The anti-AI thread

[marees]

LOL, last night I was thinking about the coming AI enabled bidet, seriously. "Fed by eleven under-rim cameras, the bidet intelligently directs water straight to problem areas, saving water and providing results the user will appreciate." Followed six months later by, "The internet is down and my toilet won't flush!" Followed six months later by, "User finds Temu sex doll featuring his own butthole."

if wishes were horses. this is the future they are promising us

but the reality is that the Ass-hole Identification System will refuse to validate/authorize when we need the water the most

 

[nakedfrog]

Can't imagine what kind of chump walks around wearing Meta glasses.

 

[Steltek]

Can't imagine what kind of chump walks around wearing Meta glasses.

There, I fixed that for you.

So, you know, you can in the future immediately identify that particular kind of chump.

 

[Kaido]

Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

A survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI."

futurism.com

 

[IronWing]

We must buy more tulips!

 

[Kaido]

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There, I fixed that for you.

"Give your AI eyes"

https://twitter.com/x/status/2023824854471110957

 

[mikeymikec]

We solved that with Lava Lamps.

I don't understand.

 

[Sunaiac]

I don't understand.

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

 

[MrSquished]

I have been paying $9.99 for Googles 2TB cloud storage plan for a while. When Gemini came out they launched a plan with the same amount of storage, but with more advanced Gemini AI features for $19.99. I got a free trial offer for three months for that last year, and I think Gemini sucks so I cancelled before I could get charged. Fuck paying $10 a month for half-assed AI when my old Google Assistant could do more shit I need.

Well today I got an email - apparently they are now going to include the AI benefits at the $9.99 plan - apparently there weren't enough stupidos to pay for their half-baked AI solution lol

"

Your Google One Premium 2 TB plan has been updated to include the same AI benefits as the Google AI Plus plan at no additional cost. Here is a summary of the benefits added to your plan:

More access to Gemini 3 Pro, our most capable model More access to Deep Research in the Gemini app Video generation with limited access to Veo 3.1 Fast in the Gemini app More access to image generation with Nano Banana Pro Additional AI credits for video generation in Flow Access Gemini directly in Google apps like Gmail

Shit when Gemini originally launched on the Pixel - IT COULD NOT EVEN SET TIMERS!!!! or other basic tasks Google assistant managed perfectly well for years.

I was like wow, these tech bros are drinking their own fucking kool-aid at this point. I mean they must be, they are destroying the world at the same time.

 

[Kaido]

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/

*random earthquake*

whole internet crashes

 

[Kaido]

when Gemini originally launched on the Pixel - IT COULD NOT EVEN SET TIMERS!!!! or other basic tasks Google assistant managed perfectly well for years.

We are an Alexa household. They just rolled out (unwillingly) the new AI update. The voices are terrible, everything lags, commands don't work, bad app GUI. no way to revert.

 

[lxskllr]

I wonder why there's no ultra stripped voice assist model(maybe there is?) that you have to train yourself using your own voice. Everything's stored locally. I was ordering bots around in UT2k4. Twenty years is a lot of time to improve on that :^/

 

[MrSquished]

We are an Alexa household. They just rolled out (unwillingly) the new AI update. The voices are terrible, everything lags, commands don't work, bad app GUI. no way to revert.

Probably half the update was vibe coded with AI 😂

No joke

 

[nakedfrog]

Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

A survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI."

futurism.com

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That reads like an Onion headline.

 

[MrSquished]

It is rather poetic that AI vibe coding software is breaking AI features

also, fuck no to this. We need privacy laws that make doing this have some sort of very visible signage to customers. Oh wait, the republicans are all for the surveillance state.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1r828q8/coffee_shop_uses_technology_to_audit_employee

 

[Steltek]

Majority of CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns

A survey found that more than half of CEO respondents said "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI."

futurism.com

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You know, that tends to happen when someone in charge buys something that they know nothing about on the recommendations of the Internet version of snake oil salesmen.

I'm sure some of the business tycoons of old are rolling over in their graves in laughter at the current generation of "CEOs".

It is rather poetic that AI vibe coding software is breaking AI features

also, fuck no to this. We need privacy laws that make doing this have some sort of very visible signage to customers. Oh wait, the republicans are all for the surveillance state.

https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1r828q8/coffee_shop_uses_technology_to_audit_employee

The only place I think deserves it is Congress.

Maybe someone could code one that watches C-SPAN and posts running productivity totals. It would be amusing, if nothing else.

Of course, it is equally likely that an AI coded to track productivity would degenerate into hallucinogenic psychosis due to being forced to monitor productivity in a place where there has never been, and will never be, any measurable sort of productivity.

 

[Kaido]

I wonder why there's no ultra stripped voice assist model(maybe there is?) that you have to train yourself using your own voice. Everything's stored locally. I was ordering bots around in UT2k4. Twenty years is a lot of time to improve on that :^/

You can do it, but:

1. Wake words require an awful lot of training because edge devices (ex. Amazon Alexa Echo) are low-power & need to listen 24/7 with near-perfect trigger capture. Home Assistant (smarthome software) has DIY preview hardware:

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Bring choice to voice - the best way to get started with voice

www.home-assistant.io

Out of the box, the device can listen for “Okay Nabu,” “Hey Jarvis,” or “Hey Mycroft” as wake words. This is provided by the on-device wake word engine called microWakeWord. Creating these wake words requires very powerful hardware and large datasets to train, which is not realistic for most users.

2. Voice processing has traditionally required a lot of PC hardware horsepower if done locally. Newer models use less power, but not many people want to run a 5950 GPU with 128GB RAM for a real-time voice replication server with local LLM brain running 24/7, haha! Or pay for an API to a cloud LLM. The tech is getting better & you can do AMAZING things with it, but there's still some gnarly lag:

 

[Kaido]

I dunno guys...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2024218817346351227

 

[mikeymikec]

I dunno guys...

https://twitter.com/x/status/2024218817346351227

<after triple-digit death counts caused by "AI therapists">
"What do you mean a therapist isn't supposed to just agree with you?"

 

[mikeymikec]

 

[Kaido]

Reminds me of this that someone posted on the other thread:

A.I. 'Completes' Keith Haring's Intentionally Unfinished Painting

Critics say the image is disrespectful of the original work, which the artist made as a commentary on the AIDS epidemic

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Kaido]

 

[marees]

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the problem here is that the programmers don't give a f.

need an intermediate entity to supply the liability insurance

 

[mikeymikec]

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Reminds me of the motorway and horses scene in 'Logan':