BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 hours agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down10
arrow-up184arrow-down1external-linkWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square8fedilink
self@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agoOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down10
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaself@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square20fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agohey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraudplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1message-squarehey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraudplus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square3fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoCoca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down10
arrow-up1120arrow-down1external-linkCoca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square38fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square2fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoI Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeralplus-squarewww.giantfreakinrobot.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkI Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeralplus-squarewww.giantfreakinrobot.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square8fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoSubstack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10
arrow-up131arrow-down1external-linkSubstack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square11fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoOpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any furtherplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkOpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any furtherplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square41fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoEd Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minuteswww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkEd Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minuteswww.youtube.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoAI and venture capital are going nuclearplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkAI and venture capital are going nuclearplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square4fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoWhere's Your Ed At - Lost In The Futureplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkWhere's Your Ed At - Lost In The Futureplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoUK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkUK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square5fedilink
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 days agoHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)www.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)www.youtube.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square11fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square166fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024plus-squareBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square166fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoRaw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harmplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkRaw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harmplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square2fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoMicrosoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down10
arrow-up1100arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square31fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoTony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10
arrow-up135arrow-down1external-linkTony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square3fedilink
