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SEO spammer behind AI-faked Dublin Halloween parade talks to Wired
  • @BlueMonday1984 in his sidenotes can underestimate how promptfondlery the general population is. You can walk past people talking about the singularity in earnest, but when AI misinformation goes out into the real world, there will be a much bigger wave of backlash against tech companies than has been seen until the peak of the bubble, which we are now past. I predict that the coming election will turn more people against AI as the tactics that are being utilized to interfere get revealed.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd November 2024
  • And this puts the bit from the other video with the referral links into context. It's not a joke, he actually expects to be making money off of people :(. I found the vagueness in the ad jarring too. There's this thing called sponsorblock, a database of timestamps for videos that skips useless stuff. The downside is you don't find out if the guy that you're watching is a shill.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024
  • Australian post-industrial is my favorite genre atm thanks to David, and I have a recommendation: https://moose-mouse.bandcamp.com/album/oxide an Australian kid that plays drums in restaurants around Melbourne and has produced delightful solo electronic albums.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024
  • I have something that I want to post to MoreWrite and this is very convenient for my story

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 27 October 2024
  • it just lets fucking curl through no questions asked

    Fucking what. I've heard of sites blocking curl and I've been able to get around it by copying user agent and sometimes cookies from the browser. Now I'm cursed with the knowledge that I could probably just scrape stuff from everywhere

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 6 October 2025
  • Godot is really fun to use and to develop in. They basically gamified documentation writing: they show you tooltips for your custom elements just like the classes provided by the engine with their excellent documentation. The engine has hot code reloading too. I have a puzzle game project that I'm working on now.

  • Worst government use of ChatGPT: in a child protection report
  • The family home was a cluttered mess. Piles of unwashed dishes covered the kitchen countertops, along with empty pizza boxes and scattered food crumbs. The living room was a maze of toys, clothes, and scattered papers, with a thick layer of dust coating the furniture. [...]

    Lol at this unimaginably boring fragment of a fiction story inside of a child protection report

    The Report did not find that any staff had used GenAI to generate content for sensitive work matters

    Whut. Why would you lie like this?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
  • This stuff feels like a DJ is cross-fading between the different hype cycles.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 22 September 2024
  • A lemmy-specific coiner today: https://awful.systems/post/2417754

    The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse

    First, there will be a blockchain. There will be these cryptocurrencies:

    This guy is speaking like he is in Genesis 1

    I guess it would be better that only the instances can own instance-specific coins.

    You guess alright? You mean that you have no idea what you're saying.

    if a user on lemmy.ee want to post on lemmy.world, then lemmy.ee have to pay 10 lemmy.world coin to lemmy.world

    What will this solve? If 2 people respond to each other's comments, the instance with the most valuable coin will win. What does that have to do with who caused the interaction?

  • Okay... Maybe I should delete my account from this stupid ass website. Who the hell spams people's emails with this?
  • No worries, I saw in another comment of yours that you're autistic, and yeah that can mean you say some stuff that can be interpreted as bad faith. I'm @tbi1233:chat.blahaj.zone on matrix

  • Okay... Maybe I should delete my account from this stupid ass website. Who the hell spams people's emails with this?
  • To be frank, I judged you pretty negatively. I'm happy that you learned better. People can go to some really bad places online to satisfy some sort of desire. Personally, I used to go on places like 4chan, parler, gab, in order to laugh at right-wingers, but the effect on mental health can't have been good. Maybe we can keep in touch? Idk, I have some trouble socializing.

  • But of course I received an email like this...
  • Predator Poachers you say? Let's check the wikipedia.

    Most of Predator Poachers' operations take place on Grindr, an LGBT online dating application.

    After the incidents where nazis lured men on grindr to kill them, this is very suspicious.

    "I didn't have pictures of underage girls on my phone," he told the organization. "I do have a little brother though, and I did have pictures of him on my phone."

    Disgusting

    On July 24, 2024, Rosen stated that a 60-year-old man had died by suicide after Rosen and his team accused him of viewing child pornography

    In conclusion, you should really stop watching this guy and stay the hell away from "Rumble"

  • NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’
  • Keep in mind that it redirects to circumstances.run if you visit the account page, I don't know why it still does that when the account is suspended, it was supposed to show you a page saying it redirects. Maybe it's a bug on mastodon. If I search for davidgerard on hachyderm it says he's suspended.

  • NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’
  • From the second reddit post

    But when I say that being told that everything I’d set up didn’t count, that broke me. I had worked so hard, literally from the fucking hospital, to be told that it didn’t count. That the thing that I had set up as an accommodation for disabled or immunocompromised didn’t count

    The current Executive Director is the board member that works under a pen name and an AI picture. ... had signed tax documents under said pen name.

    Moderator Y starts parroting on the forums that they have it on "good authority" that Letitia (who is Black) is a diversity hire

    All very ironic

  • hilarious use of AI found
  • Lemmy's servers are probably in germany. I've seen it on my instance too.

  • Sounds dope rule
  • Sounds like Tommy Tallarico

  • Selected Ambient Zerks

    God I love the music jerma fans make Check out "the thing in the fridge" from this album, casinovocain, Gloria by Patricia Taxxon. Emma Essex sampled jermacraft once.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
  • The paper is so bad...

    the agent's policy π ... the environment ε

    What is up with AI papers using fancy symbols to notate abstract concepts when there isn't a single other instance of the concept to be referred to

    They offer a bunch of tables with numbers in a metric that isn't explained, showing that they are exactly the same for "random" and "agent" policy, in other words, inputs don't actually matter! And they say they want to use these metrics for training future versions. Good luck.

    For the sample size they are using 60% seems like a statistically significant rate, and they only tested at most 3 seconds after real gameplay footage.

    Sidenote: Auto-regressive models for much shorter periods are really useful for when audio is cutting out. Those use really simple math, they aren't burning any rainforests

    I'm willing to retract my statement that these guys don't have any ulterior motives.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024
  • The tone of the article was unusual, putting way too large of a quote from the researchers and taking them at their word. Maybe it's sarcasm i'm not getting, but either way, the "research" is just a bit of fun if the only goal was getting Doom to run

  • What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?

    Wikifunctions is a new site that has been added to the list of sites operated by WMF. I definitely see uses for it in automating updates on Wikipedia and bots (and also for programmers to reference), but their goal is to translate Wikipedia articles to more languages by writing them in code that has a lot of linguistic information. I have mixed feelings about this, as I don't like existing programs that automatically generate articles (see the Cebuano and Dutch Wikipedias), and I worry that the system will be too complicated for average people.

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