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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Managed to stumble across two separate attempts to protect promptfondlers' feelings from getting hurt like they deserve, titled "Shame in the machine: affective accountability and the ethics of AI" and "AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work".

I found both of them whilst trawling Bluesky, and they're being universally mocked like they deserve on there.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really like how the second one appropriates pseudomarxist language to have a go at those snooty liberal elites again.

edit: The first paper might be making a perfectly valid point at a glance??

[–] nfultz@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure if this was already posted here but saw it on LI this morning - AI for Good [Appearance?] - sometimes we focus on the big companies and miss how awful the sycophantic ecosystem gets.

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[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Going through work email I saw a link o an article about Quantum-AI. It was behind paywall, and I am not paying for reading about how woo+woo=woo^2. What do you do when your bubble isn't inflating anymore? Couple it with another stale bubble!

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Me, a unique genius, when I navigate to chatgpt dot com to awaken my best friend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5jROs3A6F8

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Thank you, Dethklok, not just for this banger of a national anthem but also for summoning the lake troll to put Espoo in its place.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

found new potential eye muscle strain material

"we must fuck around with the essential basic components a significant part of modern software exists on, because AI and agents and MCP"

(e: first saw here)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

I also did some digging, and this appears to be a profile matching that poster (username, displayed email)

note not only the massive uptick in recent commit counts on the github, but also the complete lack of any related domain experience in what they're posting to the git list about

much as the rules here, the only answer is to keep laughing these fucking people out of the room

[–] misterbngo@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

I wonder why his 10000 agents haven't done the work yet. It seems like such a straightforward plan.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could have been a cool name for a drag queen, a motorcycle stunt artist, or an eccentric 19th century inventor. On anAI hypeperson it just adds to the vicarious embarrassment.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

mmm, word suggestion for this kind: hypeslopper?

Example use: “from a hypeslopper such as this”

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

No replies and somehow that screen name just screams "troll" to me.

Not that I really care, git can go DIAF as far as I'm concerned.

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