Yeah, there's been a bunch of outages recently.
For something lighter, here's an AI bro getting wowed by the shittiest "video game" I've ever seen (trust me, the screenshot doesn't do it justice):
In lieu of sneering this shit, I'd like to argue that arts education should become mandatory for all students post-bubble, regardless of their profession. STEM, humanities, tech, doesn't matter - give them four years of art so they don't turn out like this guy.
Naturally, the worst people on that thread are praising it - for example, here's the "DHH destroying Basecamp is based" guy whining about people not accepting outright fascists:
The fact that a mod named "catastrophe" did this is morbidly funny to me.
Anyways, whatever doubts I (or anyone had) about Framework are basically gone. I hope Nirav and the Framework team enjoy their Nazi bar.
MNT Reform's doing a similar thing to Framework, but its nowhere near what they offered. The team is completely free of venture capital, and its got a non-binary head representing it, so it should be safe from a fashtech turn.
Its quite the turn-around from when they fearmongered about Superintelligence^tm^ a year ago.
My only critique with their anti-slop piece is that they describe the lying machine as a tool, but otherwise its a fine enough takedown, and its clear they know enough to avoid AI like the plague. B+.
Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money
Morally, attacking the poor and downtrodden through polluting the world with AI is abhorrent, and anyone doing this should be permanently barred from working at any charity.
Practically, the sight of blatant AI-generated poverty porn is going to drive people away from giving to these charities, damaging their ability to do good.
(vacuum is an insulator!)
This is something the writers of the Mass Effect series got right, and they were doing a sci-fi trilogy, not handling a literal space mission!
That ain't clickbait, Xe Iaso's personally-made anti-scraping measure (originally made to deal with Amazon overloading their git server) has ended up being used by the literal United Nations.
I recommend reading the full blogpost, its a wild ride.
The FSF considers large language models, failing to recognise the purpose of plagiarism machines in the process.
Comments are also pretty sneerable - main thread's a bunch of promptfondlers trying to gas up spicy autocomplete, but I did find some guy claiming programmers steal and plagiarise much like LLMs do.