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Ed Zitron on Google's antitrust loss
Monopoly Money
https://www.wheresyoured.at/monopoly-money/
Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened. On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of Justice. In 300-pages of dense legal text, Judge Amit Mehta
The FCC wants to stop cloned phone voices
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/12/the-fcc-wants-to-stop-cloned-phone-voices/
Ahead of the New Hampshire presidential primary in January, residents got strange calls from President Biden telling them not to bother going to the polls: “Your vote makes a difference in November…
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 18 August 2024
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Management consultants are making a bundle in the AI boom
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/11/management-consultants-are-making-a-bundle-in-the-ai-boom/
Companies are building out AI big time — use cases or no. So apart from Nvidia, who’s making money from the AI boom? Management consultants! [FT, archive] Management consulting on AI is taking in m…
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externally
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/10/microsofts-copilot-studio-ai-leaks-your-business-info-internally-and-externally/
Copilot Studio is another of the many Microsoft products branded “Copilot.” A non-technical user can build a bot front-end to search internal enterprise data — you type in a query and Copilot Studi…
Military AI: I’m from the government and EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/09/military-ai-im-from-the-government-and-exterminate-exterminate/
“Artificial Intelligence” was launched in 1956 as an academic marketing term. The target market was the US Department of Defense — the perfect customer for technology that doesn’t work but to…
Humane Ai Pin returns are now outpacing sales
Humane Ai Pin returns are now outpacing sales
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/08/humane-ai-pin-returns-are-now-outpacing-sales/
Humane was founded by former Apple employees Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. They wanted something that would rival the iPhone. The Ai Pin (that’s “Ai”, not “AI”) would take commands by…
The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteria
The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT…
https://medium.com/@moyosoreale/the-paul-graham-vs-nigerian-twitter-saga-lexical-racism-and-language-bias-masked-as-chatgpt-53ee9f6459aa
A social-commentary on the recent exchange between Paul Graham and Nigerian Twitter.
OpenAI loses more founders. It’ll be fine.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/07/openai-loses-more-founders-itll-be-fine/
OpenAI has lost two more founders and an executive — president and cofounder Greg Brockman, cofounder John Schulman, and product leader Peter Deng. [The Information, paywalled] Brockman was previou…