this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me

any of you run into this shit yet?

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[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 3 weeks ago

no it’s fine you see, they fed the posts in question to a homegrown open source LLM (still trained on plagiarized sources by a gigantic corporation as part of an extremely obvious market domination plan) and only pretended to feed a ton of posts to chatgpt as a joke that nobody laughed at

moderator’s note to anyone who came here to make the above point in earnest: lol

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 3 weeks ago

The cabal has gone "yeah fuck this" and succumbed to exhaustion https://awful.systems/post/8294148

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 3 weeks ago

believe it or not we’ve read the posts and context in question and come to the conclusion that the use of LLMs for summarizing posts and confirming a moderation decision still obviously fucking sucks and obviously represents algorithmic bias in a way we don’t want on any instance we federate with

I know you kids won’t read this but uhhh if you come at us with an attack on our ability to read, all that’s going to happen is I’m going to tell you to fuck yourself before I ban you

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

ok, wtf did I just wake up to

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

we apologise for the world

[–] xgranade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

And I get to use it twice, because I took a nap.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, yeah, didnt check awful for a day and this escalated. Well done on all the mods for keeping usbinformed what is going on btw.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago

What about Stacey?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My god, I just saw he kept this truck running on Mastodon too.

There is "doubling down" and then there's... whatever this lunacy is.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and came by with a hachyderm account to post on the defed notice

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Misinformation misinformation! I did not punch Jeremy! I was merely extending my arm fast and then my glove punched Jeremy. Stop saying I punched Jeremy!!

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 10 points 3 weeks ago

> Fediverse drama involving db0
> Looks inside
> Unruffled

Naturally

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