kevin mccauley

kevin mccauley

@capturingthemachine.com

I would never be caught dead talking to a goddamn chatbot

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A damning quote from the report: “Trump and Epstein seemed to share the same playbook for recruiting and abusing women, all the way down to the university they promised admission to and the timing of their follow-up phone calls.”

Truthout@truthout.org

A new 50-page report released by House Judiciary Committee Democrats includes a trove of evidence regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation from former Miss Switzerland, against Trump that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

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This AI bullshit needs to be shut down completely. None of this was ever tested before it was put into mass implementation.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c

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The running theme is that the tech is garbage, but they still keep releasing it to the public and letting it cause damage. Once again, an LLM is not responsible. But those who created it are very much responsible and should be sued and imprisoned for what they let their tech do.

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Replying to @edzitron.com

Jensen Huang is a piece of shit. Every hyperscaler CEO is too. These scumbags drove the price of everything up so that they could all help Jensen Huang make more money. We did not need him to build all these GPUs. He just wanted to sell them to boost earnings. Ugly.

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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I cannot fully get my head around repeatedly seeing people catapult themselves in to the sun in an attempt to frame AI as something that can be positive. Right now, the use of AI, generative or otherwise, is unethical. End of conversation. You know what is true right now? We don't need to use it.

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If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

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Replying to @emilymbender.bsky.social

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

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Wondering why you've seen so many "Ai Company / Mouthpiece Says We Need Cooperation To Stop Ai Destroying Humanity" stories lately? Wonder no more - Here's another one of those "Summed up something I've been struggling to articulate" articles from @doctorow.pluralistic.net.

THE NERVE@thenerve.news

“Same goes for the claims that these companies are already profitable… [essentially] the companies are claiming that they are so cool that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics.” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

NEW GARBAGE FOR LOSERS JUST DROPPED

Mark Gurman@markgurman.bsky.social

Exclusive: All the details on Meta's new Muse Charm, a dedicated AI hardware device that sits in the palm of your hand for Muse. It can be worn with a wrist strap, has an OLED screen, 5G and was developed by Apple's former top interface design executive. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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block any influencers who sign onto this

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Replying to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

oh heavens no, I'd hate for the sundowning pedophile president with a 37% approval rating to become the face of the AI movement

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Trump posts a poll on Truth Social because he doesn’t like the term artificial intelligence and wants to rebrand it as either Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, or Supreme Intelligence.

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If you or someone in your house is not trans, the only thing you should ever think about trans kids is “How might I brighten their day should I come across one?” Beyond that, you’re a fucking weirdo who is extremely useful to nazis.

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I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this

nytimes.comOpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.

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NPR@npr.org

JUST IN: The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday to combat stubborn inflation. That will make it more expensive to borrow money to buy a car or carry a balance on a credit card.