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New comment by rashar in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

rashar — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:06:19 +0000

Ads and population control by propaganda are the future of AI.

GenAI in other fields is useless and only promoted by charlatans or the financially invested.

New comment by rashar in "All the bugs they found"

rashar — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:04:01 +0000

He describes himself as "Software engineer. Writing code prompts at Google".

So throwing his own, apparently poorly written, creation under the bus will get him applause and promotions by the AI lunatics.

It is a currently popular strategy among AI boosters.

New comment by rashar in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

rashar — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:53:33 +0000

And academics have promoted all sorts of things, including cigarettes, with the proper funding.

New comment by rashar in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

rashar — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:51:16 +0000

It is very rational and standard journalistic practice to focus on academic funding provenance.

Gowers is funded by XTX markets:

https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/ai-for-math-fund

XTX markets heavily uses machine learning and disguises the influencer money as "philanthropy":

https://www.xtxmarkets.com/

But you would probably say that Magnus Carlsen's previous engagement with the Maltese gambling company Unibet and him releasing a couple of YouTube videos talking positively about poker and gambling have nothing to do with each other. Nothing at all.