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Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI

Data centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generators

Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust

Artists are given access to OpenAI Sora. Release access publicly to everyone as a protest.

Hugging Face scrapes Bluesky, surprised when Bluesky users object

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st December 2024

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the tech utopia fantasy is over

The article in which Scott compares John Henry's mining capacity to the Machine's

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hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud

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HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024

Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect