Tootfinder

We are so fucking doomed. The people with the real money are fulfilling their own paranoid fantasies: they’ve become servants of AGI: Artificial Generalized Imbecility. And the people with the skills and credentials to call them on it just don’t. https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/114

Mark Newton (@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net)
Attached: 1 image An advertising company uses a bullshit machine to pretend to be a climate engineer, hilarity ensues. “Meta’s AI climate tool raised false hope of CO2 removal, scientists say” https://www.ft.com/content/69220fea-9c9a-4f55-9118-65d2660c85d4 ping @davidgerard@circumstances.run Maybe for our next trick we can ask a car manufacturing company how to grow tulips. It’d make the same amount of sense as asking Meta how to remove atmospheric CO2.

«The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, plans to fire 10,000 civil servants by the end of this parliament, 2029 at latest. Reeves told the BBC that “advances in technology and artificial intelligence” would surely make this possible, let alone sensible»
LOL, the UK's civil services are already crumbling as is, between lack of staff and corruption. But surely the firing people and replacing them with "AI" will fix that.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/30/the-uk-will-totally-replace-two-thirds-of-junior-civil-servants-with-ai-chatbots-says-the-chatbot/

@… In my mind, there are librarians, accountants/bookkeepers, civil servants, small shop owners, conveyancers and other low-stakes solicitors, farmers, town planners… most of the people I have met who fit these job descriptions tend to work slowly, methodically, and well.
I actually think most programmers and other software professionals work slowly…