Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
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open ai hacked medicare Australiaās statistics portal https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/24/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman then didnāt tell the government.
In response the australian government has in the absolute strongest terms expressed that āthis is very naughtyā and āI am very dissapointed in youā. The Australian government has also said that by way of apology they expect openai to continue doing whatever the fuck they want and theyāll modify copyright laws to enable piracy when rich people do it.
Somebody wake me from this nightmare, Iām gonna fedpost
Seems like another case of āwe asked an AI to get the answers for this task, so it hacked something to find said answersā
Too anthropomorphised.
We ran software that generates code associated with a particular task, in an environment that executes that code and can feed itās outputs back into the software. We configured the environment to be open to the net at large, and ran the software with no oversight and without adequate security to prevent the running of malicious code.
This isnāt some sinister electric god with no morals, itās strapping circular saws to a roomba and setting it loose in a shopping centre.
Thereās even more, actually
The dude who hacked Rockstar Games got sentenced to prison for life, yet OpenAI can hack so much more and get off scott free