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 youāll 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 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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Pulling out a pretty solid Tweet @ai_shame showed me:
To pull out a point Iāve been hammering since Baldur Bjarnason talked about AIās public image, I fully anticipate techās reputation cratering once the AI bubble bursts. Precisely how the public will view the tech industry at large in the aftermath I donāt know, but Iād put good money on them being broadly hostile to it.
What. Wait has anyone claimed this? Because thatās absurd.
Oh, I wonder if they are referring to this shit, where somone came to r/lgbt fishing for compliments for the picture theyād asked Clippy for, and were completely clowned on by the entire community, which then led to another subreddit full of promptfans claiming that artists are transphobic because they didnāt like a generated image which had a trans flag in it.
It warms the cockles of my heart that all across the web people find AI as annoying as I do.
remembering the NFT grifter who loudly asserted that if you werenāt into NFTs then you must be a transphobe
(it was Fucking Thorne)
fondly remembering replying to these types of people with screenshots from the wikipedia page on affinity fraud. they really hated that
Considering how much the AI hype feels like the cryptocurrency hype, during which every joke you made had already been seriously used to make a coin and been pumped and dumped already, I wouldnāt be surprised at all.
Dunno but why not, after Nanowrimo claimed that opposing āAIā means youāre classist and ableist. Why not also make objecting be sexist, racist etc. Iām going to be ahead of the curve by predicting that being against ChatGPT will also be a red flag that youāre a narcissistic sociopath manipulator because uhh because abused women need ChatGPT to communicate with their toxic exes /s
I suspect itāll land somewhere above āhalitosisā but below āwearing black socks with crocsā