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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.

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(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 9 hours ago

Inventor sez "I locked myself in my apartment for 4 years to build this humanoid". Surprisingly, not a sexbot!

https://xcancel.com/lethic1/status/1839909404973642137

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

Surprisingly, not a sexbot!

would be a good album name

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 53 minutes ago

also series potential in there

Surprisingly (not), a sexbot!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 6 hours ago

not a sexbot!

Skill issue.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

You know that's for Gen 2.0

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This tech curve is about to go exponential, if you know what I'm sayin'

--venture capitalists, probably

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 52 minutes ago

all hail the hockey stick may we forever outspend all competition and reap the rewards of a ravaged market we solely control

[-] self@awful.systems 14 points 19 hours ago

one of OpenAI’s cofounders wrote some thoroughly unhinged shit about the company’s recent departures

Thank you, guys, for being my team and my co-workers. With each of you, I have collected cool memories — with Barret, when we had a fierce conflict about compute for what later became o1; with Bob, when he reprimanded me for doing a jacuzzi with a coworker; and with Mira, who witnessed my engagement.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

Fun fact: All of these incidents happened at the same jacuzzi party.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

I heard it was the same 50 parties, over and over

(or, well, the same party, x50...)

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

love a good second paragraph jumpscare

[-] jax@awful.systems 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

lmao this is weird as fuck, reminds me of the bullshit Lex Fridman comes up with, I can totally imagine him saying things like this

[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I can't be the only one reading that super passive aggressively right? "Thank you Barret, whom I hated. Bob, for ruining my hot Jacuzzi date. And Mira, for existing."

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

right with you on team passive aggressive.

[-] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 18 hours ago

I am in awe of the sheer number of GPUs... whose lives ChatGPT has changed.

If it was just this one line, this would be in the top 10 funniest things ever written around genAI. Too bad the rest of the rambling insanity ruins it.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 13 points 21 hours ago

A lobsters states the following in regard to LLMs being used in medical diagnoses:

If you have very unusual symptoms, for example, there’s a higher chance that the LLM will determine that they are outside of the probability space allowed and replace them with something more common.

Another one opines:

Don’t humans and in particular doctors do precisely that? This may be anecdotal, but I know countless stories of people being misdiagnosed because doctors just assumed the cause to be the most common thing they diagnose. It is not obvious to me that LLMs exhibit this particular misjudgement more than humans. In fact, it is likely that LLMs know rare diseases and symptoms much better than human doctors. LLMs also have way more time to listen and think.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 10 points 17 hours ago

Also please fill in the obligatory rant about how LLMs don't actually know any diseases or symptoms. Like, if your training data was collected before 2020 you wouldn't have a single COVID case, but if you started collecting in 2020 you'd have a system that spat out COVID to a disproportionately large fraction of respiratory symptoms (and probably several tummy aches and broken arms too, just for good measure).

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 19 hours ago

nothing hits worse than an able-bodied techbro imagining what medical care must be like for someone who needs it. here, let me save you from the possibility of misdiagnosis by building and mandating the use of the misdiagnosis machine

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 22 hours ago

Job interviews by AI avatars are real and happening, apparently https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/

[-] maol@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

Apparently An Post is the last holdout for crypto/AI/NFT synergy??

An Post unveils first AI-generated stamps

An Post has launched two artist-led generative AI-designed stamps featuring crypto technology in a first-ever for Ireland. Designer and AI Artist Kasia Oźmin crafted her visionary interpretation of an imaginary Ireland.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 16 hours ago

it's Friday so I probably won't get an answer till Monday or Tuesday, but I did contact their press office asking about why the fuck NFTs in TYOOL twenty fucking twenty four and the sensitive issue of the art being facile plagiarism by an advertising executive

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago

Found a good one in the wild

@senzamarezza@twitter.com

Didn't you know LLM stood for Limited Liability Machine

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

HN seems to be particularly deranged today, doesn't it?

It mostly seems to be a mopey debate over whether Saltman's impending apotheosis is good or bad.

[-] slopjockey@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago
[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 16 hours ago

you sure about that?

The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out. And the growing consensus is "why shouldn't you?", there is no escape from that.

This is someone who literally can't tell good writing from bad, so he assumes everyone is using AI

[-] imadabouzu@awful.systems 6 points 16 hours ago

He's so close to being depressed enough to maybe ask a vital and important question about meaning and his own relationships with technology. But probably he'll just buy more AI.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Watching AI guys slowly come around feels similar to how people have to care for their alcoholic relatives. Folks have to come to the point where they recognize where the unacceptable bullshit lies on their own, then you can show them the cold hard facts and a path back to the real world, but getting there is absolutely exhausting and often heartbreaking.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

True believers at Vox' Future Perfect "vertical" let out a hearfelt REEEEEE as Saltman makes the obvious move to secure all the profits

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/374275/openai-just-sold-you-out

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago

The Zitron-pilled among us probably suspect that part of the real reason for this is, ironically, to obscure the fact that OpenAI has no real profits because of how ludicrously expensive their models are to train and operate and how limited the actual use cases that people will pay for have proven. It's better from a "getting investor money" perspective to have everyone talking about how terrible it is that investor profits are no longer capped for humanitarian reasons than to have more people ask whether we're getting close to the peak of this bubble.

[-] sc_griffith@awful.systems 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

After years of sweet-talking the press, the public, and the policymakers in Congress, assuring all that OpenAI wants regulation and cares more about safety than about money, Altman is not even bothering to play games anymore. He’s showing everyone his true colors. Governor Newsom, are you seeing this? Congress, are you seeing this? World, are you seeing this?

this is so fucking funny. bro nobody but you is surprised

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 5 points 4 hours ago

Turns out those so called "wallet inspectors" just want your money!

Governor Newsom, are you seeing this?

Congress, are you seeing this?

World, are you seeing this??

[-] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

capitalist: does capitalism

liberal: Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You think capitalists would do that? Go in front of the government and tell lies?

E: this is also my feeling about Altman saying 'I did drugs and I changed bro'.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

I changed*

*I decided to get a blood boy!!!!

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

LSD powered mega-erections, all thanks to LSD (and the blood of my sons).

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

shocked that scorpions in a scorpion's nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

oh hey its that reoccurring thought I have about the "AI Safety" criti-hype popping back into my head

Expanding on that, part of me feels Altman is gonna find all the rhetoric he made about "AI doom" being used against him in the future - man's given the true believers reason to believe he'd commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck.

Hell, the true believers who made this pretty explicitly pointed out Altman's made arguing for regulation a lot easier:

ai safety irony

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago

I'm feeling a weird mix of emotions about this. It's not the cash grab by ol' salty dog; capitalism is doing its thing. I'm both elated that these idiot liberals feel betrayed by this turn of events and enraged that these liberal idiots exist to launder the reputation of techbros in the first place.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

a most shockedpikachu article, I love it

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

But the move has some observers ­— including Musk himself — asking: How could this possibly be legal?

Because the nonprofit is there to represent the public, this would effectively mean shifting billions away from people like you and me. As some are noting, it feels a lot like theft.

it continues to be astounding how gullible some people can be (/choose to stay?)

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not a sneer, but ~~Kendrick~~ Ed Zitron just dropped.

Its damn good as usual, with Zitron taking aim at the current state of SaaS and tying it into his previous sneers on AI.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 5 points 17 hours ago

Can we get a universe where Ed writes a verse on Kendrick's hopefully-imminent Elon Musk dis track?

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago
[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

a nsfw found in the wild

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