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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.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

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    (Another post so soon? Another post so soon.)

    ā€œGen AI competes with its training data, exhibit 1,764ā€:

    exhibit 1764

    Also got a quick sidenote, which spawned from seeing this:

    This is pure gut feeling, but I suspect that ā€œAI trainingā€ has become synonymous with ā€œart theft/copyright infringementā€ in the public consciousness.

    Between AI bros publicly scraping against peopleā€™s wishes (Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C), the large-scale theft of data which went to produce these LLMsā€™ datasets, and the general perception that working in AI means you support theft (Exhibit A, Exhibit B), I wouldnā€™t blame Joe Public for treating AI as inherently infringing.

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      I researched cool topics using ChatGPT, Claude, Google

      Thatā€™s not what research means, you embossed carbuncle.

      I linked NotebookLM to the Wikipedia entry of each topic and generated the podcast audio

      Itā€™s fucking James Somerton with extra steps!

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      ā€œcuratedā€

      it shouldnā€™t surprise me that the dipshit who was massively involved in ā€œsolving languageā€ doesnā€™t understand the meaning of words, but grrrrr

      (and I say that as an armchair linguist who understands that language is as people use it (fuck prescriptivism))

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        dipshit who was massively involved in ā€œsolving languageā€

        ā€œIn the what now?ā€, he said, voice trembling with a mixture of horror and excitement

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          2015 - I was a research scientist and a founding member at OpenAI.

          proudly displayed on his blog timeline

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              no, thatā€™s a personal extrapolation/framing characterising some of the shit Iā€™ve seen from these morons

              (they engaged with very few linguists in the making of their beloved Large Language Models, instead believing they can just data-bruteforce it; this plan gone as well as has been observed)

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        jesus christ, as if ā€œpodcastsā€ consisting of random idiots regurgitating wikipedia werenā€™t bad enough as it is