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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In other news, Jazza's AI-generated cousin is back to continue pretending to be an actual artist. This time, its by actively denigrating the works of Studio Ghibli:

Unsurprisingly, he is getting raked over the coals by basically everyone. He's also having an utter meltdown in the replies.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (33 children)

Stackslobber posts evidence that transhumanism is a literal cult, HN crowd is not having it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459990

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

LW: 23AndMe is for sale, maybe the babby-editing people might be interested in snapping them up?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MciRCEuNwctCBrT7i/23andme-potentially-for-sale-for-less-than-usd50m

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

just remembered why I created an account here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jobs/hwWsGdU-vibe-coder-ai-engineer

become a vibe coder for a debt collection startup! but only if you're willing to pull 15+ hour days for 80k a year

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In other news, Elon Musk's personal chatbot has proudly proclaimed its available on Telegram, and its proclamation got picked up by The Verge:

Right now, the integration is limited to "Grok's available as an optional chatbot", but going by what I've seen on BlueSky, people are already taking this as their cue to jump ship to Signal.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While you all laugh at ChatGPT slop leaving "as a language model..." cruft everywhere, from Twitter political bots to published Springer textbooks, over there in lala land "AIs" are rewriting their reward functions and hacking the matrix and spontaneously emerging mind models of Diplomacy players and generally a week or so from becoming the irresistible superintelligent hypno goddess:

https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/1jixljo/comment/mjlexau/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This deserves its own thread, pettily picking apart niche posts is exactly the kind of dopamine source we crave

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For some reason it's on brand for HN to have a discussion of different dash widths stick on the front page more than 24h

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497719

Extra spice and relevance for the observation that GenAI text apparently has a lot of em-dashes in it, so add that to the frequency of the word "delve".

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

some video-shaped AI slop mysteriously appears in the place where marketing for Ark: Survival Evolved's upcoming Aquatica DLC would otherwise be at GDC, to wide community backlash. Nathan Grayson reports on aftermath.site about how everyone who could be responsible for this decision is pointing fingers away from themselves

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
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