Need to make a primal scream without gathering 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!
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 cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
This is quite minor, but itās very funny seeing the intern would-be sneerers still on rbuttcoin fall for the AI grift, to the point that its part of their modscript copypasta
Or in the pinned mod comment:
tfw youāre anti-crypto, but only because its a bad investing opportunity.
While itās always correct to laugh at crypto advocates, /r/buttcoin just isnāt very edifying lately. Thereās no depth to the criticism. It comes across as the āantiā version of wall street bets for people who lost their shirts, especially since The Appening, when a lot of subject matter experts left town.
ours is much better, it has the true buttcoin scorn without bothsidesing
accept no substitutes!
I donāt think that comment is unreasonable. LLMs can summarize large-ish amounts of information (as long as it fits in the context window) in a human-readable form, and while itās still prone to getting things wrong and Iād rather a human do it all day, it does do it ābetter than any other technologyā that I know of. We can argue about āuniqueā but strictly speaking it will almost certainly generate an image that didnāt exist before. Iād also rather a human make the image for qualityās sake, but being fast, cheap, and copyright-free is a useful enough combo in certain situations.
It doesnāt really bring up the main issues with AI, but I think thatās acceptable in the context, which is āHow is AI different from crypto in the context of r/Buttcoinā, and in that context ācrypto is completely uselessā and āAI has minimal uses which may or may not be worthwhile depending on how you evaluate the benefits and negativesā are meaningfully different.
Itās āreasonableā in context, I just thought itās funny that rbuttcoin would be headpatting AI at all, since its basically the exact same people pushing AI as the people pushing crypto with the exact same motives.
i came here from r/buttcoin and lmao
i mean technically it passes the very low bar of having a single non-criminal use case (mass manufacturing spam and other drivel)
some are not falling for it at least
in that thread: marketing dude who uses chatgpt, never had issues with incorrect results. i mean how would he even catch this, his entire field is uncut bullshit
What does āincorrectā even mean in a marketing context???
something you can get sued for