Bobeto
@bobeto.bsky.social
Erstwhile football fan, part-time rugby follower, twitter escapee, devotee of Hanlon's Razor
We're 5-8 years and *tens of billions of dollars* into the current "AI era". I googled this because the phrase "yer gettin' battered" was stuck in my head and I wanted to re-watch that video. A simple search, yet the AI Overview somehow got almost every aspect of this wrong. It's staggeringly shit.
September 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We're 5-8 years and *tens of billions of dollars* into the current "AI era". I googled this because the phrase "yer gettin' battered" was stuck in my head and I wanted to re-watch that video. A simple search, yet the AI Overview somehow got almost every aspect of this wrong. It's staggeringly shit.
Yeah, I think Wirecutter product testers should be doing political reporting too. FWIW, the top story on the NYT homepage is about how the latest jobs figures show Trump is living in an alternate reality.
September 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Yeah, I think Wirecutter product testers should be doing political reporting too. FWIW, the top story on the NYT homepage is about how the latest jobs figures show Trump is living in an alternate reality.
All of this MJ article on Epstein's black book is great, but this line especially has been seared into my head since I read it. You see it *everywhere*, notably the stupid AI boom with journalists writing fan fiction on stuff AI will do because number must go up.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
All of this MJ article on Epstein's black book is great, but this line especially has been seared into my head since I read it. You see it *everywhere*, notably the stupid AI boom with journalists writing fan fiction on stuff AI will do because number must go up.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It bears repeating - if AI is so good, why are the ads around AI for things no-one could possibly care about. You can make your own Emojis. Wow. LIFE-ALTERING. The only ones worse than this are the diary planners whose first step is 'do a mountain of data entry'.
August 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It bears repeating - if AI is so good, why are the ads around AI for things no-one could possibly care about. You can make your own Emojis. Wow. LIFE-ALTERING. The only ones worse than this are the diary planners whose first step is 'do a mountain of data entry'.
Back to EH Carr, and a later part of that quote on writing. AI devices are output machines (less charitably, Bullshit Machines, per Hicks, Humphries, Slater from the University of Glasgow). Input = output, ideally *exactly* what the input requested. But this isn't smart thinking, as Carr explains.
June 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Back to EH Carr, and a later part of that quote on writing. AI devices are output machines (less charitably, Bullshit Machines, per Hicks, Humphries, Slater from the University of Glasgow). Input = output, ideally *exactly* what the input requested. But this isn't smart thinking, as Carr explains.
#BobetoRantsAboutAI, part 2 in an occasional series. I'm a devotee of EH Carr, and 'What is History' was for a long time my personal bible. I still remember the first time, in my late teens, I read this passage about what for Carr was the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing:
June 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#BobetoRantsAboutAI, part 2 in an occasional series. I'm a devotee of EH Carr, and 'What is History' was for a long time my personal bible. I still remember the first time, in my late teens, I read this passage about what for Carr was the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing:
One of his kids came out as trans. His factories had to close during covid. So he torched his entire brand. Good job big fella.
May 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
One of his kids came out as trans. His factories had to close during covid. So he torched his entire brand. Good job big fella.
Random posts of stuff I liked on Twitter...
December 18, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Random posts of stuff I liked on Twitter...
@montereyaq.bsky.social hello! Can you re-post this on this site? It's one of my all time favourite tweets and now that I'm binning twitter I'd like to have it here to occasionally stare/chuckle at (will come see if should I ever find myself in CA, essentially on the strength of this tweet alone)
December 18, 2023 at 10:26 PM
@montereyaq.bsky.social hello! Can you re-post this on this site? It's one of my all time favourite tweets and now that I'm binning twitter I'd like to have it here to occasionally stare/chuckle at (will come see if should I ever find myself in CA, essentially on the strength of this tweet alone)
Actually lolling at the UI here.
October 16, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Actually lolling at the UI here.