David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AIEnglish6·4 months agoPivot has also declared scheduled downtime until the new year. So there.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AIEnglish6·4 months agoControl of resident data could be kept at municipality level
no, they’ll fuck it up as hard as possible. These are not people who give a shit about the privacy of the plebs.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Australia’s under-16 social media ban to use hand-waving to verify ages with AIEnglish5·4 months agocontroller of the key pair
never.
These are not people who are going to do things correctly, let alone doing complex things correctly. They are absolutely going to come up with some hamfisted bullshit, there is no way they are not. If they really try to do this, the most likely version is a central ID register but it’s privatised.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to youEnglish12·4 months agoconvincing
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to youEnglish15·4 months agoin crypto, these guys run on a six to eighteen month cycle - at get in, evangelise, get rekt and disappear in embarrassment. What this means is that the only people who actually remember the history of crypto are the critics.
i once had a coiner demand in outrage that i prooove my claim that bitcoin was started by libertarians.
anyway. dunno if the same will hold in AI grift, but yeah recycling refuted claims as if nothing happened is standard in other areas of pseudoscience.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Anthropic and Apollo astounded to find that a chatbot will lie to you if you tell it to lie to youEnglish18·4 months agolol, there has literally never been a gain of function claim that checked out
you’re posting like an evangelist, this way to the egress
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English6·4 months agovarious forms of equivocation
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024English7·4 months agooooh. AWS t4g.small instances (ARM, 2GB RAM) are free until 31 Dec 2025. See caveats.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English14·4 months agosorry you don’t like anger! we’ll improve your lemmyverse experience
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English13·4 months agoprofound reasoning indeed, this way to the egress so you can contemplate further
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English19·4 months agoGPT-2 was peak LLM because it was bad enough to be interesting, it was all downhill from there
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Do knee X-rays show if you drink beer? Medical AI versus algorithmic shortcuttingEnglish4·4 months agoBowie vs Voldemort
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English25·4 months agosomeone sent out the batpromptfondler signal and the mods are in shooting gallery mode
please refrain from commenting unaccordingly
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English13·4 months agochrist, did someone fire up the Batpromptfondler signal
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English12·4 months agoyour comment history is like a tendentiousness bot
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English17·4 months agoactually you know what? with all the motte and baileying, you can take a month off. bye!
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•"Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth."English7·4 months agou wot? works fine in Firefox here. Try this archive or this archive.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto SneerClub@awful.systems•Casey Newton drinks the kool-aidEnglish2·4 months agoKevin hopes to be Casey when he grows up
that being the specific model when we started it! “web3 is going great but it’s AI”
molly approved and said it saved people nagging her to start one