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Remember Crazy Taxi? Its back, infected with AI slop!

(I saw the massive wave of hype that game’s announcement unleashed, and its almost impressive how Sega wiped out every last bit of it with AI.)

Found a fun sneer at AI anthromoporphisation in the arXiv: If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

Oops! All Claude

Before, the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system. AI changes this.

Martin Scorsese’s jumped on the AI train, seemingly believing the plagiarism machine can help with storyboarding.

Obligatory meme (yoinked off Discord’s GIF search, AI extruded itself, ironically enough):

Before AI, the user was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system. Now, that has completely changed.

Roko’s Basilisk and other such batshit rat shit was mainstreamed as part of inflating the AI bubble - I doubt this will be the last time something like this gets referenced.

edit: the in-game painting looks hella AI generated too.

Seems pretty fitting to an illustration made in reverence to Roko’s Bullshittery. I don’t notice any obvious signs of slop-machine generation - either I’m shit at spotting slop, or this was made by human hands.

Amnesty International has officially called for an outright ban on gen-AI

At this rate, Adobe Flash is gonna come back into relevance by being one of the few things not slopified into uselessness

(it almost certainly won’t, but I find it oddly hard to rule out the possibility)

rsync

Huh, haven’t heard of that before, lemme go check its Wikipedia page and-

rsync (remote sync) is a utility for transferring and synchronizing files between a computer and a storage drive and across networked computers

Okay this sounds very fucking bad

I switched to DuckDuckGo like a goddamn hipster years ago, nice to know I dodged a fucking artillery shell

New(ish) Baldur Bjarnason - a fairly politically charged one at that, going into the US hegemony powering the current tech industry (and the AI bubble by extension), and how the Hormuz crisis is all-but guaranteed to topple the whole thing.

AI is bad at everything, part infinity: AI transcription whitewashes 18th-century documents

In more positive news, the Slopfree Software Index recently hit 100 stars.

Same energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjREyGgR2yg

🎶 We’re doing a sequel, we’re back by popular demand…

(Muppets: Most Wanted was fun, I should rewatch that)

PS3 emulator RPCS3 has put up some guardrails against slopcode, and responded to the AI bro shitfits by sneering them:

Bonus response:

Google is forcibly installing Gemini Nano onto every Chrome installation without the user’s knowledge, and actively re-installing it if the user deletes it. Probably an attempt to juice the numbers.

(h/t Matt Roszak)

New blog from Iris Meredith: Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox

Based off her own unusually good experience with Claude, the general thrust is about sneerers being better-equipped to use AI than boosters.