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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/

  • Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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  • you realise i'm gonna ask for links to your example of this being misapplied here

  • Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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  • Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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  • yeah, "Did you know" exists to encourage new articles, or major expansions of old ones. it cycles every six hours I think.

  • Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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  • Wikipedia rules make more sense when you understand they are entirely to keep the most pedantic nerds on earth from fighting

  • Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

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  • acronym-spouting rules lawyers who will crush dissent by a thousand duck nibbles

    hey now, my duck nibbling is thoroughly weaponised

  • DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs

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  • They specificallly named this one, you don't have to make up reasons that somehow it doesn't count.

  • DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs

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  • sure is!

  • elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games

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  • It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps

    or not, like when he told Grimes to her face that he thought she must be an ideal simulation for him

  • YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles

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  • the Smasnug investigation is amazing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th January 2025 - awful.systems - awful.systems

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  • they can't even sell o3 really - in o3 high mode, needed to do this level of query, it's about $1000 per query lol

  • Grimes defends Musk’s gaming honor, for “personal pride”

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  • do it

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • jesus fuck how did i never see this before

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • they literally did actually

    At the direction of, and with financial support from, the GRU, CGE and its personnel used generative AI tools to quickly create disinformation that would be distributed across a massive network of websites designed to imitate legitimate news outlets to create false corroboration between the stories, as well as to obfuscate their Russian origin. CGE built a server that hosts the generative AI tools and associated AI-created content, in order to avoid foreign web-hosting services that would block their activity. The GRU provided CGE and a network of U.S.-based facilitators with financial support to: build and maintain its AI-support server; maintain a network of at least 100 websites used in its disinformation operations; and contribute to the rent cost of the apartment where the server is housed. Korovin played a key role in coordinating financial support from the GRU to his employees and U.S.-based facilitators.

    that's news not socials, but we are seeing LLMs deployed by social media bot networks

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • $20/mo sounds like a reasonable subscription-ish price, so he picked that. That OpenAI loses money on every query, well, let's build up volume!

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • Ed Zitron calculated from the publicly available numbers that OpenAI was spending $2.35 for every $1 of ChatGPT they sell

  • OpenAI is so cooked and I'm all here for it

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  • this sounds like an attempt to demand others disprove the assertion that they're losing money, in a discussion of an article about Sam saying they're losing money

  • Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors

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  • Elsevier rewrites academic papers with AI — without telling editors or authors

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  • you know it baybee, the one true paperclip maximiser

  • Nvidia primes the pump, puts $1b of pocket change into AI startups

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  • we have our favourites