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- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Generative AI runs on gambling addiction ā just one more prompt, bro!English9Ā·9 hours ago
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Lionsgate: "The AI movies are coming, we swear, they're just stuck in Canada"English7Ā·12 hours ago
āMr. Burnsā ā too on the nose. Try better, scriptwriters.
Using Runawayās AI technology, the studio can avoid a pricy film shoot that would cost millions and take a few days and use AI to create the shot for about $10,000.
āI have been in this business long enough to become vice chairman. What is this āCGIā you speak of?ā
(not sure you can get that sort of shot for less than $10K but you donāt have to literally go out an shoot on film/digital actors and shit)
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English7Ā·12 hours ago
This piece, although in a way defeatist, also gives me hope because thereās at least one other person who has the same general feeling about LLMs that I do, and is a better writer.
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html
Iām gonna think that the latest drumbeat of pro-LLM posts (tpacekās screed, this excrescense) is a last gasp of a system running in midair like the Coyote, before the VC money dries up.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025English13Ā·4 days ago
Lobsters went down a VC financing rabbit hole the other day (thanks to me and @dgerard) and a user horked up this absolutely bonkers defense of OpenAI losing a galactic sum of money:
https://lobste.rs/s/wjb9ox/minio_removes_web_ui_features_from#c_rgatzz
(reproduced below in case it is removed in shame)
OpenAI is very different. They mainly lose money on ChatGPT, but itās not really lost money, because they in turn accumulate fresh daha to further train their models. Data that none of their competitors have access to.
OpenAI is also different because AI is a major geopolitical factor at the moment and unless youāve been living in a cave lately, you must have noticed that geopolitics is much more important than money these days. ChatGPT is an incredible intelligence gathering channel and cutting access to AI APIs would make US sanctions hurt that much more. The only other country that can compete with US companies when it comes to bulk training data access is China, via their social media alternatives like TikTok and RedNote. You can imagine the geopolitical implications of that too.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millionsEnglish6Ā·4 days ago
Maybe⦠like I mentioned, Nokiaās S60 application stack was a mess. The underlying phone software and platform might have been there, but the 3rd party ecosystem wasnāt. This was a huge part of the success of the iPhone, that 3rd party developers had a stable platform to develop for, and a steady financial partner (Apple) paying them.
No offense against Nokia but I really donāt think the company had the mentality to offer that.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millionsEnglish18Ā·5 days ago
Nokia had great hardware, but crappy software (and I say that as a heavy Series 60 user back in the day). In a parallel world, Windows Mobile could have ridden that hardware to a glorious future, but it was transparent that Elopās acquisition was just part of a Byzantine internal Microsoft play.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English5Ā·5 days ago
Good luck! Iām rooting for you.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English6Ā·6 days ago
I hate Iām so terminally online I found out about the rumor that Musk and Stephen Millerās wife are bumping uglies through a horrorfic parody account
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/114593332907413196
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbotEnglish6Ā·6 days ago
My pocket take: the chickens from 45 years of effective neoliberalism coming home to roost, coupled with Brexit hangover, has led the reactionary elements of UK society to retreat to rancid culture war positions
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Firing people for AI: not going so wellEnglish11Ā·10 days ago
why is robot lady in queue with springy legs so darn sexy
seriously though, good piece. Hopefully the fever breaks soon (yeah right)
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English6Ā·11 days ago
Anecdata: if youāre working in IT in Sweden you can get away with just English. I know a guy living in Berlin who hasnāt
botheredgot around to learning German yet, he also manages with English.But itās a big Community and different parts have different requirements and of course different expectations.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025English8Ā·11 days ago
LWer asks: āwhat if property-based suffrage, but with crypto?ā
- gerikson@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systemsā¢Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.English18Ā·18 days ago
Oh man this is peak venture capitalism crossed with Factorio - valuations are actually cash, and a factory is a black box where you just upload new software and other stuff comes out.
Letās take your average holder of car manufacturer stock. Youāre holding the stock because you believe the car manufacturer will continue making competitive products, and youāll get either dividends or higher valuations. Then OpenAI pitches up and offers you - what? They donāt even have stock! Even if they did, youāre exchanging a stake in something known for stake in an enterprise that have never made any cars, and when asked what kind of business plan they have they look shifty. No fucking way anyone will sell their stake for less than double what they have, especially if they find out the factory theyāre selling is gonna produce machines that will kill us all.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoSneerClub@awful.systemsā¢Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.English6Ā·18 days ago
Wow he looks even dorkier in video than in photos.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor AnthropicEnglish12Ā·18 days ago
Stupid sexy robot judgeā¦
One thing an adversarial judicial system like the American one is that if one party sloppily use GenAI to write their documents, they can lose, because the other party can point that out. A lot of the excuses to use LLMs in software development is that modern software development is terrible anyway, so if you can get your slop to market faster than some other schlub, you probably wonāt lose customers. When thereās a balanced incentive to point out hallucinations, they (hopefully) wonāt get that far.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025English11Ā·20 days ago
āFree speechā is now a rightwing dogwistle, at least for me.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢If AI is so good at coding ⦠where are the open source contributions?English1Ā·21 days ago
I have downloaded the relevant page from an open tab in Firefox ("Save as HTML), but it doesnāt contain the latest craziness. If anyone is interested, let me know the best way to host such content.
Whatās scary is the raw number of upvotes he got for basically admitting to defrauding a FLOSS maintainer.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢If AI is so good at coding ⦠where are the open source contributions?English2Ā·21 days ago
Well that took a turn.
The initial comment spawned a GIANT THREAD which I havenāt had time to parse, but after 2 days or so the initiator (username Kerrick) ragequit.
Hereās the modlog message (timestamp 2025-05-15 23:02)
User 7u026ne9se
Action: Banned
Reason: Was ~Kerrick from kerrick.blog who picked and lost every fight in /s/gkpmli, deleted/disowned all his comments, lied about stalking bc someone told a maintainer he admitted to misleading them, and asked us to delete his username change from the modlog. No.
Hereās the old profile:
http://web.archive.org/web/20250312141826/https://lobste.rs/~Kerrick
I suggest open source projects keep an eye out for this username and maybe take an extra look at their contributions.
Edit found the last comment they made before deleting. Textbook DARVO, considering they have almost unmerited amounts of positive karma in the thread itself.
I came here to give a simple explanation of why people arenāt noticing as many open source vibe coded contributions as theyād expect. Fights were picked with me by others: I was called a sneak, incapable, a pedant, an ignorer of consent, and a threat to human expression. All through that Iāve worked extremely hard to steer it away from such abhorrent behavior and towards the free expression of ideas, rather than engaging in the same kind of name calling.
Even so, Iāve been emailed, text messaged, and even called on my cell phone about this thread. Someone stalked me to other social media to bring it up there. This thread has brought about the most toxicity Iāve ever experienced on any forum, and these last couple days have been the among the worst in my life.
- gerikson@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systemsā¢If AI is so good at coding ⦠where are the open source contributions?English21Ā·22 days ago
This broke containment at the Red Site: https://lobste.rs/s/gkpmli/if_ai_is_so_good_at_coding_where_are_open
Reader discretion is advised, lobste.rs is home to its fair share of promptfondlers.
thereās no anime avatar, how do we know itās really Elon?