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brianpenny.bsky.social
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I was minding my business on YouTube when I got served an ad that was an AI deepfake video of a Fox News broadcast promoting a crypto investment app, and now I can’t decide which part of that I’m more offended by that it even thought I was the right audience…

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This isn’t the flex Meta thinks it is. Downloading from The Pirate Bay is definitely stealing but doing it without seeding is a dick move.

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#adobe 😹

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Memes & Nightmares is a cute homage to NBA Twitter. Would’ve preferred a version dedicated to NBA Sky though following the Game of Thrones drama over the throne of Mayor @yorush.bsky.social and the House of @saramontourlewis.com

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

So much wrong with this promotional article for Google Co-Scientist. Jose Penades is insisting he never made his work public so it’s impossible for Google to have trained on it. That’s false but also ridiculous… 1/3

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Netflix is absolutely determined to use AI to recreate dead people in their content for profits. This is at least the 3rd or 4th time they’ve done this.

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S/o to @thiccreese.bsky.social for saying more politely than I ever do that there is no truly ethical AI model. Most AI bros are intellectually dishonest and pick super niche models they don’t even use as an example to try and make that argument. But even their cherry picked models don’t qualify.

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The sheer volume of grammatical errors Gemini spokesperson Mark makes in his unlabeled sponsored post speak volumes about how over reliance on LLMs makes you dumber.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Watching members of Congress on social media complaining to us is wild. Like wtf are any of us supposed to do about it? The CTA is typically to write to our members of Congress, and all they’re doing is crying on social media.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Great news for Freelancers working in the State of CA! The Freelance Worker Protection Act went into effect January 1, 2025. This law requires freelancers to be paid 30 days after completion of work for any job over $250, & gives them the ability to take legal action against clients who don’t pay.

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments