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- on OpenAI hacked Medicare portal, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18h ago
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on Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
An American investment firm bought Arnott’s and the quality of their products dropped significantly. They also went from $2 a pack to $8 in like 5 years while a pack went from 12 biscuits to 7 in the same sized package, and the chocolate is shit now.
Like everything, they used to be amazing, then rich Americans stepped in.
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on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026
Google already knows. They just don’t have a reason to check usually.
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on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Exactly. Sounds like your boss just asked the ai for a program that does team tracking and this is what it gave him. No understanding of how or why, and all pretense of best practices is out the window.
Meanwhile ask anyone with a basic understanding of software and programming and they’d be able to whip something basic up that works and isn’t difficult to use. And if there’s an issue, they’ll know how to fix it or make changes if boss doesn’t like something about it. Meanwhile your boss will probably defend his clunky slop to the grave, because he made it and calling it out is a personal attack on him.
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on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
I think my issue with the vibe coding trend is that it’s made programming too accessible. Not that that’s a bad thing, but that people without the fundamentals are selling what look to be complete projects. AI could eventually get so good at programming that it’s indistinguishable from a human’s but without an understanding of why it’s doing things, the people vibe coding have no real way of offering support, fixing bugs, or making updates to keep the program working as software updates.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a programmer, just a 3D artist. I did half a computer science degree before dropping out lol. My partner is a software engineer and uses AI to help on occasion. But he knows when the ai has made a mistake, or when to use specific code snippets and how to edit them if the result isn’t perfect. He’s said it helps speed things up and give him a base to work from. People with no coding experience that are letting the ai do everything get something akin to garbled text or extra fingers that the image generators produce. It’s just never 100% what you’re trying to get, and they settle for close enough because they have no idea how to fix it.
I’ve made the mistake of trying out a few vibe coded projects (without knowing they were at first) and there’s almost always a problem with it that an experienced programmer wouldn’t have made. Like the mouse is somehow not clicking the right spot, or the UI is difficult to navigate/operate. And the issue I pointed out in my first comment, it breaks when you try and use it on any new update and they don’t plan on offering any support. They wouldn’t know where to begin to update it without getting the ai to just remake it from scratch with a different prompt.
I think my lack of programming experience combined with the bit of schooling I got in the subject is what’s giving me this perspective. I know for a fact that if I got an ai to write an entire program for me that I wouldn’t know how to make any changes or updates. I would just have to keep prompting it until I got something that was good enough. If someone asked me for help with it I’d have no answer. And people are asking money for stuff written like that without disclosing the fact that it’s basically unsupported.
I’ve also seen open source projects begging people to stop submitting vibe coded shit, because it’s completely flooded them with crap that’s broken or not up to standard and actual programmers are drowned out which is essentially killing open source.
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on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
The amount of posts in r/blender titled “I made an add-on that…” Then you look inside and it’s slop. Works on one specific version of blender and the creator has no intention of figuring out how to update it to keep it working, making it completely unviable to add to my workflow even if they weren’t trying to charge money.
Also most of them are like the one I saw literally yesterday “quickly turn an image into a 3D mesh!”. They downvote me when I reply “you can already do this with imported images. right click → convert to mesh” and reply to me with crap like “but now you can do it with one click, and the result is better!” when it genuinely isn’t.
Slop is fucking everywhere these days.
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
And an apartheid era emerald mine
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
And Grindr
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on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I see it used mostly for manually painted 3D scenes - where the artist has textured the objects with brush strokes, or a procedural shader setup that makes it look like they’ve been painted.
Random example from the internet:
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on New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
My sister managed to get her bank account emptied by scammers. She gave them the 2fa code to log in 🤦♂️ like how dumb can you be. (Rhetorical question tbh, she’s an idiot lmao)
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on New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
It has been stolen.
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on New website lets drivers check whether their license plate has been searched on Flock database - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
I’ve invented a credit card fraud checker. Just reply to my comment with your credit card number and I’ll let you know if it’s been stolen.
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on AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Yep. Etsy stopped caring completely when they realised how much revenue drop shippers were bringing in. There was no way I could compete with silver plated copper from China with personalised engraving for $15 when the chains took 8+ hours to make and were made with pure silver. This was back when silver was $30/ounce. Now it’s $91. And the chains were 2-3 ounces by the time I was done.
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on Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Some cats are psycho about food. Mine definitely, and screams at me for hours a day even though he knows when feeding time is and he still has food from breakfast. People recommend an automatic feeder because the cat stops associating the person with feeding time and bothers the feeder instead. I haven’t tried it yet, but it makes sense to me and would probably work on the fat cunt
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on AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I used to make fine silver chains by hand and sell them on Etsy, and did quite well with it. Then it got flooded with drop shippers despite that being against terms of service. But you could see the biggest and most successful jewellery sellers all had identical products and if you search their product titles on Ali express or Temu it was the first result. I went from 5-10 sales which was a couple grand a month to zero the instant they stopped policing it.
I can only imagine how bad it is now with ai. I tried to browse Etsy for something recently and there was literally pages of ai slop. I don’t think I saw a single real product.
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on Nothing wrong with that in c/animemes@ani.social · 8 Aug 2026
Ash is the only one living in the modern world.
Wow he’sdisappointed. They fucking accessed government medical data illegally. And he’s disappointed. Exactly the milqeutoast response I expected from this useless pm.
Press some fucking charges. Fine them enough that they never do it again. Ban them and their product from the country. Fucking anything. Having a meeting with the guy and telling him to do better or pathetic. And exactly the reason I’ve never voted for Labor. And exactly the reason the racist cunts in one nation are gaining momentum even though they’re clearly not a viable party.