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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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3 points

Pulling a random post from Bluesky:

The linked rant is a damn good read, BTW.

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caption: “”“AI is itself significantly accelerating AI progress”“”

wow I wonder how you came to that conclusion when the answers are written like a Fallout 4 dialogue tree

  • “YES!!!”
  • “Yes!!”
  • “Yes.”
  • "               (yes)"
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So we have this new tech that makes stuff up and also is a bit racist at times? Lets use it to monitor employees, of course it also trains to replace your job.

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This is fucked even without the hallucinating Clippy in the backend.

If your desktop is idle for more than 30-60 seconds (no “meaningful” mouse & keyboard movement), you get a red flag

People getting flogged flagged for being lazy for a few seconds reminds me of something …

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Flagged by AI for being lazy for being the one guy in the office who actually refills the coffee machine.

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Oh hey looks like another Chat-GPT assisted legal filing, this time in an expert declaration about the dangers of generative AI: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-professor-lying-and-technology-19937258.php

The two missing papers are titled, according to Hancock, “Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance” and “The Influence of Deepfake Videos on Political Attitudes and Behavior.” The expert declaration’s bibliography includes links to these papers, but they currently lead to an error screen.

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

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