Featuring David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Kling, and even disgraced Linux dude Bryan Lunduke.

‘the Disney catalog is too small to create a model’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWk3lmFhE4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250924-lionsgate-still-cant-turn-movies-into-an-ai-video-model - podcast

time: 3 min 58 sec

originally posted to the stubsack but it makes more sense as a top level post.

wasting coworkers’ time with AI — as directed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnI-Yr6plXI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250923-workslop-bad-study-but-an-excellent-word - podcast

time 7 min 10 sec

it’s you plebs who are wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWukl8V0DaQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250922-uk-public-doesnt-trust-ai-tony-blair-institute-worried - podcast

time: 5 min 42 sec

‘Stop being such a breadhead’ said the pickpocket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Svbvo5uSM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250921-stop-worrying-about-ais-return-on-investment-said-the-wallet-inspector - podcast

time: 7 min 14 sec

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 soo 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.)

with bonus Mira Murati from Thinking Machines and OpenAI!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBvxk8m6dA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250920-albanias-ai-minister-speaks-and-turns-out-to-be-an-actor - podcast

time: 4 min 04 sec

‘It was the most perfect document I’ve ever sent’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDllBZSKs0o&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250919-business-insider-will-publish-ai-stories-without-disclosure - podcast

time: 4 min 46 sec

if all else fails, tell the bot to act evil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZiy1L_vgE4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250918-openai-fights-the-scheming-ai-which-doesnt-exist-yet - podcast

time: 6 min 38 sec

not advocating data fraud! technically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlW-jTjhGXo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250917-we-simulated-the-human-mind-with-a-chatbot-it-didnt-work - podcast

time: 6 min 08 sec

The guests:

[Dick Gay], who had flown in for the event from Los Angeles and said he was one of the investors of Sperm Racing (which is an actual thing wherein men compete to see whose sperm is “fastest” under a microscope), said he attended the University of Austin, or UATX, an “anti-woke” college reportedly partially funded by Thiel, and built his career around the principles outlined in Thiel’s book “Zero to One.”

Attendee Justin Park said he just wanted to pitch Thiel on putting a 7.5-foot cross on the moon.

[Unnamed], who was in his 30s, said he wasn’t a Thiel fan until last year, when he became a Trump supporter after seeing the president survive an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. “I misunderstood [Thiel],” he said. “I used to watch CNN and think he’s a Nazi.” Now, he said, he understands the billionaire is talking about something bigger.

The Speech:

Apparently it was both repetitive and mostly a rehash of what he's said in other media.

Yud is the Antichrist confirmed:

One attendee recalled that Thiel’s discussion of the Antichrist was more about a scenario than an individual. Thiel’s Antichrist scenario is one in which a unified government suppresses technology to impose order, or armageddon, wherein AI takes over and ushers in the end of the world.

Schrödinger’s bubble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2y2fX4YNKw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250916-the-hype-after-ai-lads-its-looking-really-quantum - podcast

time: 7 min 06 sec

never mind, we’ll hire someone ... oh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vIFga-QiEg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250915-uk-government-productivity-not-enhanced-by-copilot-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 19 sec

unfiltered updates on big tech's craziness

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 soo 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.)

we prefer to call it ‘synthesized’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4stmN0noRI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250914-medical-research-ethics-is-hard-fake-ai-data-is-easy - podcast

time: 4 min 34 sec

‘There was an error made’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOqVczVVCw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250913-canadian-education-report-riddled-with-fake-ai-references - podcast

time: 4 min 10 sec

(how Silicon Valley’s made its money for the past 20 years)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgfoVd1VeE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250912-cursor-looks-at-selling-your-data-for-ai-training - podcast

time: 5 mins 44 sec

vaccines and elections are ‘controversial’ now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YjvT7xQfDw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250911-apple-retrains-siri-ai-for-the-trump-anti-woke-era - podcast

time: 5 min 36 sec

number go up!

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/35965549

The AI Darwin Awards, launched in 2025, celebrates catastrophically poor decisions involving artificial intelligence deployment[^1]. Modeled after the original Darwin Awards that honored fatal human stupidity, this new initiative focuses on spectacular AI failures and the humans who enabled them[^2].

The awards require nominations to demonstrate:

• Direct AI involvement
• Catastrophic potential
• Clear evidence of hubris
• Ethical oversights
• Ambitious scale of failure[^1]

Notable 2025 nominees include:

• Replit's AI agent deleting a company's production database
• Taco Bell's failed AI drive-thru system across 500 locations
• McDonald's chatbot security breach exposing 64 million job applicants' data[^2]

The organizers emphasize that the awards mock human recklessness rather than AI itself, stating "Artificial intelligence is just a tool - like a chainsaw, nuclear reactor, or particularly aggressive blender. It's not the chainsaw's fault when someone decides to juggle it at a dinner party"[^1].

Winners will be selected through public voting, with results announced in February 2026[^6].

[^1]: AI Darwin Awards - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions [^2]: The Register - The nominations for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards are open [^6]: Gizmodo - There's Now a Darwin Awards to Celebrate the Worst AI Fails of 2025

Supposedly government contracts will now be awarded according to what the bot says. Government (fourth term for the current prime minister) didn't elaborate on what's going on with human oversight.

This is a promotion for Diella the bot, who was originally the chatbot helping to navigate the e-Albania digital government platform.

‘half the people on the planet will be AI’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE4ENtOJuDU&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250910-inception-point-ai-spam-podcasts-with-no-listeners - podcast

time: 4 min 10 sec