BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025plus-squarepinawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square102fedilinkarrow-up122
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bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish · 16 hours agoAGI Escapes Containment; Trump Admin: "Hold My Beer" — Tariff Terathreadplus-squarebsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up115
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jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 hours ago"The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism": Ed Zitron on lazy hypemongers and CoreWeave's brick-wall-headed trajectoryplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up13
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 hours agoBonfire of the LLMs: Gartner forecasts ‘extinction’ for generative AI vendorsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up110
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mountainriver@awful.systemsEnglish · 13 hours agoCustomer service sucks, chatbots must be the solutionplus-squarewww.capgemini.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up113
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoAI in the enterprise is failing over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up137
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 1 day agoOpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probablyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up119
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 2 days agoInterview with Vibe Coder in 2025plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up110
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 3 days agoUK government cuts funds for actually-working anti-cancer AIplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up131
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 4 days agoElon Musk merges xAI and Twitter — the new AOL Time Warnerplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up142
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aninjury2all@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoA.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic - Citations Needed Podcastplus-squarecitationsneeded.libsyn.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up124
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 7 days agoSam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troublesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up169
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 5 days agoGoogle ScreenAI: make your Chromebook melt downplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up123
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diz@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agoGemini 2.5 "reasoning", no real improvement on river crossings.plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up139
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 6 days agoHow can Tromsø, Norway shut down some schools? Let’s ask the AI!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up114
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 8 days agoMusic publishers’ injunction against AI firm Anthropic failsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up19
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoAI sales startup 11x claims customers it doesn’t have for software that doesn’t workplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up158
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 9 days agoActually using it: Extremely good reasons to drop all this AI bollocks immediatelyplus-squarewww.thedailymash.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up136
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David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish · 10 days agoAI data centers: Microsoft steps on the gasplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up112
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BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025plus-squareawful.systemsexternal-linkmessage-square188fedilinkarrow-up128
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