Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is a watershed moment for the media, where liars and scammers and hucksters get rich every time that a fanciful claim is left untouched, and where products are built upon a foundation of stolen content interpreted by a model that doesn’t actually know anything — because AI can’t, by definition, know anything. And yet we’re... See more
because the R1 launching unfinished and useless is actually exactly what the AI boom is all about. Finding — and automating — new ways to get people to pay for worse versions of what they already have.
Garbage Day • Just keep paying us, bro
Naming might seem superficial compared to the technical complexity behind AI, but it’s the first interaction people have with the product. Get the name right, and you win. Get it wrong, and you leave users hovering, uncertain, frustrated.
AI’s identity crisis
Ask it about music, and it can write you lyrics in the style of whoever you’d like. But it’s never listened to a great song, never heard one right when it needed to be heard.
So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am truly, deeply, sorry.
“If you can replace coders with AI, who cant you replace with AI? Firing coders is an ad for AI”
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI by Cory Doctorow
Hacker infiltrated OpenAI’s messaging system and ‘stole details’ about AI tech
Mike Bediganindependent.co.uk
tech does not—and will not—respect lessons in power imbalances that others learned the hard way over the past two decades.