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OpenAI is creating the trustless economy that makes bitcoin necessary. taps forehead

Looks like he's in the process of killing himself

And he insists exercise doesn't help him lose weight which means it doesn't have any benefit.

Poor fuck's going to get done in by vanity.

https://xcancel.com/mitchandodger/status/1816936244892565939#m

asking the important questions

My other kook-watching sneerhobby is Rod Dreher and there's been bleedthrough from him too! Strange bird, Vance...

Good grief, I know. It was bad enough when SBF hit the headlines, but now, it feels like the next news cycle will involve explaining how Thielbux funded a performance art piece in Dimes Square about Nikolai Fyodorov's Cosmism.

Okay but this is about alkaline water so it's garbage even without the genAI imagery.

It's even by Wu et al., come on, low hanging fruit

How do people do this without dying of anxiety?

BTW, that last comment on RetractionWatch was grim:

I recently saw a presentation by a job candidate (a PhD with many years experience) who used figures that were clearly AI-generated. They weren’t as funny as this example or the giant rat penis, but certainly fictional and unreal. In and of itself, troubling enough. Worse was that my colleagues involved in the interview didn’t care when I pointed it out.

ai use case: you can pump out pseudoscience promoting fluff disguised as papers in predatory journals with less effort

Bosses are urging employees to increase their output with the help of AI tools (37 percent), to expand their skill sets (35 percent), take on a wide range of responsibilities (30 percent), return to the office (27 percent), work more efficiently (26 percent), and work more hours (20 percent).

Stop working from home because AI.

"Positive is that if you didn't tell someone it was GenAI, they might not notice!"

Nah, they'd be able to immediately tell from just how fucking garbage it is

the thing is, people are again taking this as direct output of the regurgitating machine. i wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a ton of editing going on to fix all of the most glaring issues, just like when sora was first announced.

AI or not this is an incredibly depressing advert, what the fuck. They went for whimsy and produced an elegy.

I see Sora still hasn't cracked the nut of having longer output windows. or at producing things that aren't deathly boring.

and what the fuck is up with that music? it sounds like a medical commercial selling hope

That picture... Harry Potter and the Hole of Ketamine.

Also, choice sneer in the comments:

AlphaProof is more "AlphaZero doing self play against Lean" and less "Gemeni reading human proofs"

'manual translation' undoubtably doing some heavy lifting here

OpenAI said in its announcement that search responses will include in-line citations and that users can open a sidebar to view links to external sources. The long-term goal is to then incorporate search features into ChatGPT, the company’s flagship AI product.

"The long-term goal is to reinvent the Internet of 25 years ago, but worse."