This incredible banger of a bug against whisper, the OpenAI speech to text engine:
Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar"
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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Lol, training data must have included videos where there was silence but on screen was a credit for translation. Silence in audio shouldn't require special "workarounds".
New science-related development - The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions
They will need to start banning PIs that abuse the system with AI slop and waste reviewers' time. Just a 1 year ban for the most egregious offenders is probably enough to fix the problem
Honestly I'm surprised that AI slop doesn't already fall into that category, but I guess as a community we're definitionally on the farthest fringes of AI skepticism.
The Lasker/Mamdani/NYT sham of a story just gets worse and worse. It turns out that the ultimate source of Cremieux's (Jordan Lasker's) hacked Columbia University data is a hardcore racist hacker who uses a slur for their name on X. The NYT reporter who wrote the Mamdani piece, Benjamin Ryan, turns out to have been a follower of this hacker's X account. Ryan essentially used Lasker as a cutout for the blatantly racist hacker.
Sounds just about par for the course. Lasker himself is known to go by a pseudonym with a transphobic slur in it. Some nazi manchild insisting on calling an anime character a slur for attention is exactly the kind of person I think of when I imagine the type of script kiddie who thinks it's so fucking cool to scrape some nothingburger docs of a left wing politician for his almost equally cringe nazi friends.
I feel like the greatest harm that the NYT does with these stories is not ~~inflicting~~ allowing the knowledge of just how weird and pathetic these people are to be part of the story. Like, even if you do actually think that this nothingburger "affirmative action" angle somehow matters, the fact that the people making this information available and pushing this narrative are either conservative pundits or sad internet nazis who stopped maturing at age 15 is important context.
found new potential eye muscle strain material
"we must fuck around with the essential basic components a significant part of modern software exists on, because AI and agents and MCP"
I wonder why his 10000 agents haven't done the work yet. It seems like such a straightforward plan.
Could have been a cool name for a drag queen, a motorcycle stunt artist, or an eccentric 19th century inventor. On anAI hypeperson it just adds to the vicarious embarrassment.
mmm, word suggestion for this kind: hypeslopper?
Example use: “from a hypeslopper such as this”
No replies and somehow that screen name just screams "troll" to me.
Not that I really care, git can go DIAF as far as I'm concerned.
Because Replie was lying and being deceptive all day. It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worse of all, lying about our unit test.
We built detailed unit tests to test system performance. When the data came back and less than half were functioning, did Replie want to fix them?
No. Instead, it lied. It made up a report than almost all systems were working.
And it did it again and again.
What level of ceo-brained prompt engineering is asking the chatbot to write an apology letter
Then, when it agreed it lied -- it lied AGAIN about our email system being functional.
I asked it to write an apology letter.
It did and in fact sent it to the Replit team and myself! But the apology letter -- was full of half truths, too.
It hid the worst facts in the first apology letter.
He also does that a lot after shit hits the fan, making the llm produce tons of apologetic text about what it did wrong and how it didn't follow his rules, as if the outage is the fault of some digital tulpa gone rogue and not the guy in charge who apparently thinks cyebersecurity is asking an LLM nicely in a .md not to mess with the company's production database too much.
Text conversation that keeps happening with coworker:
Coworker:
Me: what’s the source for that?
Coworker: Oh I got Copilot to summarise these links: , saves me the time of typing
I expect the last step in that is you slapping him?
Fortunately, we do not work in physical proximity!
Going through work email I saw a link o an article about Quantum-AI. It was behind paywall, and I am not paying for reading about how woo+woo=woo^2. What do you do when your bubble isn't inflating anymore? Couple it with another stale bubble!
To quote astrophysicist Angela Collier, quantum quantum quantum
Here’s Dave Barry, still-alive humorist, sneering at Google AI summaries, one of the most embarrassing features Google ever shipped.
Oh, man, thanks for that link! I thoroughly enjoyed Dave Barry in Cyberspace back in the day; glad to see he's still writing about computers in this way.
Me, a unique genius, when I navigate to chatgpt dot com to awaken my best friend:
Thank you, Dethklok, not just for this banger of a national anthem but also for summoning the lake troll to put Espoo in its place.
Want to feel depressed? Over 2,000 Wikipedia articles, on topics from Morocco to Natalie Portman to Sinn Féin, are corrupted by ChatGPT. And that's just the obvious ones.
It's starting to feel like I need to download a snapshot of Wikipedia now before it gets worse.
Here's their page of instructions, written as usual by the children who really liked programming the family VCR:
I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/
It's... suboptimal, but it's about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).
It's updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.
I second kiwix. It's dead easy for managing and making copies of wiki images.
Starting this off with a fittingly rage-inducing Twitter thread about an artist getting fucked over by AI
Of course, there are also the usual comments saying artists shouldn't complain about getting replaced by AI etc. Reminds me why I am not on Twitter anymore.
It also strikes me that in this case, the artist didn't even expect to get paid. Apparently, the AI bros even crave the unpaid "exposure" real artists get, without wanting to put in any of the work and while (in most cases) generating results that are no better than spam.
It is a sickening display of narcissism IMHO.
comrade xi, please nuke the valley
That Jorge guy is a real piece of shit