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•Generative AI: ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’English7·15 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.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025English17·2 days agothe shunning is working guys
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of *plagiarism* goodness meEnglish11·3 days agoalso, she follows Crémieux
jfc a milkshake duck clown car
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English9·4 days agofuck me, that’s a Pivot
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025English9·4 days agoyet again, you can bypass LLM “prompt security” 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) it’s an ad for them claiming they can protect against fanfic attacks, and I don’t believe them
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto SneerClub@awful.systems•shocked that anyone could be so uncouth as to accuse our boy Cremieux/Lasker of *plagiarism* goodness meEnglish6·4 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.systems•AI-generated music accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to DeezerEnglish6·5 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.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English6·5 days agothe poster has been escorted to the egress at high velocity from the fourth floor
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English14·5 days agoI can excuse racism, but I can’t excuse the implication I might be in any way tangential to racism
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•California bar exam: a technical disaster with AI-written nonsense questionsEnglish6·5 days agoyour takes combine with your username, which I don’t know how we let through, to suggest this is a good time to guide you to the egress
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English7·5 days ago“What the hell do you call that routine”
“the LEMMYVERSE!”
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English19·5 days agoDigital blackface was one of the first uses for genAI - turning white models or white voices “black” rather than hiring an actual black person
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Fake diversity: why hire a non-white DJ when you could just generate one with AI?English20·5 days agoif you don’t understand the concept of “digital blackface” as a specific problem, then you are not bright enough to post here
I’m not saying it’s always programming.dev, but
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh.English5·6 days agoyeah. Chrome exists solely to protect and enable Google’s ad business. Does OpenAI think it gets three billion phones for free?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•‘Reasoning’ AI is LYING to you! — or maybe it’s just hallucinating againEnglish8·12 days agono no it’s LYING
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPto NotAwfulTech@awful.systems•Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)English5·13 days ago(hits you over the head with an expertly wielded M3)
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Amazon ‘launched’ its AI-powered Alexa+ in February. Where is it?English5·13 days agooriginally nicked from an old Inquirer article i think, no longer live!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025English5·14 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
he’s a centrist econ blogger who’s been getting into light race science