Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting 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: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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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.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
sammy boi is giving up on the pretense that any of this was about enriching lives, and is now only focusing on the eyegrab (archive)
anyone wanna take bets on how much pearlclutching surprisedpikachu weāll see
I suspect weāll see a fair amount. Giving some specifics:
I suspect weāll see Sammy accused of endangering all of humanity for a quick buck - taking Altman at his word, OpenAI is attempting to create something which they themselves believe could wipe out humanity if they screw things up.
I expect calls to regulate the AI industry will louden in response to this - what Sammyās doing here is giving the true believers more ammo to argue Silicon Valley may potentially trigger the robot apocalypse that Silicon Valley themselves have claimed AI is capable of unleashing.
perhaps saltman will have enough audacity to promote this as a way to ensure that some account is owned by a human, after flooding every corner of internet with ai slop and fake accounts
thatās almost certainly the plan ā I remember there was some horrific āproof of humanityā shit tied in with this, supposedly so that you could tell if youāre interacting with a human rather than a chatbot. thereās so many problems with that technically of course, not least of which is the chatbot guy also owning the proof of not-bot, but thereās deeper horrifying implications: this is the technology conservatives have been begging for to block access to āadult sitesā (see: LGBTQ+ spaces and associates) and āprotect votingā (see: purge voter registries). that the technology is fucking stupid and doesnāt work doesnāt matter to them ā as always with technofascism, thatās a feature.
Create the problem and sell the solution.
Did Sam anticipate the easily foreseeable avalanche of AI slop, decide that proof of humanity was a worthwhile investment, and only then notice that all the suggested search completions for āproof ofā were crypto?
Worldcoin has been around for longer than OpenAI. Sama is the OG pivot-from-crypto-to-AI.
Kinda surprised World(Coin) was still ongoing, thought saltman would have quietly buried the project now heās busy shilling ChatGPT
The 0.000001% chance that this thing morphs into the new global reserve currency is enough for a proper rationalist to keep it trundling along, donāt you think?
Also donāt underestimate the value of having someplace to park useful cronies you donāt currently have any other job for