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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 is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • AI SHILL: if you hate AI, you hate the disabled!DISABLED PERSON: hi, help me in some practical wayAI SHILL: fuck off

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

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  • and a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists

  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • a youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot's left hand

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

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  • I'm apparently quoted in one of the expensive low circulation finance newsletters (Grant's Interest Rate Observer) today or tomorrow saying how even the relatively competent crypto firms are also run by clowns.

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

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  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • I did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.

  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • Given this user's declared lack of intent to improve, we wish them well in their posting career elsewhere.

  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • this poster doesn't seem to be improving. We wish them well in their posting career to any of the many other Lemmy discussion forums.

  • 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

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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.

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

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

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  • Having reviewed your posts, new poster bad.

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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

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    Are AI users dishonest? If they are, this Nature paper doesn’t show it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/25/are-ai-users-dishonest-if-they-are-this-nature-paper-doesnt-show-it/
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    Lionsgate still can’t turn its movies into an AI video model

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/24/lionsgate-still-cant-turn-its-movies-into-an-ai-video-model/
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    Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/23/workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word/
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    The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/22/the-uk-public-doesnt-trust-ai-the-tony-blair-institute-is-very-worried/
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    ‘Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment’ said the wallet inspector

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/21/stop-worrying-about-ais-return-on-investment-said-the-wallet-inspector/
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    Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/20/albanias-ai-minister-speaks-and-turns-out-to-be-an-actor/
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    Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/19/business-insider-will-publish-ai-stories-without-disclosure/
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    OpenAI fights the evil scheming AI! — which doesn’t exist yet

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/18/openai-fights-the-evil-scheming-ai-which-doesnt-exist-yet/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    We simulated the human mind with a chatbot. It didn’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/17/we-simulated-the-human-mind-with-a-chatbot-it-didnt-work/
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    The hype after AI: lads, it’s looking really quantum

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/16/the-hype-after-ai-lads-its-looking-really-quantum/
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    UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/15/uk-government-productivity-not-enhanced-by-copilot-ai/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

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

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/14/medical-research-ethics-is-hard-but-fake-ai-data-is-easy/
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    Canadian education report riddled with fake AI references

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/13/canadian-education-report-riddled-with-fake-ai-references/
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    Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/12/cursor-looks-into-selling-your-data-for-ai-training/
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    Apple retrains Siri AI for the Trump anti-’woke’ era

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/11/apple-retrains-siri-ai-for-the-trump-anti-woke-era/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    Inception Point — AI spam podcasts with no listeners

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/10/inception-point-ai-spam-podcasts-with-no-listeners/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
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    If AI coding is so good … where are the little apps?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/09/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-little-apps/
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    David Gerard @awful.systems

    We try Suno’s AI music generator — hear Suno fail the Fall

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/08/we-try-sunos-ai-music-hear-suno-fail-the-fall/
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    Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/07/anthropic-ai-pays-off-authors-with-just-1-5-billion/
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    Edward Saatchi: maybe not the Orson Welles of AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/06/edward-saatchi-maybe-not-the-orson-welles-of-ai/