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Two tech-related links for today, both relating to fascism.
First, tante has a new blogpost about AI being overtly fascist in nature, which he’s also posted to LinkedIn, seemingly for kicks. (Found on red site, too)
Second, the Nazi laptop company has sent a second pre-release laptop to DHH, showing they have not changed at all since they went full fash six months ago:
Don’t do drugs, kids. You might end up like these guys.
A more effective anti-drug PSA than anything DARE ever tried.
New Blood in the Machine, about the escalating violence against the slop-mongers.
The optics is that his actions would paint EA in a bad light.
I think SBF’s Scamfest Spectacular did a good enough job of that already :P
HN is more focused on the idea that Altman and co. are fomenting class hatred and the attack is more akin to Luigi Mangione’s attack on a health insurance CEO.
Altman and co’s antics have repeatedly shafted the working class to billionaires’ direct benefit, so I’ll give the orange site that on the “fomenting class hatred” part. Thinking his actions are any way related to Luigi Mangione nailing the healthcare billionaire’s fucking wild, though
Nice. </obligatory joke>
Found an interesting sneer that compares the AI bubble to the Great Leap Forward.
Also discovered an “anti-distill” program through the article, which aims to sabotage attempts to replace workers with AI “agents”.
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Starting this Stubsack off, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAI’s Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.
They’ve already bombed commercial data centres before, so I’m inclined to believe this isn’t an empty threat.
On the one hand, Yud’s vision of AI doomsday is specifically “AI turns sentient/superintelligent and kills us all because reasons”, not “Humanity wipes itself out because they trusted lying machines”.
On the other hand, the absence of sentience/superintelligence hasn’t stopped AI from causing untold damage anyways, as the past two to three years can attest.
That, and plenty of FOSS software’s been infected with AI-extruded “code”. And plenty of software engineers got one-tapped by the slop bots.
DeviantArt decided to make an “AI-powered” “video creator” (roughly a day before Sora got shitcanned), because its not like dA can make things worse by doubling-down on that shit. Special highlight goes to the opening of that announcement, which asks:
What if your art could (quite literally) move?
Have these people ever heard of animation
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NVidia’s announced an AI filter for PC gaming, calling it “AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games” and hyping the ever-loving shit out of it.
The results are, unsurprisingly, complete garbage, and its already getting ripped apart by the gaming press.
New post from Iris Meredith: Tech’s empiricism problem
New AI Killed My Job, focusing on educators getting screwed and the widespread impact on education.
OT: an interesting musing I found on fedi:
Starting this Stubsack off, I’ve found another FOSS project that hit the digital krokodil - ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI
the books3 guy
Copyright was created to protect artists from people like him, you’re not being too mean in the slightest.
Another lament about the tech industry has come to my attention, as Ky Decker asks themselves “Do I belong in tech anymore?”
Pretty solid piece all around, recommend checking it out