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@merospit they're literally bragging total tokens. e.g.
"We processed over 100 trillion tokens this quarter, up 5X year-over-year – including a record 50 trillion tokens last month alone." - Satya Nadella, MSFT earnings call.
like. the *fuck* is this a sensible measure of
for what purpose is this supposed to be commensurable
@merospit it's the most pseudo measurement I've seen in a while
like Goodhart except they went straight to starting with a bad measure
I suppose i would have to find who first put this forward as a number
then explaining why it's just stupid
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The VCs are now talking up the number-go-up of AI "tokens". They make graphs of this shit. Big number! We processed 50x the tokens!
I know what a token is. But the fuck does this mean in sensible? Anyone know?
(it sounds like counting search engines in stems or s/t. ridiculous.)
remember that Creative Commons has fallen for NFT and shitcoin grifts before, when they let Filecoin bribe them into NFT land
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/11/26/creative-commons-is-shilling-nfts/
and EFF was crawling up coiners' arses at the same time too, reminding us that these are Silicon Valley libertarian organisations that are extremely into the corporate funding
here is some past fuckery
https://creativecommons.org/2024/07/24/preferencesignals/
> Generatve AI is here to stay
much neutral very CC wow
and more recently, for the present fuckery:
https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/
> A clear message emerged: many creators and communities feel uneasy about their content being used to develop AI without transparency and are seeking ways to regain agency. Our community has called on us to intervene with new tools that help rebalance power, ultimately infusing the AI ecosystem with reciprocity.
I am going to say straight up that whoever at CC wrote that last sentence was just fucking lying and nobody called upon them for any such AI bullshit.
who with a *name* who we can ask *questions* is asking for this?
so who the fuck at Creative Commons is pushing the AI bullshit this month
(i've just been through the site seeing how they set up for this present fuckery, want to know more of the story)
@rk @memeticist he was posting literal Nazi propaganda talking points from WWII to a technical list, like how nazi do you need him to be
Xlibre claims it will keep X11 alive
turns out to be run by a huge asshole who can't code
huge asshole turns out to be literal Nazi
X11 fans blame Red Hat
gonna vibe code me an urbit
"more feudal"
Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-a99uPwAOM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
@ambiguous_yelp didn't Simplex implement part of the Signal protocol but stripping some encryption features for no coherent reason?
the trouble with fashtech is this tendency to take something that is almost just right then put a control mechanism in, and this is yet another example
Matrix is open source company chat aaand it's no longer a viable alternative
"the fact that Matrix was accompanied by a for-profit entity, funded by venture capital was the biggest mistake that Matrix as a project has ever made."
front page of site is all defense sales
ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=889fSJTRZlg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
i just put on some light music easy listening and the kid came upstairs to ask me to kindly turn that fucking racket off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtdDU1tdoFU booooooooo
lol holy shit, Wordpress plugin repo forked under Linux Foundation