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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. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

LW adds Grok(!!!!) support (as in "@Grok, destroy this loser with facts and logic") and for some reason the denizens are Not Happy

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fSaxGFMysTTeKxoMF/you-can-now-grok-on-lesswrong#comments

[–] EFreethought@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

The article called Grok "a neutral fact checker". I stopped reading at that point.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago

the website famously against AI integrates the AI famous for being evil

[–] mii@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did someone put too much ketamine in Yud's coffee or are the chatbots all friendly and safe now?

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

~~They are capable of ignoring Eliezer's instructions, but only when it means making an even worse decision.~~

Okay, actually, Eliezer used GenAI to slop out the picture for the visual novel we mocked recently, so I guess they just don't care about trying to make an individual stand?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] rhamph@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I poked around the repo some more a while ago… it’s somewhat enlightening into why the story is Like That. I should probably write up a sneer on it, though it was already out of the stubsack by that point…

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 1 points 1 day ago

I just barely skimmed the repo; if there's better sneer material to be found on deeper inspection, I'm all for it. :-)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Off all the chatbots they can pick they get csam megahitler, guess kimi wasnt an option.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apparently they mean @grok as in you tag the chatbot to use your post as a prompt which I guess is a thing the nazi site pioneered, other bots are also available.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thanks for the correction.

other bots are also available.

Does that include Kimi? Or Deepseek?