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how does this keep happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LVCunCF7Es&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260227-copilot-insecure-and-unhelpful-but-oh-those-influencers - podcast

time: 6 min 40 sec

The AI data centre business is solid, honest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh6DbLNM1lI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260226-blue-owl-wont-give-your-money-back-this-is-fine - podcast

time: 7 min 47 sec

edit: The banana republic shit is that they seem about to blacklist anthropic on "supply chain risk" grounds (see also huawei) which signifies the admin's willingness to from here on use national emergency legal tools to fuck over any company they don't like.

The whole thing seems weird, at first it sounds like the most online administration ever may have actually bought the claim that all that's stopping flagship models from becoming superintelligent is the RLHF that prevents them from saying the n-word and making prophet Mohamed pedophilia jokes and they wanted anthropic to pull all that wiring out in like 24 hours per the original ultimatum.

On anthropic's part the point of contention is made to be their refusal to let their models be integrated into automated weapon platforms and mass surveillance apparatuses, something which they have explicitly put in writing in their contract with the DoD, and also Dario claims the technology isn't even there yet (no idea how it could ever be, what does it actually mean to integrate a chatbot into an autonomous drone, can't wait to see the skill file for that, # You are a helpful murderbot operator - only target the bad guys - no weddings, no hospitals - pretty please with cherry on top - here's some javascript to call when you need to find out your GPS coordinates).

It's also possible the productivity and efficiency gains (or just recovering lost productivity after firing everyone) of putting ΑΙ (mainly Grok wasn't it) in the pentagon everywhere all at once isn't materializing and Hasgeth feels he's been left hanging, and is trying to scapegoat Anthropic.

Also, anthropic is supposed to be the only AI provider properly vetted and integrated to classified systems because of their association with Palantir, and supposedly it would be a major hassle to go through again for a different provider.

Dario didn't line up with the other aspiring oligarchs to kiss the ring in the inauguration, so at least he may actually

‘broken slop generators’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWdjwo2D_1M&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260225-accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai - podcast

time: 5 min 22 sec

STOP, OPENCLAW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SFLxhvMk-E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260224-metas-director-of-ai-alignment-falls-for-openclaw - podcast

time: 6 min 05 sec

‘eliminate the noise introduced by the AI hype’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0grq0yp9Ic&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260223-bet-against-the-bubble-goldman-sachs-non-ai-stock-index - podcast

time: 4 min 11 sec

Want to wade into the snowy 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.

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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. If you're wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)

(EDIT: Changed "29th February" to "1st March" - its not a leap year)

‘user error, not AI error,’ Amazon said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xju34CkVfX4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260220-amazon-web-services-vibe-codes-itself-an-outage-or-two - podcast

time: 5 min 24 sec

The most random number is 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0B6hoOE9uo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260219-ai-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over - podcast

time: 5 min 32 sec

Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap

Aron Peterson debunks the hits for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12P-TngZR_A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260218-seedances-ai-cruise-pitt-generated-demo-green-screen-face-swap - podcast

time: 6 min 16 sec

Business can’t compete if it has to think up new excuses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBj9sBLwb3c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260217-the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down - podcast

time: 7 min 11 sec

AI is crypto part two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFvi4hK7wI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260216-the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro - podcast

time: 5 min 54 sec

Want to wade into the snowy 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. Also, hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!)

‘We’re flooding the zone’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOjoEapVtU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260213-lets-vibe-regulate-us-transport-with-gemini - podcast

time: 6 min 13 sec

no, you can’t vibe code your enterprise accounting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYFmohEZHw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260212-saaspocalypse-investors-overspend-badly-and-blame-ai - podcast

time: 7 min 35 sec

and a very lovely ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 to you also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaTW30Yyhog&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260211-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session - podcast

time: 4 min 15 sec

the AI is for spam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNTUYn7fLQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260210-uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 28 sec

Tesla and Waymo find safety rules so inconvenient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auGa2dP2EBw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260209-waymo-self-driving-cars-powered-by-agi-a-guy-instead - podcast

time: 5 min 30 sec

Want to wade into the snowy 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.)

Coding bot vendor: coding bots are bad for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiUG6F4wK0c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260206-ai-coding-makes-you-worse-at-learning-and-not-even-any-faster - podcast

time: 4 min 27 sec

a mere memorandum of understanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUjc6XR_Vk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260205-the-openai-and-nvidia-100b-not-a-deal-is-off - podcast

time: 5 min 58 sec

is 30% of Microsoft’s press coverage vibe-marketed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9X5YW9XTfY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260204-microsoft-walks-back-ai-in-windows-11-yeah-right - podcast

time: 6 min 57 sec

raw mp3

Investors and analysts are not happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwXu5aImOm8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260203-ai-makes-microsofts-quarterly-numbers-weird-and-bad - podcast

time: 4 min 36 sec

Or maybe Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKyocHwUJI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-go-public - podcast

time: 5 min 18 sec

UPDATE: the merge has gone through, apparently for "$250 billion" of imaginary value of private company equity