minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemstoFediverse@lemmy.world•The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverselinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 months agoNostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice, linkfedilink
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agoHow to fix AI’s ghastly power consumption? Fake the numbers!plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 months agoElon Musk releases Grok-2 AI image generator for edgelordsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoKroger unveils AI-powered automatic price gougerplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoThe FCC wants to stop cloned phone voicesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoManagement consultants are making a bundle in the AI boomplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoMicrosoft’s Copilot Studio AI leaks your business info internally and externallyplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoMilitary AI: I’m from the government and EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATEplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoThe Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteriaplus-squaremedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoOpenAI loses more founders. It’ll be fine.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoJason Koebler from 404 Media has discovered the Fountain of Insane Facebook AI Slop and outlines its whole scam economyplus-squarewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoMore academic publishers are doing AI dealsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoAI investors are getting the jittersplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 months agoThe EU’s AI Act enters into force. Good.plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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Nostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice,