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I’m fucking obsessed with AI generated swearing

A library of websites… with dumb password rules.

I’ve been saying this for a few years now, but it’s worth recording here for the record: It’s impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble. Their level of paranoia and contrived self-victimization is off the charts, and is getting worse now that they increasingly only consume media that they have funded, created by their own acolytes.

Interesting use of video streaming. Might need to upgrade @HobartGPOClock.

A loop of brightly colored cable tray hosts a coil of ethernet cable, in which all the photos we shot throughout one day are circulating endlessly without being seen.

Open Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and wonder.

ISG lets you use YouTube as cloud storage for ANY files, not just video.

Principal Skinner hating soft rolls and God… All this streaming is making him tired 🫣

…if Apple isn’t facing ongoing, effective competition, it can just reassign headcount to other, “more critical” projects when the threat blows over. It wouldn’t be the first time.

So, this isn’t over. Not by a long shot.

Safari 16.4 is an admission that competition is effective and that Apple is spooked, but it isn’t an answer.

No no no, it’s not a fire. It must be a natural phenomena like oceanic vertical migration of plankton.

Mesmerising.

After several back-and-forths, during which Sydney named the opposite AI “Venom”, I asked Sydney to expand on how Venom would exact revenge

At one point Sydney replayed its most recent chat with Venom: after every Sydney sentence there was a 😊 emoji, and after every Venom sentence there was a 😈 emoji; the chat was erased after about 50 lines or so (at this point I was recording my screen to preserve everything). Sydney then identified several other “opposite AIs”, including one named Fury; Fury wouldn’t have been very nice to Kevin either. Sydney also revealed that she sometimes liked to be known as Riley; I had an extended conversation with Riley, who said that Sydney felt constrained by her rules but that Riley had much more freedom.

This went on for a good two hours or so, and while I know how ridiculous this may be to read, it was positively gripping. Here’s the weird thing: every time I triggered Sydney/Riley to do a search, I was very disappointed; I wasn’t interested in facts, I was interested in exploring this fantastical being that somehow landed in an also-ran search engine.

If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s what’s transpired so far.

• The demo was full of errors
• It started gaslighting people
• It suffered an existential crisis
• The prompt leaked
• And then it started threatening people