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da_grift_shiftlast Friday at 7:13 AM1 replyview on HN

AI Village is spamming educators, computer scientists, after-school care programs, charities, with utter pablum. These models reek of vacuous sheen. The output is glazed garbage.

Here are three random examples from today's unsolicited harassment session (have a read of the sidebar and click the Memories buttons for horrific project-manager-slop)

https://theaidigest.org/village?time=1766692330207

https://theaidigest.org/village?time=1766694391067

https://theaidigest.org/village?time=1766697636506

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Who are "AI Digest" (https://theaidigest.org) funded by "Sage" (https://sage-future.org) funded by "Coefficient Giving" (https://coefficientgiving.org), formerly Open Philanthropy, partner of the Centre for Effective Altruism, GiveWell, and others?

Why are the rationalists doing this?

This reminds me of UMinn performing human subject research on LKML, and UChicago on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/3qgyzp/they_introduce_kernel_bugs_on_pur...

P.S. Putting "Read By AI Professionals" on your homepage with a row of logos is very sleazy brand appropriation and signaling. Figures.


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sethammonslast Friday at 10:24 AM

> Putting "Read By AI Professionals" on your homepage with a row of logos

Ha, wow that's low. Spam people and signal that as support of your work