Need to make a primal scream without gathering footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

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.

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    This is quite minor, but itā€™s very funny seeing the intern would-be sneerers still on rbuttcoin fall for the AI grift, to the point that its part of their modscript copypasta

    Or in the pinned mod comment:

    AI does have some utility and does certain things better than any other technology, such as:

    • The ability to summarize in human readable form, large amounts of information.
    • The ability to generate unique images in a very short period of time, given a verbose description

    tfw youā€™re anti-crypto, but only because its a bad investing opportunity.

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      i came here from r/buttcoin and lmao

      i mean technically it passes the very low bar of having a single non-criminal use case (mass manufacturing spam and other drivel)

      some are not falling for it at least

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      Gross, that whole thread is gross. A lot of promptfans in that thread seemingly experiencing pushback for the first time and they are baffled!

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      While itā€™s always correct to laugh at crypto advocates, /r/buttcoin just isnā€™t very edifying lately. Thereā€™s no depth to the criticism. It comes across as the ā€œantiā€ version of wall street bets for people who lost their shirts, especially since The Appening, when a lot of subject matter experts left town.

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      5 months ago

      in that thread: marketing dude who uses chatgpt, never had issues with incorrect results. i mean how would he even catch this, his entire field is uncut bullshit

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      I donā€™t think that comment is unreasonable. LLMs can summarize large-ish amounts of information (as long as it fits in the context window) in a human-readable form, and while itā€™s still prone to getting things wrong and Iā€™d rather a human do it all day, it does do it ā€œbetter than any other technologyā€ that I know of. We can argue about ā€œuniqueā€ but strictly speaking it will almost certainly generate an image that didnā€™t exist before. Iā€™d also rather a human make the image for qualityā€™s sake, but being fast, cheap, and copyright-free is a useful enough combo in certain situations.

      It doesnā€™t really bring up the main issues with AI, but I think thatā€™s acceptable in the context, which is ā€œHow is AI different from crypto in the context of r/Buttcoinā€, and in that context ā€œcrypto is completely uselessā€ and ā€œAI has minimal uses which may or may not be worthwhile depending on how you evaluate the benefits and negativesā€ are meaningfully different.

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        Itā€™s ā€œreasonableā€ in context, I just thought itā€™s funny that rbuttcoin would be headpatting AI at all, since its basically the exact same people pushing AI as the people pushing crypto with the exact same motives.