Sludgehammer
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 days ago:
Just a few hundred billion more and I’m sure that somebody will figure out a profitable use for AI that isn’t scamming old people.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 days ago:
I’m not sure if this is the guy I’m thinking of, but at least one roadside vegetable seller does this sort of thing deliberately. After all, a sign with such… unique spelling is much more attention grabbing than a simple list of vegetables.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 3 days ago:
Crypto is already largely seen as a scam,
It’s more than seen as a scam.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 5 days ago:
It’s kinda funny how sexualized the aliens in Avatar are when they canonically have no genitalia except for their dreadlocks. It kinda defies the sci-fi trope; a sexy alien species that humans can’t have sex with (unless you get a avatar body with its accompanying penis perm of course).
- Comment on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union 6 days ago:
X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.
Oh my god… it doesn’t work that way!
The chatbot doesn’t know who or how restricted the video. The chatbot doesn’t know anything its just calculated that based on its training data “Yes the video was restricted due to the Online Safety Act” was a likely answer and then it spit that out.
- Comment on Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime. 6 days ago:
Look, if we just ignore school shootings and don’t talk about them they’ll go away.
- Comment on go to sleep 1 week ago:
It’s only eight on my coast.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Well… IIRC a chimp did great in the stockmarket compared to professional traders, maybe it’s time to give something “stupider” a chance. I mean how much of a difference is there between a buzzword fueled techbro and a predictive text engine regurgitating random posts from the internet?
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 4 weeks ago:
At least in my area they’ve decided to walk back the walk back.
They went from “Self checkouts are now only for ten items or less” to “Self checkouts are permanently closed” and now they’ve gone to “Self checkouts can be used for any number of items and also we added four more”.
- Comment on Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows 4 weeks ago:
I don’t recall the first one (I tried it sometime late last year) but the more recent one was from Tomorrow farms. Now that I think about it, I suppose there’s a possibility they both were from the same company with different branding.
The good news is that the bitter sunflower flavor can be drowned out pretty handily using chocolate syrup (and as I mentioned it’s texture is spot on), so despite my dissatisfaction with the milk on it’s own, it makes a great chocolate milk.
- Comment on Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows 4 weeks ago:
I’ve tried two varieties of the biotech milk, both had a mouthfeel almost identical to normal milk. Unfortunately both of the varieties I’ve tried have used sunflower seed oil for the fat and that gives the end product a noticeable raw sunflower seed flavor/bitterness which isn’t very pleasant.
- Comment on ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s parody, but I’m getting some serious David Dees vibes here.
- Comment on Proof that fashion is cyclical, even in nature. 1 month ago:
I’m thinking more of a lure, have some nice rotten salmon smell leaking out of your “hat” and hope that some tasty fish, sharks or seals show up looking for a meal.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 1 month ago:
I mean, they take in current hype, change a few words and then regurgitate it with slightly different words.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s from 2019. The original article the bitly link went to is gone but it’s still on archive
- Comment on Japan says China will resume Japanese seafood imports it halted over Fukushima water discharge 2 months ago:
So… I’m guessing China has had a bad year for fishing?
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
Oh my god… that’s the perfect summary.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
Wait… the game where you can buy a bundle of every ship in the game for $48,000 might be pay to win?
- Comment on Cookie Clicker coming to Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X/S 2 months ago:
Hmm… I dunno about adding to the base version of the PS5, wouldn’t a game like Cookie Clicker benefit from the power of the PS5 Pro? They should make it PS5 Pro exclusive.
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 2 months ago:
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 2 months ago:
Because some manager thought “Blockchain” made the whole thing sound more high tech.
- Comment on ghibli posting 4 months ago:
The big booty Ghibli styled gnome or not making it’s but even bigger?
- Comment on Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games? 4 months ago:
Yeah, the list of New 3DS exclusives is pretty short.
I fairly sure that having a New 3DS does help performance on some original 3DS games though.
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 4 months ago:
At lease some of them get ground up and turned into corn fertilizer.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 5 months ago:
Now I’m picturing Captain Planet stepping around a corner and having his flesh melt off as and his bones dissolve.
- Comment on Top Republican on Senate health committee says he's 'struggling' to confirm RFK Jr 5 months ago:
Nah, he’ll just remember that Republicans value party over decency, morality, or God and fall back into line.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 6 months ago:
Well… now that you mention it there were more then a few half finished ends to my post where I speculated that maybe Mush was just stupid or deluded by the sycophants he surrounds himself with, but after struggling with the ending I decide to just keep it simple and take him at his word.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 6 months ago:
Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’
Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.
- Comment on Accounting Firm's AI Caught Telling Customers About Each Others' Financial Records 6 months ago:
its spokesperson described the AI blunder as a “minor issue” that only involved a “small amount” of customers.
If this has happened once there’s probably dozens (possibly hundreds) of other ways you can “trick” the chatbot into revealing that information. As an example while Google’s Gemini refuses to directly tell you how to make napalm, you can simply ask it what napalm is, then what ratio of gasoline and polystyrene it contains.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 6 months ago:
Nooo… you’re supposed to be giving your salable data to US firms!