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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 hours ago

US space pen vs. Russian space pencil energy

(jk I know it’s space pens all the way down)

Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Why? Per the poll: “a lack of reliability.” The things being sold as “agents” don’t … work.

Vendors insist that the users are just holding the agents wrong. Per Bret Taylor of Sierra (and OpenAI):

Accept that it is imperfect. Rather than say, “Will AI do something wrong”, say, “When it does something wrong, what are the operational mitigations that we’ve put in place to deal with it?”

I think this illustrates the situation of the LLM market pretty well, not just at a shallow level of the base incentives of the parties at play, but also at a deeper level, showing the general lack of humanity and toleration of dogshit exhibited by the AI companies that they are trying to brainwash everyone with.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

I thought it might be that kind of deal. I learned of this when I saw a pair of op-eds, one saying a W is deserved and the other saying the nom was insane.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

What would some good unifying demands be for a hostile takeover of the Democratic party by centrists/moderates?

me, taking this at face value, and understanding the political stances of the democrats, and going by my definition of centrist/moderate that is more correct than whatever the hell Kelsey Piper thinks it means: Oh, this would actually push the democrats left.

Anyway, jesus christ I regret clicking on that name and reading. How the fuck is anyone this stupid. Vox needs to be burned down.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

TIL musk has a nobel peace prize nomination for this year

Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And to think, almost a year ago to this day, they had just announced a partnership with Softbank.

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Musk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvania (archive.md)
 

Original NYT title: Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago

116 million

There’s no way that what they’re buying is worth that much.

AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Feh. True AI adherents know that it is simply time to claim that AI has outgrown measurement designed for human minds (e.g. mental impairment tests) and require new tests for machine intelligence (trenchcoat volume tests). Of course these tests are yet to be invented and will obviously require billions of your human dollars for development.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

FR that’s basically this anime in which MC is isekai’d and starts a cult

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Got a jumpscare watching this.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

New elon allegedly spawned 5 months ago via MAGA columnist/influencer Ashley St. Clair

CW: Original source is the new york post, which I thought was an appropriate rag for this kind of news. Feel free to link a non NYP source.

https://archive.md/SY8LX

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

all of his works are socrappy dialogues (crappy socratic dialogues). This one is an unsubtle exploration of his BDSM fetish

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What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices (archive.is)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
1 comments fedilink
 

Original link

OFC if there were any real sense or justice in the world, LLMs would be banned outright.

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OpenAI says stealing is wrong and bad unless they do it (archive.md)
 

original article

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Musk presses H twice to perform the Nazi salute twice on stage at inauguration. (awful.systems)
 

No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

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Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride” (xcancel.com)
 

Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

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GM avoids reinventing a bus or a train with this one weird trick (archive.md)
 

Original link

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Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes (archive.md)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
11 comments fedilink
 

original link

“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

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SF tech startup Scale AI, worth $13.8B, accused of widespread wage theft (archive.md)
 

original link

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In which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselves (static1.squarespace.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

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Elon is constructing a texas compound to trap, err, I mean, house his ex wives and children (www.nytimes.com)
 

Didn’t see this news posted but please link previous correspondence if I missed it.

https://archive.is/XwbY0

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Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage (www.euronews.com)
 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

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