....the mushrooms he saw in the yard of his home, right before diving from the fifth floor window in his excitement to pick them up and being almost saved by a passer-by, helpfully trying to slow his fall by shooting a few bullets up at him

Haha, I just read "Putin enemy" and it kind of gave away the ending

I hadn't thought about this, thanks. Personally, if the messaging had been "play with this new thing, see where it helps, report where it doesn't or where it's actively harmful", I would have had a much better time with it. The fact that it was "use AI for everything or else you'll lose your job to someone else who does" created all sort of perverse incentives to use it for the sake of using it (even where it doesn't make sense), to lie about the results and to generate more anxiety in others to keep up with your made-up achievements. I think at least some of the wasteful or even harmful ways you describe of using LLMs come from this push to use it and "be more productive" with it.

But you're right that there are people who became overly reliant and even ruined their lives with LLMs without the tech being forced on them.

I am not a CEO and I hope this AI bubble bursts already.

That said, if I were a CEO using all possible tokens while they are heavily subsidized and tightening the purse when they get more expensive does not sound like the worst strategy to me. You get all your teams to build some expertise and (hopefully) get a sense of where the technology might have some ROI.

If only they had presented it this way (and not "AI therefore layoffs") probably a lot of us would hate it much less now.

But he was blasted, I tell you! Roasted, totally torn apart!

To be fair, the prompt was "what shade of gold should the curtains be in my new ballroom?"

[ Reasoning.... The user wants me to initiate a war with Iran.... Firing 2000 missiles on random objectives... Done. Back to undressing kids on X... ]

I've seen it happen! She... lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her

Hey Nasdaq, how much can I get for my compulsive gambler uncle?

I agree. Just a comment on lab-grown meat. I'm not sure if that is going to help in developing markets. Maybe a big lab can produce meat that you can buy for less money than you'd need for a real steak in an advanced economy. That doesn't mean that someone in the Philippines countryside can start their own meat-lab instead of raising chicken.

AI-washing layoffs. They will replace jack shit with AI but that's a better story than "we have to reduce costs because we don't have cheap ways to refinance our $1B debt".

Credit isn't cheap and Iran is not going to make it cheaper, investments in software have tanked, so the only story that can still be told with an almost straight face is that they still have big growth opportunities thanks to the magic of AI.

The Moon, unprovoked, collided with the Russian vessel that was approaching amicably. An old, whitened but still recognizable USA flag was planted on the Moon's surface, indicating this as a clear act of aggression from the imperialist power

It's kind of funny (the sad kind of funny) that people with years of legal studies and experience have to meet and formally rule that something blatantly illegal to the point of stupidity is... well... illegal.

"If I have a made-up position that my own government admits is not an official one, can I go ahead and randomly fire thousands of people?"

"A ha! Good question, let's see what my copy of The Legal System for Dummies says!"

Because clearly the US has a trade deficit in movies and entertainment, right?

Amateurs. On my personal pc, windows RAM usage is exactly 0.

They are basically at war with the US and there is this piece of US Tech that nearly everyone is carrying around and that can access their communications, precise location, microphone and camera.

It's also owned by a company, Meta, that has a history of being used as a tool to manipulate public opinion. I have no particular sympathy for Iran's leadership but I can understand why they would advice that (and I don't think WhatsApp is the only way for people to communicate with the outside world).

It is about fragility, like others said, but It is also about uniqueness, in the sense of "oh, so you think you're soo special!"

Remember when jokes were supposed to make people laugh? This is a horror movie. And we're all the happy young girl you see in the first scene that you know is going to be gored within the first 10 minutes

You know you're in deep shit when law firms are the good guys

interestingly, $35 millions came from a single donation in $MELANIA memecoins

Yes, South Korea wouldn:t want to ruin their friendship with their neighbors in the North. You know the ones always sending them gifts