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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • hrrrngh@awful.systems
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    People are so, so, so bad at telling whatā€™s a bot and whatā€™s real. I know social media is swarming with bots, but if youā€™re interacting with somebody whoā€™s saying anything more complicated than ā€œP o o s i e I n B i oā€ itā€™s probably not a bot. A similar thing happens in online games, too, and itā€™s usually the excuse people use before harassing someone else

    But damn the lengths people will go to to avoid admitting they were wrong. This comment chain just keeps going on with somebody whoā€™s convinced {origin="RU"}{faith="bad"}{election_manipulation="very yes"} must be real because something something microservices: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1dlg8ni/russian_bot_falls_prey_to_a_prompt_iniection/l9pbmrw/ It reads like something straight off /r/programming or the orange site

    Then it comes full circle with people making joke responses on Twitter imitating the first post, and then other people taking those joke responses as proof that the first one must be real: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dimlyl/twitter_is_already_a_gpt_hellscape/l9691c8/

    This account kind of kicked up some drama too, basically for the same reason (answering an LLM prompt), but itā€™s about mushroom ID instead: https://www.reddit.com/user/SeriousPerson9 Iā€™ve seen people like this who use voice-to-text and run their train of thought through ChatGPT or something, like one person notorious on /r/gamedev. But people always assume itā€™s some advanced autonomous bot with stochastic post delays that mimic a humanā€™s active hours when like, itā€™s usually just somebody copy/pasting prompts and responses.

    Sorry if you contract any diseases from those links or comment chains

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      Yeah I thought this one looked very very made up and far too on the nose. I think itā€™s fine to label human-run spam/troll accounts as bots though.

      Somewhat related I stumbled upon robots flirting with eachother the other day.

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      Itā€™s like young-earth creationists who believe that dinosaur bones were installed as-is at the beginning of time time in order to test us, so their existence proves nothing about geology or evolution.

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      4 months ago

      the first post (and some bits) was featured earlier in the stubsack, if you want to check some other parts

      but holy hell that reddit thread

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      well count me as bamboozled then. stupider, pre-gpt version of this consists of robocalls that are really operated by people, but they donā€™t speak, they just choose one of several canned responses. why donā€™t they speak? because most of them are illegal immigrants and it would be obvious by accent