• Soapbox1858@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    These AI corps really are determined to unnecessarily ham fist “AI” into everything, whether it makes sense or not.

    When you have a new shiny hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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    Man, any good media manipulator knows you don’t go for the newsrooms first. You start with the shitty ad-infested pages that just post procedurally generated slop anyway, then you let that shit fester up the chain until it hits the front page of the NYT.

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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      Excuse me but my aunt’s friend’s daughter’s boyfriend personally witnessed antifa refill a slurpee without paying and dump it all over a hard-working American CyberTruck for TikTok views while streaming as the vtuber personification of California High Speed Rail to an audience of hactivist furries.

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    Between the gen-AI industry’s nonstop lawsuits and public embarrassments like Google’s glue pizza debacle, I’d bet good money Microsoft and OpenAI are gonna struggle to convince local journos that gen-AI’s alleged benefits are worth the inevitable retractions/lawsuits/general pain and suffering.

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    Media organizations will get $500,000 to hire two-year “AI fellows” who will “pursue projects that focus largely on improving business sustainability and implementing AI technologies within their organizations.” Specific uses include transcription, content “summaries,” and chatbot-fronted “search.”

    permanent college kids with 4090s in embarrassing gaming rigs who’ll demand more budget the instant nvidia releases a new top-end card to game on, got it

    e: and as someone who used to set up CUDA servers for machine learning back in college, boy fucking howdy is it ever a tell when the supposed research workstation’s copious RGB is all from the same vendor, so they can sync it to the game they’re playing. I mean, what else do you expect them to do, you paid for their case with the wraparound glass already after all

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      i occasionally enjoy ogling the £17,000 gaming rigs professional number crunching business workstations on scan.co.uk. You basically see how many Nvidia cards you can actually run off 240 volts at 13 amps and cram into a case, and throw in a free CPU.

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      Step 1: Buy new computers for the office.

      Step 2: Futz around and transcribe a few audio files.

      Step 3: Oops, we have used up the allocated budget but the deliverables remain just over the horizon.

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        And what does “just over the horizon” mean? According to Radio Yerevan, the horizon is an imaginary line that moves further as you approach it.