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•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish6·21 hours agoand a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish3·1 day agoa youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot’s left hand
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English7·1 day agoI’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.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English8·1 day agotake a drink for every 10,000 lies or exaggerations https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-tech-skeptics-ai-video-startup-wants-to-change-hollywood
more than that and you’ll wipe out in 5 min
he’s very skeptical u kno
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish3·1 day agoI did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish2·1 day agoGiven this user’s declared lack of intent to improve, we wish them well in their posting career elsewhere.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companionsEnglish2·1 day agothis poster doesn’t seem to be improving. We wish them well in their posting career to any of the many other Lemmy discussion forums.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish41·2 days agoah minor correction, you’re on Lemmy not on Mastodon, the venue for this sort of tedious and point-avoiding pedantry
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish5·2 days agoWe hope they enjoy their Fediverse™ experience here at Awful
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish11·3 days agoYeah, that’s great, thanks.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish81·3 days agoincreasing number of social media responses which come across as they think they’re giving clarifying orders to a chatbot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish81·3 days agoHaving reviewed your posts, new poster bad.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish13·3 days agoSorry, it’s science now.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025English4·3 days agoSneer Zone Media shall TRIUMPH
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshatsEnglish152·3 days agodammit beat me by 7 minutes
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year!English7·6 days agoI guess install it and see!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025English4·6 days agofirst read as lucid screaming
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AIEnglish7·7 days agolol. The comment on the video that appears to read “Great video!” is actually an ASCII-smuggling example that works on Gemini
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and OmarchyEnglish1·7 days agodeleted by creator
AI SHILL: if you hate AI, you hate the disabled!
DISABLED PERSON: hi, help me in some practical way
AI SHILL: fuck off