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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • wow that guy really went for it huh

  • rsync goes AI slop, breaks your backups

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  • It literally is slop. It's always correct to call slop slop.

  • if LessWrong bans insufferable twats just because they make everyone miserable, who's next?? me??????

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  • Anna Salomon, long time rationalist and cofounder of CFAR

  • if LessWrong bans insufferable twats just because they make everyone miserable, who's next?? me??????

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  • yeah remember that it's a LW tenet that Ashkenazi Jews are of unusually high IQ. Coincidentally a group containing both Eliezer and Scoot

  • Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page

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  • this is what i like to hear!

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    Log into any Instagram by asking Meta’s AI nicely

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/02/log-into-any-instagram-by-asking-metas-ai-nicely/
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    Prompt-inject ChatGPT with any web page

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/06/01/prompt-inject-chatgpt-with-any-web-page/

  • LessWrong: want a mnemonic for your detailed eugenics? How about AI anime tiddays

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  • Simonides of Ceos famously constructed the Method of Tiddays in a heated argument over subs versus dubs

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    if LessWrong bans insufferable twats just because they make everyone miserable, who's next?? me??????

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/HaH9mTdKt8pcNAtYn/comment-on-banning-said-achmiz

  • Red Means No / 'That' CNC kink party Incident Log

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  • i listened to some chalga/turbofolk again recently and found it tolerable, clearly showing my musical taste has decayed terribly in the past 15 years

  • Red Means No / 'That' CNC kink party Incident Log

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    LessWrong: want a mnemonic for your detailed eugenics? How about AI anime tiddays

    www.lesswrong.com /posts/BJ7AqXeigNKXLqZyx/mnemonic-portraits-for-19-023-human-genes

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • that EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD FUCKING USES

    it's one of the tiny bricks way down the xkcd diagram

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st May 2026

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  • by "culture wars" she means she's a fucking nazi

    This was the reason Wendy Hanamura cited when she canceled my invitation to speak at the Internet Archive.

    hmm, looking at the text you link it says "your past statements in Twitter" first. could it be they found out you're a fucking nazi

    also you're shocked, shocked to find that 4chan people are assholes. you hang out there for hours at a time. probably just coincidence.

    Tunney has deleted the post already! But there's an archive and another one

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    Test software tells code bots ‘delete me’ — AI bros outraged

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/29/test-software-tells-code-bots-delete-me-ai-bros-outraged/
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    The SpaceX IPO works like a crypto fraud, but with AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/

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  • He does, but also that piece is based on talking to the WMF employees, who he knows, and multiple of said employees have forwarded the piece to me.

    It checks out as a good source.

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    McClatchy runs AI slop with journalists’ names on it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/27/mcclatchy-runs-ai-slop-with-journalists-names-on-it/
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    Pope Leo to AI bros: Just stop it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/26/pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it/
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    STOP DOING SEARCHES (a dramatic reading)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026

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  • STOP FINDING THINGS

    • WEB PAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO BE FOUND
    • YEARS OF SEARCHING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PAGES of SEO-OPTIMISED AI SLOP
    • Wanted to find things anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called WIKIPEDIA "RANDOM PAGE"
    • "Yes please give me ONE HUNDRED AND TEN MILLION of my search. Please give me TEN ADS and A PARAGRAPH OF SLOP FIRST" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

    LOOK at what Search engines have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the ad views we gave them

    (This is REAL Search results, given by REAL search engines)

    • "None of Africa's 54 recognized countries start with the letter 'K'."
    • "Add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce"
    • "Understood. No more templates—just direct answers, hyper-focused on exactly what you need."

    "Hello Something went wrong and an AI response wasn't generated"

    They have played us for absolute fools

  • Google is replacing search results with only the AI

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  • this is a problem we have had for a while now, i assure you

  • OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO

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  • I have no idea and I wonder if The Information does either.

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    OpenAI user numbers go flat — just in time for the IPO

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/22/openai-user-numbers-go-flat-just-in-time-for-the-ipo/

  • Google is replacing search results with only the AI

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  • i wish it didn't

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    Amazon engineers use MeshClaw bot to hit managers’ AI token targets

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/21/amazon-engineers-use-meshclaw-bot-to-hit-managers-ai-token-targets/
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    Google is replacing search results with only the AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/20/google-is-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai/

  • Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

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  • and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water

  • arXiv bans academic authors for AI slop papers

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  • people get told they have too few cites and need to add more. the result:

  • GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

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  • yeah, the drive to an IPO is purely escape hatch. they did one thing right in that being money bonfires is part of their well-known charm. But this much of a money bonfire, well.

  • plzdontkillus - Our friends discover TikTok

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  • I remember him wearing a suit a lot in the 2010s and looking reasonably respectable. He can, he just doesn't.

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    Tucson Project Blue: data centres lie about water again

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/19/tucson-project-blue-data-centres-lie-about-water-again/
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    GitHub Copilot AI token charges to go up 10×–100×

    pivot-to-ai.com /2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/