BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024plus-squarepinmessage-squaremessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up121
arrow-up121message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024plus-squarepinBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square115fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 hours agoWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up159
arrow-up159external-linkWhoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racistplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square20fedilink
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 38 minutes agoWhomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productiveplus-squarewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up15
arrow-up15external-linkWhomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productiveplus-squarewww.theregister.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 38 minutes agomessage-square0fedilink
self@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agoOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up112
arrow-up112external-linkOn “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneersplus-squareizzys.casaself@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square21fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up19
arrow-up19external-linkPumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square4fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoCoca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1117
arrow-up1117external-linkCoca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expectplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square39fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up124
arrow-up124external-linkHarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keenplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square2fedilink
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-square1fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11message-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-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoI Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeralplus-squarewww.giantfreakinrobot.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up152
arrow-up152external-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 · 6 days agoSubstack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up128
arrow-up128external-linkSubstack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop tooplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square10fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoOpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any furtherplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up172
arrow-up172external-linkOpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any furtherplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square41fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoEd Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutesplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up120
arrow-up120external-linkEd Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutesplus-squarewww.youtube.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square1fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoAI and venture capital are going nuclearplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up112
arrow-up112external-linkAI and venture capital are going nuclearplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up119
arrow-up119external-linkProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square4fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoWhere's Your Ed At - Lost In The Futureplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up117
arrow-up117external-linkWhere's Your Ed At - Lost In The Futureplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agoUK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up120
arrow-up120external-linkUK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-botplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square5fedilink
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 days agoHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up121
arrow-up121external-linkHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)plus-squarewww.youtube.comdb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square11fedilink
BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square173fedilinkarrow-up115
arrow-up115message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024plus-squareBlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square173fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agoRaw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harmplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up115
arrow-up115external-linkRaw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harmplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square2fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agoMicrosoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1102
arrow-up1102external-linkMicrosoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square31fedilink
