Obligatory: there is great journalism. But it's not so common
23.02.2026 04:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@adverb.bsky.social
ML, Psychology, Art, Materials Informatics, Espresso, &c. he/him
Obligatory: there is great journalism. But it's not so common
23.02.2026 04:30 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Another fine day of scrolling on the Will Stancil And AI App
21.02.2026 07:02 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Millennia of virtue ethics vindicated
23.02.2026 03:02 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0At the risk of moving into the discourse a 2nd time today, the fact that a lot of Americans in the replies see this as a bit of fun trash talk between rivals kind of illustrates the extent to which maybe a lot of Americans aren't reading the room in how they are viewed internationally at this point
23.02.2026 02:36 โ ๐ 483 ๐ 86 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 7Easier to ignore people who're mostly asking for your exact skull measurements
23.02.2026 02:33 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Then ask a domain expert for their thoughts on reporting in their domain. I dare ya!
23.02.2026 02:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0To avoid being Too Much: consider for even just a second the entire incentives structure of journalism in 2026.
23.02.2026 02:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Defending X is wild. Do you read Muskโs posts? He has turned it into the most important platform for building a far right international.
22.02.2026 23:57 โ ๐ 514 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Yeah these,,, journalists are, incredibly serious111!!!11
23.02.2026 02:10 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Lmfao fucking hilarious
23.02.2026 02:09 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yeah, archive dot org & common crawl with a handful of ML resources could do this. Honestly might have to hit up Brewster.
22.02.2026 23:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Polymarket on the parameter count of google's dogass search llm when?
22.02.2026 23:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Buying a track or ebook that you canโt pass on, share, or transfer isnโt ownership; itโs a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
22.02.2026 20:00 โ ๐ 216 ๐ 75 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 5Presumably so people can boomer search "what was the name of that movie about the cowboy who sings? Thanks!"
22.02.2026 23:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It is 100% using a shit-tier sub-4b model (probably even just millions of params) to rephrase queries that ends up dropping any useful keywords.
22.02.2026 23:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1It's unusable at this point. Moving to using ChatGPT. Congrats goog
22.02.2026 23:02 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0If the BBC can suggest even one possible logical reason for spraying high concentration glyphosate, classified as a category 2A carcinogen BTW, which isnโt to destroy crops, harm the health of civilians, or both, then let them do so. Otherwise to say โwe donโt knowโ is journalistic malpractice.
22.02.2026 11:42 โ ๐ 264 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1I adore text-to-image obviously & think it can be an important part of workflows even outside of the love of text-image art.
But so many cases of interfaces that spotlight sycophantic hell conversation that should be avoided
Basically we don't need to uninvent the mouse
21.02.2026 09:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Defaulting to a back-and-forth with literal clippy is such a silly fucking choice -- fwiw I think natural language intetfaces can be good but "chat" interfaces are sooo often misapplied
21.02.2026 09:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1*In many contexts
21.02.2026 09:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The people yearn for anything but chat interfaces
21.02.2026 09:17 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0they're saturating my benchmarks tomorrow
21.02.2026 04:40 โ ๐ 36 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0i hope so if only for their sake lol
21.02.2026 04:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0had to bail when i scrolled to find the thesis and hit an "it is programmed to" with reference to ChatGPT
21.02.2026 04:35 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0video on "AI isnโt merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write"
Writing isn't just producing written words: it requires redefining terms to have zero face validity so someone will click your thumbnail.
21.02.2026 04:35 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0I still think a lot about โtrad cisgender ai chipsโ
21.02.2026 02:29 โ ๐ 53 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Yeah, should be made an official human rights violation. Would love to have some sort of disbarring for people who do work on this
20.02.2026 06:38 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Seems important for AI folks to be clear that they donโt support this
20.02.2026 04:47 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0