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.systemsMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•New paper tries to define AGI, cites hallucinated papersEnglish
0·16 days agoActually Generates Income
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•so replacement.ai is funny as hell, but it turns out it's actually the Future of Life Institute (Max Tegmark's lot). more EA on EA violenceEnglish
0·21 days agoonly if they’re closely related, you understand
“did you hear about the swedish EA with the racism scandal this week”
“which one”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•I refer the honourable gentlesneers to footnote 14 (PDF, pp15-16)English
0·25 days agojudges, evidently
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers downEnglish
0·4 months agoeven the Nazis can’t stand these fucks
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•draft Pivot: "AI is here to stay"English
0·4 months agoIt’s a tricky one, because a lot of ML these days is transformer-based, because transformers are unreasonably effective, and many things a transformer can do well, an LLM can do okay at. (e.g. translation, transcription, OCR …)
A lot of people are super convinced by an impressive demo. We have computers you can just talk to now! That’s legit amazing, actually! The whole field of NLP is 80% solved! The other 20% is where it’s a lying fuckin idiot and that’s probably not fixable …
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•draft Pivot: "AI is here to stay"English
0·4 months agoooh good, i’ll add that generative AI will likely become as radioactive to the public as crypto is.
he appears to have started like this - i hear he was like this at uni too
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025English
3·4 months agoI dunno, Diz and I both pissed them off a whole lot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at workEnglish
5·4 months agoWE HAD THAT PRECISE FUCKING GUY
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at workEnglish
8·4 months agoAI fans are people who literally cannot tell good from bad. They cannot see the defects that are obvious to everyone else. They do not believe there is such a thing as quality, they think it’s a scam. When you claim you can tell good from bad, they think you’re lying.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at workEnglish
6·4 months agoimagine Sephiroth writing business books
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
6·5 months agogive this its own post
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disserviceEnglish
8·5 months agoLooking through your chudposting, this may not be the discussion group for you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disserviceEnglish
8·5 months agoimma gonna prompt inject me a new iPad
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
10·5 months agoHabryka runs the fucking site
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
MoreWrite@awful.systems•The Curtains Were Ebony Black with Purple Streaks and Red TipsEnglish
6·5 months agolol it pays off
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025English
11·5 months agoHabryka doesn’t really know how not to start fights
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•yes scott we know you areEnglish
6·5 months agoso remember his tip jar story? no, it turns out
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable resultsEnglish
8·5 months agoeven McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term










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