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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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3 yr. ago

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

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

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

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  • this is apparently the same Oriana Gerez five years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJGZnCy7Muw

    it was 2020 and she was already "AI is inevitable"

    from particle physics to art scams

    (her sound is bad enough I'm not bothering to listen myself and youtube's transcriber choked on it, but it retains curiosity value)

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

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  • did he actually contribute anything other than chemists nicking the name "nanotechnology"?

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

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  • really has turned into Scientology

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

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  • I should get a green screen for my videos. Suggestions welcomed.

    • I can't leave it up permanently, I need to be able to get it out and put it away each use without it being a massive PITA.
    • I record in a small room. It's tiny and awkwardly shaped and I'm fixed in place by perspective tricks (something I would like the green screen to alleviate).
    • Amazon is the least worst vendor in this circumstance if all else is equal.

    Any ideas? Do any of you use such a device yourselves?

  • this seemed harsh ten years ago, but in 2025? it's quite calm and measured

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  • this comment has a rancid attitude no matter how much civility filler you try to spackle on top

  • this seemed harsh ten years ago, but in 2025? it's quite calm and measured

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  • This commenter seems to be missing the point about the point.

  • 31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your corporate AI strategy!

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  • reviewing his history, i don't think this article was actually written by the sort of commie who ends up at finance papers then belatedly remembered to tone it down a bit, but you'd be forgiven for thinking so

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • quoting that

  • 31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your corporate AI strategy!

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  • 31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your corporate AI strategy!

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  • the survey says all sorts of things, it's true

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • with a moment's thought, it should be obvious that they are painfully aware, and with another moment's thought that that's where I found this out.

  • Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

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  • don’t wanna read this

    what a coincidence!

  • Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

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  • absolutely appalling figuring it out, it really was "it can't be this stupid, I must be understanding it wrong"

    then I got to the bash injection

    and the proud "Generated by Claude Code"

    and welp

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • TIL that "Aris Thorne" is a character name favoured by ChatGPT - which means its presence is a reliable slop tell, lol

    like the dumbass-ray version of Ballard calling multiple characters variants on "Traven"

    what to do with this information

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • IoM cribs from the ENC, here's to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there ...

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

  • We should rethink how we teach people to code

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  • SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what

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  • OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.

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    Venture capital is lending money against video cards

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/06/venture-capital-is-lending-money-against-video-cards/
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    Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

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    Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/04/only-3-of-us-ai-users-are-willing-to-pay-a-penny-for-it/
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    Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/03/microsoft-lays-off-the-staff-who-make-the-money-to-fund-ai-that-doesnt/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/02/how-to-pass-an-ai-coding-benchmark-train-on-the-questions/
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    $219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/01/219-springer-nature-textbook-on-ai-was-written-with-a-chatbot/
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    ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/30/ai-is-no-longer-optional-microsoft-admits-ai-doesnt-help-at-work/
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    Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/29/google-veo-3-fails-week-2-fail-harder-shokunin-studio-spins-the-gacha/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/27/pitchbook-ai-venture-capital-resorts-to-mergers/
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    Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/26/meta-beats-kadrey-ai-training-was-fair-use-what-this-means/
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    Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/25/verizons-new-ai-chatbot-customer-disservice/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/24/anthropic-wins-broad-fair-use-for-training-but-not-on-pirated-books/
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    Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/23/iyo-vs-io-openai-and-jony-ive-get-sued/
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    Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/22/nvidia-gets-into-money-burning-ai-startups/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/21/we-test-google-veo-impressive-demo-unusable-results/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/20/ai-venture-capital-resorts-to-feeding-the-secondary-market/
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    Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/
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    Salesforce: AI agents don’t work — but we’re charging 6% more for AI anyway

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/18/salesforce-ai-agents-dont-work-but-were-charging-6-more-for-ai-anyway/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal — so it’s threatening Microsoft!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/17/openai-needs-its-40-billion-funding-deal-so-its-threatening-microsoft/
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    Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/