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  • 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:

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    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.

  • Big brain: this ai stuff isn’t going away, maybe I should invest in defense contractors that’ll outfit the US’s invasion of Taiwan…

    Considering Recent Events™, anyone outfitting America's gonna be making plenty off a war in Venezuela before the year ends.

  • A journalist attempts to ask the question "Why Do Americans Hate A.I.?", and shows their inability to tell actually useful tech from lying machines:

    Bonus points for gaslighting the public on billionaires' behalf:

  • There's also skyview.social, which I personally use since I am not interested in signing up.

  • Good for them. Not quite abandoning the project and deleting it, but its a good move from them nonetheless.

  • Foz Meadows brings a lengthy and merciless sneer straight from the heart, aptly-titled "Against AI"

  • Alternate (likely harebrained) idea: sell the fediverse as a national security thing, and try to get a defence contract out of it

    Reducing government/military reliance on tech corps would reduce the leverage they (and their CEOs) have over them, reducing the risk of, say, a repeat of that time Elon Musk fucked over Ukraine).