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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.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers

A trend on Reddit that sees Londoners giving false restaurant recommendations in order to keep their favorites clear of tourists and social media influencers highlights the inherent flaws of Google Search’s reliance on Reddit and Google's AI Overview.

Anyways, personal sidenote:

Beyond putting another blow to AI's reliability, this will probably also make the public more wary of user-generated material - its hard to trust something if you know the masses could be actively manipulating you.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bad feelings today. Google announced that an artist I like, Jacob Collier, has been working with them to develop an LLM based tool for music autoplag.

A little context: Collier has like 5 grammies, and is an incredibly creative artist that is able to take ideas and influence from disparate sources and synthesise something interesting (it’s not always good though…). Likely the greatest musician of his generation!

I don’t want to catastrophise too much here but I’m not looking forward to this being used as a cudgel from the promptfondlers.

The only open question I think is: to what extent is the music generation autoplag? (My guess, 100%)

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Jacob Collier to me is the archetype of the rich kid with enormous talent and not an ounce of taste or integrity, so I can't say I'm very surprised by this.

See also this nonsense, though now it looks rather innocent compared to the google news.

He's such a waste of musical ability it makes me angry and his face is annoying!

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The age of book shovelware has arrived: https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2024/10/ai-audiobook-narrators-in-overdrive-and-the-issue-of-library-ai-circulation-policy/

Edit: TIL about the US copyright office website’s ai generation info on works. That’s a thing we will be making a bunch of use of, I imagine.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago

Not a sneer, but perhaps interesting even if less so as we are focusing a bit less here on the Rationalists. Twitter thread on race science bullshit popularized on the various Rationalism extended forums.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

poor Musky lost custody. Couldn’t handle Grimes, now he mangles rhymes.

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"Life, it never die

Women are my favorite guy."

Wonder what is up with the folks and them getting into rhymes/poetry. Jordan B Peterson does something simple (his pinned tweet as example here. But we know he fried parts of his brain using the russian coma rehab method.

And it isn't even the Sinterklaas period yet. No need for bad rhymes. (I'm also suddenly reminded of all the people who tried to 'rap' their messages in the late 90s).

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well my name is Jordan and I’m here to say/ we’re just like lobsters in a major way

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Vivaldi Browser has an important teaser AI announcement: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/113351393167122198

spoiler"It's not AI"

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago

Parents Sue School That Gave Bad Grade to Student Who Used AI to Complete Assignment

An old and powerful force has entered the fraught debate over generative AI in schools: litigious parents angry that their child may not be accepted into a prestigious university.

The tabloids are gonna be going nuts over this.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

guest star of recent sneers kache is at it again

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Update: The QRTs are mainly sneering, but this one's particularly good

EDIT: Against my better judgment, I'm letting another sidenote come out:

If you wanna encourage people to drop the master/slave naming scheme, this guy probably gave you a good bit of ammo. Changing a random naming scheme is a pretty low-priority task under most circumstances, but it gets a lot more tempting when it lets you distance yourself from people like this

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