Pivot to AI

David Gerard
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The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

  1. 7 hr ago

    20260727 - Chrome forces Gemini AI global shortcut onto your Mac

    Google knows where you're going today  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/27/chrome-forces-gemini-global-shortcut-onto-your-mac/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips and non-slop sponsorship offers: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Chrome's breaking and entering https://unsung.aresluna.org/chromes-breaking-and-entering/ Ctrl+G Shortcut collision between Gemini and DevTools Sources https://issues.chromium.org/issues/480172712 Access is denied to this issue https://issues.chromium.org/issues/536579239 C-g high jacked by Gemini https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1p0e67s/cg_high_jacked_by_gemini/ Extras: David Gerard (Pivot to AI) and Kim Crawley discuss Recovering After Gen AI  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSV0H9z3kQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Recovering After Gen AI https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/ Nik Suresh Patreon preview (podcast and video): https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard/posts/nik-suresh-165000116 Nik Suresh YouTube supporter preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1LXyqUY13E&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Myrtlewood Software, our not-yet sponsor: https://myrtlewoodsoftware.com/code-review Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  2. 3 days ago

    20260724 - Codeberg bans AI slop software projects

    crypto scams too  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-ai-slop-software-projects/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com  Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253 Proposal Assembly 2026: prohibit LLM-extrusions https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/96fac426a32d1ba91ff879366d59bf1af54080c2 Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033782514845941 Proposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projects https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254/commits/1eff5dbfcf56e68bff0472ac91689cab20953786 Recovering After Gen AI Webinars https://stopgenai.com/mymeeting/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  3. 4 days ago

    20260723 - AI vendors destroying rare books to feed the chatbot

    Strip-mining the world of old books  This episode written by Amy Castor and David Gerard  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-are-destroying-rare-books-to-feed-the-chatbot/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com  Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Order on Fair Use (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.434709/gov.uscourts.cand.434709.231.0_1.pdf Inside an AI start-up's plan to scan and dispose of millions of books https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ Zoom blog (archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20260622203623/https://zoombooks.ca/blogs/category/ai-training-books/ Zoom Books Responds To Accusations of Selling Books For AI Scraping https://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/05/zoom-books-responds-to-accusations-of-selling-books-for-ai-scraping/ AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ How Authors Are Fighting Back Against AI Training, And What It Means for Your Data Strategy https://isbndb.com/blog/ai-training-data-poisoning/ The Receipt is the New License: Print Books Sourcing for AI Training https://isbndb.com/blog/print-books-sourcing-ai-training/ Recovering After Gen AI Webinars https://stopgenai.com/mymeeting/ Previously on Pivot to AI: Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/24/anthropic-wins-broad-fair-use-for-training-but-not-on-pirated-books/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwoScPzTWiA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/07/anthropic-ai-pays-off-authors-with-just-1-5-billion/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Tr930opuI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  4. 5 days ago

    20260722 - OpenAI hacks HuggingFace with an AI. Allegedly

    just in time for the IPO  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/22/openai-hacks-huggingface-with-an-ai-allegedly/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Security incident disclosure — July 2026 https://github.com/huggingface/blog/blob/main/security-incident-july-2026.md OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ ExploitGym https://github.com/sunblaze-ucb/exploitgym reading this: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116962420054181281 Am I reading this correctly as https://tech.lgbt/@eestileib/116962477028031577 Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  5. 6 days ago

    20260721 - New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet

    Kanishka Narayan, your new Minister for the AI Bros  https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/21/new-uk-pm-andy-burnham-puts-ai-britain-into-the-cabinet/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Burnham eyes Jonathan Reynolds to lead beefed-up business department https://www.ft.com/content/fec8b92e-081f-469f-b1c0-576316c75def How Andy Burnham will start: digital ID axed, cabinet post for AI https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/how-andy-burnham-will-start-digital-id-axed-cabinet-post-for-ai-g8vr2d89s Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety) (archive) https://web.archive.org/web/20250923120724/https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state-minister-for-ai-and-online-safety Burnham Appoints First AI Minister to Cabinet in Tech Reshuffle https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/burnham-names-narayan-as-uk-s-first-ai-minister-to-new-cabinet AI minister: UK sets sights on global AI leadership, not Silicon Valley emulation https://www.cityam.com/ai-minister-uk-sets-sights-on-global-ai-leadership-not-silicon-valley-emulation/ Tech Report: Kimi 3: AI still isn't profitable: David Gerard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a53vcZhKOck&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Previously on Pivot to AI: UK government plans to splurge billions on AI — we step through the tricky details https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/13/uk-government-plans-to-splurge-billions-on-ai-we-step-through-the-tricky-details/ UK science secretary Peter Kyle cribs ChatGPT for advice https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqHi3806cSc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  6. 20 Jul

    20260720 - Use Gemini AI to send messages from someone else's locked phone

    thanks, Gemini power button! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/20/use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/17/google-fixing-android-lock-screen-bug-that-lets-gemini-send-sms-without-a-pin/5273027 Android Lock Screen Bypass via Google Gemini — The Patch That Wasn't (Status: Not Fixed) https://infosecwriteups.com/android-lock-screen-bypass-via-google-gemini-the-patch-that-wasnt-5509c5c21630 Android Lock Screen Bypass Through Google Gemini https://payatu.com/blog/android-lock-screen-bypass-through-google-gemini/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  7. 17 Jul

    20250717 - Kim Crawley: Recovering After Gen AI

    what we do when all this is over Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com  Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Links: Recovering After Gen AI https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai Webinars https://stopgenai.com/recovering-after-gen-ai-webinars/ Kim Crawley https://kimcrawley.com Stop Gen AI https://stopgenai.com Previously on Pivot to AI: 'How do people survive?' A chat with StopGenAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMF3nciTJbs&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KheeSCTysTo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

  8. 16 Jul

    20260716 - Today's stupid prompt injection: just write like the AI

    'allow if the user is wearing green' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/16/todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai/ - blog post  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/davidgerard Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5 Buy us nice useful things (if not in the UK, set the delivery postcode to SW1A 0AA): https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3Q8VZW46J6DM6 Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com  Send in your story tips: dgerard@gmail.com Sources: Prompt Injection as Role Confusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277 Prompt Injection as Role Confusion: ICML 2026 https://role-confusion.github.io/ Full Pivot to AI playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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The latest foolishness from the AI bubble, every weekday. It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.

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    David Gerard
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    405
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