David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 hours agoLA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic reviewplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 23 hours agoGoogle: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a weekplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10
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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMtoTechTakes@awful.systems•Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magiclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agothe entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees linkfedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days agoWhat the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 3 days agoFeeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magicplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 4 days agoOpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre modelplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 5 days agoPhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPTplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agoDiscord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out ofplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDiscord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out ofplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agoAI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using themplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using themplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 8 days agoMicrosoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leasesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 9 days agoAI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how toplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agoGoogle Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in itplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 11 days agoYahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject linesplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agoBusinesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want oneplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBusinesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want oneplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 13 days agoHumane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pinplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkHumane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pinplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square0fedilink
David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 14 days agoAI chatbots test as having cognitive declineplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 15 days agoGuardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generationplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 16 days agoEl Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s palsplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 17 days agoHow AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’plus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 18 days agoAI image gets a US copyright — or some of a copyrightplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 days agoThe UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near youplus-squarepivot-to-ai.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square0fedilink
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees