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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/

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

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  • ty!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • the talking point about disparaging terms for AI users by choice "I came up with a racist-sounding term for AI users, so if you say 'clanker' you must be a racist" is so fucking stupid it's gotta be some sort of op

    (esp when the made-up racist-sounding term turns out to have originated with Warren fucking Ellis)

    i am extremely disappointed that awful systems users have fallen for it for a moment

  • Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is

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  • the historical record shows Thiel has literally always been like this

    tried reading his '90s book once, managed a few pages

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st September 2025

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  • I have no hope. The guy who introduced me to LessWrong included what I later realised was a race science pitch. Yudkowsky was pushing this shit in 2007. This sucker just realised a coupla decades late.

  • Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!

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  • yeh

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

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  • nah. Sam's a monorail salesman who knows how to say the AI doomer buzzwords.

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • Is there any detail on any of this, beyond an announcement?

  • Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

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  • look, that sounds like a "this afternoon" problem

  • Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

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  • enterprise code is already shit and vibe coding has made it worse, if they train on this the model collapse should be glorious

  • They really just be making stuff up

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  • where was this?

  • 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

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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

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    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
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    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/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    ‘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
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    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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    Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

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

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