Previously on awful

Haven’t seen this guy in a while but its very funny how an AI doomer channel has a lot of very obviously AI generated thumbnails

The banks are having an AI problem

” These are generally situations when an agent or AI assistant accesses a human’s account with the user’s permission and login credentials. Even if permitted by the user, this goes against the guidelines of most banks requiring that humans log in to their own accounts.”

”In other instances, some banks have tracked activity when agents — programmed to fulfill requests or complete tasks on a user’s behalf — contact call centers or appear to take actions independent of user instructions, the people said.”

I’m no finances guy so take this with a grain of salt, but since boosters are apparently acting like the convertibles will automatically work out, wouldn’t Anthropic still be losing more than they earn even if all those convertible notes work out due to compute/training costs? Since they got a discount from Elon earlier. Plus the BetterOffline post pointed out how they can’t even break even on an operating basis

So quite a few websites went offline yesterday due to bugs found in PHP LLMs ‘found’ the bugs (which were actually known about for decades but no one reached a consensus on how to fix it)

Someone in the comments of this review also said that AI is on track to master…metabolism. somehow

It’s true that there’s more to success than intelligence. There’s also sensors, actuators and metabolism. However, machines look set to master those too.

r/BetterOffline post about the article

Brief comment snippet:

A convertible note is a loan from an investor, but instead of paying them back with cash you give them stock options. It’s still a loss, you’re taking cash from an investor because you can’t break even with revenue.

To single out a specific review

For example, they describe trees as “self-replicating factories that spin air into wood” and conclude that “any intelligence capable of comprehending biochemistry at the deepest level is capable of building its own self-replicating factories to serve its own purposes.”

So an AI could self replicate…because a tree can?? not all trees even self-replicate so the metaphor isn’t even right

Found a cluster of negative reviews for Yud’s book Scott Alexander’s review managed to land on the list somehow

I first learned of it through a comment under a Yudkowsky interview, comparing his messages to the book’s, which is not exactly confidence inspiring

I definitely reeks of conspiracy theory, per this description Edit 2: and the way it talks about the decline in birth rates is also setting off red flags

Two ‘its not x, its y’ statements in close proximity also raise my ‘ai generated’ suspicions

Stumbled upon this book today the author is apparently fake as per this article (I did my own search and didn’t find anything)

There’s a youtube video (edit:podcast) on it that I’ll watch later

The pumpkin spice maximiser

AI will make free ice cream for everyone

I believe so

Also, ‘it’ll be Good beyond our wildest imagination’ is just the vaguest thing ever. ‘yeah bro AI is gonna make everything super good. How? Why? uhhh i dont know it just will’

Ah yes ‘only these two things are possible, dont consider any other outcome’ truly rational thought

They’re also incredibly horny about creating conscious digital slaves for some godforsaken reason

The y axis is also incredibly misleading-everything under 56h is squashed down so that the gap looks bigger

Might as well start this off

so we all remember this graph from AI 2027 right? the graph that the whole paper relies on?

well its wrong. not just normal wrong, it’s ‘the authors literally disowned it’ wrong

(ignore the claude mythos purple x i took this from a reddit screenshot) but they completely changed their predictions in december 2025, several months after the original paper was published