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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024
  • And I do worry that the “the fda is too cautious” pushers are actually motte baileying for the total removal of the fda.

    they absolutely are, see also Scott Alexander stanning for these guys

  • Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AI
  • Pivot has also declared scheduled downtime until the new year. So there.

  • Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AI
    pivot-to-ai.com Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AI

    It’s December 23, and if you haven’t got Christmas organized by now, you’re screwed. But think how well you could have done with our chatbot friends to lend a hand! AI is a gift to advertising agen…

    Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AI
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    Call 1-800-CHATGPT for an annoying time with OpenAI’s cheerful bot
    pivot-to-ai.com Call 1-800-CHATGPT for an annoying time with OpenAI’s cheerful bot

    David is in London, so he can’t call 1-800-CHATGPT. So Amy called, though reluctantly. [YouTube] The bot has a pleasant but annoying female voice. It wants to help! It’s a bit like Apple’s Siri, bu…

    Call 1-800-CHATGPT for an annoying time with OpenAI’s cheerful bot
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    The OpenAI Christmas special: o3 is totally an intelligence, guys! For extremely specific values of ‘intelligent’
    pivot-to-ai.com The OpenAI Christmas special: o3 is totally an intelligence, guys! For extremely specific values of ‘intelligent’

    The only thing OpenAI has scaled up is setting money on fire. They need splashy headlines to keep the funding coming. So today, closing “12 Days of OpenAI” — yes, really — we have … o3! [NYT,…

    The OpenAI Christmas special: o3 is totally an intelligence, guys! For extremely specific values of ‘intelligent’
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    Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AI
  • Control of resident data could be kept at municipality level

    no, they'll fuck it up as hard as possible. These are not people who give a shit about the privacy of the plebs.

  • Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AI
  • controller of the key pair

    never.

    These are not people who are going to do things correctly, let alone doing complex things correctly. They are absolutely going to come up with some hamfisted bullshit, there is no way they are not. If they really try to do this, the most likely version is a central ID register but it's privatised.

  • Gary Marcus in Wired writes the bloody obvious about genAI being shit

    main: https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness/ archive: https://archive.ph/0Ok2r

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    Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AI
    pivot-to-ai.com Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AI

    On orders from the Rupert Murdoch newspapers, the Australian government has passed legislation banning under-16s from social media, on extremely dubious claims of protecting mental health. This is …

    Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AI
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    Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
  • in crypto, these guys run on a six to eighteen month cycle - at get in, evangelise, get rekt and disappear in embarrassment. What this means is that the only people who actually remember the history of crypto are the critics.

    i once had a coiner demand in outrage that i prooove my claim that bitcoin was started by libertarians.

    anyway. dunno if the same will hold in AI grift, but yeah recycling refuted claims as if nothing happened is standard in other areas of pseudoscience.

  • Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
  • lol, there has literally never been a gain of function claim that checked out

    you're posting like an evangelist, this way to the egress

  • Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
    pivot-to-ai.com Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you

    Did you know that your chatbot might be out to deceive you? That it might be lying to you? And it might turn you into paperclips? Huge if true! Ordinary people have been using chatbots for a couple…

    Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to you
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    UK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative works
    pivot-to-ai.com UK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative works

    The UK government has introduced a proposal “ensuring AI developers have access to high-quality material to train leading AI models in the UK and support innovation across the UK AI sector.” [Consu…

    UK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative works
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    "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • sorry you don't like anger! we'll improve your lemmyverse experience

  • Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables
    pivot-to-ai.com Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables

    Microsoft is a proprietary software company, but a lot of its software components and documentation are under open licenses. For example, the documentation for the Windows Subsystem for Linux is un…

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    "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • profound reasoning indeed, this way to the egress so you can contemplate further

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • GPT-2 was peak LLM because it was bad enough to be interesting, it was all downhill from there

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • someone sent out the batpromptfondler signal and the mods are in shooting gallery mode

    please refrain from commenting unaccordingly

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • christ, did someone fire up the Batpromptfondler signal

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
  • actually you know what? with all the motte and baileying, you can take a month off. bye!

  • "Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."
    deadsimpletech.com Sam Altman is a dunce | deadSimpleTech

    Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth. This is, after all, the person who once tweeted 'i am a stochastic parrot and so are u', in response to Emily Bender's (entirely incisive and absolutely brilliant) critique of what his large language model...

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    Do knee X-rays show if you drink beer? Medical AI versus algorithmic shortcutting
    pivot-to-ai.com Do knee X-rays show if you drink beer? Medical AI versus algorithmic shortcutting

    Whenever you say AI is drowning us in garbage, some bozo will say how AI in medicine is actually awesome. They mean machine learning, where a computer does statistics on existing scans and their di…

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    Casey Newton drinks the kool-aid
  • Kevin hopes to be Casey when he grows up

  • Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains
    pivot-to-ai.com Apple Intelligence AI mangles headlines so badly the BBC officially complains

    Apple needs you to buy the new iPhone even though the old models still work just fine. Enter Apple Intelligence, Apple’s wrapper around ChatGPT, to abbreviate your messages for you! As an LLM, Appl…

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    Mass resignations at Intelligence as Elsevier actually bothers slightly for once

    oh no! anyway,

    archives:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20241213203714/https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/mass-resignations-at-the-journal

    https://archive.is/0lrO6

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    UnitedHealthcare Optum leaves internal AI chatbot open to the world
    pivot-to-ai.com UnitedHealthcare Optum leaves internal AI chatbot open to the world

    Healthcare services company Optum, part of UnitedHealthcare Group, left an LLM-based chatbot — used by employees to ask questions about handling claims — exposed to the internet. Mossab Hussein, ch…

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    Windows AI Copilot+ Recall stores screenshots of sensitive data, regardless of ‘sensitive information’ filter
    pivot-to-ai.com Windows AI Copilot+ Recall stores screenshots of sensitive data, regardless of ‘sensitive information’ filter

    Recall is a feature for Microsoft’s AI-enabled Copilot+ PCs that takes continuous screenshots of everything you do on your AI PC, scans the text, and lets you search it with an LLM. The text is sto…

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    what the hell is Theil on here (CONTENT WARNING: Piers Morgan)
    www.thewrap.com Peter Thiel Stutters When Asked What to Say to Defenders of UnitedHealthCare CEO Killer: 'I Don't Know What to Say' | Video

    "I think I still think you have, you should try to make an argument." Peter Thiel tells Piers Morgan

    amazing to watch American right-wingers flounder at the incredibly obvious questions from UK media guys, even Piers fucking Morgan on a podcast

    Morgan - as a fellow right winger - asks Thiel about Mangione quoting Thiel

    watch Thiel melting in the excruciating video clip

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    dgerard David Gerard @awful.systems

    the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and then Reddit

    https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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