tristram hand shandy
@dimestorewatch.bsky.social
naarm (melbourne aus). lefty nerd, gay villain, tech-adjacent tech pessimist, pensive dog smoking a cigarette. she/her
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This was what I was worried about before AI
August 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This was what I was worried about before AI
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this sounds way more like a person with a phd than anything sam altman is doing
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
this sounds way more like a person with a phd than anything sam altman is doing
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August 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Certainly! Here's a simple rhyme that should break the curse:
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So it's depressed and can't get a job
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait
CEO Sam Altman said using the chatbot will be like talking with a doctorate-level expert in any topic.
www.wsj.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So it's depressed and can't get a job
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I love to have an "assassination of Osama Bin Laden in the Situation Room" photo level of personnel over to the vice president's house to talk about how little there is to worry about
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I love to have an "assassination of Osama Bin Laden in the Situation Room" photo level of personnel over to the vice president's house to talk about how little there is to worry about
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we didn't get an end of history so much as a private equity leveraged buyout of history that resulted in drastic costs cutting on the core product
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
we didn't get an end of history so much as a private equity leveraged buyout of history that resulted in drastic costs cutting on the core product
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Eyewitnesses say “yep, we saw the eye”
August 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Eyewitnesses say “yep, we saw the eye”
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The Sphere presents great possibilities in the realm of making movies for prey animals
August 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Sphere presents great possibilities in the realm of making movies for prey animals
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hour 36 of the great WifeOutage because i updated my holowife’s kernel binaries without realizing the sole maintainer of the girlmath package pulled it from the repository and now im learning what a broken dependency really means
August 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
hour 36 of the great WifeOutage because i updated my holowife’s kernel binaries without realizing the sole maintainer of the girlmath package pulled it from the repository and now im learning what a broken dependency really means
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the actual story here is the AI company using a dead child’s grieving parents to create positive associations with its technology
At 4p ET/1p PT, I’ll have a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting. But his parents have created an AI version of their son for a powerful message on gun violence. Plus TX Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.
August 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
the actual story here is the AI company using a dead child’s grieving parents to create positive associations with its technology
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We reiterate our position that a Family Feud can never be won and must never be fought.
The American Nuclear Family is nothing compared to the American Thermonuclear Family, which allows for greater miniaturization while increasing the devastating force of its detonation.
August 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
We reiterate our position that a Family Feud can never be won and must never be fought.
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Virginia Sicking Kuntz
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007
August 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Virginia Sicking Kuntz
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007
United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007
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the new item in my enclosure is enriching as fuck. thing's got like all different textures and shapes and shit, it's insane. my captors honestly kinda rock
August 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
the new item in my enclosure is enriching as fuck. thing's got like all different textures and shapes and shit, it's insane. my captors honestly kinda rock
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has Usher ever read The Fall of the House of Usher or do you think he is too scared
July 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
has Usher ever read The Fall of the House of Usher or do you think he is too scared
I should fracking well hope not
EXCLUSIVE: A fracking well drilled by Beetaloo Energy Australia that potentially connected two different aquifers, posing a risk of contamination for both, and which was forbidden under the company's environmental management plan, was the reason the Department of Lands Planning and Environment rec…
Reason for recommended prosecution of Empire Energy finally revealed
EXCLUSIVE: A fracking well drilled by Beetaloo Energy Australia that potentially connected two different aquifers, posing a risk of contamination for both, and which was forbidden under the company's environmental management plan, was the reason the Department of Lands Planning and Environment rec…
ntindependent.com.au
July 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I should fracking well hope not
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I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
July 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
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*Beatles voice*
here come ol AI, she got
hair like vinyl, she got
not quite elbow she got
knees down to her knees
here come ol AI, she got
hair like vinyl, she got
not quite elbow she got
knees down to her knees
I thought the worst thing about it was the ridiculous hyper-airbrushed texture we’ve come to expect from this nonsense technology and then I saw the actual full ad and apparently this fake woman made of environmental ruin and stolen art is about eight feet tall
July 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
*Beatles voice*
here come ol AI, she got
hair like vinyl, she got
not quite elbow she got
knees down to her knees
here come ol AI, she got
hair like vinyl, she got
not quite elbow she got
knees down to her knees
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The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
July 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
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Just found out that Marxism is named after an actual guy. His name is carl and he invented specters
July 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just found out that Marxism is named after an actual guy. His name is carl and he invented specters
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Trump Admin Committed to Releasing All Credofiles
July 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Trump Admin Committed to Releasing All Credofiles
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when power accumulates relentlessly to the state and to reactionary forces within it in order to crush the possibility of successful domestic unrest, that's not Calvinball that's Hobbesball
July 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
when power accumulates relentlessly to the state and to reactionary forces within it in order to crush the possibility of successful domestic unrest, that's not Calvinball that's Hobbesball
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything