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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/

  • 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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • it's also resource exhaustion, literally a SLAPP

  • oh yeah anything that can be chromakeyed basically, green is canonical and quite a good colour for the job.

  • 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)

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

  • really has turned into Scientology

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

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

  • 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

  • quoting that

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

  • 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.

  • don’t wanna read this

    what a coincidence!

  • 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

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Venture capital is lending money against video cards

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/07/06/venture-capital-is-lending-money-against-video-cards/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    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/
  • TechTakes @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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    $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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    ‘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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/06/27/pitchbook-ai-venture-capital-resorts-to-mergers/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

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

    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups

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

    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    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/
  • TechTakes @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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid

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