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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Somebody found a relevant reddit post:
Dr. Casey Fiesler āŖ@cfiesler.bsky.socialā¬ (who has clippy earrings in a video!) writes: " This is fascinating: reddit link
Someone āworked on a book with ChatGPTā for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldnāt download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/bookā¦"
qu1j0t3 replies:
you have to scroll through the personās comments to find it, but it does look they did author the body of the text and uploaded it as a docx into ChatGPT. so points for actually creating something unlike the AI bros
it looks like they tried to use ChatGPT to improve narration. to what degree the token smusher has decided to rewrite their work in the smooth, recycled plastic feel weāve all come to know and despise remains unknown
they did say they are trying to get it to generate illustrations for all 700 pages, and moreover appear[ed] to believe it can āwork in the backgroundā on individual chapters with no prompting. they do seem to have been educated on the folly of expecting this to work, but as blakestaceyās other reply pointed out, they appear to now be just manually prompting one page at a time. godspeed
They now deleted their post and I assume a lot of others, but they also claim they have no time to really write and just wanted a collection of stories for their kid(s). Which doesnt make sense, creating 700 pages of kids stories is a lot of work, even if you let a bot improve the flow. Unless they just stole a book of childrenās stories from somewhere. (I know these books exist, as a child from one of my brothers tricked me into reading two stories from one).
looks like thereās either downvote brigade keeping critical comments at +1 or 0, or reddit brigading countermeasures went on in defense of wittle promprfondler