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No hallucinations? Takes too long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrkI7XEnfRA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260714-uk-police-will-run-evidence-through-the-ai-its-quicker - podcast

time: 5 min 04 sec

‘It gave us steps on what we have to do ... 18 of us died in the process’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260713-terrorists-are-using-ai-and-the-chatbot-is-killing-them - podcast

time: 8 min 05 sec

now, I’m no business guy but this seems pretty bad for a pre-IPO OpenAI

More links: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft/

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

‘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

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

‘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

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid - welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this, and happy 4th July in advance.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.

Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this, and happy 4th July in advance.)

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

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

and sends engineers to the AI gulag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fw6hnJb_1E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260624-meta-keeps-staff-typing-for-ai-training-then-leaks-it - podcast

time: 4 min 42 sec

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/41668924

Google has to follow a regulation for once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fku2tzBTNnI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260623-uk-press-can-opt-out-of-ai-overviews-stay-in-search-results - podcast

time: 3 min 44 sec

Become a Unitarian Universalist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kB4zFlEDjw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260622-religious-exemption-from-using-the-ai-at-work - podcast

time: 3 min 57 sec

In an idle moment, I thought I’d explore the space of ridiculously bad ai company names. Literally the very first dystopia I thought of already has three ai companies named after it, and it hardly seemed worth exploring any further.

Because no one has got around to repealing poe’s law, I cannot tell if these are a bunch of idiot techbros, or people taking the piss out of idiot techbros, so I leave you to judge for yourself. Behold, people who think that “we tortured a child to bring you glossy web UIs” is a great corporate image:

1. Omelas AI

AI-driven software development. Enterprise platforms delivered at startup speed.

I think they’re a consultancy? “One developer with AI produces what a 30-person agency does. 10+ production platforms in under two years.”

2. Omelas IO

Omelas is the maker of Atreus, the leading AI research companion for foreign policy, national security, and geopolitical risk. Atreus has access to the Omelas database, multidomain intelligence, and unique research methods, yielding unparalleled insights in minutes.

“Atreus is the AI workbench purpose-built for intelligence work, fusing unique feeds, open-source intelligence, commercial data, satellite imagery and telemetry data into reports your analysts can act on immediately” which I guess means that they’re palantir wannabes, with the USP that they’ve grossly misunderstood le guin instead of Tolkien.

3. omelas.tech

Omelas builds software across privacy, social connection, developer tools, and AI — designed and engineered in the Netherlands.

Another consultancy. They claim they make “thoughtful products”, hopefully with more thought than they put into their branding. Proof that inability to understand fantasy and sci-fi isn’t limited to silicon valley, or native english speakers.