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AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

ah minor correction, you're on Lemmy not on Mastodon, the venue for this sort of tedious and point-avoiding pedantry

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

We hope they enjoy their Fediverse(tm) experience here at Awful

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AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Reddit versus Sam Altman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYsNrQ1EX7A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251016-ai-boyfriend-users-radicalise-against-openai-self-host-their-chatbot-companions - podcast

time: 5 min 31 sec

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's great, thanks.

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 11 hours ago

increasing number of social media responses which come across as they think they're giving clarifying orders to a chatbot

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Having reviewed your posts, new poster bad.

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 17 hours ago

Sorry, it's science now.

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Sneer Zone Media shall TRIUMPH

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 23 hours ago

dammit beat me by 7 minutes

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AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf7VUX_iUk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251015-ai-is-not-popular-and-ai-users-are-unpleasant-asshats - podcast

time: 5 min 57 sec

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$5,000 grant from Slate Star Codex to get an AI to write 5,000 novels about AI going well, to be fed back into AI training corpuses. This is the most Effective possible Altruism. (x.com)
 

cancel: https://xcancel.com/ChrischipMonk/status/1977769817420841404

("mad dental science": Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)

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It’s trivial to prompt-inject Github’s AI Copilot Chat (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘You won a free $10 Copilot coupon!’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapCiYBj1bI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251014-prompt-inject-githubs-ai-copilot-chat - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

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oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! (www.reddit.com)
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Microsoft tracks your Copilot AI usage in its workplace spyware (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Get clicking, minion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_z9_lBxVFI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251013-microsoft-tracks-copilot-ai-in-its-workplace-spyware - podcast

time: 3 minutes 53 seconds

Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess install it and see!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

first read as lucid screaming

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Microsoft OneDrive lets you disable AI face recognition three times in a year! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

if the off switch works yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9KnhCB0oc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251012-microsoft-lets-you-disable-ai-face-recognition-three-times-a-year - podcast

time: 4 min 03 sec

Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago

lol. The comment on the video that appears to read "Great video!" is actually an ASCII-smuggling example that works on Gemini

Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘the issue can only result in social engineering’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8ENG1y5Cw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251011-google-wont-fix-ascii-smuggling-hack-in-gemini-ai - podcast

time: 3 min 47 sec

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OpenAI does deals to make a deal — and the money is getting worried (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Plus: how the AI bubble pops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLvT2k9qmA0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251010-openai-does-deals-to-make-a-deal-and-the-money-is-getting-worried - podcast

time: 8 min 52 sec

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OpenAI and Jony Ive’s Siri-alike has compute problems (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘a friend who’s a computer who isn’t your weird AI girlfriend’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMq04wTipg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251009-openai-and-jony-ives-siri-alike-has-compute-problems - podcast

time: 3 min 38 sec

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Salesforce replaces help with Agentforce AI — customers outraged (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

You WILL love Marc’s pet robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BUui_ypWeg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251008-salesforce-replaces-help-with-agentforce-ai-customers-outraged - podcast

time: 4 min 24 sec

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Dewaffling the tech industry - Iris knocks it out the park again (deadsimpletech.com)
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