In other news, Ed Zitron discovered Meg Whitman's now an independent board director at CoreWeave (an AI-related financial timebomb he recently covered), giving her the opportunity to run a third multi-billion dollar company into the ground:
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As an added bonus, its clear he's getting trolled for his terminal startup brain:
EDIT: Found some dipshit trying to defend the guy in the wild, rehashing the arguments used for AI art:
The most generous reading of that email I can pull is that Dr. Greg is an egotistical dipshit who tilts at windmills twenty-four-fucking-seven.
Also, this is pure gut instinct, but it feels like the FOSS community is gonna go through a major contraction/crash pretty soon. I've already predicted AI will kneecap adoption of FOSS licenses before, but the culture of FOSS being utterly rancid (not helped by Richard Stallman being the semi-literal Jeffery Epstein of tech (in multiple ways)) definitely isn't helping pre-existing FOSS projects.
Ran across a new piece on Futurism: Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers
I've updated my post on the Character.ai lawsuit to include this - personally, I expect this is gonna strongly help anyone suing character.ai or similar chatbot services.
You could probably do good art with an AI
Hot take: A plagiarism machine built to spew signal-shaped noise is incapable of making good art
Starting things off here with a couple solid sneers of some dipshit automating copyright infringement - one from Reid Southen, and one from Ed-Newton Rex:
A human-curated search engine would likely be easy to sell as well - the obvious approach to marketing it would be to bring attention to the human-curation involved, and claim no algorithms are involved in determining search results. This is arguably bullshit - you'll need an algorithm to sort the search results at minimum - but it'd evoke the idea that the engine is giving customers what they want, and not what someone else wants.
Additionally, you can pull out the somewhat old standby of claiming the search engine to be AI-free - with LLMs and slop generators defining how the public views AI, presenting yourself as a bulwark against the slop-nami will be an easy marketing win.
(Sidenote: Between the ever-growing backlash against AI, boiling resentment against Silicon Valley, and the fact I found this an easy sell, I suspect this idea's time has indeed come.)
If good search does come back, it'll likely require heavy human curation to keep LLM noise as low as humanly possible. Automated methods can be easily SEO'd to death, but human curation's gonna be rather tough to game.
Hopefully, this will also probably kill any notion of tech being apolitical for good.
Over/under on when this gets compared to God Of War Ragnarok constantly spoiling puzzle solutions (relevant GMTK(?))?
This awful new thing will be tested on Xbox Insider Program members from next month. It will shortly be telling you to git gud and how it wants to spend some quality time with your mother.
call-backs my beloved
Rare footage of a cryptobro being based (even for only 140 characters):