mountainriver

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In the famous locomotive competition where Rocket beat Novelty (or was it the other way around?), other locomotives also participated. Some broke down and one was disqualified for containing a horse instead of a steam engine. Feels like there are lots of hidden horses today, and they are rewarded instead of disqualified.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

So they named the product sucking the data after the Facehugger? At least they know that they are in the abomination business. Will they be releasing an AI named Bursting Chest?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

It says it isn't clickbait in the headline!

Do people really get on the internet and expect other people to lie?!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Regarding OFAC, making payment to any ransomware illegal, I have long pondered if participating in cryptocurrencies that is or has been used for ransomware payments shouldn't be considered under money laundering laws. That might make most cryptocurrencies illegal, or rather shine the light on the main useages already being illegal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Battlechess both could choose legal moves and also had cool animations. Battlechess wins again!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

When I run into "Climate change is a conspiracy" I do the wide-eyed look of recognition and go "Yeah I know! Have you heard about the Exxon files?" and lead them down that rabbit hole. If they want to think in terms of conspiracies, at least use an actual, factual conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At work, I've been looking through Microsoft licenses. Not the funniest thing to do, but that's why it's called work.

The new licenses that have AI-functions have a suspiciously low price tag, often as introductionary price (unclear for how long, or what it will cost later). This will be relevant later.

The licenses with Office, Teams and other things my users actually use are not only confusing in how they are bundled, they have been increasing in price. So I have been looking through and testing which licenses we can switch to a cheaper, without any difference for the users.

Having put in quite some time with it, we today crunched the numbers and realised that compared to last year we will save... (drumroll)... Approximately nothing!

But if we hadn't done all this, the costs would have increased by about 50%.

We are just a small corporation, maybe big ones gets discounts. But I think it is a clear indication of how the AI slop is financed, by price gauging corporate customers for the traditional products.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Having problems fitting enough GPT-3's under that trenchcoat?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a suspicion, but let me first check with the AI in my phone:

"Cybercheck committed the m-u-r...", AI suggests "murder"! That is it, case cracked!

As my AI figured out, Cybercheck themselves committed the murders and then probably created their service to cover it up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But did they fail because the watch went rogue and defected to the communist bloc?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What if my mechanical watch went rogue and killed Bezos?

On one hand Bezos is responsible for a lot of suffering and some deaths.

On the other hand, killing is wrong.

On the third hand, it couldn't do that, because it is just a machine.

(It's a watch, it has three hands. It also has about as much consciousness as an LLM, it "knows" what time it is. Much more energy efficient though.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

What could possibly go wrong? Better ask for forgiveness then plant permissions!

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