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- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened 5 days 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.
- Comment on OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ 6 days ago:
Wishing them all a happy Valentine’s Day.
- Comment on I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups 6 days ago:
An agent, named Adi, would pay me $110 to deliver a bouquet of flowers to Anthropic… it was immediately clear that this was just not some bot expressing synthetic gratitude, it was another marketing ploy. This wasn’t mentioned in the listing, but the name of an AI startup was featured at the bottom of the note I was supposed to deliver with the flowers.
Remember when crypto bros did ridiculous stunts to vie for Elon Musk’s attention?
We are reaching those levels of stupid again.
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 1 week ago:
To be fair, Linux is in a super tough place right now as it shifts from a windowing system to a completely different one.
And guess which one of those windowing systems is very unfriendly to Discord…
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 1 week ago:
If you have a few dollars, you can engage in the highbrow conversations of SomethingAwful
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
Aren’t they killing one of the models that people developed a cultlike affection for?
- Comment on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok 2 weeks ago:
Right, the AI isn’t acting on its own accord. It was built by people, trained by people, bankrolled by people, and prompted by people. Many of these people want to pretend that AI is somehow on the verge of becoming sentient, because that would absolve them of some guilt, but nothing could be further from the truth. The AI is just correlating pixels the way it was meant to.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
Hey Steven, how do you think they make those models?
(As if you genuinely believe those are the ones GOG is using.)
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
Considering the GOG announced their AI usage to the world with an AI-generated image, and the technology currently cannot be remotely useful without being extremely unethical, I do not share your optimism.
There’s plenty of real technology that can be reclaimed right now, though! From textile machines to lithium ion battery technology, the world is your oyster.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
There you go, predictably making more baseless claims. If these things are supposedly so great, prove it.
And how did you hallucinate a misspelling in my comment? Maybe take a break from Elon’s CSAM bot for a while.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
Bro, you’re an AI slop evangelist posting from an “anarchism” domain
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
Don’t act so stupid, dude. You know what post you’re in, or at least I hope you do.
If you want to claim that AI can magically do something that not even AI companies themselves can prove, then prove it. Ed Zitron has been begging AI evangelists like you to prove it for at least a year now. Otherwise, I call bullshit on your evangelism.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
“We”
Is Sam Altman in the room with you right now?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, nuclear energy need not be “for AI” either. I just find it ironic that these technologies and explorations only come up because the industry demands it… Sort of. AI companies are hoarding GPUs they haven’t even installed, and rapid improvements just cause them to lose value even faster.
In a better world, the whole “for AI” thing wouldn’t even be a factor.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
AI Bros are always good for a laugh. They can’t point to any industry successes, pretend massive industry failures like Microsoft don’t count, and generally trust their own feelings over facts.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
We’ve got studies that show AI makes you feel more productive while you’re actually less productive. And all you’re offering is a feeling you feel. Get high on your own supply if you want, but don’t drag down good companies with your evangelism.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
No thanks AI bro
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
Citation needed.
You’re on a post about Linux, an OS has grown in popularity thanks to Microsoft ruining Windows with the “true aids” you’re promoting here.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 3 weeks ago:
Doomposting about AI inevitability is only beneficial to AI companies… If your claim is even true. And if it is, we should shame everybody else.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Just imagine if a hundredth of this effort was put into making things better for the average person
- Comment on Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite. 4 weeks ago:
To be fair to Vivaldi’s fans, that browser (while also too bloated for me to use) does steer clear of a lot of the criticisms leveled against Opera here. The author is a Vivaldi fan, so I imagine they’re all coming from a genuine place. Specifically:
Modern Opera ships with a wide range of built‑in features that extend well beyond browsing. Sidebar messengers, crypto tools, media enhancements, and a generative AI assistant are all part of the default experience.
- Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears 5 weeks ago:
Because “Google employee probably fired after Google acknowledges she was telling the truth about sexual harassment” isn’t quite as PC of a headline
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 2 months ago:
That’s… Not really a switch. If somebody has to go to a secret place, get past a warning sign, and type in a half dozen secret commands… it sounds more like an espionage movie than the flipping of a switch.
And people have already complained that some of those flags don’t affect newer ones, which Mozilla keeps adding. We might as well say Microsoft has a setting to turn off telemetry, never mind it’s also hidden and it also keeps getting switched back on.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them 2 months ago:
They say a switch will be built in. There is no switch yet. Which means the deluge of little popups about AI tab grouping and the “look at Perplexity” messages are not going away until these changes are actually released.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
“He” this time. The CEO keeps changing, but their mission keeps getting worse
- Comment on They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real 3 months ago:
Considering the article has selected people who claim chatbots have fixed their marriages… This is a puff piece.
- Comment on Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't 3 months ago:
as a totally off-topic aside, I find that people tend to dislike AI in areas they are deeply familiar with.
- Comment on Character.AI is banning minors from AI character chats 3 months ago:
Incredible article. Starting off with, they are only banning minors from chats (although their other features are unpopular), and they are tapering children off by limiting chats to two hours for now.
the company says it’s rolling out a new in-house “age assurance model” that classifies a user’s age based on the type of characters they choose to chat with…
If nobody under 18 is allowed on the chats, why would you have characters geared towards minors?!
Adults mistaken for minors can prove their age to the third-party verification site Persona
The surveillance company, that’s great
And then there’s this quote from the guy who runs the suicide bot company:
“When we started making the changes of under 18 experiences earlier in the year, our under 18 user base did shrink, because those users went into other platforms, which are not as safe,” Anand said.
Give me a break.
- Comment on Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software 3 months ago:
World’s richest man with an infamously glitchy centralized social network, who wants it to be a centralized payment processor, is saying what?
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 4 months ago:
The only browser that has a relatively unrestricted add-on ecosystem, and the best one capable of running mobile add-ons, shouldn’t need to add this as a baked-in feature.
I’m pretty sure this feature classifies as bloat.
