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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

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.

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

oh hey, we're back to "deepmind models dreamed up some totally novel structures!", but proteins this time! news!

do we want to start a betting pool for how long it'll take 'em to walk this back too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

it’s weird how they’re pumping this specific bullshit out now that a common talking point is “well you can’t say you hate AI, because the non-generative bits do actually useful things like protein folding”, as if any of us were the ones who chose to market this shit as AI, and also as if previous AI booms weren’t absolutely fucking turgid with grifts too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

given the semi-known depth of google-lawyer-layering, I suspect this presser got put together a few weeks prior

not that I'm gonna miss an opportunity to enjoy it landing when it does, mind you

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but but proteins! surely they've got it right this time! /s

(I wondered what you'd say when I saw this. I can only imagine how exhausting)

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

wait that's just antibodies with extra steps

living things literally are just fuzzing it until something sticks and it works

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jackbooted thugs put creative entrepreneur behind bars for the "crime" of creating bots to listen to bot-created "music":

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/fbi-busts-musicians-elaborate-ai-powered-10m-streaming-royalty-heist/

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

Not really a sneer, but just a random thought on the power cost of AI. We are prob under counting the costs of it if we just look at the datacenter power they themselve use, we should also think about all the added costs of the constant scraping of all the sites, which at least for some sites is adding up. For example (And here there is also the added cost of the people needing to look into the slowdown, and all the users of the site who lose time due to the slowdown).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

years ago on a trip to nyc, I popped in at the aws loft. they had a sort of sign-in thing where you had to provide email address, where ofc I provided a catchall (because I figured it was a slurper). why do I tell this mini tale? oh, you know, just sorta got reminded of it:

Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 07:22:05 +0000
From: Amazon Web Services <[email protected]>
To: <snip>
Subject: Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?

(e: once again lost the lemmy formatting war)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you ready to capitalize on generative AI?

Hell yeah!

I'm gonna do it: GENERATIVE AI. Look at that capitalization.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

there’s no way you did that without consulting copilot or at least ChatGPT. thank you sam altman for finally enabling me to capitalize whole words in my editor!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

....this just made me wonder what quotient of all these promptfondlers and promptfans are people who've just never really been able to express emotion (for whatever reason (there are many possible causes, this ain't a judgement about that)), who've found the prompts' effusive supportive "yes, and"-ness to be the first bit of permission they ever got to express

and now my brain hurts because that thought is cursed as fuck

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