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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/

  • Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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  • and they're all using chatbots in their methodology and for the mandatory reviews

  • White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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  • I'm guessing ivermectin and miasma theory

  • White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

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  • “10,000 to 100,000 times faster.”

    You know they meant they'd ask a chatbot

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    White House: the US will fabricate science with chatbots

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/25/white-house-the-us-will-fabricate-science-with-chatbots/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • That seems potentially unwise.

  • Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

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  • hey hey hey!! there's always making it a Conference Proceeding

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    Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • That's a great question! If it's for an AI power station, it turns out that 3.6 roentgen is a nutritional requirement.

    Is there anything else I can help you with?

    • Health benefits of radioactive glue on pizza
    • Why South Memphis needs a nuclear reactor built in 6 months
    • Why you need an anime waifu who glows in the dark

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • plutonium, looks like:

    US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium - Oct 21st https://www.ft.com/content/2fbbc621-405e-4a29-850c-f0079b116216 https://archive.is/Pc949

    The Department of Energy on Tuesday published an application that nuclear energy groups can use to seek up to 19 metric tonnes of the government’s weapons-grade plutonium from cold war-era warheads.

    ...

    At least two companies, Oklo, which is backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and France’s Newcleo, are expected to apply to access the government’s plutonium stockpile.

    may I just say:

    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

    However, experts have raised concerns about the commercial use of plutonium and the risk of the material falling into the wrong hands.

    NO SHIT

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    Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/19/whoops-microsofts-new-windows-ai-agent-platform-lets-in-malware/

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • I'm sure there will be no issues setting up nuclear fuel handling at ports worldwide. Well, maybe one or two.

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • Trump was ready to give some Sam Altman project highly enriched uranium, though I'm not clear on whether that was 20% (already considered a serious proliferation risk) or full bomb-grade 95%.

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • helps to be the US Navy and not be worried about costs

    ship-sized SMR power is quite expensive!

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • I posit the Culture having the Californian accents, because they're liberal colonialism writ large but they're nice about it, until they aren't

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • christ these people are so bad at reading things

    Bezos loves the Culture too, and you can be sure he and Musk identify with the Minds

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • subtlety is wasted on most readers

  • Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

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  • have you ever met actual anti nuclear activists

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • The Affront are literally the colonial British, so they're easy

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • ooooh photographic matthew embarking upon his fshtech turn out loud at last?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd November 2025 - awful.systems

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  • who gets the California accents though

  • Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working

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  • It's chips specifically optimised to FP8 and FP4 without video outputs. Its only use is machine learning. That's assuming the hardware doesn't die of overheating in short order. This stuff was born to be e-waste.

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    Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/18/vibe-nuclear-lets-use-ai-shortcuts-on-reactor-safety/
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    Data Center Watch worries that anti-AI activism is working

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working/
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    Anthropic: Chinese AI hackers are after you! Security researchers call BS

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/14/anthropic-chinese-ai-hackers-are-after-you-security-researchers-call-bs/
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    No, fake AI music bought onto a minor chart is not actually popular

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/13/no-fake-ai-music-bought-onto-a-minor-chart-is-not-actually-popular/
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    GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/12/gema-wins-against-openai-on-copying-song-lyrics/
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    Getty Images loses UK suit against Stable Diffusion

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/11/getty-images-loses-uk-suit-against-stable-diffusion/
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    Rightmove discovers AI is no excuse for profit warnings

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/10/rightmove-discovers-ai-is-no-excuse-for-profit-warnings/
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    The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/07/the-futile-future-of-the-gigawatt-datacenter-by-nicholas-weaver/
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    Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/06/oxford-pretends-ai-benchmarks-are-science-not-marketing/
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    AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/05/ai-gets-45-of-news-wrong-but-readers-still-trust-it/
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    It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI Christmas TV ad

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/04/its-the-fake-thing-coca-cola-tries-another-ai-christmas-tv-ad/
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    MIT releases, then quietly removes, nonsense AI cybersecurity paper

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/11/03/mit-releases-then-quietly-removes-nonsense-ai-cybersecurity-paper/
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    AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/31/ai-makes-you-think-youre-a-genius-when-youre-an-idiot/
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    AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/30/ai-powered-by-old-jet-turbines-near-you/
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    OpenAI goes for-profit! What happens next?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/29/openai-goes-for-profit-what-happens-next/
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    Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/28/australia-sues-microsoft-for-forcing-copilot-ai-onto-office-365-customers/
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    Electronic Arts is losing income and crippled by debt? More AI!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/10/27/electronic-arts-is-losing-income-and-crippled-by-debt-more-ai/