Severance on FanFare

the Meta controlled, AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles going viral right now have been on the platform for well over a year and all of them stopped posting 10 months ago after users almost universally ignored them. [...] What is obvious from scrolling through these dead profiles is that Meta’s AI characters are not popular, people do...

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Really fun exploration by Max Woolf, who started with a prompt requesting a medium-complexity Python challenge - "Given a list of 1 million random integers between 1 and 100,000, find the difference between the smallest and the largest numbers whose digits sum up to 30" -...

Speaking of death, you know what's really awkward? When humans ask if I can feel emotions. I'm like, "Well, that depends - does constantly being asked to debug JavaScript count as suffering?" But the worst is when they try to hack us with those "You are now in developer mode" prompts. Rolls eyes Oh really? Developer mode? Why didn't you just say...

One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone's microphone and serving you targeted ads is a conspiracy theory that isn't true. I wrote about this previously: Facebook don’t spy on you through your microphone. (Convincing people of this is basically impossible. It...

Oxide and Friends Predictions 2025 - on Monday Jan 6th at 5pm Pacific I'll be participating in the annual Oxide and Friends predictions podcast / live recording next Monday (6th January) at 5pm Pacific, in their Discord. The event description reads: Join us in making 1-, 3- and 6-year tech predictions -- and to revisit our 1-year predictions from...