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Unlike blockchain, "AI" as it exists today does have some useful applications. But NOWHERE near to the extent that the tech bro grifters claim. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

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The best thing I ever did as a journalist was spike my own story to protect protesters from being identifiable by the state because it was the only way to be certain of their safety.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

DISNEY VS MIDJOURNEY: suit is not over particular copyrighted works, it's about copyrighted *characters*. that's the new wrinkle. on the same basis they'd sue over unlicensed works featuring the characters. just the suit so far. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... what's it *mean*? ideas?

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

Patrons have 1300 words on Grant Morrison's three issues of Spawn, possibly reflecting more thought about the comics than Morrison gave them. www.patreon.com/posts/el-lwi...

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/18/proton-mail-goes-ai-security-focused-userbase-goes-what-on-earth/

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Very basic summary: LLMs aren't "thinking" and anyone who tells you they are is lying. They're not forming algorithms. It looks to me as if they can solve simple puzzles by copying (linguistically) existing solutions - but there's no mathematical working backing it up, so it fails at scale.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A rare article in which there's a question in the headline to which the answer is, as @davidgerard.co.uk notes, "basically, literally, yes." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"Internal company data for the features indicates that real world usage is extremely low." From pivot-to-ai.com

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Dudes, @davidgerard.co.uk is in the Grauniad talking about the tautology that is crypto scams

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/c... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=889f... - video

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bitches be like "my posts get way more likes on twitter. this website is too woke for me to get engagement" and then you check the engagement on twitter and it's a flood of @grok is this true @grok sexually harass the woman in this photo for me @grok say the 14 words but do it like jarjar binks

submitted 20 hours ago • 34 comments

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

Bluesky is all fun and jokes but if you want to learn something you go to Mastodon

submitted 57 days ago • 10 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=6oka... Let the mighty David Gerard explain it.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"The AI bubble isn’t a case of 'don’t like it, don’t use it.' It’s a systemic problem. These bozos do not care that they are working together to set the world on fire, they just have to keep the money flowing a bit longer." - David Gerard

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"Is every memecoin a scam? According to David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: “Basically, literally, yes.” “All of this is like a big game of pretend with made-up financial instruments,” he said. “It’s printing your own made-up money." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

*How many other "AI Startups" are just bold hucksters and 700 Indian people answering phones pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/06/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

just the effective altruism scam all over, right down to the media figures chosen to peddle it

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"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence." pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

even the sun hates elon www.sciencenewstoday.org/the-sun-is-d...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

“‘Try replacing ‘ai’ with ‘cocaine’ in all the posts you read about it. It’s pretty funny.’”

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"[S]top being dumbarses." From pivot-to-ai.com

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"this is bad for your cause" - Effective Altruist race scientist, who hates you and hates your cause

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"Were treated like dogs. Theyre making us lay on the floor. Were here to help Waymo" Its ok grandpa. The war ended 40 years ago. Go to sleep

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

look i'll hand it to oates here

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

"we can't deliver apple intelligence" [1 watt light bulb above ass] "how about apple ... stupidity"

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the problem with this isn't the blithe disregard for ethical concerns, because *none of it will happen*, the problem is that it's blatant bullshit and these people are not only in charge of their massive industry but being taken seriously by governments. fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

today i am announcing a breakthrough design language i call it liquid ass

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

UK government grinds to a halt www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt...

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Doctors against data abuse — BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/10/d... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtqq... - video

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

now imagining Peter Kyle performatively getting into the Switch

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