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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Information's Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

it's been an ongoing exit scam

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman's other portfolio companies

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:

       {
           "@type": "Question",
           "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?",
           "acceptedAnswer": {
               "@type": "Answer",
               "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
           }
       },

here's the diff

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

looks like tomorrow's Pivot

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yep that's the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

crayon either way

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

that gives me questions about China

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

that's tomorrow's Pivot

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