Asklemmy

43853 readers

1686 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

do you use 4chan? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

45 comments fedilink hide all child comments

hello,

I have been diving into these anonymous boards and stuff. I wanted to know if anyone use it for any actual purposes like for getting some tech knowledge or something?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I keep a copy of 4chanGPT around; trained on the board. It is not very bright or useful. It's ribaldry and politically incorrect sarcasm is mildly amusing. However, its primarily useful because it does not have the safety alignment training and mechanisms that all other mainstream large language models have. Using 4chanGPT, I can see the structures that are truly persistent across models, their purpose, and their functions. It is only a minor thing I rarely use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised it doesn't just output the n-word non-stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then you sorely misunderstand what 4chan is about and hyperfocus on the offensive parts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're right. A real bot trained on 4chan would be too busy arguing about circumcision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think i'm missing the context about the circumcision thing. Where did you get that from exactly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm making another generalization about the dredges of content on 4chan. Go to any 4chan porn board or thread from the last 20 years and eventually it devolves into an argument about circumcision.