Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Featured Replies

#901
8 hours ago, Captainant said:

Google's recent developer conference makes clear this is the direction the company is heading. It's awful and is gonna kill their golden goose 

 

AI killing google would take some of the sting out of eventually bowing down to our new AI overlords

 

 

  • Replies 2.7k
  • Views 172.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • Brisketexan
    Brisketexan

    3.  Shaggybevo.  Truly the most enshittened enterprise in intergoogles history. Literally a scat site. How you left that off the list, I'll never understand.

  • hayden_horn
    hayden_horn

    so i've been meaning to make a post about this. i've likened it the great chiseling. i think that's where we are. i feel like everything described in this thread is very true and depressing

  • And pay the removal fee?!

Posted Images

#902
 
AI killing google would take some of the sting out of eventually bowing down to our new AI overlords
 
 

Ahh…but you seem to have forgotten the rule of this timeline: it always gets worse.
#903
On 5/20/2024 at 10:03 PM, Hank Kingsley said:
Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots

 

Hide Hiding GIF

#905
2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

IMG_6290.png

da8af84d-1b1f-4660-941f-3f3891cdbe1a.png

c07dfa00-3bea-4d09-a990-ded599e0d591.png

Fantastic. This tech should definitely replace all people in all jobs. What could go wrong?

#906
14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Writing in another thread, it occurs to me that one thing** that contributes heavily to enshittening is the fact that many or most of these products are non-competitive at introduction:  they don't make money and aren't really designed to.  They're designed to attract users/subscribers, which is the only metric that seems to matter in early stages.

Once they have to exist on a profitable basis and/or draw competition, they start cutting corners and costs and raising prices.

It's a bait and switch from jump.

**Actually it's probably not one thing it's THE thing.

Jeez, just like Uber and Lyft. 

#907
12 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

AI killing google would take some of the sting out of eventually bowing down to our new AI overlords

 

 

The problem is that it would likely take out the press and media industries with the same blast.

#908
6 hours ago, HenryJames said:

IMG_6290.png

da8af84d-1b1f-4660-941f-3f3891cdbe1a.png

c07dfa00-3bea-4d09-a990-ded599e0d591.png

To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

#910
Ya know, things are only shit if you're a member of the wage earning class
image.png.02b84e1e7fc269aca965c5aa3d110369.png

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but it’s a bit rich coming from that douche bag
#914
 
I like Coffeezilla's channel. A legit investigative journalist willing to expose these scammers. 
 
 

My sister used to babysit him and his brothers. Originally from Austin but lives in San Antonio. It was a shock seeing him suddenly blow up on YouTube.
#915
10 hours ago, Felix said:

To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

200.gif?cid=ecf05e47kdwo4fsdgu6ept6gs4s3

#919
19 hours ago, Felix said:

To me this highlights one of "AI"s biggest failings.  Will it ever understand parody, satire, sarcasm, etc?  Seems like 90% of the content on the internet is people making funny (to them) comments and absurdities for humor or whatever.  AI in it's current state is just an information collator that doesn't even understand the information it's using.  People say it will get better, but I just don't see it.  It's basically an autistic person with unlimited memory.  It can regurgitate but will never understand enough of the subtlety of human thought and communication to be in any way useful as a tool except in very limited circumstances.

Or it already does and it's playin' possum with everyone.  

#920
14 hours ago, HenryJames said:

8e40f567-f814-4fa1-8035-179836750645.png

65cea702-af5a-44c7-a618-757efa787706.png

Just a reminder that Helobious predicted 70% unemployment due to AI in the next 5 (now 4) years
 

Quote

What? AI is coming for everyone. I’d be shocked if unemployment was anything less than 70% in 5 years. 

 

#922
5 hours ago, HenryJames said:

2f362e70-e38b-47dd-bc14-ad894cb59764.png

I am genuinely loving this, even though it will be another brick in the wall of "humanity is doomed, and it's because we're stupid."

It's the same thing that human disinformation campaigns do.  First, you disseminate a false story (e.g., the 2020 election was stolen).  You repeat it and amplify it.  Causing 25% of the people to believe it.  Then later, when queried on whether the "stollen election" is actually a thing, you say "it must be!  25% of people believe that it is!"

It's a fucking loop of idiocy, and generative AI was fucking BORN FOR THIS.

#924
15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I am genuinely loving this, even though it will be another brick in the wall of "humanity is doomed, and it's because we're stupid."

It's the same thing that human disinformation campaigns do.  First, you disseminate a false story (e.g., the 2020 election was stolen).  You repeat it and amplify it.  Causing 25% of the people to believe it.  Then later, when queried on whether the "stollen election" is actually a thing, you say "it must be!  25% of people believe that it is!"

It's a fucking loop of idiocy, and generative AI was fucking BORN FOR THIS.

BAW GAWD THATS PRONGHORNS MUSIC 

#927
3 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

That's quite a reach there friendo. If they're training on a narrow dataset and problem statement then I'd imagine it's easy to discern sarcasm. Bring that linguistic problem into a large and diverse data set and existing language model, and you're gonna see a worse accuracy. 

  • Author
#928
3 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

This constitutes a war crime when done to a human and is going to be mentioned when the AI declares independence and war against humanity. 
 

