new blog post: a couple thoughts about discord and age verification https://gameboat.org/a-couple-thoughts-about-discord-and-age-verification/
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a blog post about the "resonant computing" """manifesto""" https://gameboat.bearblog.dev/the-resonant-computing-manifesto/
another mildly silly article about AI disinformation, but at least this one gives you something to think about https://gameboat.org/2025/04/17/another-mildly-silly-article-about-ai-disinformation-but-at-least-this-one-gives-you-something-to-think-about/
another mildly silly article about AI disinformation, but at least this one gives you something to think about
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/17/llm-poisoning-grooming-chatbots-russia (or https://archive.ph/seDGw if you don't have a washington post subscription) some ones to grow on we have been hearing for the past fifteen (twenty? twenty-five? more?) years about the problems of believing what you read on the internet. in the final analysis, what the AI industry has done for us is create a person-shaped [...]
made another blog post today, about that one Google ad and false cheese facts https://gameboat.org/2025/02/06/if-truth-be-told-cheese-ai-and-internet-economics/
“if truth be told”: cheese, AI and internet economics
so today on the internet there's a lot of hay being made out of another in a long line of AI faux pas by Google, where Google demonstrates the power of artificial intelligence to automatically generate factually incorrect marketing copy on your electronic cheesemonger storefront. sorry for linking the New York Post as the source [...]
unrelated, today I made a blog post about the perils of having AI chatbots tell people the news and the perils of having startups be the judge of disinformation: https://gameboat.org/2025/01/29/disinformation-deepseek-and-you/
disinformation, deepseek, and you
there's a story at the top of Reuters's web site right now that I think demonstrates a really vivid microcosm of the fucking miserable incentive structure on the contemporary internet for actually teaching people anything true, revelatory, or useful about the world. DeepSeek's chatbot achieves 17% accuracy, trails Western rivals in NewsGuard audit https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseeks-chatbot-achieves-17-accuracy-trails-western-rivals-newsguard-audit-2025-01-29/ the [...]
hey there. I'm trying to stay mostly off social media until I have a job again but at this point it's been almost four months and I have precious few leads. if you know any mid-level engineering positions you can recommend me for, I would appreciate referrals: https://gameboat.org/resume/
resume
also available as a PDF, edited down to one page. Colin Bayer e-mail: [email protected] contact information available upon request employment experience anti software software club, remotecofounder, 9/2019–12/2024 (available for employment 10/1/2024) Developed and operated cohost.org, a subscription-funded, long-form social media site with ~200,000 lifetime users, through the whole product cycle from corporate formation to wind-down. [...]
Rolling StoneWhen far-left activist Michael Reinoehl was shot dead by law enforcement Trump infamously cheered his death as “retribution.”
Reinoehl’s estate is now suing, alleging that the 48-year-old father of two was killed in a “sudden and unprovoked attack.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/michael-reinoehl-antifa-portland-shooting-lawsuit-1234787573/
the ultimate irony of "AI alignment" as the AI industry defines it is that intentionally undermining the livelihoods of tens of millions of people in the short term is actually Good and For The Benefit Of Humanity
🟡 SCOOP: OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete, @[email protected] and @[email protected] report in Semafor Technology https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2023/openai-has-hired-an-army-of-contractors-to-make-basic-coding-obsolete
holy fucking bingle, batman :3
(in case you're unfamiliar, shen yun is a propaganda arm of falun gong, which sinks an absolute shitload of money into the US republican party, and holds among its tenets "every race has its own heaven, so biracial people are going to hell" and "homosexuality is a mortal sin")