Starting things off with some unsurprising news: Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI

Found a fitting lament for our current era:

alt text: “Kinda hate that we live in a world where any new F/OSS tool or operating system that gets buzz needs to be vetted for Nazi entanglements.”

Found a primo sneer aimed at a slop supporter’s unofficial manifesto today:

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/you-probably-shouldnt-block-ai-bots-from-your-website/

(Don’t mind the title, its ironic)

The CIA wouldn’t be able to torture this kinda shit out of me. Jesus, Linehan.

Black Ops 7 sold less than half as much as last year’s Battlefield 6.

That’s definitely a mistype - the previous CoD game was Black Ops 6, and Battlefield 6 was made by DICE and published by EA. Still, makes a good segue into how Blops 7 (which went all-in on AI) compared against BF6 (which released more-or-less AI-free, going by DICE’s own comments).

In terms of sales, Blops 7 sold 63% less on launch than Battlefield 6 did in its opening week, earning Battlefield its first sales victory over CoD in both series’ history, and breaking a streak of #1 sales CoD had held since 2006.

On Metacritic, BF6 got “generally favourable” critic scores in the low-80s, whilst Blops 7 hovers around the 67% mark. The user scores are much more favourable - whilst BF6 is hovering at 7/10 as of this writing, BO7 is currently at 1.6/10, beating the notoriously maligned Modern Warfare III to become the lowest-rated entry in the series’ history.

On OpenCritic, Battlefield 6 earned a “Strong” rating on all fronts (83% top critic average, 90% Critics Recommend, player rating of 90) whilst Blops 7 got a “Weak” rating (65% top critic average, 35% Critics Recommend, player rating of 20).

Overall, signs are pointing to a historic victory for Battlefield over its long-running rival in the FPS genre, and a very public rejection of AI slop in all its forms.

The rise of social media has made people disturbingly willing to give out extremely personal info/secrets. Jesus.

Fixed that, thanks for catching

New York Times Magazine asks the question on everyone’s minds: Is ChatGPT Conscious?

The piece is, unsurprisingly, a complete pile of hot garbage, openly refusing to recognise the difference between lying machines and human beings. This is probably Pivot material.

New sneer popped up lamenting AI’s intrusion into hacker spaces. Red site is having a normal one about it

That he’s being sponsored by DeleteMe is oddly fitting in its own right. Were it not for surveillance capitalism relentlessly stealing personal data and invading people’s privacy, its services would be completely unnecessary.

By 60 days from now, the DoE must produce a list — “at least 20 science and technology challenges of national importance” in advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion — yes that’s more vibe nuclear — something quantum, and semiconductors.

And by “biotechnology”, I presume this administration means “eugenics”, if not some other form of medical pseudoscience.

Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?

Rust has a Code of Conduct and is allegedly highly popular among trans programmers, so you’re likely on the money

An unnamed OSS project had its license vandalized by AI:

Its currently unnamed to avoid naming-and-shaming any specific devs, but its probably a Mozilla project that was affected.

Well, at least the website isn’t vibe-coded. Considering the creator’s an out-and-proud promptfondler (as seen on his Twitter), that’s genuinely shocking.

Honestly this guy should just start his own fucking codebase where him and his promptfondling circlejerk buddies can vibecode bricks together.

He already did

New Blood in the Machine, about the slop-nami’s effects.

Harry was immediately convinced quidditch is good as is

Fun fact: the Harry Potter fandom (when it still existed) turned Quidditch into an actual real-life sport back in 2003 (with the first game being played at HP fan-convention Nimbus 2003, fittingly enough).

The sport changed its name to Quadball in 2022, for Extremely Obvious Reasons.

So yes, there are people out there who thought it was good as is. (Mostly.)

The purpose of AI is theft, exhibit ∞

Mozilla continues to double down on AI, promising to “do for AI what we did for the web” in their latest (probably AI-extruded) blogpost.

In related news, I found a toot thread attributing the current shitfest (and AI’s popularity in general) to “a strong majority of even the actually well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech [getting] their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines”. Where the OP is finding those “well-intentioned, smart leaders”, I do not know.

Found the original source