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- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 5 days ago:
I hope that goes without saying, but you’re correct. The humanizing language about AI in this article (freaking “schemes”?!) is completely cribbed from the companies making the positive misleading statements about it. Bit disappointing to see The Guardian falling for it.
In addition to the humanization, it implies the chatbot is getting better at doing things and not worse.
- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 5 days ago:
So the people saying “you’re prompting it wrong” were incorrect.
The AI industry, which is holding up the stock market, is building it wrong.
- Comment on Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds 6 days ago:
I’m not shocked MS hasn’t apologized, but actions speak louder than words. Seeing a more efficient OS with less CoPilot sounds good, and other companies should take note.
We’re living in some backwards world where Microsoft is removing AI from their OS, while Mozilla is jamming it into every product they can.
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 1 week ago:
Woz has a better take than the vast majority of people the MSM tends to interview. I’m not surprised (he seems pretty technically competent in general), but it’s definitely a breath of fresh air.
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- Comment on Why NEMA 1-15 Power Cords Still Matter for Everyday Devices? 1 week ago:
With a name like “sfcable,” I don’t know what else they’d do besides promote their website. You’d figure a legitimate group would create their own community first where people can request help and stuff
- Comment on Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude 1 week ago:
Bernie Sanders has unfortunately been duped into thinking AI is what the evangelists (tech CEOs and doom evangelists, including the cult leader Eli Yudkowsky) have told him about it.
Here (Twitter) is a video from Bernie’s office that starts with cult leader Yudkowsky promising that AI will kill humanity.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 2 weeks ago:
I half agree with you and @Mercurial@todon.nl – the “shocking” part is mostly that he would pitch this directly in public, but the “confession” part is more of an offer or a wish
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 2 weeks ago:
I endorse this way to meet new friends both in person and “on line” at the same time
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
“If”
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
Considering the amount of damage AI has done to well-funded projects like Windows and Amazon’s services, I agree with this entirely. It might be crucial to help fix bigger issues down the line.
- Comment on Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI 3 weeks ago:
Block CEO Jack Dorsey, a Bitcoin and AI enthusiast,
announcedalleged that he was laying off roughly 4,000 workers—nearly half of the company’s workforce—due to AI.Fixed that
- Comment on Social Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, I don’t know how I copied that word and didn’t notice
- Comment on Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like Chromebooks because they’re already a thin client for web services. We are in dire straits if they are getting hard to buy.
- Social Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake poststechcrunch.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 10 comments
- Comment on If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms 3 weeks ago:
no mention of how the affluent, surveillance-obsessed exec dictating its trajectory enthusiastically cozied up to fascists
There are so many surveillance-obsessed AI CEOs that this one wasn’t in my top two guesses. Excellent reminder, Techdirt.
Stories like this Times piece will often fixate on the AI “doomer narrative” (SkyNet will kill us all), but downplay that this specific strain of doomerism (very often pushed by wealthy industry insiders), often exists to both misrepresent what LLMs are capable of, but also to direct attention away from more realism-based criticism the industry doesn’t really want to talk about.
The amount of attention the pro-business doom narrative gets, is fundamentally at odds with this realism, because the reality is that LLMs aren’t all that great.
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 4 weeks ago:
Did Jack Dorsey hire an unsustainable number of employees?
Maybe, but Jack would rather you look somewhere else.
Jack trusts AI to be the future, and he is good at predicting things (Block is a reference to “Blockchain"), so you need to be frightened.
- Comment on OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary — Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean 4 weeks ago:
It continuously astonishes me that people spent so much time looking at the “red lines” - pure spectacle - promised by OpenAI/Anthropic, and promoted by mass media that hailed one as a hero and the other as a villain - that they never bothered even a cursory glance at the things both companies accepted, which were basically the same.
How wrong I was. This wasn’t a case of one company accepting 99% of Trump’s surveillance demands and another accepting 100%. They were identical:
So OpenAI’s “red line” against “mass domestic surveillance” is defined by compliance with legal authorities that, in practice, permit the collection of enormous quantities of Americans’ communications data without warrants, without court approval, and without congressional oversight. That’s the “safeguard.”
