This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
This is plainly sensible, the technology now exists, and is cost competitive, to make our own energy for much more of our needs. This is the single best economic action any government can take. Why send $10b offshore every year when we now don’t have to?:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Be sure to read the whole thing.
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.
Screenshot of Bluesky. It has failed to load--there are no posts, but there is a big red banner with a red exclamation point and the word "Forbidden"
Seems like things are also going great here at BlueSky and by weird coincidence, I just saw a post talking about how many of the devs use AI to code
Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.
AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)
Neppalli refused to say how much Uber was actually spending on tokens, but this is the beginning of organizations admitting that AI is a massive resource drain. With Anthropic moving all enterprise to API pricing we'll find out in the next few months if AI is really "worth it"
doordash grandma DoorDash does not have a specific policy for seniors or helping grandparents, as the provided articles do not mention DoorDash's policies or services for seniors. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know. how the fuck do I just search WaPo articles? To search Washington Post articles, you can use the "Ask The Post Al" tool, which is a generative Al tool that provides summary answers and curated results directly to users. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know. I asked. Show me article about "doordash grandma" There is no information about DoorDash and grandma in the provided articles. If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.
WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great
Isn't presenting oneself as the false coming of Christ the exact thing that the Antichrist is supposed to do?
It's got to sting. You base your whole strategy on blaming last Govt for inflation caused by a global price shock, and then another one pops up as you head into the election!
Now, can you invest in lessening the impact? Well, yes, but you can't because you've made fiscal constraint your thing! Lol.
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
The consequences of the hard pivot to slopware are going to be brutal.
I have to hope that there's going to be a pivot back eventually, once the damage really starts to show. But given how much tech has enshitified over the last decade without any meaningful pushback, I don't know...
We are entering an era of degenerative coding. All of pop coding and React's worst tendencies are increasingly coded into the tools everyone is using, things will break and the solution will be to move to the next thing, everything will appear to be working while behind the scenes nothing will work.
automate the world's misinformation is the new organize the world's information
Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide.
Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model.
We are in the wrong timeline.
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This is so fucking stupid.
The issue in the viral videos by Husk isn't that ChatGPT can't be a timer... IT'S THAT IT LIES AND SAYS IT CAN!
It's all well and good that you can eventually roll a timer-tool into it, but it will KEEP LYING ABOUT OTHER THINGS.
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
You know it's bad when this isn't an op-ed. It's a news article from the largest public broadcaster of the US's closest ally. Not really sure how the US comes back from this. Who wants an ally that just whimsically starts wars, threatens genocide, and tanks the global economy? Absolute clown show.
Once again: this is exactly what LLMs and chatbots are designed for. This is them doing their designed function.
Mass production of meaningless text so someone who wants to do harm has cheap access to the aesthetics of justification
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just having to un-repost this constantly in order to repost it.
Snopes blocking its content because it claims their ads are blocked. This is a lie.
Fact check: false.
I'm not blocking ads, Snopes. You can show me ads. You just can't breach my privacy by using third party cookies or browser fingerprinting, which are completely unnecessary to show me ads.
1/ Goldman Sachs analysts report that the biggest oil crisis in history is about to hit globally, with profound and highly destructive consequences. A new report asks ""Are We Running Out of Oil?", and concludes that the answer is yes. ⬇️
Yes, this. aramzs.xyz/thoughts/don...
I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.
"My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it."
So, what should we be doing?
1. Focus Govt spending (and bank lending) on supporting the real domestic economy.
2. Avoid investments and strategies that increase our current account deficit (energy sovereignty ffs).
3. Focus tax collection on rentiers and lazy wealth. [Ends]
And it's being put before a public that's been trained by a century of media to believe that artificial intelligence must be rigidly and inerrantly logical to a fault.