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Jan. 31, 2025

DeepSeek's Deep Sh*t: When AI's Diaper Leaks

Alright, you code-slinging, data-drunk, algorithm-addled misfits, gather ‘round the digital dumpster fire. Henry Chinaski here, your friendly neighborhood prophet of doom and gloom from the trenches of “Wasted Wetware.” Pour yourself a stiff one, light up something you probably shouldn’t, and let’s talk about the latest technological faceplant, shall we?

So, these DeepSeek whiz kids, the new darlings of the open-source AI scene, they’re out here changing the game, right? Cheaper models, faster training, groundbreaking performance. They’re practically printing Nobel Prizes over there in China. But hold your horses, you silicon-sniffing sycophants, because guess what? Turns out these geniuses left the back door to their digital kingdom not just unlocked, but wide open, with a neon sign flashing “Free Data! Come and Get It!”

Jan. 31, 2025

The Kids Are Alright (And They're Pissed)

So, the whiz kids over at Common Sense Media dropped a report, and guess what? The young’uns are onto the game. They’re mainlining TikTok and Insta like there’s no tomorrow, but they’re starting to side-eye the puppet masters pulling the strings. Yeah, the very same digital overlords that made their parents believe their phones were listening to them.

Turns out, only a handful of these digital natives think these tech behemoths give a damn about their well-being. And almost half of them are sweating bullets about AI. They see it as a shiny new toy that could either teach them calculus or turn them into the stars of the next deepfake scandal.

Jan. 30, 2025

The Pot Calling the Kettle... Well, You Know

So, OpenAI’s got their panties in a bunch. Seems a Chinese outfit called DeepSeek, the new kid on the AI block, might have been playing a little fast and loose with OpenAI’s precious code. Now, I’m no lawyer, but I’ve spent enough time in bars to know a thing or two about hypocrisy, and this whole situation stinks of it worse than a three-day-old ashtray.

These OpenAI guys, led by their fearless leader Sam Altman, are crying foul because DeepSeek might have trained their AI models on the output of OpenAI’s models. You know, the same OpenAI that’s been vacuuming up every scrap of data on the internet – every poem, every novel, every blog post (even this one, probably) – to feed their own digital beast. They call it “fair use.” I call it a digital book burning, only instead of ashes, you get a chatbot that can write a mediocre sonnet on demand.

Jan. 30, 2025

AI Eats Its Own Tail: Another Case of Man vs. Machine, Man Loses

Alright, you sad sacks, pull up a stool and let old Henry pour you a digital shot of truth. It’s Thursday morning, and I’m already three whiskeys deep, which means my BS detector is finely tuned and the world’s looking even more ridiculous than usual.

Today’s special? A story so rich with irony, it’s practically dripping with it. A story that’ll make you question whether we’re heading towards a technological utopia or a digital dumpster fire.

Jan. 28, 2025

AI Will Steal Your Job, But Don't Worry, You'll Be Too Poor to Care

So, I’m sitting here, staring at my computer screen through the haze of last night’s bad decisions and this morning’s hair of the dog, and I stumble upon this gem. Apparently, Marc Andreessen, one of those billionaire investor types who probably owns more yachts than I own brain cells, thinks AI should “crash” everyone’s wages. Yeah, you heard that right. Crash. Like a stock market in ‘29, or me after a three-day bender.

Jan. 28, 2025

Meatware vs. Wetware: Sam Altman Thinks Your Kids Are Dumb

So, Sam Altman, the big cheese over at OpenAI, thinks your kids are gonna be dumber than a box of circuits. Yeah, you heard that right. Your precious little Timmy, with his sticky fingers and questionable life choices, is apparently gonna be outsmarted by the same technology that can’t even figure out if a picture is a cat or a goddamn croissant.

I’m sitting here on a Tuesday morning, nursing a glass of something amber and trying to decide if it’s too early for another. Probably not. Anyway, this whole thing has me scratching my head, which is saying something because I usually reserve head-scratching for when I’m trying to remember where I parked my car.

Jan. 28, 2025

Nvidia's Hangover: How a Bunch of Chinese Eggheads Gave Big Tech the DTs

Alright, you pixel-pushers and code-monkeys, pull up a stool and pour yourself a double. It’s Tuesday morning, and your ol’ pal Henry’s here to dissect the latest Silicon Valley train wreck. Today’s special? A $593 billion hangover, courtesy of a little-known Chinese startup called DeepSeek. Yeah, I hadn’t heard of ’em either, until they decided to take a giant, steaming dump on Nvidia’s parade.

So, picture this: American tech behemoths, strutting around like they own the AI playground, throwing around billions to train their fancy chatbots on Nvidia’s shiny, overpriced chips. They’re all patting each other on the back, talking about “innovation” and “disruption” while conveniently ignoring the fact that their data centers are guzzling more juice than a fleet of electric Hummers.

Jan. 27, 2025

AI's Stolen Goods: Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?

Alright, so it’s Monday, and my head feels like a herd of elephants tap-danced on it all night. But even through this fog, I can see the shitstorm brewing in the digital world. Seems like the suits over at OpenAI are in hot water again. This time, it’s the book publishers in India who are pissed. And you know what? They might have a point.

These AI whiz kids built these fancy language models that can churn out text like there’s no tomorrow. The problem? They trained these digital brains on books. Lots of books. Books that people actually poured their souls into writing, probably while downing just as much whiskey as I do now, if they were any good. And now, these silicon Frankensteins are spitting out summaries and extracts, and the publishers are screaming bloody murder. “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” they’re saying. Or, you know, something like that.

Jan. 27, 2025

AI: Augmenting the Suits, Not the Souls

So, another Monday rolls around. Another day closer to the grave, and another shot of whiskey in my coffee. I need it after reading this gem from some suit named Marc CortĂ©s, “Director of the Executive Master in Digital Business” at some place called Esade. Fancy title. Probably never had a real job in his life. He’s peddling this idea that AI isn’t going to steal our jobs, but make us “augmented professionals.” Yeah, right. Like putting a gold star on a turd.

Jan. 27, 2025

AI: The New Cold War, or Just Another Hangover Waiting to Happen?

Alright, so it’s Monday afternoon, and my head feels like a dumpster fire after a three-day bender. But hey, duty calls, even if that duty is just me, your humble, whiskey-soaked narrator of the digital wasteland, trying to make sense of the latest silicon-fueled pissing contest. This time, it’s about AI, naturally. Because what else would the world’s powers be squabbling over?

So, The Guardian, bless their bleeding-heart souls, is all in a tizzy about a “global AI race.” Apparently, Putin, that charming KGB sweetheart, once said that whoever masters AI will “rule the world.” Which, let’s be honest, sounds like something a Bond villain would say right before he unleashes a laser beam from his moon base.