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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 8 months ago by blakestacey@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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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 cut'n'paste it into its own post, there’s no quota here 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.

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[–] mii@awful.systems 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …

From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.

[–] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“AI is jet planes for the mind,”

incredibly polluting?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

We eventually figure out that the don't need to be that fast and make slower models?

Or, the doors will fall off if you let the finance people run it?

Or a place for strangers to use computers to inspect your private parts? Right, def that one.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

automated narcissism maintenance machines. maybe if we can heavenban the promptfans into a room with just their roided clippies, they'll be happier for it

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago

Larger expenses in a month than earnings in a year. AI going great. Capitalism going great.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He claimed a new, faster version of the Stable Diffusion image generator released earlier this month could generate “200 cats with hats per second.”

Pointless. The set of any type of funny cat picture on the Internet is already infinite.

The Financial Times reported Friday that the company made $5.4 million of revenue in February, against $8 million in costs. Several sources said there are ongoing concerns about making payroll for the roughly 150 remaining employees. Leadership roles have gone vacant for months amid the disarray, leaving the company increasingly directionless.

"... the AI-ristocrats!"