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[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

yes, I’ve seen it

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah the anti-furry shit would’ve been enough to catch a ban from here, and I’m kinda sorry you’re ok with it

but I’m gonna be honest, you seem exhausting and your only contribution to this instance has been assigning our admins homework. I think it’s best you move on

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

maybe they caught a ban cause of their weird fucking vibes and cause they couldn’t help but thread a bunch of low-effort garbage into a moderator announcement

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

weird, we’re not interested in any further replies from you at all. fuck along now

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

a good open source federated search engine out there that I can contribute a server to

I’d love to contribute to something like this. it might even make for a good replacement for lemmy’s awful built-in search

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

this is a lot more damning than the 404 media article let on, and I'm very happy that's the case

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

my Soiboi Elite is my favorite gaming mouse

[–] self@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Financial Times headline, Thursday 11 April: “OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’”. Huge if true! [FT, archive]

This is an awesome story that the FT somehow ran without an editor reading it from the beginning through to the end. You can watch as the splashy headline claim slowly decays to nothing:

other than the exploration of how and why this shit’s being treated like magic for financial and, ah, religious gain, I think this is my favorite part of the article. it’s like an immunization against AI puff pieces — here’s some easy stuff the reader can look for next time the AI companies or any other woo peddler gets their bullshit published as supposed news.

Voice stress analysis is complete and utter pseudoscience. It doesn’t exist. It doesn’t work. Fabulous results are regularly claimed and never reproduced. Anyone trying to sell you voice stress analysis is a crook and a con man.

and speaking of woo peddlers! the worst thing about generative AI is that it can legitimize any woo, no matter how old or discredited it is. and that horseshit gets top billing alongside the words of actual scientists defending the tech and the frankly godawful results it gives when applied to any field where outputting large volumes of bullshit isn’t the point.

[–] self@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago

and for absolutely no reason it's working again!

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago

from everywhere all at once?

I could see it

[–] self@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago

ffffffffffuck

[–] self@awful.systems 2 points 9 months ago

fucking fuck

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