I trust that at this point we've all heard about Elon's bizarre sockpuppet accounts?
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
Burners aside though, Elon is such a weird fucking poster. Everything he says is so derivative and empty. He openly steals his memes and every retweet he makes just agrees with some other poster wholesale; no addendums, no mixed agreements, just "whoa" and "this is concerning". It's like he spongebob'd himself into forgetting everything besides level 4 self-driving and apartheid
lol it's real https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/1420822651442921472
I think there's a level of US cultural stuff I don't understand here but I'll just sneer away, hoping no-one quizzes me on it.
I now regret asking for and getting this information.
I recall reading some of this around the time, seeing the rest of it is even more wild. Talk about a bad trip, heh
Non tech-focused AI scam:
A story from a couple months ago that I heard about just now from the scam goddess podcast.
Small thread on eschatological AGI things by xriskology interesting because the eschatological Christian apocalypticists are looping it back into religion by calling AGI the False Prophet.
Mind dropping an archive of it? Can’t access Twitter threads without being logged in these days
the archives can't get threads either, unfortunately. But in this case there's only a second tweet: https://twitter.com/xriskology/status/1778833319263687104
Grimes popping back into the sneerstream reminded me about that time Janelle Monáe demonstrated how sexy robot songs can be good actually.
adobe firefly also had a bit of the steals
I wonder what the outcome would be for one of these things trained only on consent-knowingly-provided (vs "implied because of a default-on checkbox that got added to user prefs without announcement") data. or even just what the comparative dataset size would be. if the whole internet isn't enough for them to steal...