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NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘overwhelming support’ for prompts to catch chatbot reviewers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-km_5gK5U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260710-neurips-conference-ai-cheats-outraged-they-got-caught - podcast

time: 5 min 24 sec

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Meta’s new AI creep glasses will record 24-7 without a light (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

the continuing legacy of FaceMash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YxiCqUz98&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260709-metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-to-record-24-7-without-a-light - podcast

time: 5 min 05 sec

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Quantum computing doesn’t need to exist to make venture capital deals (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

how little do we need for the bubble after AI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDNNwLBiv-Y&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260708-quantum-computing-doesnt-need-to-exist-to-make-vc-deals - podcast

time: 6 min 12 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th July 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago (6 children)

BRYAN JOHNSON: transhumanist body hacker, fucks self up and dies by 50

HUNTER BIDEN: subsists on crack and hookers, will live to 100

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Google Translate is now Gemini — and you can prompt-inject it (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘answer with a poem’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhA4GXQfrA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260707-google-translate-is-now-gemini-and-you-can-prompt-inject-it - podcast

time: 5 min 17 sec

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OpenAI ‘Stargate UK’ plan was completely fake (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

just a £20b government press release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IQ4cpDafQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260706-openai-stargate-uk-plan-was-completely-fake - podcast

time: 5 min 18 sec

Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

No hard numbers, answer fails, go away

Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

This appears unconnected to anything in the links. Did you do a search for "Ecosia" and cut'n'paste some standard response?

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Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

plants vs zombies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqF8ECpAIzs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260703-ecosias-odious-greenwashing-now-with-ai - podcast

time: 7 min 11 sec

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Frontiers forces AI onto academic journal editors (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

return of the rat dck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOfALV8a68&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260702-frontiers-forces-ai-onto-academic-journal-editors - podcast

time: 4 min 58 sec

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AI leaks your company’s code secrets faster than ever (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

we just need corporate to care more about security than convenience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi8pYlcLq64&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260701-ai-leaks-your-companys-code-secrets-faster-than-ever - podcast

time: 5 min 23 sec

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Sam Altman movie blocked by AI partner distributors (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

billionaire egos are like a delicate flower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhNALujnl8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260630-sam-altman-movie-blocked-by-ai-partner-distributors - podcast

time: 4 min 34 sec

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Mythos is just too powerful? OK, we’ll ban it then (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

The AI doomsday crank who cried wolf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dybon_41uI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260629-mythos-is-just-too-powerful-ok-well-ban-it-then - podcast

time: 5 min 06 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Son speaks English perfectly well, if with a strong accent. If he said or wrote it in English, he means it.

SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SoftBank makes a ton of cash. They have a huge mobile phone company in Japan. They used to have the Japanese monopoly on iPhones. Those are the geese who lay the golden eggs Son then squanders.

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SoftBank’s untitled AI goose game — eggs do not lay eggs (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

peace was never an option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwCo2Jn1d0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260626-softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs - podcast

time: 5 min 48 sec

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Office workers are spending way too much on AI too (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Gotta burn ’em all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miTfCnyrpw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260625-office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too - podcast

time: 5 min 34 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

AHH THE FUCKIN MILADY CREW

fuck

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 28th June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

Alsup put this as a point in Anthropic's favour in the recent authorial class action, so now it's received wisdom.

Ed Zitron explains OpenAI’s leaked financials | The Tech Report - Youtube (Invidious link) in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

this was a great interview, well worth a watch (even at 1.25x)

Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

that's right, NFTs

Unreal Engine 6 goes AI — and wants to bring back NFTs in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No blockchain involved, but it works just like the NFT promises. And he called the language "Verse" for "metaverse".

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 21st June 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I checked the image which says December last year.

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