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.systemsto
Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English
141·1 年前Baldur Bjarnason (who hates AI slop) has posited precisely this:
My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English
112·1 年前I asked Github Copilot and it added
import wreakto .NET, so we’ll get back to you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Hacker News: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work? The answer may not surprise you!English
3·2 年前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
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Not that we’d ever do a filler piece on Christmas and AIEnglish
6·2 年前Pivot 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 AIEnglish
6·2 年前Control 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 AIEnglish
5·2 年前controller 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 youEnglish
15·2 年前in 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 youEnglish
18·2 年前lol, 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."English
6·2 年前various forms of equivocation
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd December 2024English
7·2 年前oooh. 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."English
14·2 年前sorry 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."English
13·2 年前profound 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."English
19·2 年前GPT-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 shortcuttingEnglish
4·2 年前Bowie 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."English
25·2 年前someone 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."English
13·2 年前christ, 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."English
12·2 年前your comment history is like a tendentiousness bot






















author here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.