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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.

  • Mii@awful.systems
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    So this is apparently something AI companies now think is smart to advertise with. Donā€™t know whoā€™d willingly consider this something targeted at them, but here we are.

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      I rewrote the ad so they can lean into their marketing strategy.

      Hard book have hard word and make head hurt, AI make book easy! More book read for you. No hard word. This good idea!

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      the part of me that sometimes spends an hour just choosing the right words for the couple of paragraphs Iā€™m writing is fucking screaming

      ā€¦

      there is a screaming noise that comes from me while I write

      thanks magibook!

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        canā€™t wait for this shit to show up in usage among people who have english as an additional language at different level of fluency to their primaries. totally donā€™t see it causing a cascade clusterfuck in communication and comprehension.

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          thereā€™s already a strain of this out there, with a lot of english-non-first students using LLMs to ā€œmake their work sound more polishedā€. similar as the strain using it for CVs etc

          ran across a great thread on fedi a while back, will see if I can find it

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      Itā€™s good that theyā€™re offsetting their advantages in the marketplace of money by actively crippling themselves in the marketplace of ideas.