead of the originals it’s ripping offplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoThe AI is still for spamplus-squaretimharek.noexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe AI is still for spamplus-squaretimharek.noDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 year agoWell, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, soplus-squareapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWell, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, soplus-squareapnews.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agolol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Actplus-squareec.europa.euexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linklol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Actplus-squareec.europa.euDavid Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0linkfedilink
