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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...)

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

article about the tactics that felon employs against the women bearing his children

features some notable sentences from his fixer, too. the sort of shit that just barely doesn’t qualify as him threatening to top off your kneecaps

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Do note how this legion of kid slaves shit shows how he both doesnt believe will go to mars nor that ai/robots can automate things.

You dont make new children to save civilization in 18+ years if you think in 2 years you will go to mars/build robots that automate everything/build the robotgod.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)
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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] nightsky@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

It really sucks so much how many coders embrace it. At my work, there is the looming introduction of code LLMs very soon, and I'm anxious to learn how many of my colleagues will happily use it, and the consequences it will have for me to deal with the results (and generally, how it will make me feel to work in an environment where these tools are embraced). I was hoping that the corporate bureaucracy would be slow enough that the AI bubble collapses before it's allowed to use the tools, but unfortunately management put a lot of pressure behind it and it all went faster than expected :(

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

not every programmer posts to social media...

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

Finally a use case for "AI": defrauding community colleges.

sigh

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Ok that is it, im changing my mind. All the rationalist genetics stuff is real and true as there is a fascism gene.

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[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Infamous Dr Who "big name fan" Ian Levine is using generative AI to recreate lost episodes of the show. This got some mainstream press coverage and fans seem miffed.

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[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Noted sex pest Andrew Cuomo wants to run for Mayor in New York, and he might actually have a chance given the incumbent Democratic candidate is corruption magnet Eric Adams. Housing is a big issue in New York, so what's Cuomo's plan? Well, his plan is to use chat gpt to write his plan.

Angry New York Democrats were using the slogan DREAM meaning Don't Rank Eric Adams for Mayor. It was then amended to Don't Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor, and amended again to Don't Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor.

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[–] nightsky@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No more CVEs, so I guess that means no more vulnerabilities, the computer security crisis is solved, who knew it would be that easy!

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

"Inference Magazine," a substack written by a young feller named "Wiseman" who, in the most recent article, says "nuh-uh, you're the parrot" to the work of Dr. Bender and co (and the rest of humanity, by extension).

https://inferencemagazine.substack.com/

The hackernews thread is a real Bad Philosophy turkey shoot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655780

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago

some parrots are more stochastic than others

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These people need to sit through a college level class on linguistics or something like that. This is a demonstration of why STEM majors need general higher education.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

ZITRON DROPPED

New piece from Ed Zitron - a 44-minute read about OpenAI's threat to the entire tech industry

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If OpenAI’s funding round with Softbank goes as planned, it’ll raise the equivalent of the entire GDP of Estonia — a fairly wealthy country itself, and one that’s also a member of Nato and the European Union. That alone should give you a sense of the truly insane scale of this.

so not only saltman is capable of burning enough power to be comparable to middle-sized euro country, he can also burn small euro country gdp

they are not serious people. damn if i only started grifting instead of getting socially useful skillset

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

New piece from Tante: These are not the same, arguing that the infrastrucure left after AI bubble's burst will leave infrastructure which will be actively damaging to a democratic society.

Its not the first piece I've seen about the bubble's potential aftermath (that goes to MAIHT3K), but it does give another perspective on it.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago

I can see tante's point. Besides AI datacenters being used for surveillance tech, I can also see LLM tech itself used nefariously post-bubble. Maybe maintaining an up-to-date LLM as a product is not viable, but a custom-trained model to snipe public online discourse around a crucial election could remain affordable for a wealthy fascist.

On the bright side, I am hoping for a brief period of powerful yet affordable gaming PCs thanks to retrofitted, slightly singed Blackwells.

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

JZW link but meat is a 404 article, don't wanna bypass their paywall

Hello fellow kids! Doing crimes is TIGHT!

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on "college protesters," "radicalized" political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers [...]

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

I was reminded of Risky Business and how some of the cybersecurity is sometimes relevant to this sub, which reminded me they talked about this Cryptocurrency people being actually rubber hosed

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