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[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In the spirit of the fondly-remembered "Cloud-to-Butt" plugin, I propose a new tool that transforms mentions of AI and LLMs to something else. But what shape should our word transformer take? While scatology is good shit, I bet we can come up with something more clever than "ChatGPT-to-Poop"

BTW, take 1d6 psychic damage when you realize that Cloud-to-Butt was released more than ten years ago

Edit: Favorite suggestions so far:

[-] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 11 points 4 months ago
[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Haha that’s a fantastic trophy to have :D

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

That must have been a glorious day!

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Colonizer Clippy

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

ChatGPT-to-third world employee? Bit too long, we prob can find a non-offensive shorter word for that.

[-] sinedpick@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

global southerner? edit: nah I don't like it.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

We could ask a LLM and see what they want us to call them. ;)

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

ChatGPT to Orphan Crushing Machine?

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago
[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hey, this could work...Bob is short and punchy, very butt-like!

AI->Bob

LLM->Robert

Specific Products->Random selection from (Bobby, Bobert, Robby, Boberino, Roberto, Bert, etc)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

It's difficult thinking of something better than butt, or even anything that isn't butt-adjacent (poop sandwich is my goto)

My pitch would be something garbage related. Hot wet trash, maybe?

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ok my real pitch is: something that can have agency, so that when the word substitution happens, you still have a parseable sentence, most of the time. Take “Garbage Ape” (from the heathcliff comics I guess), for example:

  • “I am a Garbage Ape ethicist”
  • “It’s Garbage Ape Welfare discussion week”
  • “I prompted a Garbage Ape to generate these image”
  • “I think Garbage Apes pose a serious existential threat”
  • “We’re proud to announce our new Garbage Ape, Steve”

Though it’s hard to pick a thing that conjures the right image.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

Dumpster Fire Elemental?

C:// Monkey?

NPNC (Nonplayer Noncharacter)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 4 months ago

Dumpster Fire Elemental is great. Could be shortened to just Dumpster Elemental. Then you could have DFE/DE for AGI/AI. But also just DFE in full for everything is good too.

The rest are good but I think a little too in the neighbourhood of AI for me- I want to forget about this substitution, then later encounter an article talking about how dumpster fire elementals are consuming more energy per day than all of europe and wonder what the hell is going on, before remembering I have the plugin installed. But that’s just my stupid opinion :)

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

DFE just made me think up Directed Finite Generata as a thing and now I am absolutely going to use it on some promptfondlers sometime to make them itch

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

ooh, those first and last ones have potential!

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Do Garbage Apes dream of electric slurp juice?

[-] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

thinking "typewriter monkeys", but maybe that's too literal

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Piss Juicebox (ok that is scatological, this is SO HARD)

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

My candidates, in no particular order:

  • crap
  • bullshit
  • bollocks
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