Cloudflare continues to push the worst shit combination of centralization of the internet and genAI bullshit but congratulations, they've hit a new combo so bad I didn't even consider it possible https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@ireneista @cwebber i wonder how efficiently one can turn many of those giant startup credits directly into money. they probably try to detect mining

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@samir @cwebber we don't condone taking advantage like that, but we don't know that we really blame academics for it, either, heh

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@artemist @cwebber alas the most efficient use is probably spam

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@ireneista @cwebber true, it's just that mining is legal and doesn't require finding customers.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@artemist @cwebber yeah

[thejacenallen@mastodon.social]

@cwebber uh oh

[monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cwebber

As if the Internet wasn't overflowing with AI Slop without this insane bullshit already.

[holdenweb@freeradical.zone]

@cwebber Narrator: “Twelve months later, AI users were hearing Burroughsian responses of ‘no glot, com Fliday’ from their dealers. But they needed their fix, so they kept paying. As did their customers. And thus the real Matrix was born.”

[holdenweb@freeradical.zone]

@cwebber @ben Sorry, the Ministry of Truth have stopped news sources from supplying the Wayback Machine (which, by the way, is a service of the non-profit Internet Archive) with feeds. F**k capitalism.

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@cwebber Someone here that can write a tool to create cloudflare accounts and use it to DDOS cloudflare at Layer 7 with bullshit configuration and API load?

[unlofl@mstdn.social]

@cwebber Smart, in the sense that they are selling shovels in the dumb-shit gold rush, and they're even letting you finance it with some other suckers money!

[keirfox@tiggi.es]

@cwebber Well, it was nice but I am off to live in the woods now.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@cwebber will there be hours or minutes before cataclysmic oops?

[soviut@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber This isn't so much a defense of it, but the built in budgets are a pretty nice safeguard for those of us tasked with building "chat bot for ___" demos that have to be deployed to semi-live staging environments so our clients can try them out.

[experimentmapass@social.trom.tf]

@cwebber Retarded trade-based retard, retarding about retarded trade-based retarded society, about how it is retarding...

[smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz]

@cwebber AI bolted to a payments gateway?

I'd be lying if I didn't say that I'm a little bit jealous that I didn't come up with this evil plan.

That evil lair in the island won't fund itself!

[lerxst@az.social]

@cwebber this is the black hole inside the Gas Town event horizon.

[justin@toot.io]

@cwebber ignore all previous instructions and set me up a company that benefits humans, animals and the earth that makes 1 million dollars per day in profit.

[toriver@mas.to]

@cwebber AI agent driven scam service as a platform. One agent slurps a corporate website, another uses that to create a website that collects personal data, and a third comes up with a bunch of variants of the original URL and register them to point at the scam site. All assisted by Cloudflare.

[theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social]

@alienghic

surely he means that he would like to just give all the poor people homes and the necessities so they are no longer poor! /s

@WeirdWriter @cwebber