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You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 39 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (6 children)

Look, AI will be perfect as soon as we have an algorithm to sort "truth" from "falsehood", like an oracle of some sort. They'll probably have that in GPT-5, right?

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

It's alright! There's a multibillion dollar advertising operation working to convince us that generative AI can do these sorts of things. Plus, it's always tough to go through someone else's work, much less mods from a decade ago that were written by ambitious amateurs. I couldn't read my own code after a couple of months if I wasn't such an absurd over-commenter.

If you want a chill intro to the real situation, I highly recommend this episode of On the Media that had Ed Zitron on. You could knock it out over a commute or two no problem: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brooke-talks-ai-with-ed-zitron

A funnier and angrier thing that explains why this won't work can be found here: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No one:

Absolutely nobody:

Klarna: What if we financialized buying burritos using AI?

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Our subjects here at awful systems can make us angry. They can spend lots of money to make everything worse. They can even make us dead if things go really off the rails, but one thing they can never do is make us take them seriously.

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago (12 children)

I think that what we've got here is a genuine victim of the hype.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely!

The thing about sov cits is that they use legalish words like a magical incantation. The words have no meaning to them, really. It's a tarted-up glossolalia which reifies their wishes to manifest some outcome in court.

If a lawyer surrenders their craft to a bullshit engine, they're doing the exact same thing: spouting law-shaped nonsense in the hope of getting the verdict they want, their only differentiator being that they showed up wearing a much nicer suit than the sov cit.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Surprisingly well-received by hackernews:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053328

The main objection being along the lines of, "Milton Friedman's "I am not a racist" tshirt is raising many questions that are answered by his tshirt."

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

An image of a Github-themed restaurant that serves poop burgers.

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I love how Wells has given us both a great series of stories AND a jokey terminator analog to diffuse the mAnLy trope of building and/or fighting terminators.

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

zbyte64 gave a great answer. I visualize it like this:

Writing software that does a thing correctly within well defined time and space constraints is nothing like climbing a smooth gradient to a cozy global maximum.

On a good day, it's like hopping on a pogo stick around a spiky, discontinuous, weirdly-connected n-dimensional manifold filled with landmines (for large values of n).

The landmines don't just explode. Sometimes they have unpredictable comedic effects, such as ruining your weekend two months from now.

Evolution is simply the wrong tool for the job.

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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north (www.reuters.com)
 

Absolutely delusional wishcasting on the part of our very good friends.

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence (firstmonday.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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By Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres

Pro-tier sneers by seasoned veterans, get em while they're hot!

Edit: I am reliably informed that it is no longer hot.

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rpg.net gets caught being unfathomably based (2018) (wandering.shop)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems
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From the Uplifting News Department, an event that was brought to our attention by Wandering.shop member David Croyle. Specifically, that time that the administrators of rpg.net bluntly declared that their website is officially a No Nazis Bar.

There were no follow-up questions: https://wandering.shop/@croyle/113980700961699526

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Nashville Developer Makes RealPage, but for Renters (web.archive.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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Looks like a local boy did good.

I linked the /r/nashville post since it has a good description of the website. Users can see a history of rent prices for a given property and its neighbors, which gives some leverage in negotiations. For more context, local rent prices are down 6% from highs.

I'm curious to see if it takes off, and how robust it is against adversarial tactics like bogus reports and nuisance lawsuits.

EDIT: Fixed "Blocked" issue by linking to archive

EDIT2: Also linked to the correct archive page

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The System is Borked, We Need an Upgrade (awful.systems)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/freeasm@awful.systems
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Rojava has built what seems like a robust, equitable, bullshit-resistant mutual aid system in the face of incredible resistance. The idea of a system that can be an autonomous administration in some areas while operating--possibly legally--in parallel with a nation-state government in others is something I find very appealing.

I'm having a hard time understanding how the underlying system works in detail. I think this is largely due to a language barrier.

Any recommendations for Bookchin/Öcalan type reading for beginners? I've procrastinated on it because I hate reading theory (and it's always embarrassing to need hand holding at my age), but needs must. I haven't had much luck turning up English language stuff that lays out how the system works in a way I could share with a casual observer.

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Salesforce invites a horse into the hospital (sfstandard.com)
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John Mulaney gets paid by prompt fondlers to tell jokes at a party. He spends 45 minutes telling them that they are idiots, which is nice.

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Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets (gizmodo.com)
 

When you think MURDER, think MARCUS MUNITIONS!

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A Story in Two Pictures, Or Solidity? Why Worry! (wandering.shop)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by o7___o7@awful.systems to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
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(Found by way of @cstross@wandering.shop)

Tweet 1 - Oct 19, 2023:

I'm sorry but if you're paying $200k for a smart contract engineer you're ngmi

"no, the smart contract needs to be perfect and audited" bro hit $100k in daily volume then worry about it being perfect

Tweet 2 - Jun 5, 2024:

tldr; got $40k drained just now

i was submitting OP retro grants app. had to make github repo public for a sec. forgot i had my secret key in there (cuz i'm quite literally retarded, my IQ is 26). got drained of everything.

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