BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 hours agoIf AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoSoundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honestplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10
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swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-23 days agoTheranos: First Blood Part IIplus-squarearchive.isexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoLloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payoutplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoStudy: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at workplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoShocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real jobplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoAI computers aren’t selling because users don’t careplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square292fedilinkarrow-up1734arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoChristopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the graveplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10
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mapto@masto.bg · 7 days agoA report by IBM explains part of the hype around GenAI:plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoOpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit — but Elon Musk isn’t convincedplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
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Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoOpenAI scuttles for-profit transformationplus-squarewww.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoUK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative worksplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square195fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoDuolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slopplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10
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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish · edit-210 days ago"Regulations are NOT the solution to low-quality food. Bitcoin is." - this guy.lemm.eeimagemessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1390arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoIn 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any moreplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down11
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-211 days agoyour U Toronto CS degree has been replaced with a colour-in place mat from McDonaldsplus-squarewww.cs.toronto.eduexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoNo, Microsoft did not state ‘strong AI demand’ in Q1 2025 — the FT is wrongplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · edit-213 days agoSeattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down10
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