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Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

(‘it is currently not possible to opt out of the AI function’)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWPfVFMdx4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250819-spreadshirt-to-artists-were-taking-your-design-for-ai - podcast

AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 14 hours ago

American fascism: run by atheists who fear God and evangelists who don't

the "left" gets a new publication, if the "left" is Kelsey Piper and OpenPhil in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

that's center as in race realist

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AI brings huge enterprise efficiencies! Except in making money (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KreWAfWZSM8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/ai-brings-huge-efficiencies-except-in-making-money - podcast

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the "left" gets a new publication, if the "left" is Kelsey Piper and OpenPhil (www.semafor.com)
AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The bit in the video showing the cites to the race scientist in the race science pseudojournal is from Shane Legg's 2008 paper. He just happened to reach for the race scientist first, you see.

I have someone else's draft here of a writeup nailing a zillion examples of this shit from the wider field of AI since the 1990s, eager for that to finally come out some time.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God (youtu.be)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems
7 comments fedilink
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250817-ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-with-ai-god - podcast

19 minutes, sit yourself down for this one

text version https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-in-ai-god/

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At Politico, AI content doesn’t need editorial standards! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250816-at-politico-ai-content-doesnt-need-editorial-standards - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFH-lG0nwos&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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AI ‘chain of thought’ is still just a ‘brittle mirage’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250815-ai-chain-of-thought-still-just-a-brittle-mirage - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaiuXPe6cw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

got the wrong song stuck in my head

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DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250814-delete-your-emails-to-save-water - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2MA5dgLgU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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‘Optional’ AI scribe is mandatory if you want to see the doctor (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250813-kobi-leins-optional-ai-scribe-is-mandatory-to-see-the-doctor - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wutSYDx4RTE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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Prompt-inject Copilot Studio AI via email, grab a company’s whole Salesforce (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250812-prompt-inject-copilot-studio-via-email-grab-a-companys-whole-salesforce - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0Ix-Rz9ko&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250811-cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kpW-pGuQ8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025 (awful.systems)
 

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Previous week

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Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250810-hack-a-smart-home-with-gemini-ai-and-a-calendar-invite - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybs-p6rzz8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

this guy actually lost a bundle in NFTs a few years ago

OpenAI announces GPT-5! Please Microsoft, don’t kill us in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

I've tested Gemini on this stuff. Sometimes it spots the syntax error and even suggests a more elegant rewrite. Sometimes it just completely shits itself.

Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kai Lentit: Senior Engineer Uses vim Via Voice Control

Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Augmented reality for the Google Glass. Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don't even have screens or projectors!

Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

just found out these glasses are not even Augmented Reality. They have neither screens nor projectors. Just cameras, a mic, and bone conduction earphones. The interface is voice control. They are literally only for taking creepshots. So Zuckerberg is staying on-brand.

Figure AI’s BotQ humanoid robot is an investor demo, not a product in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

the interesting thing is i looked and that isn't actually a big enough market to sustain itself

General HPMoR sneer collection in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
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