[redacted] enthusiast, robot combat enjoyer, distressingly Appalachian, father of ninjas
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o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•I find absolutely consistently that gen-AI advocates are literally unable to tell good output from bad output. They think people who say their output is garbage are just lying to have a go at them.English32·5 months agoThey did it. They automated the fucking Vogons.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025English9·5 months agoI maintain that our militia ought to be called the Cassandra Division
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer reviewEnglish6·5 months agothrobbing_forehead_vein.gif
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI OverviewEnglish12·5 months agoWhat if we burned the Library of Alexandria, but the scrolls were printed on money?
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AIEnglish6·5 months agoMagnificent
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025English3·5 months agoThe second best time to sneer is today!
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025English10·5 months ago…what the fuck is it with these people and boats?
I blame the British for setting a bad example
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AIEnglish15·5 months ago“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit.”
Musk wants to be Team Rocket.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025English8·5 months agoRobert Evans on Ziz and Rationalism:
https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3ljmhpfdoic2h
https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3ljmkrpraxk2h
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building serversEnglish4·5 months agoBreaking up with Hitler to date Pinhead
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelEnglish7·5 months agoWait until we get the Strategic Ape Reserve, then you’ll see!
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelEnglish10·5 months agoGromit facepalming (facepawing?) could be the techtakes mascot.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English4·5 months agoDifferent company, but GPT-5 is basically OT9, innit?
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English7·5 months agoYeah…that could be a real deal breaker. Doesn’t this give them the right to MITM all traffic coming through the browser?
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English5·5 months agoIt looks fun!
My inner grouch wanted to add:
There were a metric shit ton of hand-crafted, artisanal, exhaustive full-text walkthroughs for the OG Pokemon games even twenty years ago. They’re all part of the training corpus, so all you have to do to make this work is automate prompt generation based on current state and then capture the most likely key words in the LLM’s outputs for conversion to game commands. Plus, a lot of “intelligence” could be hiding in the invisible “glue” that ties the whole together, up to and including an Actual Individual.
I’d be shocked if this worked for a 2025 release
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English9·5 months agoI hear you. I feel weirdly guilty about watching this coming for so long.
o7___o7@awful.systemsto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025English9·5 months agoIt’s like…they’re trying to do a Peronism by hijacking working class ideas for their weird right wing bullshit, but they’re lazy computer touchers so they just seem unhinged to outsiders.
Oof, thanks!