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.systems•Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semenEnglish8·1 day agobecause i know what you like
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semenEnglish11·1 day agoTrump apologetics doesn’t really make the bar here. Hopefully you will find a sub that is more accepting of whatever your condition is.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semenEnglish41·2 days agoMicrosoft Edge
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English5·2 days agoNeopets but it’s an animated blob of cum with a smiley face.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English3·2 days agoI’ve met Vinay, he’s great in person. But should not post.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English9·5 days agotoday’s least surprising news: substack’s coterie of totally-not-nazis fucking love AI https://on.substack.com/p/the-substack-ai-report
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Nobody clicks past Google’s AI OverviewsEnglish10·5 days agoConvenience is king, and never mind accuracy.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happenedEnglish7·6 days agolook, i didn’t say liar,
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025English4·7 days agoTransformers do way better transcription, buuuuuut yeah you gotta check it
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers downEnglish0·10 days agoeven the Nazis can’t stand these fucks
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish16·12 days agobecause they cribbed their ideas from deathnote, and they’re stupid
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systemsEnglish11·14 days agooh yeah that was obvious when you see who they are and what they do. also, one of the large opensource projects was the lesswrong site lololol
i’m surprised it’s as well constructed a study as it is even given that
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4·17 days agowonder if that’s why they tried and failed to change it to “squiggle maximizing”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6·17 days agothe comments are wild “yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern”
it should be, but he’s been actively promoting the stuff
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish5·17 days agoall the stock sites are. use case: an image that’s almost perfect but you wanna tweak it
LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English4·18 days agoyou should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about “Hooked”
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025English6·18 days agothe psychology of loot boxes?
yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900
the book is “Hooked” and it’s Don’t Build The Torment Nexus I’m Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slowerEnglish6·18 days agoAI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.
UPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/