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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Urgh over the past month I have seen more and more people on social media using chat-gpt to write stuff for them, or to check facts, and getting defensive instead of embarrassed about it.
Maybe this is a bit old woman yells at cloud ā but Iād lie if I said I wasnāt worried about language proficiency atrophying in the population (and leading to me having to read slop all the time)
Overheard my kids, one of them had some group project in school and the other asked who they had ended up in group with. After hearing the names, the reaction was āthey are good, none of them will use AIā.
So as always kids that actually does something in group projects doesnāt want to end up in a group with kids that wonāt contribute. Difference is just that instead of just slacking off and doing nothing they will today ācontributeā AI slop. And as always the main lesson from group projects in school is avoid ending up in a group with slackers.
Dad hi-five
Yell at cloud computing instead, that is usually justified.
More seriously: itās not at all that. The AI pushers want to make people feel that way ā āitās inevitableā, āitās here to stayā, etc. But the threat to learning and maintaining skills is real (although the former worries me more than the latter ā what has been learned before can often be regained rather quickly, but what if learning itself is inhibited?).
AIās already destroying peopleās cognitive abilities as we speak, I wouldnāt be shocked if language proficiency went down the shitter, too. Hell, you could argue itāll fuck up humanās capacity to make/understand art - Nathan Hamiel of Perilous Tech already did.
Thankfully, Iāve managed to avoid reading/seeing slop for the most part. Spending most of my time on Newgrounds probably helped, for three main reasons:
(That Iām a NEET also helps (canāt have AI bro coworkers if youāre unemployed :P), but any opportunity to promote the AI-free corners of the net is always a good one in my books :P)
Iād certainly feel less conflicted yelling about AI if I didnāt work for a big tech company thatās gaga for AI. I almost wrote out a long angsty reply but I donāt want to give up too much personal details in a single comment.
I guess I ended up as a boiled frog. If I knew how much AI nonsense Iād be incidentally exposed to over the last year I would have quit a year ago. And yet currently I donāt quit for complicated reasons. Iām not that far from the breaking point, but Iām going to try to hang in for a few more years.
But yeah, Iām pretty uncomfortable working for a company that has also veered closer to allying with techo-fascism in recent years; and I am taking psychic damage.