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[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Funnily enough, there are a lot of data centres in Ireland. Maybe there will be a missile strike and Ireland's population will shrink back to 19th century numbers

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[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

I'm aware of the idea, but it's still very weird for someone to pretend to be Jewish and also be a Nazi!

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[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fucking hell. Not the most important part of the story, but his elaborate lies about being Jewish are very very weird. Kind of like white Americans pretending that they're Cherokee I guess?

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I have become aware that there is a very right wing Catholic podcaster who has a Catholicism AI chatbot app. It's called Truthly.

Your Trusted Catholic AI Conversation Companion Deepen your understanding, explore ideas, and engage in meaningful dialogue—anytime, anywhere.

If someone could call up Pope Leo and get him to excommunicate the guys who invented this, that would be great.

Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

I should really start looking into Linux huh

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"Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out" (www.thejournal.ie)
 

God help us. These workers are employed by a subcontractor, Covalen.

Multiple workers from Covalen’s ‘AI annotation’ service spoke to The Journal Investigates about their roles. Their day-to-day work involves creating prompts that are fed to Meta’s AI platform so the system can be trained according to guidelines.

In order to do this, some workers have spent entire shifts pretending to be paedophiles online seeking child sex abuse related information, or suicidal people looking for details on how to kill or hurt themselves.

Covalen also does moderation for Meta, with workers forced to watch extremely violent and disturbing footage that has been flagged for moderation.

“Sometimes in my dreams I am the victim, but sometimes – and this is far worse – I am the perpetrator,” they said.

One bright spot:

Over 100 Covalen employees have now joined the Communications Workers Union (CWU). The toll that dealing with sensitive content and inconsistencies in wellness break length were extra motivating factors for the move.

They are also asking for a better rate of pay, as they are currently earning an average of €29,700 per year.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That Couple are in the news arís. surprisingly, the racist, sexist dog holds opinions that a racist, sexist dog could be expected to hold, and doesn't think poor people should have more babies. He does want Native Americans to have more babies, though, because they're "on the verge of extinction", and he thinks of cultural groups and races as exhibits in a human zoo. Simone Collins sits next to her racist, sexist dog of a husband and explains how paid parental leave could lead to companies being reluctant to hire women (although her husband seems to think all women are good for is having kids).

This gruesome twosome deserve each other: their kids don't.

e/acc founder Based Beff Jezos' startup Extropic tries pivot to quantum computing. Twitter handle still has "AI" in it in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 2 years ago

embed physics into computation

Ok, have I been sniffing glue or is computation not the result of physics?