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[–] lurker@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Most expensive number 2 generator

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago

Hey, at least it’s efficiently making number 2 on the side while spitting out user prompted number 2s.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 14 hours ago

Apparently this sort of machine learning training pitfall I learned about a decade go in an undergraduate level class that I was like halfway paying attention to in a party school is now evidence of the impending AI apocalypse.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Wow, that highlighting really emphasises the insidious, nefarious behaviour. This is only a hop, skip, and jump away from, what was it again? Rhomboid? Rheumatoid bactothefuture?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 3 points 3 hours ago

Rhomboid? Rheumatoid bactothefuture?

Doc Brown couldn't get optimal flux dispersal across the surface of the time machine without the heavy biofilm coating. It's not a fetish thing, people! Stop saying that!

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

diamondoid. None of the derivatives I can come up with sound anywhere near as dumb as the actual word.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 13 hours ago

Derpadoid Burpateria

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 12 hours ago

rolls 1, 1

I behold the paperclip calculator, and tremble in fear