dgerard

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the tech utopia fantasy is over in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Spines: a VC-funded vanity publisher with added AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

I like how he even had someone with art expertise literally explain it to him and he writes it off as “lol she must have super artist vision for details.”

Scott knows and is of his constituency

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Roll out the barrels of pork: Congressional committee recommends AI ‘Manhattan Project’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

how do they think they solved these fundamental issues in their proposed design?

number go up

Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

how dare you, that's ancap jargon

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Crypto magnate Barry Silbert pivots to AI for a 2018-style ICO token pump (pivot-to-ai.com)
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the tech utopia fantasy is over (blog.avas.space)
The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

link?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

note that cwebber wrote the ActivityPub spec, btw

On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

good thing Rust is only run by Palantir

I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago

nor any other

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I hear bitcoin is supposed to be good now. Is it a new bubble yet? (davidgerard.co.uk)
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ChatGPT in the classroom: OpenAI continues its education push with two new courses for teachers (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago

Mao just read his Adam Smith

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

especially for such important things like fucking tenant screening.

you must understand: this is a feature

Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago

sorry that sign's been updated

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Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist (pivot-to-ai.com)
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hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud (awful.systems)
 

bust report (archive)

an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)

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Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Razzlekhan gets 18 months for war crimes against music (financialpost.com)
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HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect (pivot-to-ai.com)
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