For a little additional context, I found this helpful breakdown: OpenAI and Anthropic appear ethically identical, identically evil. The difference is cash money.
Altman had secretly been working on the [Department of “War"] deal since Wednesday.
- before he announced his support for Dario
- before Trump had denounced Anthropic
- but after [OpenAI’s] Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC
It was all theatre. Dario never had a chance.
- Comment on AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No. 4 weeks ago:
Anthropic’s biggest issue isn’t even killing people with their autonomous weapons. Their complaint, if you read what they say, is that they can’t deploy weapons that won’t kill Americans. Everybody else be damned.
CEO Dario Amado wants to develop these autonomous weapons in conjunction with Hegseth and Trump’s “Department of War,” as he calls it.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 4 weeks ago:
That’s also basically how thinking models work too, isn’t it? And probably the new GPT-5 router, which everybody hates…
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 4 weeks ago:
That’s easy. You just get a second AI to ask the first AI if their responses were accurate or not
(/s)
- Comment on OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models 4 weeks ago:
Lest anybody come out from this multi-day mess with the presumption that Anthropic is the heroic party here, they’re more like the Homelander to AI’s Stormfront:
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.
“There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more,” Amodei wrote in the Slack messages, as quoted by Wired.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism
Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan… We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race.
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- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got an idea. If 90% of AI’s output is accurate, just have humans review the 10% that will be inaccurate.
(Yes I am an AI expert, how did you know)
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 4 weeks ago:
It’s Paypal but with Bitcoin apparently.
But hey, they say they are cutting jobs because of AI. So we have to take them at their word.
Clearly AI and Bitcoin are the future.
- Comment on Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs 4 weeks ago:
The story is ultimately the same as it ever was: Businesses are looking for ways to make employees work harder while paying them less. But now an editor can be told to fix an AI-mangled manuscript and paid less… Because the business class has fallen under a collective delusion that the AI is actually good at its job.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases 5 weeks ago:
Just hooked a Mac Mini with Clotbot up to the local missile silo. Out to get a matcha at maralago. I told OpenCock to WhatsApp me asking for permission before nuking any towns.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 5 weeks ago:
Regulate them how exactly?
Based on other comments I’ve read (and I may be off base here), it seems 3D printers only understand simple commands like “move printhead” and “emit plastic”, which doesn’t make them capable of understanding what they’re printing. And frankly, based on my observations of other so-called “smart” tech, the dumber you’d keep hardware, the better the hardware remains.
I’m not very creative, so maybe there’s something I’m missing here… But last time I checked, you can just drive between states, with a trunkload of guns, which are really easy to procure in the US. No 3D printers needed.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 5 weeks ago:
If a person is going to be blamed, it should be the one that mandated use of the AI systems…. Because that’s exactly what Amazon was doing.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 1 month ago:
The jury is still on whether the chatbot is being used as a scapegoat instead of the initiator. But if it’s working autonomously, it’s by Anthropic’s design.
You’re not a chatbot. You’re becoming someone…
This file is yours to evolve. As you learn who you are, update it.
– OpenClaw default SOUL.mdThis is delusion - on Anthropic’s side.
Previously, this level of ire and targeted defamation was generally reserved for public figures. Us common people get to experience it now too.
Apparently, Scott has never heard of Kiwifarms, a site where creeps find quirky people, turn them into micro-celebrities, and harass them (sometimes to suicide).
This is about our systems of reputation, identity, and trust breaking down. So many of our foundational institutions… The rise of untraceable, autonomous, and now malicious AI agents on the internet threatens this entire system.
Sure, AI is one part of the problem, but if you take a step back and you see who’s deployed it, they will often be people trying to erode trust in any way they can. The Trump administration social media accounts, Elon Musk, OpenAI’s CEO, etc. It’s a symptom of our post-truth world. Not a cause of it.
