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David Gerard
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

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  • imagine Sephiroth writing business books

    • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • give this its own post

    • Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

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  • Looking through your chudposting, this may not be the discussion group for you.

    • Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

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  • imma gonna prompt inject me a new iPad

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  • Habryka runs the fucking site

    • The Curtains Were Ebony Black with Purple Streaks and Red Tips

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  • lol it pays off

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  • Habryka doesn't really know how not to start fights

    • yes scott we know you are

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  • so remember his tip jar story? no, it turns out

    • We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results

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  • even McCarthy was open that it was a marketing term

    • yes scott we know you are

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  • nah it's good, you should read it

    • Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

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  • this is the one we banned a few days ago coming in from another server

    and even if it isn't hoo boy that posting record

    • Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

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  • yeah I suggest you keep reading the thread pointing out how they were explicitly talking about generative AI a year before

    • Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta.

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  • AI boosters are people who literally cannot tell good from bad, yet again

    • Chatgpt, tell me if I'm attracted to this woman in a video game or not, quickly!

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  • why don't the sexy robots get more of this huh

    • Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data

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  • for the specialist taste

    • Chatgpt, tell me if I'm attracted to this woman in a video game or not, quickly!

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  • yeh

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025

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  • oh this is amazing, I wanna write this one up. The world needs warning of whatever shit Allred is trying to pull.

    I need to set out the precise scam so it's incredibly obvious to any reader who hasn't encountered Allred before.

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    • Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney

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  • this is worse guy vs worse guy

    • Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney

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  • I just hope that all the horses will have a fun time

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    ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide
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    Doctors against data abuse — BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover
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    Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t work
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    Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think
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    UK — High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else
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    Builder․ai even more fake: creative accounting, no AI, no money
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    Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!
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    Washington Post goes AI to clean up amateur right-wing op-eds
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    Let’s put more AI slop into advertising!
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    Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki
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    Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it!
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    Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions
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    1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy
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    The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot
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    lol the shit, who picked these actors
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    Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it
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    Google takes AI propaganda to the movies
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    Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture
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    Firing people for AI: not going so well
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    DOGE: the big brain LessWrong Rationalist boys