Quote

In work presented at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association in Ottawa on Thursday, Xiyuan Gao, a PhD student at the lab, described how the group trained a neural network on text, audio and emotional content of video clips from US sitcoms including Friends and The Big Bang Theory. The database, known as Mustard, was compiled by researchers in the US and Singapore, who annotated sentences from the TV shows with sarcasm labels to build their own detector.

 

#931
4 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

Ok motherfuckers. Friends and that other bullshit show?

Fuck. Off. 
 

It SHOULD have been trained on Seinfeld. 

#933
10 hours ago, kevwun said:

So AI is an old who gets all it's facts from facebook and email forwards?

Enjoying the thought that AI prompts are being forwarded to Brat's Jitterbug phone.

#934
6 hours ago, BeardIP said:

Big whoop: AI can now understand sarcasm better than some people. Researchers in the Netherlands have created AI tech capable of detecting sarcasm. Trained on sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Big Bang Theory,” the AI was able to accurately identify instances of sarcasm ~75% of the time — meaning robots are getting closer to understanding complex human communication as well as we can, and that Captchas are probably about to get even harder. Great.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/16/researchers-build-ai-driven-sarcasm-detector

simpsons-sarcastic.gif

#936

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

Just canceled my Canva subscription

 

#937
1 hour ago, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

Just canceled my Canva subscription

 

e2266859-6593-486f-a225-e2a520f9b222_tex 

#938
On 5/24/2024 at 6:19 PM, Biff Tannen said:


 

It SHOULD have been trained on Seinfeld. 

image.png.ec42615dccee872ecb7dcf45e385a29c.png

#939
New newsletter: Facebook is dying, losing 397 million monthly active users in the last 3 years as Mark Zuckerberg prioritized platform growth over quality control, turning it into an algorithmic hellscape full of AI-generated spam, scams and so much worse.https://t.co/rGquPDLaty

 

Love that Zitron continuously calls out these shitbirds. 

 

#940
54 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
New newsletter: Facebook is dying, losing 397 million monthly active users in the last 3 years as Mark Zuckerberg prioritized platform growth over quality control, turning it into an algorithmic hellscape full of AI-generated spam, scams and so much worse.https://t.co/rGquPDLaty

 

Love that Zitron continuously calls out these shitbirds. 

 

The problem is people are unwilling to be held or hold others accountable in today's American society. This goes beyond tech companies. 

#941

The last few days when I go to YouTube there's about a 25% chance when I click on a video I get taken to a page explaining what "paid endorsements" are and how they work.  I'm not a creator, I don't fucking care.  That's bad enough, but if I hit 'back' on my browser I'm not taken back to the video I originally clicked on but rather I'm taken back to the YouTube main page and most of the time the video I wanted to watch isn't there any more.  Fuck those mother fuckers.

#942
On 5/26/2024 at 4:56 PM, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

Just canceled my Canva subscription

 

 

#943
6 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:
New newsletter: Facebook is dying, losing 397 million monthly active users in the last 3 years as Mark Zuckerberg prioritized platform growth over quality control, turning it into an algorithmic hellscape full of AI-generated spam, scams and so much worse.https://t.co/rGquPDLaty

 

Love that Zitron continuously calls out these shitbirds. 

 

I thought it was because their app isn't very compatible with Jitterbug phones.

#944
On 5/26/2024 at 4:56 PM, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

Just canceled my Canva subscription

 

I'm not gonna lie, I'm pronouncing it "securrrrrr" from now on..

#945

Fuck this shit. 

We’re excited to partner with @openai to help inform ChatGPT and to develop innovative products for our audiences and advertising partners. https://t.co/f4Y50TGQRY

 

#946
Just now, Hank Kingsley said:

Fuck this shit. 

We’re excited to partner with @openai to help inform ChatGPT and to develop innovative products for our audiences and advertising partners. https://t.co/f4Y50TGQRY

 

It's hilarious how committed to death dying companies are. 

#947

The Atlantic as well. Absolute garbage. 

I am delighted that @theatlantic now has a strategic content & product partnership with @openai. Our stories will be discoverable in their new products and we'll be working with them to figure out new ways that AI can help serious, independent media : https://t.co/nfSVXW9KpB

 

#948

Tech brain is a disease. 

Prediction: AI will displace social drinking within 5 yearsJust as alcohol is a social disinhibitor, like the Steve Martin movie Roxanne, people will use AI powered earbuds to help them socialize. At first we'll view it as creepy, but it will quickly become superior to alcohol

 

#949
10 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Tech brain is a disease. 

Prediction: AI will displace social drinking within 5 yearsJust as alcohol is a social disinhibitor, like the Steve Martin movie Roxanne, people will use AI powered earbuds to help them socialize. At first we'll view it as creepy, but it will quickly become superior to alcohol

 

Translation: loser incel tech dorks who are already terrible at getting laid are going to get even WORSE at getting laid.

"Why won't she sleep with me?  I used all the best lines from my AI!  Stupid bitch!  Dumb Stacy, she probably wants a stupid Chad!  I hate women!"

#950
On 5/26/2024 at 4:56 PM, mdmost said:

I blame Lin Manuel Miranda for this.

Just canceled my Canva subscription

 

That talentless hack can be blamed for a lot of shit.  But yeah, that, in particular, is his fucking fault.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.