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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/

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • ah minor correction, you're on Lemmy not on Mastodon, the venue for this sort of tedious and point-avoiding pedantry

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • We hope they enjoy their Fediverse(tm) experience here at Awful

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • Yeah, that's great, thanks.

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  • increasing number of social media responses which come across as they think they're giving clarifying orders to a chatbot

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • Having reviewed your posts, new poster bad.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • Sorry, it's science now.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • Sneer Zone Media shall TRIUMPH

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • dammit beat me by 7 minutes

  • Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year!

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  • I guess install it and see!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • first read as lucid screaming

  • Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

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  • lol. The comment on the video that appears to read "Great video!" is actually an ASCII-smuggling example that works on Gemini

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • AT is fashtech. This needs a proper writeup I realise, but it ticks too many boxes in theory and practice. I don't welcome this style of openwashing, where it's COMPLETELY OPEN except in all practice. Like, you could say the same about Urbit.

  • Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI

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  • Various characters that aren't ASCII but are shaped the same, or sneaking in text encoded in flag emojis, stuff like that.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • it's a great day for high velocity egress

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • reviewing their contributions in general, this user is not suited to this forum and has been T-shirt cannoned off the egress.

  • Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy

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  • looks good!

    i would LOVE them to get an actual designer though. If ever a laptop looked like open source ...

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • the Eich controversy is dumber than that. His donation against gay marriage made international press in 2012! Somehow nobody on the Mozilla board realised this would be the entire story in 2014! jfc

  • now that's what I call fashtech, vol. 1

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  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/28/deloitte-australia-writes-government-report-with-ai-and-fake-references/
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    SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/27/softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what/
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    Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/26/excel-copilot-make-up-spreadsheet-numbers-with-ai/
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    Perplexity’s AI browser Comet can be prompt-injected by any website

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/25/perplexitys-ai-browser-comet-can-be-prompt-injected-by-any-website/
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    Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/24/commonwealth-bank-fires-un-fires-call-centre-over-ai/
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    the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out

    www.ft.com /content/96e14cb0-f49f-4632-b94f-2d1cdc625f8b
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    AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/23/ai-winter-is-in-the-air-but-we-think-the-ai-bubble-keeps-going-until-2027/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Prompt-inject an AI chatbot with … an image!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/22/prompt-inject-an-ai-chatbot-with-an-image/
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    MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam. That Fortune article? The paper's authors are web3 crypto bros

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/21/mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Surveys the easy way: fake your data with an AI chatbot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/20/surveys-the-easy-way-fake-your-data-with-an-ai-chatbot/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/19/spreadshirt-to-artists-were-taking-your-designs-for-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    AI brings huge enterprise efficiencies! Except in making money

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/18/ai-brings-huge-enterprise-efficiencies-except-in-making-money/
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    At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/16/at-politico-ai-content-doesnt-need-editorial-standards/
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    AI ‘chain of thought’ is still just a ‘brittle mirage’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/15/ai-chain-of-thought-is-still-just-a-brittle-mirage/
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    DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/14/defra-says-delete-your-emails-to-save-water/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    ‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/13/optional-ai-scribe-is-mandatory-if-you-want-to-see-the-doctor/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Prompt-inject Copilot Studio AI via email, grab a company’s whole Salesforce

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/12/prompt-inject-copilot-studio-ai-via-email-grab-a-companys-whole-salesforce/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/11/cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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    Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/10/hack-a-smart-home-with-a-calendar-invite-and-google-gemini/