dgerard

joined 2 years ago
MODERATOR OF
sneerclub
techtakes
sorted by: new top controversial old
Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago

I can excuse racism, but I can't excuse the implication I might be in any way tangential to racism

California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questions in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

your takes combine with your username, which I don't know how we let through, to suggest this is a good time to guide you to the egress

Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

"What the hell do you call that routine"
"the LEMMYVERSE!"

Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 2 weeks ago

Digital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices "black" rather than hiring an actual black person

Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

if you don't understand the concept of "digital blackface" as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here

I'm not saying it's always programming.dev, but

OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

yeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google's ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?

‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating again in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

no no it's LYING

Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

originally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 weeks ago

this URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025

the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news

i expect this one to be more of the same

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago

realy, who doesn't want to fuck Clippy

(looks around nervously)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 weeks ago

We don’t even have self driving cars outside of a very small, very expensive demo in SF

at 1.5 totally-not-drivers per car, we don't have them there eithe

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Donald Trump, so yeah

20
OpenAI asks the US government for the moon on a stick (pivot-to-ai.com)
9
UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHi3806cSc - video

69
Race science blogger creates PedoAI, using phrenology to detect child molestors (www.uncorrelated.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
43 comments fedilink
 

While this linear model's overall predictive accuracy barely outperformed random guessing,

I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.

the rest of the site is a stupendous assortment of a very small field of focus that made this ideal for sneerclub and not just techtakes

49
Cursor AI assistant tells vibe coder: learn to code (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETqfWTDp2BI

story spotted by @froztbyte of this parish

91
I find absolutely consistently that gen-AI advocates are literally unable to tell good output from bad output. They think people who say their output is garbage are just lying to have a go at them. (x.com)
 

xcancel: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1899535387435086115

31
OpenAI’s for-profit plan is in trouble (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

vidyer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJhcCgB-c3w

27
Foreign Policy: The U.K. Pivot to AI Is Doomed From the Start (foreignpolicy.com)
 

at frickin last - I wrote this in January and it's finally been published

archive: https://archive.is/RSU91

7
Let’s write PR pitches with an AI! (report spam, block sender) (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

short ranty video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKdhf_hDQGU

29
Tom Chivers, the science writer who stanned hard for the rationalists and Siskind and started writing for Unherd, is doing gender critical podcasts now (www.transgendermap.com)
17
Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer review (pivot-to-ai.com)
27
Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

with bonus video version

17
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
view more: ‹ prev next ›