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blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026English
9·3 天前Chris Stokel-Walker at Fast Company reports:
High-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions due to a misunderstanding of what is being shared, according to a University of Oxford researcher who identified the issue.
The problem affects Codex Cloud Environments in ChatGPT Edu and exposes the names and some metadata associated with the public and private GitHub repositories that users within a university have connected to their ChatGPT Edu accounts. […] “Anyone at the university, or a large number of people at least—including me—can see a number of projects [people have] been working on with ChatGPT,” says Luc Rocher, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, who identified the issue and raised it with both the University of Oxford and OpenAI through responsible disclosure. He later approached Fast Company after what he felt was an inadequate response from both.
Just one of many reasons that the mere existence of “ChatGPT Edu” means that many people need to be tased in the nads
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026English
14·3 天前I’m suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone’s name can be used for commercial purposes.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026English
6·4 天前Man, I wish I had enough money to fuck around with nonprofit shenanigans
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026English
10·5 天前Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
1·7 天前Hypothesis: When he wrote Surreal Numbers, Knuth was a poet and thus unknowingly of the Devil’s party.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
12·9 天前We really need to work harder at poisoning the training data for math problems.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
10·9 天前My generous statement: Knuth, being a scientist, is used to an “adversary” that plays fair. As we have known for decades, a scientist can be tricked in situations that a magician will see through. This applies all the more now with the Sycophancy Engines, which make mathematics into a casino vacation. Just one more prompt, bro. Just one more prompt.
My less generous statement: Knuth is almost 90 years old. Sure, age doesn’t imply a person will become a doddering fool, but people do tend to slow down, to have less energy and more need to spend it managing their health. “Thinking about a problem for a few weeks” counts for less in a situation like that.
My extremely ungenerous statement: Hey, remember when Michael Atiyah claimed to have proved the Riemann hypothesis in 2018? And the community reaction was a pained, “Atiyah is one of the great mathematicians… of the 20th century.”
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
9·11 天前I know I’ve said somewhere on here before that “Harry Potter for pop science nerds” is fanfiction on easy mode, but I’ll stand by it.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
8·12 天前You can’t build a fandom full of that many fucked-up people without some of them getting horny in a fucked-up way.
Edit to add: example of a non-erotic fanfic https://archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Get your war on: AI chatbots in the kill chainEnglish
3·12 天前That header pic sure takes me back
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th March 2026English
11·12 天前Felicitations!
(“A job,” Blake thinks. “I need to find one of those.”)
blakestacey@awful.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•LessWronger wants AI safety to focus more on "controversial beliefs"English
34·18 天前From the replies:
But every man under the age of 30 that I’ve ever met at Lighthaven, that I’ve had the opportunity to speak with privately, has completely and totally integrated IQ differences into their ontology.
The entirety of Lighthaven needs locker insertion
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026English
5·20 天前I would also not put my finger on those microscope slides
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026English
5·23 天前womp, and wait for it, womp
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026English
9·23 天前Do you want Tylers Durden? Because this is how you get Tylers Durden.
blakestacey@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and overEnglish
21·23 天前Train your chatbot on TV Tropes, and the password will always be swordfish.


This is like reading Yud mumbling about “Shoggoths”. It’s giving knight errant, organ-meat eater, Byronic hero, Haplogroup Rlb.