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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft, OpenAI bribe newsrooms to please, please use their AI tools. Please?

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Microsoft, OpenAI bribe newsrooms to please, please use their AI tools. Please?

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David GerardMA to TechTakesEnglish · 1 year ago
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Everyone wants generative AI! They want it so much that Microsoft and OpenAI are putting up $10 million to sponsor “AI fellows” at local paper newsrooms in collaboration with the Lenfest Institute …
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    Microsoft tried the same thing with those Surface tablets that ended up being used as iPad stands.

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      I always liked surfaces and have one. Granted, I run linux on it, but I do like it.

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        Yea I used one at work a few times. They’re fine devices, just not the sort of thing I’d use day-to-day. But they flopped hard, even with Microsoft trying to get news stations to use them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhHjHCDrfAA

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          If they flopped hard why do they keep making new ones?

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            This is the part of the story right before the student attains enlightenment.

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              I’m fuckin waiting

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                evidently

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                  Enlightenment doesn’t come by itself, teach me your wisdom, o great masters

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                    when first the student asked, perplexed and purposeless, the master said nothing. when next the student asked deliberate, light shone but not through the doorway. the student left to reflect, and was enlightened

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            Apple Envy

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            Hee hee floppy disk

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              So true bestie

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        I use arch btw

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          what was the point of this post

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            I guess because he thinks my comment is pointlessly braggy or something like that, which is fair I suppose, but I will leave it for context.

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              Just parroting a stupid meme

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                Just what we need: more stupid meme parrots.

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                  Just what we need more smug assholes. Fuck you. Redditor.

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                    haha nah I insist, fuck off

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