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  • apparently she is a real known person from military twitter

  • threads is cookin tonite
    bsky.app Ian Rennie (@theangelremiel.bsky.social)

    Man, this probably hits really hard if you're fuckin stupid.

    Ian Rennie  (@theangelremiel.bsky.social)

    !

    daniellamyoung_3h

    Unpopular opinion: you only hate chat gpt because it makes it harder to stack rank and discriminate against people.

    So what everyone can write well now? great it's a tool! Just like moving faster because you drive a car.

    The good news is you'll be easily able to hire for that writing job you need. The bad news is you won't be able to discriminate against candidates who are not as good with the written word.

    Also, an obsession with the written word is a tenant of white supremacy [salute emoji]

    Ian Rennie ‪@theangelremiel.bsky.social‬

    Man, this probably hits really hard if you're fuckin stupid.

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    Routledge nags academics to finish books ASAP — to feed Microsoft’s AI
  • it's always nice when a story just comes in on the twitter and nobody else has covered it yet

    b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk

    correct, academic publishing

  • Routledge nags academics to finish books ASAP — to feed Microsoft’s AI
    pivot-to-ai.com Routledge nags academics to finish books ASAP — to feed Microsoft’s AI

    Informa, owner of academic publisher Taylor & Francis, sold everything to Microsoft to train Microsoft’s AIs earlier this year. Informa expects to take in over $75 million from its AI deals in …

    Routledge nags academics to finish books ASAP — to feed Microsoft’s AI
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024
  • it's Friday so I probably won't get an answer till Monday or Tuesday, but I did contact their press office asking about why the fuck NFTs in TYOOL twenty fucking twenty four and the sensitive issue of the art being facile plagiarism by an advertising executive

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024
  • you sure about that?

    The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out. And the growing consensus is "why shouldn't you?", there is no escape from that.

    This is someone who literally can't tell good writing from bad, so he assumes everyone is using AI

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024
  • shocked that scorpions in a scorpion's nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging

  • Worst government use of ChatGPT: in a child protection report
    pivot-to-ai.com Worst government use of ChatGPT: in a child protection report

    Social work is important and demanding, and protecting potentially abused children needs every detail correct and properly assessed. This didn’t stop a case worker at the Department of Families, Fa…

    Worst government use of ChatGPT: in a child protection report
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    Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)
  • PROSECUTOR, PROBATION SERVICE: look, even we think time served for this one
    (Judge reads Caroline's book)
    JUDGE: Jail for Caroline! Jail for Caroline for seven hundred and thirty days!

  • Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained
  • pumped: artificially inflated

  • Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained
  • my phone tries extra fucking hard to sell me on its built in wallpaper app which has data-scraping permissions out to here also

  • Marques Brownlee's ‘Panels’ Backlash, Explained
  • indeed. I have ... a photo of the family? It's fine and cool?

  • under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again
  • I wish our dude well in his endeavours to touch grass

  • under categories "LEADERSHIP -> SAM ALTMAN": making drugs extremely uncool again
  • any of their actions, wtf

    EDIT: actually, looking through your posts, logging off is a good idea and we're delighted to help

  • a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime?
  • that's literally it, yes

    fucking blockchain games but the illustrations have big eyes

  • Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)
  • Ryan Salame went down hard though, basically for being a huge asshole

    his stuff in the Lewis book is amazing. Lewis seems actually sympathetic to Salame and he still sounds like the stupendous shithead he is out his own mouth

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 29 September 2024
  • ya know that inane SITUATIONAL AWARENESS paper that the ex-OpenAI guy posted, which is basically a window into what the most fully committed OpenAI doom cultists actually believe?

    yeah, Ivanka Trump just tweeted it

    But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them.

    oh boy

  • Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe.
    pivot-to-ai.com Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe.

