One of the dumbest reasons to create a Dystopia.

The two judges who ruled against Anthropic were both appointed by Trump and served in the first Trump administration. Judge Gregory Katsas was previously deputy counsel to the president, and Judge Neomi Rao served in the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget.

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I don't understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work, he is already rich he doesn't need to do commercials and blatantingly shill for a product for money like this.

Also the ides that anyone should listen to Bill Gates about needing or not needing government regulation, nationalization or trustbusting is actually insane.

Why? Why do this? For what? So we can cut funding to human researchers and studies?

An OpenAI spokesperson said the company was “proud” to ensure “the AI models of today preserve the world’s historical knowledge for the future”.

AI cannot and does not preserve anything, the Internet Archive and Wikipedia are entities that preserve the world's historical knowledge for the future, OpenAI steals from those types of entities and mutilates the data into opaque, obtuse and untrustable quips from an AI.

Oracle and Blue Owl are going just great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3MYXaR4nA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260925-oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract - podcast

time: 4 min 50 sec

For the ideologues of the billionaire class, the favoured strategy to hold on to power is to rile the masses into genocidal hate, to whip up fear, anything to stop them from joining the dots and turning on the billionaires who are expropriating our present and future and profiting from permanent war.

It is a time of nightmares. We must wake up.

Nothing revolutionary in this article, but I appreciate the common thread it weaves in explaining how we have gotten to such a desperate point and I also appreciate how much the writer despises Peter Thiel.

I am so tired of having endless discussions about the sky falling with our attention span and about how the problem these days is social media rots our brains blah blah blah and no one will address the blatant crime that we have ceded control of our digital lives to dumb, fascist wannabe fuedal rightwing edgelord billionaires and that maybe that is the actual problem...

Sam Altman: ‘whoops sorry lol’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5dnkwAjuPs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260924-openai-hacks-australian-government-health-data - podcast

time: 4 min 45 sec

It was fine when I was free to foist slop upon my coworkers, but now everyone is returning the favour?? What the hell. This sucks.

Naturally commenters are careful to note that they of course use the chatbot with care and precision, it’s those insidious others taking the easy approach and not having the moral fortitude to apply a little thought

Just a quick little explanation of those cameras put up by Flock Safety (YC S17). Posting it here in the hopes that it'll quell the urge I feel to post it to Lobsters and make pushcx delete it.

As a former donor to KDE I love nothing more than being called mere rabble.

During the AI policy discussion on https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/work_items/187 someone called a KDE contributor out for their bigotry. KDE banned the person calling them out and removed all the comments.

https://archive.ph/6YccJ#note_1648724 (no other archive available)

https://invent.kde.org/sweetluna (blocked user)

https://invent.kde.org/svin

I guess it's official. Fascism is allowed. Calling it out is not.

the existential risk from AI: stupid people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvH8vHoMX4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260922-us-nearly-attacks-chinese-ship-based-on-ai-hallucination - podcast

time: 4 min 48 sec

Wile E. Basilisk, Super Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuMYQkadVbw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260923-trump-decrees-artificial-intelligence-is-now-super-intelligence - podcast

time: 4 min 49 sec

The report, however, was wrong from the start. An analyst had used an AI chatbot to ask about some intelligence data related to the suspect ship's cargo manifest. The chatbot drew on classified data and open-source intelligence, then made up a conclusion: it decided that the vessel was carrying components for a nuclear weapons program, CNN's sources said. This was false, but the analyst did not detect that; instead, they packaged it up for formal use - again using AI for formatting - and sent it up the chain of command.

I really really hate bullshitters and this system is clearly optimized for them.

Tobias Lütke from Shopify blames the humans in the loop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2weIKnLSmIU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260921-when-the-ai-slop-is-bad-enough-the-ai-ceo-notices - podcast

time: 4 min 21 sec

Some of the worst LLM takes I've seen in a while. I've never thought FLOSS would be taken over by proprietary torment nexuses so fast.

The discussion will probably continue behind closed doors, so the public has no way of knowing who says what and corporations have their way easier.

And someone got exposed for being a Nazi.

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

(OT: 🎶 Do you remember...)

Putting shit in your food is OK as long as it is only a little bit of shit and you can't immediately taste it.

The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” US intelligence report generated with the help of AI tools, according to a CNN report.

That erroneous intelligence, submitted by a US Special Operations Command analyst, suggested the Chinese ship was transporting nuclear arms program components through the Middle East, according to “four sources familiar with the episode” cited by CNN. The US military was preparing to intercept and board the ship, with air support, before officials discovered a chatbot used in generating the report had “inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.”

One source told CNN the AI-powered fiasco “almost started a war.”

This is such a lame timeline, like god damn this is so stupid I can barely believe it is true.

No to a full moratorium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqRKNkXVrg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260918-scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause - podcast

time: 3 min 50 sec

Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”

ughhhhh

Keep the home fires from burning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZzwvnNi2U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260917-ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders - podcast

time: 3 min 44 sec