pikesley

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 7 points 4 days ago

@dgerard this reminded me that the Rabbit R1 exists and... they're still selling them WTF? https://www.amazon.co.uk/rabbit-Voice-Activated-Assistant-Device-Transcription/dp/B0DYK831XY

Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta. in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 6 points 1 week ago

@lIlIlIlIlIlIl @diz "We made the computer worse at arithmetic! Look how smart we are! This is surely the future!"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 10 points 1 week ago

@sailor_sega_saturn @swlabr

Bears. This always leads to some of them being eaten by bears.

Lionsgate: "The AI movies are coming, we swear, they're just stuck in Canada" in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

@swlabr

> convert a live-action film into a cartoon

AI halfwits discover rotoscoping

Jim Miller puts the cart FAR before the horse in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@Seminar2250 @visaVisa dude read like half of an Iain M Banks book and failed to understand any of it

The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

@MonkderVierte @dgerard 46 unbroken years of fanatical neoliberalism have landed us here. We're so fucked

Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 6 points 1 month ago

@dgerard from the classic sci-fi novel Please Don't Construct The Completely Unsexy Robot?

Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 15 points 1 month ago

@db0 @self Residential Proxy Pain are playing at the Dublin Castle in Camden this Friday, £4 advance, £5 on the door

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

@swlabr @scruiser Java Runtime Environment?

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 13 points 1 month ago

@froztbyte @Natanox

In that moment, the novice was enlightened

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 12 points 1 month ago

@dgerard it has a lot of "I sleep in a racing car" energy tbh

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Started following @techtakes and there sure are some Opinions in the replies

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