And some AI companies like Perplexity just shout “YOLO” and try to stealth-crawl it anyway. [404 Media; Wired]
it’s fucking wild that automated scraping without permission used to be something you did as a last resort under strict restrictions and secrecy, cause whoever had the data you needed wasn’t exposing a usable API. but not in the AI industry, there it’s the fucking foundation of the entire company
An AI-driven nagbot will surely fix these systemic issues — Huffington specifically claims the bot will “address growing health inequities” — and revolutionize healthcare, because “behavior change can be a miracle drug, both for preventing disease and for optimizing the treatment of disease.”
fuck off Arianna. there’s so many life-altering, commonplace diseases that behavioral changes don’t do fuck all for, and meanwhile some of the most beneficial behavioral therapy you can do is fucking impossible to get cause insurance won’t cover it in any achievable form. all this horseshit does is, as usual, shift the blame for beyond inadequate healthcare from a thoroughly broken system to the people suffering, because they supposedly didn’t try hard enough to change their behavior and get better.
Other AI companies like Cerebras are much better, running at quite sane voltages. Ironically (or perhaps smartly), the Saudis invested in them.
it’s real bizarre you edited this in after getting upvoted by a few people
🎉🎉🎉🎉 fuck yeah 🎉🎉🎉🎉
the community we’ve built here is amazing, and it’s thanks to everyone who contributes that we’ve made it to a year!
our instance has exceeded my wildest expectations, and it keeps pushing the boundaries of the technology that we use to host it. my initial thought behind starting this instance was “huh, I wonder how hard it’d be to deploy Lemmy on NixOS. maybe David and some of the SneerClub regulars would find it useful now that Reddit’s effectively dead?” and now we’re likely about to outlive NixOS’s relevancy (@self a year ago would be horrified at this) and one day soon we’ll even have a true Lemmy fork worth running. we’ve got so much in store for this instance, so let’s keep this party going!
ironic naziism is just naziism and nazis can fuck right off
GitHub Copilot
christ
oh come the fuck off it, OpenAI’s marketing presents sora as exactly a magic automate entire movie clip button. here’s OpenAI marketing the stupid thing as a world simulator which is fucking laughable if it can’t maintain even basic consistency. here’s an analysis of how disappointing sora actually is
tonight’s promptfans are fucking boring and I’m cranky from openai’s shitty sora page crashing my browser so I guess all you folks doing free marketing for Sam Altman can fuck off now
finally, the guy who willingly named himself BasedBeffJezos and posts the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever seen has pivoted his startup to the grift that you can replicate faster and more reliably on a Commodore 64
the supposed life extending properties of a glass of red wine every day are an excellent way to turn a wine mom into a full blown alcoholic
There is a good case that abortion is morally impermissible – or at least there is significant moral uncertainty.
it’s actually kind of rare that one of these loses me in the first sentence (cause TESCREALs don’t know about brevity so usually their point is buried under an avalanche of words) but here we are. the only people who can’t imagine a morally permissible abortion just don’t give a fuck about women
speaking of the Godot engine, here’s a layered sneer from the Cruelty Squad developer (via Mastodon):
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a post from Consumer Softproducts, the studio behind Cruelty Squad:weve read the room and have now successfully removed AI from cruelty squad. each enemy is now controlled in almost real time by an employee in a low labor cost country