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Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/1eqsoom/guys_we_have_to_do_somthing_about_this_fi%D3%8Ft%D0%B5r/

This community pops up on /r/all every so often and each time it scares me.

Sometimes I see kids games (and all games really) have ultra-niche, super-online protests that are like "STOP Zooshacorp from DESTROYING K-Smog vs. Batboy Online", and when I look closer it's either even more confusing or it's about something people didn't like in the latest update. This is like that, but with an awful twist where it's about people getting really attached to these AI girlfriend/sex roleplay apps. The spelling and sentences make it seem like it's mostly kids, too.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Audacious and Absurd Defender of Humanity

Your honor, I'd rather plea guilty than abide by my audacious counsel.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Baby, new AI doom vector just dropped: AGI will corrupt knitting sites so crafters make Langford visual hack patterns![1]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-ai-scams-are-infiltrating-the-knitting-and-crochet-world/


[1] doom scenario is my interpretation, not actually included in ZDnet article.

Sadly, Langford hacks seem to have never achieved memetic takeoff. Having an internet legally enforced on pain of death to be text-only would probably be a good thing.

comp.basilisk.faq

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Jimmy Buffet fans in shambles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (12 children)

let's see how things are going on twitter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

friend looked at this and said "ah race science geoguesser guy"

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

That's certainly one approach to commenting on someone's picture. Pretty sure it's better to stick with the standard "Wow! 😍😍😍" but this certainly sticks out from the crowd?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

omg, next time my wife asks me how she looks, I'm definitely dropping that "legible magyar admixture"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Babe, you're looking Haplogroup I-M437 tonight. No. Not M-437. Damn, girl, you're an M-438."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When you really want to confuse your astronomy post-doc partner.

EDIT: I've been reliably informed that that's too many Messier objects.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Inexplicable Cimmerian Vibes" is the name of my next band.

Bonus points if this turns out to be the output of an LLM trained by phrenologists.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who had Trump accusing the Harris campaign of using AI to inflate crowd size photos on their Election ‘24 bingo card? Anyway, I’m sure that being associated with fraud and fakes is Good For AI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

it going co-evolution on the same path as cybercoins did is chefskiss.bmp

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The wikipedia page for TESCREAL is "disputed", always a good sign when the online right launches skirmish actions against front-line trenches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

'TESCREAL' refers to a nonsense conspiracy theory that disparages people such as Nick Bostrom without citing any sources that are credible on the question of whether Nick Bostrom is an 'evil eugenicist' or whatever.

WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm ok with this because everytime Nick Bostrom's name is used publicly to defend anything, and then I show people what Nick Bostrom believes and writes, I robustly get a, "What the fuck is this shit? And these people are associated with him? Fuck that."

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