(I should say there’s a handful of places I don’t entirely agree with the writing/references, but I don’t think it kills the whole)

more of a nsfw, a post on pointing and laughing at the fash. figured y’all may also enjoy reading it

thread

a long AI sneer on gabi belle’s channel

the comments also have some bangers. a quick selection:

My mom used to transcribe calls for companies as work, but then her work implemented AI to transcribe the calls, leading to work calls having sentences in them such as: “Thanks for watching!” “This venue has the best beat” and putting in random websites that DONT EXIST into the calls, when the caller said nothing like that.

imagine this in financial or medical services

had a survey from my university about how staff feel about AI implementation for our university. One question that concerned me was “how do you feel about AI being used for grading?”

The issue with AI grading assignments is that students will most likely get the mindset that if the professor or TA doesn’t care enough to put in the effort to look at my work to give me feedback to do better, why the hell should I put in the effort and spend thousands to do this?

please come to our university, it costs 500k for a year and we pinky promise that the prof/TA won’t get more than 10% of it, your learning is our “top priority”

My friend and I entered an art contest a few months ago and she lost to very obvious ai “art”. She spent months on a self portrait oil painting that even when putting my bias aside was amazingly beautiful and definitely deserved to win. There was ai competing in the charcoal category with me too but luckily someone looked at competing pieces before the judges actually scored anything and bombarded the hosts of the competition to remove the piece and they did eventually. It’s incredibly frustrating especially considering part of the first place prize was a scholarship that my friend definitely deserves and needs, and the contest hosts were very hesitant to remove the ai “art”.

it’s weird how a chunk the art world continues being bad at handling fakes

For additional context, training ChatGPT-3 took enough energy to propel the titanic at full speed for 37 hours. Or around 920 tons of coal.

just absolutely mental

oof, that super sucks :| glad it’s improving!

I’ve been under a rock with a bunch of life stuff so I only learned of this yesterday, and holy shit

those snapshots from the earnings call are wild

that was my first wat, this is seconds

google continuing on their crusade to force ads down everyone’s eyeballs

not that it’s surprising, just “good” to see this playing out exactly as predicted

multi instance harassment

also: wat

nor does said trauma give one permission to be an asshole unto others

I specifically did not touch on that aspect because, like, yay accidental benefit? but extreme emphasis on the “accidental”, and it’s not debate club and and and… but then they had to go throw a tantrum

if you want to get really mad, shibboleth “elsevier”. it’ll be a speedrun of learning some of the worst of what’s fucked atm

edit: to the absolute human shitstain that downvoted this

ugh. don’t do that :<

have the balls to reply why.

this isn’t highschool, no-one owes you homework

(a bit of advice: instead treat that as a reason to reflect as to why. you might learn something)

which I assume pays for access to their books/papers and doesn’t libgen or equivs them

wrong assumption tbh. the open-access fight is happening because the publisher cartels are extortionate and access is extremely uneven. I (personally/directly) know more than a few people presently in academia who roll libgen on a daily basis because it is easier/quicker/the only option/the only actually working option for the things they need

hey no shaming libgen, that shit exists for good reason

yeah my 3~4y old logitech g502 has a button that’s progressively been coming loose for some months now, and I don’t think there’s much I can do about it. switch seems fine, but ugh

very not keen to have to hunt for a replacement

I realize you might be trying to mock a common refrain from rightwing nutjobs but this isn’t really the place

mock at all means, but do so with class and wit

so… are we blaming muffin for this week? seems it’s more posts than usual this time ;p

I only now saw how badly the syntax on my post is fucked, that’s what I get for trying to snip things in a dodgy textentry rather than a real editor 😅

leaving it up for posterity tho.