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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum (www.programmablemutter.com)
The rise of Whatever in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago

discontent creator

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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it (pivot-to-ai.com)
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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno, Diz and I both pissed them off a whole lot

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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

WE HAD THAT PRECISE FUCKING GUY

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 4 days ago (15 children)

AI fans are people who literally cannot tell good from bad. They cannot see the defects that are obvious to everyone else. They do not believe there is such a thing as quality, they think it's a scam. When you claim you can tell good from bad, they think you're lying.

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

imagine Sephiroth writing business books

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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.

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Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

give this its own post

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Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Looking through your chudposting, this may not be the discussion group for you.

Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

imma gonna prompt inject me a new iPad

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Habryka runs the fucking site

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Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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The Curtains Were Ebony Black with Purple Streaks and Red Tips in c/morewrite@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

lol it pays off

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

Habryka doesn't really know how not to start fights

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Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

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