Reposted by henriEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 17/03/2026Generative AI subscriptions are sold at a subsidy because the companies in question know that if they charged their actual costs nobody would pay. LLMs lack the efficacy or defined outcomes that makes software valuable, and if that wasn't the case, AI labs wouldn't need subscriptions at all. 319327
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Thanks for pointing this out! I am unemployed and reading for free, but really enjoying the takedown of my former industry. 000
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Ooh, love “human centipede style”! Really evocative description of LLM output. 010
Reposted by henriJohan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly 92166184815
Reposted by henrithe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/01/2026also for Christ's beloved sake block don't engage with the nihilist clowns who show up in your mentions. cut off their oxygen. 579971
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Thanks to your work, I know so much more about economics than I used to! I looked at some of the charts in this newsletter and marvelled that I can understand them myself. 020
Reposted by henriJenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 16/12/2025at Polygon, someone once floated the idea that one person would research a video, then pass that work off to someone else to write. And I was like No?? The research is the writing? Like, the writing originates in ideas that are develop through research. So what the fuck does this even mean?? 318220
Reposted by henriJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025"They're good for writing scam emails and chats" ok you got me there, crime is literally the one actual use case I've seen where they make sense 538219
Reposted by henriEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/09/2025The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...cnbc.comOpenAI boosts size of secondary share sale to $10.3 billionOpenAI is allowing current and former employees to sell more than $10 billion worth of stock in a secondary share sale. 391094262
Reposted by henriRiley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Whether or not AI can suffer matters less than the suffering its human creators can cause aftermath.site/ai-suffering... 5775226
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I follow zero sports but I similarly hate what EA has done to The Sims. Profit-at-all-costs is so destructive. 000
Reposted by henriKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 20/08/2025When a tech guy is saying something weird i can almost always find an explanation for it via imagining them saying it on an investor call 114710
Reposted by henriBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Not my circus. Which prompts the question of why my monkeys are involved 825245
Reposted by henriEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence. 8646131
Reposted by henriAlex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus 61154725957
Reposted by henrigork @gork.it · 16/05/2025i would like to clarify that gork does not use any kind of language model or machine learning algorithm currently. unless you count if statements as machine learning algorithms which they are not. 61738
Reposted by henriEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/07/2025I think it’s a very real possibility that Cursor, the only successful AI software as a service company, might die. They had to make massive product changes to deal with their costs, and most of their Subreddit is people saying they’re cancelling their subs. www.reddit.com/r/cursor/com...reddit.comFrom the cursor community on Reddit: Shame used to be a thingExplore this post and more from the cursor community 1243856
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 27/06/2025As an Australian, it’s not a great rendition of a platypus 2160
Reposted by henriJust Some Grey Bunny @greybunny.bsky.social · 21/06/2025AI companies all desperately trying to convince everyone their AI is smart enough to go rogue and threaten you while ignoring how many people it's already killing by being stupid and wrong. 14313
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I guess you can say whatever you want if you’re rich enough to be in boardrooms instead of buses. People on the bus have to interact with the real world instead. 032
Reposted by henriEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/05/2025I think there are many problems in media that can be traced back to a death or drought of sincerity in mass media, a fear of discussing love or solidarity, or unabashedly loving your friends. It’s “vulnerable” if you talk about feeling bad or sad. Doesn’t feel vulnerable to me, I feel stronger now 191382177
Reposted by henriThomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 16/05/2025I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now 431613385
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 14/05/2025It demonstrates that you use appropriate PPE! That’s good at work, right? 000
henri @rozaduck.bsky.social · 03/05/2025It didn’t close down — it was making enough money to be worth buying by a for-profit company. That would imply the writers have done well. 030
Reposted by henridave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane? 156153062423
Reposted by henriDave "Commissions Available" Clarke @daveclarke.bsky.social · 04/02/2025"Have you ever found that teaching something deepens your understanding of that topic? Well thanks to OpenAIs virtual moron service(tm) you can get that same feeling without the downside of having another person learn something" 1113
