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An AI beauty pageant? Miss me with that Miss AI. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Honeymoon is over

https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-your-ai-girlfriend-hated-you/

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (8 children)

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

Critiquing an AI startup?

distasteful, almost unethical

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 April 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/04/garry-tan-is-not-just-a-cryptofascist-hes-a-christofascist/

I'll leave the sneer to jwz, but Jesus Fucking Christ indeed.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Because I feel like picking on him again: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/02/google-podcasts

The only Google services I use are YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, and Google Keep. Oh, and the Nest app.

It’s rather glorious living a nearly Google-free digital life.

New York taxpayers are paying for spicy autocomplete to tell landlords they can discriminate in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Ars' example gave me some hope User asking: "Can I evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent?" Chatbot responding: "No, you cannot evict a tenant for refusing to pay rent. Evicting a tenant for this reason is not allowed."

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/crypto-miner-pennsylvania-hit-with-lawsuit-over-pollution-bitcoin-mine-2024-03-26/

Buttcoin "miners" literally burning trash. Sponsored by a state who apparently have learned nothing from its 200+ years of environmental destruction.