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Random observations of the morning

2025-08-25 18:32:03.488311+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run

the devil has plenty of advocates already and they're much better paid

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social

Prompt engineering is knowing the correct answer and trying to get the chatbot to produce it.

Via

Lauren Weinstein @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

My sense is that Big Tech is increasingly realizing that they've bought into a gigantic fail with LLM generative AI systems, but they don't dare admit it because they realize they could instantly tank the stock market and their own firms. So they just keep playing along as if everything is great, and desperately hope that something will happen to save them before they roll right off the cliff and straight into Hell, dragging the rest of us along too. Though they don't care about that last part.

Jeffrey Harlan @Harlander@writing.exchange

I'm dying here. Just had a customer come in, asking where his drink was. We never got any mobile orders for him.

"I asked ChatGPT to order it for me and it said I could pick it up."

Cassandrich @dalias@hachyderm.io

I want us to be at the point where "Were you exposed to AI brainrot in the workplace? You may be entitled to compensation" ads by lawyers are filling all the top ad slots.

improper ideologue @thedansimonson@lingo.lol

OpenAI is gonna get desperate and the “innovation” is gonna be to insert advertising into the model, to the point where you can’t tell it’s advertising.

That’s how we get to “it’s what plants crave.”

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