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 you’ll near-instantly regret.

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 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.

Last week’s thread

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

    • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      I’m feeling a weird mix of emotions about this. It’s not the cash grab by ol’ salty dog; capitalism is doing its thing. I’m both elated that these idiot liberals feel betrayed by this turn of events and enraged that these liberal idiots exist to launder the reputation of techbros in the first place.

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      The Zitron-pilled among us probably suspect that part of the real reason for this is, ironically, to obscure the fact that OpenAI has no real profits because of how ludicrously expensive their models are to train and operate and how limited the actual use cases that people will pay for have proven. It’s better from a “getting investor money” perspective to have everyone talking about how terrible it is that investor profits are no longer capped for humanitarian reasons than to have more people ask whether we’re getting close to the peak of this bubble.

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsMEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      shocked that scorpions in a scorpion’s nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging

    • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      oh hey its that reoccurring thought I have about the “AI Safety” criti-hype popping back into my head

      Expanding on that, part of me feels Altman is gonna find all the rhetoric he made about “AI doom” being used against him in the future - man’s given the true believers reason to believe he’d commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck.

      Hell, the true believers who made this pretty explicitly pointed out Altman’s made arguing for regulation a lot easier:

      ai safety irony

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        But the move has some observers ­— including Musk himself — asking: How could this possibly be legal?

        Because the nonprofit is there to represent the public, this would effectively mean shifting billions away from people like you and me. As some are noting, it feels a lot like theft.

        it continues to be astounding how gullible some people can be (/choose to stay?)