I agree with the figurative image of the spark to describe something gen AI-produced slop lacks.

Figuratively, because we all know you’re actually being literal and make it about that bullshit you call “soul”. Sorry Christians, this still doesn’t exist.

All very good reasons, but I am also adding loss of skill and opportunities for juniors to learn, and AI often being dangerously incompetent at some tasks and everyone rejecting the responsibility when it is.

And then there is the extensive use of gen AI-produced slop effortlessly invading every space and making everything suck.

No, almost nobody "fearing* AI believes Ultron or Skynet will literally enslave/wage war on humanity. If anything I’m sure the ones who believe the most in AI superintelligence supplanting humans are mostly among AI advocates.

I do go to fast-food once in a while, but in my experience McDonald’s is really the worst of them, mediocre is too generous. Not any cheaper for basically cardboard.

I’m in a local administration in France, it’s rapidly getting closer to home… Our higher-ups somehow decided a thourough Microsoft integration was a good idea like 5 years ago.

Seems like we’re just one political comment about support to the ICC to be in the same situation. And I mean, fuck it, we should be. But I am not happy about the shit we’ll have to go through to purge it all now.

Give it about six months to a year I’d say.

Oh, wait, you were asking about the collapse of civilization, right?

Good point, it also sounds like a recipe for disaster.

I blame vibe-coding. Windows has always been Windows, but I agree it’s been extra shit lately.

What, 45? Like, people who saw that shit start when they were well into their thirties? Is that a thing?

Feels very late to hop on that bandwagon.

I feel like raspberry has been backstabbing everyone for a while.

“Stop being political!” say the people running the manufactured hate machine.

You know the thing where AI companies describe their alignment direction as “Honest, Harmless, Helpful”?

The only one that’s marketable to the idiots buying AI services is Helpful. So that’s always top priority even when it goes against the other two.

Average decider wouldn’t stand an “assistant” that sometimes answers “I don’t know”. So instead agent providers train their already hallucination-prone model to be 100% confident in whatever it says. Who cares if it’s true if it looks like it is?

Your username with that conclusion paints a very funny picture.

I miss the time when sunglasses made you look cool. Fuck you, Zuckerberg.

It’s pretty obvious when they all seem to be competing for the scariest “containment breach”.

Anthropic keep posting article after article about new ways their LLMs keep “surprising” them with unexpected behaviour. This year’s “uncontrolled, autonomous” hack news from every AI company are completely absurd boasts. In normal times, everyone would be wondering why they sound like they’re proud of obvious incompetence.

But since we’re in super-hype “keep the money coming, AGI is tomorrow” times, instead, those are used to sell the lie of mysterious superintelligence. Be enthusiastic, be scared, we don’t care, talk about it!

I don’t design web apps but I’ve heard from some that do that firefox occasionally has problems with them, because it relies a lot on caching (actually they used the term “aggressive caching”, with a few extra choice words).

Anyway, usually not a problem. I use edge only for work since it’s the default browser and I barely do any actual browsing with it, mostly light app clients. On my own devices, it’s been firefox only for years.

Still a good thing to keep documenting the many reasons why people shouldn’t use it in my book.

I was curious how you were supposed to configure the thing’s output… and of course it has to be a mobile app.

I’d prefer physical buttons I can check and change whenever like an actual old school power adapter.

Twitter deserves the mockery. And this attempt too.

I’ve seen AI summaries that looked like the AI had not read the article.

Notice the ugly-ass monkey pic in the background? That user made one other post, and it was an ad for some presumably shit app with this icon. That’s all there is to this.