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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 3 months ago by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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.

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

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[–] ibt3321@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Someone made a... thing where you run all your mastodon toots through a prompt before posting them and thought it would be a great idea to let us lemmy users know. Comes with ugly autoplag image on the github. The names of the "bots" are hilarious: "ennui" for low-effort posts; I don't think that word means what they think it means. "Legion" for automatic spam posts. Cause that's not a dogwhistle or anything.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Legion” for automatic spam posts. Cause that’s not a dogwhistle or anything.

Their name is Legion, for there are too fucking many.

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[–] ibt3321@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So the code doesn't make use of any LLM, it's just incredibly basic shit like string.toUpper(). It's curious how much the author wants to make it seem like it does. Even one guy on lemmy asks

Is it so that you don't have to read replies?

It will be added

Aargh, what's the point??

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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ed Zitron found this post about a WIlly-Wonka-Experience-style cheese injection facility in Toronto:

https://xcancel.com/i_zzzzzz/status/1865956680481354184#m

This is what it was like to live in Chasm City during the Melding Plague.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"The Fancy Induced Burger" is what you nickname your baby if your pregnancy goes past the due date

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is it, im joining the Conjoiners to become an engine.

[–] saucerwizard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

imma knight of cydonia

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

yet another whistleblower is dead; this time, it’s the OpenAI copyright whistleblower Suchir Balaji

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Character dot AI continues to be contemptible.

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/12/10/tech/character-ai-second-youth-safety-lawsuit/index.html

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[–] NextElephant9@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment.

Thread on r/technology.

edited to add:

From his personal website: When does generative AI qualify for fair use?

[–] NextElephant9@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Just received a newsletter from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 about their book The AI Con - How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want being available for preorder. I'm looking forward to it!

[–] TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Let them fight. https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit/

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

found a new movie plot threat https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158

funded by open philanthropy, but not only and also got some other biologists onboard. 10 out of 39 authors had open philanthropy funding in the last 5 years so they're likely EAs. highly speculative as of now and not anywhere close to being made, as in we'll be dead from global warming before this gets anywhere close from my understanding. also starting materials would be hideously expensive because all of this has to be synthetic and enantiopure, and every technique has to be remade from scratch in unnatural enantiomer form. it even has LW thread by now hxxps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/87pTGnHAvqk3FC7Zk/the-dangers-of-mirrored-life

it hit news https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/a-second-tree-of-life-could-wreak-havoc-scientists-warn.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I read the headline yesterday and thought, "This is 100% fundraising bullshit."

This strikes me as being exact same class of thing OpenAI does when they pronounce that their product will murder us all.

What do we call this? Marketerrorism?

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

i see how it's critihype but i don't understand where's money in this one

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