Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it’s human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.

Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.

Move Zig, for great justice

Plot twist: this is just corporate shilling, too, trying to convince us it’s only 15%…

On the other hand, the AI will never talk back, doesn’t want to abandon you to spend time with its own friends occasionally, and doesn’t have a mother who thinks her offspring could do much better. Doesn’t sound half bad, if you ignore the fact that it’s all fake.

Yes, putting up with all that is all a part of building healthy relationships between humans, which is a key part of growing into adulthood. But not everyone gets there.

I got the magazines that came with BASIC programs printed in them, you could pay extra to get a subscription that included a tape with the code so you didn’t have to type the whole thing in and risk typos.

That early foray into BASIC was essential for my early involvement in technology, in spite of what Dijkstra said that one time…

I don’t think it was a “random” cloud server at all. I think the people who bought the data already have it now.

I wonder what the going rate is for a pardon? How much $TRUMP does it take?

It was always about the game.

All Epic cares about is their own profit margins and control over distribution.

These statements contradict each other. If all Epic cares about is money, the other game doesn’t matter as long as it sells.

It was never about the games. It’s about who can be the gatekeeper between the game devs and billions of people on the planet. That gatekeeping gig is a genuine racket: they charge 15% to 30% just for the privilege of distributing an app and hosting a bunch of servers for download. Yeah, there’s a lot to that, but is it really worth 30% of the top line? Not even the Credit Card companies, famous for screwing over small merchants, charge that much to process payments.

I know too many PhD’s for that to impress me

I read through the thing, and it’s a doozy. he seems triggered by the fact that AI might make a picture where Washington is a black man, or Hamilton is Latino. I hope he hasn’t been to Broadway lately…

How so? You can say whatever you want in America today, as long as the President would agree. How is that not Freedom_TM?

(“Freedom” is a registered trademark of the Trump Organization)

Who knew this inscription was about “Biggus Dickus” all along?

It tracks, his entire career has been spent getting other people to pay for stuff for him

I guess I need to change the password on my luggage

It is an interesting article, even if it’s conclusions are entirely too rosy. The “storefront” was a single vending machine, and the bot was instructed to interact with Anthropic employees (with an hourly cost attached) to do all physical interactions. While the bot did a decent job managing the stock most of the time, it made a lot of bad decisions based on trying to be too helpful to it’s customers. It also frequently hallucinated, with some hilarious results I wont spoil here. But as anyone who owns a small business knows, one bad decision could put it under, so saying that an AI can manage a vending machine well “most of the time” is equivalent to saying it cant do the job at all.

Their conclusion is that with a bit more work, Claude might be able to perform as a middle-manager. To me, that says more about how useless middle-management is than how capable their AI is.

… but isn’t Lemmy social media? And you’re here. (Although I guess it is more accurately called antisocial media)

All Boeing needs to make this problem go away is a modest investment in $TRUMP…

That reads like an AI wrote it

I’ll save you all a click

Disney is planning to introduce “virtual storefronts” to its popular streaming services, including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. These storefronts will allow viewers to order snacks or pick out products they’ve seen in their favorite shows, all while continuing to stream their movie or show. Disney+ subscribers will see interactive ads pop up as well.

So, basically, stuffing more ads into the premium service you paid for (presumably to avoid ads). These people don’t get it, do they?