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ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th March 2026English
7·8 个月前Is the 7 supposed to be a dogwhistle or something?
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
SneerClub@awful.systems•New Round of Criti-Hype Propaganda Drops Next WeekEnglish
5·8 个月前Sorry if this is unsolicited, but I decided to put a bit more rigour into it and check the average of 100 netflix documentary trailers from here
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvahqwMqN4M0fmh2gjEqNbUA3uCVMZbDB
And make a chart.
That dot on the top right is the AI doc.
The dot on the bottom right is UNKNOWN: Killer Robots
The dot on the top is American Symphony
In both of those instances they’re comparable on one axis but not the other.
So basically if this chart’s correct there’s definitely cause for suspicion. Moreso anyway.Edit: I made a typo in the data, which gave UNKNOWN: Killer Robots and UNKNOWN: Cosmic Time Machine a higher View Per Like ratio than it should have. Here’s the new chart:

The new Furthest right are now
American Nightmare
and
Will & Harper
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
SneerClub@awful.systems•New Round of Criti-Hype Propaganda Drops Next WeekEnglish
4·8 个月前With my extremely scientific method of “clicking on trailers for random documentaries and seeing the ratios” the like-to-view ratio is typically in a range from 1-10 to 1-100. The biggest outlier I saw was probably Will & Harper at about 1-400. The AI Doc is about 1-800. Also interesting is the comments. Will & Harper has about 6400 comments while the AI Doc only has 640, which would be comparable to something like Murder in Monaco, a documentary trailer with about a tenth of the views (and also has a comparable amount of likes).
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th February 2026English
4·9 个月前You could also technically do all of that debugging before you even get to the moon, though. Also has the added benefit of not dying if something goes awry.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026English
7·9 个月前Well, sure, but that was six months ago.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026English
4·10 个月前So basically subreddit simulator?
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats itEnglish
14·10 个月前You can eat paint. You shouldn’t, but you can. He also has a court date so that’s quite the dedication if it was a stunt.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
6·11 个月前Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026English
9·11 个月前Do they really think that using these scummy tactics will somehow result in more positive opinions towards AI?
Well, where would someone complain about their scummy tactics? All the places where they could have were shut down.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?English
1·11 个月前deleted by creator
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
5·11 个月前So, I’m not an expert study-reader or anything, but it looks like they took some questions from the MMLU, modified it in some unspecified way and put it into 3 categories (AI, human, AI-human), and after accounting for skill, determined that people with higher theory of mind had a slightly better outcome than people with lower theory of mind. They determined this based on what the people being tested wrote to the AI, but what they wrote isn’t in the study.
What they didn’t do is state that people with higher theory of mind are more likely to use AI or anything like that. The study also doesn’t mention empathy at all, though I guess it could be inferred.Not that any of that actually matters because how they determined how much “theory of mind” each person had was to ask Gemini 2.5 and GPT-4o.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th December 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
9·1 年前Chariots of the Gods was released in 1968. I think that ship may have sailed decades ago.
ShakingMyHead ( ShakingMyHead@awful.systems ) to
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish
6·1 年前Out of all of the things he did, that is one of those things.
Something rarely encountered is still something encountered.