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  • you should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about "Hooked"

  • the psychology of loot boxes?

    yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900

    the book is "Hooked" and it's Don't Build The Torment Nexus I'm Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of

  • AI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.

  • this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i've heard about it widely

  • I dabble in conversational AI for work

    yeah this may be the wrong sub for you

  • these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.

  • ahahaha holy shit. I knew METR smelled a bit like AI doomsday cultists and took money from OpenPhil, but those "open source" projects and engineers? One of them was LessWrong.

    Here's a LW site dev whining about the study, he was in it and i think he thinks it was unfair to AI

    I think if people are citing in another 3 months time, they'll be making a mistake

    dude $NEXT_VERSION will be so cool

    so anyway, this study has gone mainstream! It was on CNBC! I urge you not to watch that unless you have a yearning need to know what the normies are hearing about this shit. In summary, they are hearing that AI coding isn't all that actually and may not do what the captains of industry want.

    around 2:30 the two talking heads ran out of information and just started incorrecting each other on the fabulous AI future, like the worst work lunchroom debate ever but it's about AI becoming superhuman

    the key takeaway for the non techie businessmen and investors who take CNBC seriously ever: the bubble starts not going so great

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast)

  • this user has been removed for commenting without reading the article

    being from programming dot dev is just the turd on top

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

  • youtube comment:

    Zeppelins are here to stay! After all, we still have the technology for rigid airship full of hydrogen cells, you can't unring this bell!

    (I have pretty good YT commenters actually. Because I moderate all comments, because this is fuckin AI.)

  • the dream of robot slaves is too powerful to suppress permanently, but it'll be one heck of an AI winter

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    ‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

  • if you want to do stream of consciousness creative writing, we have the MoreWrite community for stuff you want opinions on and the WriteFreely at https://gibberish.awful.systems/ - if that second one sounds useful, PM @self for an account

  • discuss.

    per the sidebar: This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

  • it was me, I popped AI. I destroyed Twitter (and, in collateral damage, I blew up the United States), and those fuckers are next. You're welcome.

  • In past tech bubbles, it was basically the VCs, the media hypesters and the liars in the companies. So the right people.

  • don't forget to press the button lots! bet they're using it as a metric!

    "yeah tried it real hard like you said boss. all its ideas were bad and i rejected them, but it'll get there! stand strong! diamond hands!"

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

  • he appears to have started like this - i hear he was like this at uni too

  • you're not even scamming them! you're merely the tax collector for BRUTE MATERIAL REALITY

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Venture capital is lending money against video cards

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    $219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued