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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it isā¦ uhā¦ not good.
But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.
https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l
Transcript:
They say the unexamined life isnāt worth living, but outsourcing the examination to an LLM gives you more time to hustle and grind, maximizing financial returns. Thatās what they mean, right?
relatedly, Josh Johnsonās video about this is pretty great. Iām afk rn but Iāll get a link soon and update
e: link
Of course! Itās to know less and less, until truly, the only thing they know is that they know nothing.
slightly OT veering to the point: I try to maintain a relatively diverse set of feeds on muh socials, including finding people from other cultures and backgrounds in that. and yet Iād ended up muting this person some months ago for constantly being very Thotleader with borderline populist āedgyā takes that always have some pernicious shit wrong with it
this skeet is a perfect example of it.
Yeah, I found his credulousness about "AI"quite amusing. Like when he went to a wrong station in Japan, because he asked ChatGPT. And posted about it, not realizing how much of a dumbass it made him look like. But itās starting to wear off.
But hey, he at least admits there is a bubble.
And also, I havenāt unfollowed/muted/blocked Mike Masnick yet. And heās at least twice as annoying about AI.
Unrelated: Did chrome just detect me writing about AI to shill Gemini to me? (puts on tinfoil hat)
I unfollowed masnick but havenāt muted yet. been close tho
I keep wondering: is this really a need which many people fundamentally have, or is AI usage doing something to their brains?
Most likely the latter - Gerardās already done a couple Pivot to AI posts about AIās ability to lobotomise its users (Exhibit A, Exhibit B). Someone else has noted their coworker admitting to the lying machine ruining their Google-fu, too (source):
Recently my research lead recounted a meeting among the senior people, where they hammered out a bunch of project pitches. Some of the wording was still a little rough, but they were going to pass it all through DeepL anyway, to make it read good. Also everyoneās bad at spellling these days, since you got a thing that autocompletes for you, right? They were proud they remembered how to spell ācontinuousā.
Sure, everyone has days they canāt word good, but this starts sounding like worrying de-skilling. These people spend a good portion of their paid time working on and arguing over wording.
To be fair though itās not just their brains turning to mush, google has genuinely been getting worse too.
i donāt remember who said it, but they described genai as in some way reverse bayesian spam filter - so if spam filter can adapt to variety of spams, now thereās automated tool to flood the zone with spam that does pass the filter. this was used for seo with predictable results
feel like Iāve seen variations on that in a few places myself. would be interested in seeing a source, if anyone has. could be an interesting piece by itself
Found the original source
Thatās a one-two punch of Prabhakar Raghavan publicly executing it for profit and the slop-nami drowning out human-made work via SEO-optimised garbage (indirectly assisting Googleās enshittification efforts in the process).
Publishers have been reportedly readjusting their businesses to account for this shit - combined with Googleās enshittifcation and the slop-nami, we may see Google (if not search engines in general) lose a lot of relevance due to AI.