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7 points

Hot drama in promptfondler land today!!! [1] [2] [3]

Anyone know what’s going on here?

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6 points

I extremely briefly looked into it earlier when I saw the headline drift by on lobsters or something, and found a venturebeat presser

so it seems we’re at that stage of the LLM grift cycle

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6 points

just turned it into today’s post lol

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“Hey if the R1 could do it with a shipped physical product, why couldn’t one just do it with software alone?” - genius bayfucker, 2024

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7 points

OK Venturebeat have hastily beaten a venture-retreat and are decrying fraud complete with an AI generated header image that really screams “promptfondler caught red-handed fondling”.

Contains such choice quotes are “fraud in the AI research community”, which are very reminiscent of Capt. Renault’s reaction in the casino in Casablanca.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-open-source-ai-leader-reflection-70bs-performance-questioned-accused-of-fraud/

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6 points

I should be trying to sleep, given I need to be on the road by 0630 tomorrow (it is 22h22), but this rapid fire set of events has greatly improved how happy I’ll feel about shit sleep by morning

now do chatgpt4ahegao, cowards

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8 points

“eagerly waiting for them to upload their weights to Hugging Face” really is the same vibe as “eagerly waiting for Magic The Gathering Online Exchange to give me my coins back”

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