David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems Posts 487Comments 1,172Joined 2 yr. ago
Bonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendors
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OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably
EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement
AI in the enterprise is failing over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024
tip from a discord:
I've been doing some micro tasking to train LLM's the last few months to earn some extra cash, the last month it's all dried up, no tasks available. I can't help thinking that is a sign of a bubble deflating.
it would be nice if people ever read the history of their favourite thing
one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack
It's just training the model
"it can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong"
I need to put the threads together, but as far as I can tell OpenAI is singlehandedly responsible for the present bubble
Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles
don't worry, you're probably just thick
it's yet another sign of the end times when you have to consider Nick fuckin Land's existence again. Here's one of his ex-students in the FT going "wtf"
best guess i've heard so far is they're trying to sell this shitass useless company before the bubble finally deflates and they're hoping the AI interviews of suckers are sufficient personal data for that
you don't understand, sam cured cancer or whatever
holy shitting fuck, just got the tip of the year in my email
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it's called kerplunk.com, a domain named after the sound of your balls disappearing forever
the market is gullible recruiters
founder is Jonathan Gallegos, his linkedin is pretty amazing
other three top execs don't use their surnames on Kerplunk's about page, one (Kyle Schutt) links to a linkedin that doesn't exist
for those who know how Dallas TX works, this is an extremely typical Dallas business BS enterprise, it's just this one is about AI not oil or Texas Instruments for once
what is it about the comedy article on a comedy site that is attracting the posters who are way too smart for us
this poster is way too smart for us
considering how hard even the "good" ones are on eugenics, it's not veiled
AI sales startup 11x claims customers it doesn’t have for software that doesn’t work
Actually using it: Extremely good reasons to drop all this AI bollocks immediately
you must be a very clever poster
but do they have chatGPT? huh? huh??
Viz sold out to work at the Daily Star, so
(unconfirmed)
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