overview for dgerard

The mask comes off at LWN, as two editors (jake and corbet) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles

https://lwn.net/Articles/998196/

hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

our writeup

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hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud (awful.systems)

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bust report (archive)

an earlier piece on the, uh, issues in this case (it's pretty juicy)

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024 by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago

now seeing EAs being deeply concerned about RFK running health during a H5N1 outbreak

dust specks vs leopards

Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

they'll have to comfort themselves with a Coke(tm), apparently it's a Surreal Thing

Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ by dgerard in c/techtakes@awful.systems

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 days ago

not many people are quite aware that the word "systemic" is economics jargon meaning "RED ALERT RED ALERT HOLY SHIT RED ALERT"

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Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’ (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Razzlekhan gets 18 months for war crimes against music (financialpost.com)

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HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen (pivot-to-ai.com)

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Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 6 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)

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a good piece on Bluesky, how it works, how decentralised it isn't in practice and the consequences of it winning (anderegg.ca)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems

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Peter Singer introduces the Peter Singer AI to elevate ethical discourse in the digital age (boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com)

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