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  • It gets worse:

    One of the great tragedies of AI and science is that the proliferation of garbage papers and journals is creating pressure to return to more closed systems based on interpersonal connections and established prestige hierarchies that had only recently been opened up somewhat to greater diversity.

  • Related toot:

    insurers rely on the world being predictable in actuarial tables that allow them to ensure profiting from quantifiable risks. Non-deterministic AI is impossible to predict outcomes for. For an insurer, that is terrifying: they could potentially lose unlimited amounts of money. But I'm sure they're thrilled about genAI proliferation giving them sweeping new ways to exclude most business activities with a single discreet sentence, while maintaining the same premiums as before. In the next couple of years, AI adopters are going to find out their liability coverage has become utterly worthless because their activities are so contaminated by non-determinism which no one wants to cover.

  • oh your code is open source guess that resolves everything then

    Yeah, its not like open-source can suffer from catastrophic bugs or anything, that's purely in Proprietary Land

    (As an aside, Tante did a write-up on Heartbleed back when it hit the news, and pointed to dysfunctional project management and lack of funds as the cause. Considering FOSS projects like Firefox and Bitwarden were hit with the LLM bug, both have definitely gotten worse in the ten years since.)

  • Meth LLMs: Not Even Once

    Yegge’s an extremely experienced professional engineer. So he put care into Gas Town, right?

    I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause.

    This is a lack of care I've only really seen with vibe coding, and I still struggle to wrap my head around how someone can have an utter death of shits to give about something they're making (if you can even call vibe-coding "making"). Its particularly stark for me when I compare it to the many, many artists I know online, who care deeply about their craft, and whose artwork deeply reflects that.

    Just...what the fuck?

  • I've seen memes about eating people's art, but never a literal case, lmaoooooooooooo

  • >zero-click android exploit

    >arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation

    Remember when the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

  • Newgrounds user turned Audio Moderator Quest has put together a recap of 2025 (text version), providing stats for how much slop she's dealt with:

    2025 Stats:

    • 2818 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 3656 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 12.7 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 2843 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    Cumulative Stats (since 2024):

    • 4475 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 5731 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 18.93 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 4113 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    AI Model Breakdown:

    • Suno AI: 82%
    • Udio AI: 5%
    • Riffusion AI: 1%
    • Other: 12%
      • RVC-Based: 0.6%
      • Soundful: 0.4%
      • Mixed: 0.2%
      • Various Other Models: 2.9%
      • Unknown: 7.9%

    Reportedly, she's also got an essay-length sneer in the works:

    Finally, I am also working on an even larger, long-form essay post about artificial intelligence, drawing a link to something that I do not see draw enough. It’s a big project with a lot of research and knowledgeable people guiding me. This will be released in the coming months. I have a lot to say.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

    awful.systems /post/4309717
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025

    awful.systems /post/4236807
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025

    awful.systems /post/4167045
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025

    awful.systems /post/4099363
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025

    awful.systems /post/4031999
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    "OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry"

    www.wheresyoured.at /openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025

    awful.systems /post/3966111
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025

    awful.systems /post/3901631
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th April 2025

    awful.systems /post/3841082
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th March 2025

    awful.systems /post/3781099
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025

    awful.systems /post/3720169
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Yud follows up Sammy Boy's AI-Generated "Metafiction"

    awful.systems /post/3738256
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    "Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers

    www.wheresyoured.at /power-cut/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025

    awful.systems /post/3436005
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th December 2024

    awful.systems /post/3066361
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024

    awful.systems /post/3015993
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Ed Zitron on Google's antitrust loss

    www.wheresyoured.at /monopoly-money/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Humane Ai Pin returns are now outpacing sales

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/08/08/humane-ai-pin-returns-are-now-outpacing-sales/