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•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish7·1 day agoi really don’t care, you fuckin weirdo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish5·1 day agonotice how Take Two didn’t rate the wild response, and neither of the companies in the Aftermath article were EA or Ubisoft
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish9·1 day agoreminded of the guy who said i could get rid of my problems with SPF/DMARC/DKIM by just not accepting mail from Gmail
this was his advice for a business with ordinary customers btw
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish6·1 day agolook Star Citizen will own
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish11·1 day agolol people fuckin hate DLSS
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish22·1 day agoyeah the use case for LLMs is amusing novelty. That’s why LLMs peaked with GPT-2, it was just the right amount of broken.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate itEnglish12·1 day agoI’m not seeing how it’s not fair to talk about what gaming studios do in terms of two of the largest.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Google takes AI propaganda to the moviesEnglish7·2 days agoI could, but why? It’s almost certainly actual Adobe™ Creative Suite™ Photoshop™ Subscription Edition.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Firing people for AI: not going so wellEnglish3·2 days agoyep!
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English6·3 days agothis is ridiculously good
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Firing people for AI: not going so wellEnglish4·3 days agoPrecisely this.
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English6·3 days agois Extropic now claiming to have actually done anything?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025English81·3 days agoare you aware of what discussion group you’re posting this to
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•Firing people for AI: not going so wellEnglish9·4 days agoi knew you
robopervsclunkiesbot appreciators would only have eyes for the hot springs
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ dataEnglish8·6 days agoright right, but we only see these bozos when they show up locally
mind you there’s been more than one illustrious poster I’ve banned preemptively
but frankly life is too short in most cases
David Gerard@awful.systemsto Programming@programming.dev•If AI is so good at coding - where are the open source contributions?English13·8 days agoBaldur 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?English101·8 days agoI asked Github Copilot and it added
import wreak
to .NET, so we’ll get back to you.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto TechTakes@awful.systems•You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ dataEnglish15·8 days agoYes, I know, I wrote it. Why do you consider this useful to post here?
currently reading https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17570
this is PsiQuantum, who are hot prospects to build an actually-quantum computer
no, they have not yet factored 35
but they are seriously planning qubits on a wafer and they think they can make a chip with 1m noisy qubits
anyone know more about this? does that preprint (from last year) pass sniff tests?
(my interest is journalistic, and also the first of these companies to factor 35 gets all the VC money ever)