    OpenAI didn’t merely fill its latest $6.5 billion funding round —  it’s oversubscribed! OpenAI is now deciding which investors are gullible cool and handsome enough to be allowed to give them money…

    Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe.
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    Caroline Ellison: A dashing tale of Victorian race science and, somehow, Harry Potter (Yudkowsky version)

    > In a letter to the judge, Ellison’s mother, professor Sara Fisher Ellison, wrote that Ellison has completed a romantic novella and is already at work on a follow-up. The finished novella is “set in Edwardian England and loosely based on [Ellison’s] sister Kate’s imagined amorous exploits, to Kate’s great delight,” her mother wrote.

    https://fortune.com/2024/09/24/caroline-ellison-romance-novel-ftx-entencing/

    oh yeah she got two years' jail for her part in stealing eleven fucking billion with a B dollars

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    a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime?
    pivot-to-ai.com a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime?

    Web3 was a washout. AI isn’t delivering returns. What’s next for venture capital? Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) want you to believe the next lottery win explosion will be … anime! Yes, really — …

    a16z picks the next tech hype after Web3 and AI! It’s … anime?

    as brought up in the stubsack

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    A radical idea - stop talking about things that don't exist like they do
    tante.cc A radical idea

    If you’ve read me for a while you know that – when it comes to tech reporting/talking about tech – I have been around the block a few times. Talked about some hypes, cut some supposedly magic technologies down to size. Sometimes even defending or advocating for certain tech. After a while the patter...

    A radical idea
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    Come to sunny Melbourne! Don’t worry about the AI mutants in the parks
    pivot-to-ai.com Come to sunny Melbourne! Don’t worry about the AI mutants in the parks

    Nick Reece is mayor of the City of Melbourne, the central business district of the city. He’s running for re-election in October. One of Reece’s pledges is to build dozens of new parks around the c…

    Come to sunny Melbourne! Don’t worry about the AI mutants in the parks
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    Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX
    pivot-to-ai.com Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX

    Hollywood studio Lionsgate has sold its entire back catalog of movies and TV shows to AI video startup Runway to train a new model on, which Lionsgate will then have access to. [WSJ, archive] Lions…

    Lionsgate sells movie catalog to AI video startup Runway hoping to replace artists and FX
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    Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft
    pivot-to-ai.com Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft

    Good news, everyone! The Three Mile Island power plant, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is restarting to power AI for Microsoft! [Press release; Washington Post, archive; Bloomber…

    Three Mile Island nuclear plant is restarting to power AI for Microsoft
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    How to use AI for medical scans: just steal the training data
    pivot-to-ai.com How to use AI for medical scans: just steal the training data

    Machine learning can be very effective. Using machine learning to review medical scans and flag issues for human inspection is a standard promotional talking point for “AI.” How do you …

    How to use AI for medical scans: just steal the training data
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    BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments - in data centres and power stations
    finance.yahoo.com BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments

    (Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up on one of the largest efforts to date to bankroll the build-out of data warehouses and energy infrastructure behind the boom in artificial intelligence.Most Read from BloombergCalifornia’s Anti-Speeding Bill Can Be a Traffic Safety Bre...

    BlackRock, Microsoft to Raise $30 Billion for AI Investments

    investors include Saudi Arabia, the country whose wealth rests on fossil fuels

    now you might wonder if this initiative will lack a certain greenness

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    Kubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraud
    pivot-to-ai.com Kubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraud

    Tiny adtech company Kubient shut down in late 2023 when CEO Paul Roberts was caught faking revenue numbers on his AI fraud detection software to lure investment in. He pleaded guilty on Monday. [Do…

    Kubient’s adtech use case for AI: an excuse for a fraud
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    OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”
    pivot-to-ai.com OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”

    OpenAI’s big pitch for its new o1 LLM, a.k.a. “Strawberry,” is that it goes through an actual reasoning process to answer you. The computer is alive! The paperclip apocalypse is imminen…

    OpenAI does not want you delving into o1 Strawberry’s alleged “chain of thought”
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    NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI
    pivot-to-ai.com NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI

    Teachers are perennially in short supply — they expect money and rights and unions. Surely chatbots can fix this! NSWEduChat is from New South Wales in Australia. It’s supplied by Microsoft and is …

    NSWEduChat will ‘ease the burden’ on teachers with safety promises that would need human-equivalent AI
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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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