the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
discontent creator
Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures have released what purports to be a survey: “2025: The State of Consumer AI”. That is, chatbots. [Menlo Ventures] The subtitle is: “AI’s Consumer Tipping Po…
Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025
I dunno, Diz and I both pissed them off a whole lot
Microsoft is firing 9,000 workers across the company — 4% of all employees. Before this, they laid off over 6,000 in May and another 300 in June. [CNBC] It’s not that Microsoft is doing badly. In Q…
SWE-Bench Verified by OpenAI tests how well a model can solve real bugs in real Python code from GitHub. These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on th…
“Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced” by Govindakumar Madhavan was published in April by Springer Nature. It’s $169 as an ebook, or $219 as a hardback. [Springer, archive] Retractio…
WE HAD THAT PRECISE FUCKING GUY
AI fans are people who literally cannot tell good from bad. They cannot see the defects that are obvious to everyone else. They do not believe there is such a thing as quality, they think it's a scam. When you claim you can tell good from bad, they think you're lying.
imagine Sephiroth writing business books
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…
This is our second week of running Google’s Veo 3 video generator through its paces. So when you’ve read this, go and watch the worked examples. And check out last week’s. [YouTube] Our good friend…
don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.
Today, let’s look at two Pitchbook reports — the US VC-Backed M&A Outlook for second quarter 2025 and the 2025 US Venture Capital Outlook: Midyear Update. [Pitchbook; Pitchbook, PDF, archive; P…
give this its own post
Meta has won against Kadrey et al — the authors’ case against Meta training their Llama LLM on the authors’ books, including on pirate copies. [Order, PDF; case docket] Both sides brought motions f…
Looking through your chudposting, this may not be the discussion group for you.
imma gonna prompt inject me a new iPad
Much beloved US phone company Verizon has updated its My Verizon app to include 24/7 customer service from AI! It’s got a chatbot based on Google Gemini. [Verizon] Verizon tells The Verge: [Verge] …
Habryka runs the fucking site
One of the many copyright cases in progress against chatbot vendor Anthropic is Bartz v. Anthropic, where several authors brought a class action suit in August 2024 for violating their copyrights w…
Habryka doesn't really know how not to start fights
In May, legendary Apple designer Jony Ive hooked up with OpenAI to announce an unspecified gadget. [WSJ, archive] To promote this complete vaporware, OpenAI released a video of Sam Altman and Ive b…
When our glorious AI bubble deflates, and we contemplate the wreckage of so many companies that did nothing but turn venture capital billions into carbon dioxide, there’s one company that wil…
even McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term
Over on YouTube, we run Google’s Veo 3 video generator through its paces. So when you’ve read this, go and watch the worked examples. [YouTube] Aron Peterson is a media production professional. He’…
this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first
podcast probably tomorrow
Headlines about AI companies paying “billions” for other AI companies mostly don’t mean real money, but equity in private companies with imaginary valuations. But sometimes, people want actual mone…
this is the one we banned a few days ago coming in from another server
and even if it isn't hoo boy that posting record
yeah I suggest you keep reading the thread pointing out how they were explicitly talking about generative AI a year before
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…
AI boosters are people who literally cannot tell good from bad, yet again
Salesforce is still hyped for AI everywhere! Especially its chatbot Agentforce, introduced in December! Agentforce didn’t work so well in outside tests. The reviewer said: “I can’t help but questio…
OpenAI must finish its transition from a weird charity to some sort of for-profit company. Then it can get $40 billion from SoftBank! OpenAI absolutely needs to get the stakeholders on side — parti…
why don't the sexy robots get more of this huh
In a new study, MIT Media Lab measured 55 people over four months on how well they could write an essay — either with ChatGPT, with a search engine, or just their unassisted brain. The researchers …
You can’t put data into an LLM and then filter the output to block some of it. Once it’s in the model, it’s in the model. If you put confidential business information into Microsoft 365 Copilot, an…
I looked through your history and found the Odysee and Rumble advocacy, so bye now
for the specialist taste
oh this is amazing, I wanna write this one up. The world needs warning of whatever shit Allred is trying to pull.
I need to set out the precise scam so it's incredibly obvious to any reader who hasn't encountered Allred before.
Meta’s got a new chatbot app, Meta AI. You can ask it questions in text or voice, much like ChatGPT or Gemini. [Meta] There’s one difference — the other chatbots don’t reveal your conversations to …
