(and jeez, I know naming stuff is hard, but “Ploopy” is kinda bad as a company name).
Naming themselves after something which implies immortality would've been my pick - something like "Theseus", to suggest a Ship-of-Theseus kind of immortality, I dunno.
I like how the advertisement's URL opens with a fucking O_Q like even its unsettled by this shit
(This one took two days to cook as opposed to just one - hope it turns out solid.)
That's a car I'd key guilt free
The site describes CalcGPT as an art installation
As a critique of AI, it probably is pretty effective - no better way of mocking ChatGPT than by having it fuck up basic arithmetic that even a five-year-old can do.
You wanna mock somebody, it helps tricking them into mocking themselves.
In other news, Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 got sent a viewpoint article with the title "Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?".
I will give MAIHT3K credit for managing to get through that shit, because what the actual fuck.
I've kinda said this before, but I expect shit like this to feed a growing trend of treating all crawlers as malicious until proven otherwise, and blocking them accordingly - even if it causes serious problems, its arguably better than the risk of getting fucked by an AI crawler.
I also expect robots.txt to fall out of use as a consequence of this plague of AI crawlers. Between OpenAI openly ignoring it, Perplexity openly deceiving it, and Anthropic spamming crawlers to get past it, the trust necessary for robots' "voluntary compliance" model to work has been thoroughly fucking shredded.
At this point, I wouldn't fault anyone for blanket-blocking all scrapers/robots - sure, doing that will make you unfindable by search engines, but search is basically useless nowadays for finding anything actually interesting, and trying to play whack-a-mole with AI scrapers just means you're gonna get your shit stolen.
Might as well go back to word-of-mouth.
This pasta will never die.
Its a surprisingly good complement to OP Chris Paxton's Tweet about "normie opinion on AI", given it shows why said "normie opinion" is so resoundingly negative.
I've made some brief nods to how the AI bubble is rapidly souring public perception of tech (here and here), but it really feels like AI has, to quote @datarama, "made tech synonymous with “monstrous assholes” in a non-trivial chunk of public consciousness".
I feel like I should collect my thoughts on that front - I could probably make an interesting post out of it.
On the one hand, Bitcoin as an emoji would be basically useless.
On the other hand, it could work as an easy shorthand for "scam"