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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

okay at this point I should probably make a whole-ass perplexity post because this is the third time I'm featuring them in stubsack but 404media found yet more dirt

... which included creating a series of fake accounts and AI-generated research proposals to scrape Twitter, as CEO Aravind Srinivas recently explained on the Lex Fridman podcast

According to Srinivas, all he and his cofounders Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho wanted to do was build cool products with large language models, back when it was unclear how that technology would create value

tell me again how lies and misrepresentation aren't foundational parts of the business model, I think I missed it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A couple of examples Srinivas gave on the podcast is “Who is Lex Fridman following that Elon Musk is also following,” or “what are the most recent tweets that were liked by both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.”

Questions asked by the terminally deranged.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Or somebody looking for 'the worst posts online' cringe compilation. Musks CEOs must be able to build their companies products not be able to read spreadsheets was a good example.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

@dgerard @froztbyte given that anecdote from William Gibson about how realising that his first computer actually *used a spinning disk full of rust to store its data* crushed his romantic ideas about technology, this rings true

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard

I don't understand the hate for transition lenses. You don't have to get them in frames last fashionable in 1982.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I guess the point is the dude won’t have lasik.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Lasik? Rip those eyes out and put cybereyes in! For one hole glorious year I could see in infrared. (Sadly the company went bankrupt and they repo'ed my eye, so that is why there is a hole now, at least I didn't splurge for both eyes).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

transition lenses = photochromic lenses

(i thought for a moment it was another term for varifocals, but no, Transitions is a company that makes photochromic lenses)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Duh, my bad. I thought it was something like varifocals too.

Photochromic lenses were a nerd staple when I was a teenager. Dunno if/how popular they are now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@gerikson @dgerard I'm about to take delivery, next week, of my new photochromic varifocals

If you're thinking "sounds cripplingly expensive", you'd be right. Don't get old

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

i am the guy of that age, and i would never get anything else, and yes fuck they are

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@gerikson

Lasik doesn't work for every vision problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's because it doesn't use AI...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

yeah it's a new meme format with an AI wojak generator

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