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TechTakes @awful.systems

Google: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!”

  • Just thinking about how I watched “Soylent Green” in high school and thought the idea of a future where technology just doesn’t work anymore was impossible. Then LLMs come and the first thing people want to do with them is to turn working code into garbage, and then the immediate next thing is to kill living knowledge by normalising people relying on LLMs for operational knowledge. Soon, the oceans will boil, agricultural industries will collapse and we’ll be forced to eat recycled human. How the fuck did they get it so right?

  • NASB: A question I asked myself in the shower: “Is there some kind of evolving, sourced document containing all the reasons why LLMs should be turned off?” Then I remembered wikis exist. Wikipedia doesn’t have a dedicated “criticisms of LLMs” page afaict, or even a “Criticisms” section on the LLM page. RationalWiki has a page on LLMs that is almost exclusively criticisms, which is great, but the tone is a few notches too casual and sneery for universal use.

  • “This thing we don’t understand yet is probably very simple and easy to replicate and I say this as someone who does not understand the thing yet because once again, nobody does!” - All “futurist” “genius” “thought leaders”

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Theranos: First Blood Part II

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    Musk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvania

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    What is the charge? Eating an LLM? A succulent chinese LLM? Deepseek judo-thrown out of Australian government devices

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    OpenAI says stealing is wrong and bad unless they do it

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    Musk presses H twice to perform the Nazi salute twice on stage at inauguration.

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    Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”

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    GM avoids reinventing a bus or a train with this one weird trick

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    Are we going to see prediction markets enter mainstream journalism? Taylor Lorenz says yes

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    SF tech startup Scale AI, worth $13.8B, accused of widespread wage theft

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    In which some researchers draw a spooky picture and spook themselves