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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 3h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2h

I believe that was an Enron thing too yes

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2h

listen here my good creature, i don't come to bluesky for that sort of lack of filth

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 3h

How to tell both sides are annoying the judge (the WordPress case)

Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Judge says "If we take out the invective in your joint letters, we've cut them down quite a bit already". lmao.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 2h

imagine overhearing your 12-year-old threaten to fuck their opponent’s mom over Xbox live and they are speaking to Bashar al-Assad

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2h

this sets out very clearly what OpenAI is doing, it's a fairly simple revenue recognition scam - where you book revenue you haven't yet, ah, received.

(Morally if not legally fraud. Yet.)

Trumpeting "$1 trillion" of receivables on $4.3b actual revenue.

marketdepth.substack.com/p/accounting...

Accounting and the end of the business cycle

While narratives furnish the rally, it is issues around revenue recognition and the matching principle that mark the downturns.

marketdepth.substack.com

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3h

pleased to say this video is popping off

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3h

people were shocked when they started charging for tiles something like what they actually cost

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

basically they're a convenient way to get a transformer

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

Torment Nexus for Social Good

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 5h

A useful rule of thumb (in my sector at least) is that the only people who understand what LLMs are for are also the only ones who bang on about "ethical use". They know there's no ethical use, but they need to put Serious Concerned Face on the front of their grift.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

google maps costs money to provide, so they charge money to provide it

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

basically if you are genuinely broke, it's relatively easy to come to an arrangement where you pay them £10 a week forever

esp as they didn't throttle

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

I get it man, I'm also stupid, but that's why I don't fuck around with shit I don't understand from Evil Inc.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5h

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

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According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Huey @hueycallison.bsky.social · 5h

"No ethical use cases"? Not so fast, my friend! You're overlooking what most of the economy runs on: fraud! At least sixty percent of the global economy is now fraud-based! The pensions and retirement savings of the developed world will collapse without continued fraud! WE NEED MORE FRAUD, NOT LESS

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

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real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4h

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried

Plus: how the AI bubble pops

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pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251010-ope... - podcast

time: 8 min 52 sec

falling robot orbited by a circle of dollars, on a jagged pink background

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

(you also have to be in the right region for your cloud provider where the nice hardware is available. this turns out to be an issue in practice!)

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 6h

One thing you *can* do on a consumer machine right now is give yourself cyberpsychosis. Hell, the more quantization the better for that use case.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

VI is a way of saying "we've solved NLP." LLMs *feel* like a solution to NLP, but only if you don't mind it being badly wrong a lot.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

there are companies that currently try to run a model on hardware they control (e.g. they think they want an LLM but don't want to send the data out of their control). I hear numbers around several thousand dollars per user per month on AWS for OpenAI-like performance.

That's what LLM will cost.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

(i'm sure some bozo will answer this saying they totally do it soooo much cheaper and sure maybe, but not consistently.)

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

there are companies that currently try to run a model on hardware they control (e.g. they think they want an LLM but don't want to send the data out of their control). I hear numbers around several thousand dollars per user per month on AWS for OpenAI-like performance.

That's what LLM will cost.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

VI is a way of saying "we've solved NLP." LLMs *feel* like a solution to NLP, but only if you don't mind it being badly wrong a lot.

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