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David Gerard
David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems
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Kelsey Piper Decides DOGE Dipshits Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt In Long-Winded Thread

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  • what the

    no that isn't a request to elaborate

    • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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  • That's Yudkowsky and Piper's "glowfic"

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  • they're a Thiel op

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    CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes

    Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.

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  • UPDATE: Seraphinne Vallora have admitted the Vogue ad image was a photo from an ordinary modeling shoot with a bit of AI afterwards. They phrased it as bragging about their hard work, of course. https://www.instagram.com/p/DMm4KkfoYCj/

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    Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft

    Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

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  • because i know what you like

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  • Trump apologetics doesn't really make the bar here. Hopefully you will find a sub that is more accepting of whatever your condition is.

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  • Microsoft Edge

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    Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025

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  • Neopets but it's an animated blob of cum with a smiley face.

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  • I've met Vinay, he's great in person. But should not post.

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    Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again.
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    Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now

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    16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss

    Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews

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  • Convenience is king, and never mind accuracy.

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    Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews

    Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened

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  • look, i didn't say liar,

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    Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened

    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025

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  • Transformers do way better transcription, buuuuuut yeah you gotta check it

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    Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns
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    look AI doom is all very well, but we have extremely important message board drama to be getting on with

    So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers down

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  • even the Nazis can't stand these fucks

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    So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT: LWer tries to talk fellow LWers down

    Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • because they cribbed their ideas from deathnote, and they're stupid

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  • oh yeah that was obvious when you see who they are and what they do. also, one of the large opensource projects was the lesswrong site lololol

    i'm surprised it's as well constructed a study as it is even given that

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  • wonder if that's why they tried and failed to change it to "squiggle maximizing"

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  • the comments are wild "yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern"

    • Vibe Coding

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  • it should be, but he's been actively promoting the stuff

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    Veo fails week 4: the final faildown

    AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • all the stock sites are. use case: an image that's almost perfect but you wanna tweak it

    LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS

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    LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast)
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    AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
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    ‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?
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    Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged
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    Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew
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    Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews
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    Venture capital is lending money against video cards