David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Generative AI: āno significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupationāEnglish6Ā·11 hours agovideo also starts with 2 minutes of commie rant I left out of the text version
as a centrist market liberal, [MARX MARX MARX]
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English17Ā·1 day agothe shunning is working guys
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systemsā¢shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of *plagiarism* goodness meEnglish11Ā·3 days agoalso, she follows CrĆ©mieux
jfc a milkshake duck clown car
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English9Ā·3 days agofuck me, thatās a Pivot
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English9Ā·3 days agoyet again, you can bypass LLM āprompt securityā with a fanfiction attack
https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/
not Pivoting cos (1) the fanfic attack is implicit in building an uncensored compressed text repo, then trying to filter output after the fact (2) itās an ad for them claiming they can protect against fanfic attacks, and I donāt believe them
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systemsā¢shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of *plagiarism* goodness meEnglish6Ā·3 days agothe post comments are also peak rationalist
Critical support to dynomight in these difficult times against Lumina Probiotic toothpaste salesperson
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢AI-generated music accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to DeezerEnglish6Ā·4 days agolook, that was actually funny. All the record company A&R men shitting themselves that, in straight-up A/B testing, they were failing to compete with muzak.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English6Ā·4 days agothe poster has been escorted to the egress at high velocity from the fourth floor
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English14Ā·5 days agoI can excuse racism, but I canāt excuse the implication I might be in any way tangential to racism
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questionsEnglish6Ā·5 days agoyour takes combine with your username, which I donāt know how we let through, to suggest this is a good time to guide you to the egress
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English7Ā·5 days agoāWhat the hell do you call that routineā
āthe LEMMYVERSE!ā
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English19Ā·5 days agoDigital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices āblackā rather than hiring an actual black person
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English20Ā·5 days agoif you donāt understand the concept of ādigital blackfaceā as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here
Iām not saying itās always programming.dev, but
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.English5Ā·6 days agoyeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Googleās ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢āReasoningā AI is LYING to you! ā or maybe itās just hallucinating againEnglish8Ā·11 days agono no itās LYING
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Amazon ālaunchedā its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?English5Ā·12 days agooriginally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English5Ā·13 days agothis URL is the PDF of the NVCA-Pitchbook Venture Capital Monitor for Q1 2025
the Q3 2024 report was comedy gold, using word mangling to present bad news as okay news
i expect this one to be more of the same
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systemsā¢Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English4Ā·14 days agorealy, who doesnāt want to fuck Clippy
(looks around nervously)
heās a centrist econ blogger whoās been getting into light race science