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  • Newgrounds user turned Audio Moderator Quest has put together a recap of 2025 (text version), providing stats for how much slop she's dealt with:

    2025 Stats:

    • 2818 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 3656 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 12.7 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 2843 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    Cumulative Stats (since 2024):

    • 4475 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 5731 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 18.93 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 4113 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    AI Model Breakdown:

    • Suno AI: 82%
    • Udio AI: 5%
    • Riffusion AI: 1%
    • Other: 12%
      • RVC-Based: 0.6%
      • Soundful: 0.4%
      • Mixed: 0.2%
      • Various Other Models: 2.9%
      • Unknown: 7.9%

    Reportedly, she's also got an essay-length sneer in the works:

    Finally, I am also working on an even larger, long-form essay post about artificial intelligence, drawing a link to something that I do not see draw enough. It’s a big project with a lot of research and knowledgeable people guiding me. This will be released in the coming months. I have a lot to say.

  • Anyway, I can recommend skipping this episode and only bothering with the technical or more business oriented ones, which are often pretty good.

    AI puffery is easy for anyone to see through. If they're regularly mistaking for something of actual substance, their technical/business sense is likely worthless, too.

  • Found someone showing some well-founded concern over the state of programming, and decided to share it before heading off to bed:

    alt text:

    Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?

    I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few minutes you should realise just don't work.

    They also rarely can explain why they make these changes or what the code actually does.

    I feel like I'm absolutely going insane, and it also makes me not able to trust anyones answers or analysis' because I /know/ there is a high chance they should asked AI and wrote it off as their own.

    I think the effect AI has had on our industry's knowledge is really significant, and it's honestly very scary.

  • I'd personally just overthrow the US government and make it a British colony once more /j

  • so now there’s even less accountability than before

    How can you get less than zero accountability?

  • I'm so sorry to hear that.

  • SFGATE columnist Drew Magary has decreed "The time has come to declare war on AI", and put out a pretty solid sneer in the process. Bonus points for openly sneering billionaire propaganda service Ground News, too.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025

    awful.systems /post/4954578
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Godot Showcase - Dogwalk

    godotengine.org /article/godot-showcase-dogwalk/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

    awful.systems /post/4818427
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

    awful.systems /post/4747564
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Rolling the ladder up behind us - Xe Iaso on the LLM bubble

    xeiaso.net /blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

    awful.systems /post/4675126
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    We started porting LEGO Island to... everything?

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

    awful.systems /post/4603182
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

    awful.systems /post/4309717
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025

    awful.systems /post/4031999
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    AI crawler blocker Anubis gets deployed by the United Nations

    xeiaso.net /notes/2025/anubis-works/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    EasyRPG Player 0.8.1 "Stun" released

    blog.easyrpg.org /2025/04/easyrpg-player-0-8-1-stun/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    ReactOS 0.4.15 released

    reactos.org /project-news/reactos-0415-released/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Tiny3D - High-Res Textures

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    "Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers

    www.wheresyoured.at /power-cut/
  • NotAwfulTech @awful.systems

    Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles