dgerard

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‘Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed’

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtE4YzbPt1U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260526-pope-leo-to-ai-bros-just-stop-it - podcast

time: 5 min 16 sec

 

They have played us for absolute fools

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260525-stop-doing-searches - podcast

time: 1 min 54 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/25/stop-doing-searches/ - blog post, but you want the audio

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 4 days ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

i wish it didn't

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and in Arizona, even the Republicans care about the water

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

\o/ send them a big trans cake from us!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

as if they didn't put enough of a lie to it when they go to court to stop the details being released

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

this is likely tomorrow's Pivot

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I called it out as lies and bullshit, the poster asserted it was totally true and I asked for numbers to support this statistical claim.

 

We are defederating awful.systems from:

because it's extremely anarchist to use the chatbot as your moderator (no no it's totally human in the loop) and post corporate DARVO-filled excuses when caught.

see also [1] and [2]

This is a last straw after a string of dubious and exhausting behaviour.

If you're an awful.systems user and you post to communities on those instances, you will need to create an account on one of them.

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