David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoDefector: If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?plus-squaredefector.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDefector: If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?plus-squaredefector.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 26 May 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agoRemember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lieplus-squarewww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkRemember how ChatGPT totally aced the bar exam? Wow! yeah, turns out that was just a lieplus-squarewww.nytimes.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agoIlya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAIplus-squaretwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkIlya Sutskever and Jan Leike leave OpenAIplus-squaretwitter.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoEd Zitron on the major issue with generative AI: it doesn't frickin' workplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkEd Zitron on the major issue with generative AI: it doesn't frickin' workplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 19 May 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoA rant on products without purposeplus-squarefasterandworse.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkA rant on products without purposeplus-squarefasterandworse.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoJack Dorsey, Bluesky, decentralised social networks and the very common crowdplus-squaredavidgerard.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkJack Dorsey, Bluesky, decentralised social networks and the very common crowdplus-squaredavidgerard.co.ukDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoevery frickin time: of course the Sora "AI" video was fakedplus-squarefuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkevery frickin time: of course the Sora "AI" video was fakedplus-squarefuturism.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoEd Zitron on managerial enshittifiers Adam Mosseri of Instagram and our very good friend Sam Altmanplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkEd Zitron on managerial enshittifiers Adam Mosseri of Instagram and our very good friend Sam Altmanplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agolooking back at Apple getting DMAed. "Those talks were not negotiations even though Apple seems to have thought they were."plus-squarewww.baldurbjarnason.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linklooking back at Apple getting DMAed. "Those talks were not negotiations even though Apple seems to have thought they were."plus-squarewww.baldurbjarnason.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoe/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in ittwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linke/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in ittwitter.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 05 May 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 05 May 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agoMatt Mullenweg’s past form in the enshittification minesplus-squaregoblin.bandexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMatt Mullenweg’s past form in the enshittification minesplus-squaregoblin.bandDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agoin absolutely the funniest outcome so far, you can send data to an LLM that pops a Remote Code Execution vulnerabilityplus-squaremastodon.socialexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkin absolutely the funniest outcome so far, you can send data to an LLM that pops a Remote Code Execution vulnerabilityplus-squaremastodon.socialDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoEd Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shitplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkEd Zitron documents Prabhakar Raghavan, the actual guy who turned Google Search into complete shitplus-squarewww.wheresyoured.atDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 April 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 28 April 2024plus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agoStubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months ago"Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content."plus-squarewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-link"Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content."plus-squarewww.theregister.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square0fedilink