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Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

  • a lot of companies are chasing the humanoid form because they’ll be able to immediately adapt to existing infrastructure (to replace human workers).

    that's the story, but this doesn't work, like, at all, with just a moment's thought.

    if humanoid was a good shape we'd have humanoid robots already.

    the reason is they're selling sci fi dreams of robot servants even though these dreams are lies.

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    Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

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    Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes!

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    CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes

  • UPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/

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    Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft

  • Trump apologetics doesn't really make the bar here. Hopefully you will find a sub that is more accepting of whatever your condition is.

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    Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

  • Neopets but it's an animated blob of cum with a smiley face.

  • I've met Vinay, he's great in person. But should not post.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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    Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.

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    Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now

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    16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss

  • Convenience is king, and never mind accuracy.

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    Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews

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    Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened

  • Transformers do way better transcription, buuuuuut yeah you gotta check it

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    Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns

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    look AI doom is all very well, but we have extremely important message board drama to be getting on with

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    god i hope it works

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    So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers down

  • oh yeah that was obvious when you see who they are and what they do. also, one of the large opensource projects was the lesswrong site lololol

    i'm surprised it's as well constructed a study as it is even given that

  • wonder if that's why they tried and failed to change it to "squiggle maximizing"

  • the comments are wild "yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern"

  • it should be, but he's been actively promoting the stuff

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    Veo fails week 4: the final faildown

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    LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast)

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    AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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    ‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?