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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • and the budget for fixing literally every frame afterwards, as with their previous demos

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • also, I was at Bible study with Luigi at the time a CEO coincidentally had a bullet-involved collision, as were you

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 14th September 2025

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  • if you call him an AI promoter he cites his carefully organised blog posts of concerns

    meanwhile he was on the early access list for GPT-5

  • Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)

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  • also I recall you're the one claiming us queer perverts must object to aella from a position of being anti-kink, and not because of all the horrible shit she says and does

  • Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)

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  • FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

    Q. look, if we throw mean names at the AI grifters fucking up the economy, the culture, our lives, our personal interactions, and everything around us, doesn’t that make us as bad as them? if you really think about it.

    A. lol no, the fuck is this dumb bullshit, get the fuck out with this fucking insulting stupidity

    Q. but

    A. no, we need more shame here. much more. also, the fuck you doing using Warren fucking Ellis as a source in TYOOL 2025, did you remember to consult Neil Gaiman.

  • Wireborn husbands, ELIZA effect, Clippy, empathy (ramble)

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  • wireback

    Is there an actual cite for this term outside the rapist creep?

  • Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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  • to elaborate, Taler has been busy going nowhere for coming on ten years now. There is no reason to expect it will do anything. It doesn't do anything ordinary non-nerds don't already get from money.

    Given this, and its track record of going nowhere, how does it seem like it could be big?

    (I once had rms email me personally asking me to publicise Taler on my blockchain blog. I never got around to it because I couldn't find anything interesting to say about it. Literally its only point of interest is the GNU label, same as the only reason anyone knows about Hurd.)

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  • look, if we say mean names at the AI grifters fucking up everything around us, doesn't that make us as bad as them if you really think about it?

    lol no gtfo the fuck is this shit

    increasingly equivalent to hand wringing over calling nazis nazis

    this

  • Edward Saatchi: maybe not the Orson Welles of AI

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  • youtube:

    So we're going to "complete" a great work of cinema which died an untimely death, by digging it up, deconstructing it, and feeding parts of its disassembled corpse to a dark power we don't understand (some transformer model). Then we won't stop there- we're going to hire living actors to construct and pose the skeletons of the zombie-actors we're going to create in their place. Then we're going to rip their faces off, and glue on the faces of the long-dead actors- after the dark power (transformer model) spits them out from the disassembled mass of parts we fed it.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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  • the GNU HURD of money

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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  • OpenPhilanthropy has been seeding (b) a bit of money to local liberal activist groups but (a) guys to get them to do Abundance shit, under that name, then the guys play coy about the EA agenda

    source: talking to people wondering who the fuck these weirdos were. they said "OpenPhilanthropy" and I went "ohhh boy have I got some disconcerting news for you"

  • OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics

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  • yeah, but it's a sure giveaway on which criticisms really hit home. So focus on governance.

  • OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics

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  • I was thinking, Sam doesn't look like a younger Andrew Cuomo, but that's the most Cuomo-ass expression. "HOW DARE YOU"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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  • I just found out the name of Scott Alexander's psychiatry practice (Lorien Psychiatry) is a Lord of the Rings reference, so my guess as to direct Thiel money just went way up

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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  • one horse laugh is of greater utilitarian impact across the quantum waveform of the universe than ten thousand syllogisms

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 7th September 2025

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  • i've had several recs for that greenscreen and frankly it looks ideal for the job. Now for the £160 ... it's on my channel wishlist.

  • DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all

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  • update: so the AI slopster is Gerez herself. She pulled the same scam at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in 2024 — get accepted with real paintings, then fill the booth with AI slop. C2E2 also has a rule against AI art, but nobody threw her out that time. Now I’m honestly surprised I can’t find Gerez getting into NFTs.

    https://xcancel.com/GenelJumalon/status/1784573908777136259

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  • it's also resource exhaustion, literally a SLAPP

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/01/figure-ais-botq-humanoid-robot-is-an-investor-demo-not-a-product/
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    Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/31/edward-saatchi-pay-to-make-your-own-bad-ai-south-park-episodes/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/30/csiro-posts-ai-fake-climate-article-with-made-up-quotes/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/29/copilot-vision-ai-sends-your-data-to-microsoft/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/28/microsoft-copilot-ais-official-avatar-looks-like-a-blob-of-semen/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/27/seraphinne-vallora-dubious-ai-model-hype-again/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/26/google-ai-overview-is-just-affiliate-marketing-spam-now/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/25/16-of-employees-pretend-to-use-ai-at-work-to-please-their-boss/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/24/nobody-clicks-past-googles-ai-overviews/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/23/huge-saastr-replit-vibe-coding-disaster-if-it-ever-happened/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/22/open-source-projects-reject-ai-code-over-copyright-concerns/
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    god i hope it works

    paganlibrary.com /humor/spell_free_oneself_excessive_computer.php
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Veo fails week 4: the final faildown

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast)

    www.spreaker.com /episode/dk-en-3x07-llms-are-the-air-guitar-of-intellectual-work--66929785
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    ‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/10/ai-is-here-to-stay-is-it-though-what-do-you-mean-stay/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/09/cursor-tries-setting-less-money-on-fire-ai-vibe-coders-outraged/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/08/calling-in-the-ai-vibe-writing-cleanup-crew/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/07/publishers-file-competition-complaints-in-uk-and-eu-over-googles-ai-overviews/