Th4tGuyII

The AI bubble bursting might take us into yet another “once in a generation” recession, but at least we’d finally be able to actually buy computer parts again!

I mean the orange turd’s war with Iran already skyrocketed the cost of living crisis in the west, so we might as well get a recession to pair with it like a nice Chianti.

Honestly been great for me. Had such a quiet work day courtesy of Microsoft. They should kill their email servers more often haha

US President Donald Trump has called the Nvidia chief ‘an honorable guy’, while congressional leaders call for investigations into national security risks

Honestly, never mind the scandal, I’d investigate Jenson just on this basis. Almost everyone that Trump has ever called “honorable” has had a skeleton hiding in their closet.

Yeah, cause Elon’s definitely not trying to put himself in the spotlight by saying he’ll do something he’ll worm his way out of later.

Jenson should totally rest assured Elon will definitely commit to hiring him.

Its funny how much the US bawks at even the tiniest of international accountability.

The US has put more action behind screwing over the ICC for trying to prosecute Israel over its literal war-crimes in the middle east and Genocide against Palestinians, than it has over the billionaire paedophile ring that occurred right under their noses.

Because how dare any other country or authority tell the US what it can and cannot do in the jurisdiction of said countries and authorities.

Well that’s a great incentive for clickbait content - cause now it won’t matter if you can keep people watching after you’ve reeled them in.

You’d think this would be against YouTube’s own best interest, considering they want to keep you watching, and people don’t often like watching that kind of clickbait-farm slop…

Or maybe I and the people I know are in the minority, and a lot of people just watch it whether they like it or not, which would be disappointing to hear.

Honestly, yeah.

For certain niches, the Fediverse is great - but it absolutely does suck for local community stuff.

Big tech platforms make those hyper-niche communities easier to set up, in exchange for all that sweet sweet data - and that won’t change anytime soon.

To do that on Fediverse you’d probably have to host an instance and get people to sign up if they aren’t already. Which for a techy or privacy orientated group they might actually do - but I don’t picture most hobbiest groups having the technical know-how or want to do that.

Maybe one day enough of the population will become tech-savy or privacy aware that niche local community Fedi instances might actually become a thing - but that day certainly isn’t today

Yeah, there’s a reason many instances are defederated from Threads. It’s a classic strategy, and the only way to avoid it is to not give them the foothold they want.

I do understand wanting to give people a trial of sorts without having to dive in - but personally I reckon that’s the best way to do this, and its the way I did during the first Reddit Exodus (RIP kBin)

As long as you do some research to avoid the more toxic spaces, and are respectful, people here will help you figure out the rest.

If coding is easy…

Think of it like DJ’ing.

The rock bottom level of being a DJ is putting a playlist together and playing it. Anyone could do that, you’ve already probably done it on your phone. Maybe even grouped songs by genre or year if you’re feeling fancy.

But a good DJ does more than that. They arrange the songs to give a particular vibe, they play around with the transitions to keep people in the music, they may even remix songs or their entire playlist on the fly. They’re artists in their own right, making more than the sum of what went in.

… And that’s the same as a programmer. Anyone can bumble their way through to writing code - but is that code anywhere close to optimal, properly annotated, maintainable?

GenAI throwing out thousands of lines of shitty code that has to be bug-fixed multiple times over by a developer is a waste of time, energy, computer parts, and money.

While I’m not surprised, I think this is yet another showing that the Jenner’s really will exploit any and all good will they have for money

Otake’s mother was seen in tears, saying, “My daughter is not coming back”.

I feel so sorry for their family. Imagine losing your child because their employer didn’t want to risk losing a single day’s sales

A sales manager reflected on the incident, saying, “Looking back, the sales proceeds were not worth a human life”.

The company’s director was also quoted saying: “This is a matter of profound sorrow, and I offer my deepest apologies to the bereaved family.”

It’s easy to say all this in retrospect. Two families lost their children because of this, no amount of retrospective analysis and apologies can make them come back.

If the company truly cared for the human lives they needlessly destroyed, they’d have never sent them back into harm’s way.

Yeah, like we haven’t been through multiple “generational” recessions.

At this point I feel like I’ve spent more time alive during recessions than not, so what’s one more for the pile - especially if it means getting to watch the AI bros go bankrupt.

I agree. This article did a great job at making me sympathetic to an LLM agent.

Given what looks to be a simple task with a tight deadline, but is actually rendered almost impossible by bottlenecks the people who gave the task didn’t forsee - and then getting blamed for not being able to complete the task.

Sounds like a day at my old job.

I personally dislike LLMs for their environmental impact and corrosiveness towards human culture, and I still think this was an unfair test. It had essentially no access to the budget it was supposed to have available due to API bugs, and was blocked from any form of advertising except spam marketing that its creators punished it for using. The fuck was it meant to do, shit money out from its arse?

Possibility? I think it’d be easier to point out which CEOs weren’t making AI decisions based on discussions with chatbots.

So based on the emails, he was always going to be detained as guilty of something…

And using the duress code to hide his sensitive data from a clearly biased adversary just gave them an easy excuse to do what they were always going to do.

How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.

People will really just shove these things into anything like they’re a bloody panacea, when really they’re just extremely well-trained parrots.

Exactly. At that point the only leverage he had over anyone was the secrets he held on his elite “friends”. There’s no reason to think he wouldn’t have spilled to save his own skin, so all the more motivation for his elite “friends” to prevent that by force

Do we need to remind people that LLMs don’t actually have a brain, and really, really shouldn’t be in charge of anything with real life implications?

They aren’t actually doing a cost-benefit analysis on the use of Nuclear weapons. They’re not weighing up the cost of winning vs. the casualties. They’re literally not made for that.

They are trained to know words, and how those words link in with other words. They’re essentially like kids doing escalation of imaginary weapons, and to them nuclear bombs are just a weapon particularly associated with being strong and deadly.