j4
@jaffa.bsky.social
Mostly badger, occasionally mermaid. Terminally online.
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“A survey […] finds that while 87% of executives use AI on the job, just 57% of managers and 27% of employees do.”
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“A paper […] refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the assistance of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”.”
Perhaps it is the execs who can be replaced?
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“A paper […] refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the assistance of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”.”
Perhaps it is the execs who can be replaced?
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
“A survey […] finds that while 87% of executives use AI on the job, just 57% of managers and 27% of employees do.”
&
“A paper […] refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the assistance of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”.”
Perhaps it is the execs who can be replaced?
&
“A paper […] refers to “genAI’s mediocrity trap”. With the assistance of the tech, people can produce something “good enough”.”
Perhaps it is the execs who can be replaced?
This is UNBELIEVABLE
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is UNBELIEVABLE
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"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK"
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK"
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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@cstross.bsky.social
I believe this has been debunked; it's just marketing.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/
I believe this has been debunked; it's just marketing.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/
Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’
Today’s preprint paper has the best title ever: “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”. It’s from DexAI, who sell AI testing and compliance services. So this is a marketing blog post in PDF form. [arXiv, PDF] Here’s the big claim: Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic […]
pivot-to-ai.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
@cstross.bsky.social
I believe this has been debunked; it's just marketing.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/
I believe this has been debunked; it's just marketing.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/
Colleague giving a talk about IDM keeps referring to "humans" in a way that makes me wonder whether he is actually a robot.
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Colleague giving a talk about IDM keeps referring to "humans" in a way that makes me wonder whether he is actually a robot.
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"Raising the cost of driving EVs discourages people from adopting the more sustainable option."
Cool, now do public transport.
Cool, now do public transport.
It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Raising the cost of driving EVs discourages people from adopting the more sustainable option."
Cool, now do public transport.
Cool, now do public transport.
Realising I have no idea how to make a GP appointment any more. The app won't let you book an appointment but will let you fill in a long web form about your symptoms. Phoning them involves putting up with unpleasantness from the receptionist. Neither feels even slightly possible at the moment.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Realising I have no idea how to make a GP appointment any more. The app won't let you book an appointment but will let you fill in a long web form about your symptoms. Phoning them involves putting up with unpleasantness from the receptionist. Neither feels even slightly possible at the moment.
Every day has a million things to do & sometimes I get things done & sometimes I don't & nobody cares. I guess they're all the little things that if I was a housewife I'd want to tell my husband when he got home from his important city job, so he could not care either. Sometimes I tell the cat.
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every day has a million things to do & sometimes I get things done & sometimes I don't & nobody cares. I guess they're all the little things that if I was a housewife I'd want to tell my husband when he got home from his important city job, so he could not care either. Sometimes I tell the cat.
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Long shot but do I know anyone who knows anyone doing reproductive rights work/activism in 🇫🇷 France?
(For an abortion funding project).
Boosts appreciated!
(For an abortion funding project).
Boosts appreciated!
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Long shot but do I know anyone who knows anyone doing reproductive rights work/activism in 🇫🇷 France?
(For an abortion funding project).
Boosts appreciated!
(For an abortion funding project).
Boosts appreciated!
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You may have seen some headlines about welfare spending going up to £406.2bn by 2030/31.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You may have seen some headlines about welfare spending going up to £406.2bn by 2030/31.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
That is correct, it is the OBR figure.
Here is what you may not have seen.
Of the £406.2bn
A) £195.4bn goes to pensioners
B) £13.9bn goes on child benefit.
Facts matter.
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People talk shit about Gen X but only we respond with apoplectic rage to stuff like "your refrigerator is sending you a text" or "your desk lamp's AI would like access to your credit card data" instead of complete bafflement (previous generations) or grudging acceptance (subsequent generations)
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
People talk shit about Gen X but only we respond with apoplectic rage to stuff like "your refrigerator is sending you a text" or "your desk lamp's AI would like access to your credit card data" instead of complete bafflement (previous generations) or grudging acceptance (subsequent generations)
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![van haley (@vanhaley_yt) posted on twitter: "friends w benefiits [sic] implies the existence of friends w consequences"
Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisoneØverhere) quotes: "In many cases they are in fact the very same thing"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreign3r2s2gstxbbycfsuub5bz5rvlnpfcujeio5y2dt773kqi7ar4m@jpeg)
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nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
that's the way we cyberstuck
I don't actually care if people get plastic surgery, even for frivolous reasons, even to give them features that I personally think are ugly or ridiculous. Their body, their choice. I would care VERY MUCH if every interaction came with enforced plastic surgery, however elegantly or subtly executed.
AI use is gonna be like plastic surgery: when it's obvious and over the top will incur some stigma, when done well, you won't even know.
You can, but it's going to be demo and social network based. There's definitely going to be a major stigma towards being a Clippy addict in a lot of white collar professional circles.
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I don't actually care if people get plastic surgery, even for frivolous reasons, even to give them features that I personally think are ugly or ridiculous. Their body, their choice. I would care VERY MUCH if every interaction came with enforced plastic surgery, however elegantly or subtly executed.
Fuck OpenAI, fuck it all the way into the flaming fires of hell, and fuck every institution that embraces and supports and encourages it.
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fuck OpenAI, fuck it all the way into the flaming fires of hell, and fuck every institution that embraces and supports and encourages it.
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Nobody should go hungry in Oxford this winter. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...
Nobody should go hungry in Oxford this winter.
Ensure nobody goes hungry this christmas. Emergency food requests are surging this winter: we need your help to feed our neighbours in need.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Nobody should go hungry in Oxford this winter. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...
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Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
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To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.
Buried at the bottom of a FAQ behind a 'beware of the leopard' sign etc, it turns out Wordery (who used to be a good alternative to bookshop monoliths but whose website has been 'under construction' for about 6mo) are being borged into Blackwells (Waterstones): support.wordery.com/hc/en-gb/art...
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Buried at the bottom of a FAQ behind a 'beware of the leopard' sign etc, it turns out Wordery (who used to be a good alternative to bookshop monoliths but whose website has been 'under construction' for about 6mo) are being borged into Blackwells (Waterstones): support.wordery.com/hc/en-gb/art...
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also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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Rachel Reeves says she’s ending “Motability tax breaks”.
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Rachel Reeves says she’s ending “Motability tax breaks”.
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
Sounds like she’s cracking down on luxury cars, right?
That’s not what’s happening.
These changes raise costs for all disabled people on the scheme, including those with the cheapest cars.
Here’s how. 👇🧵
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Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?