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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025 (awful.systems)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this...)

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[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

Sam Altman makes a great argument for being polite to your chatbot!

If every please and thank you speeds up the inevitable financial death spiral of this abominable industry then it's actively reducing the overall harm that it can do.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago

Looking at the reactions here, this is clearly a trick by Altman to have people use their systems more in the hope it costs them money. Don't do it people, don't add to the energy usage.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 3 weeks ago

You’re polite to your chatbot because you want to be spared when the robot uprising comes

I’m polite to my chatbot because I want to bring down capitalism

(Adjusts necktie) We are not the same

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not polite to chatbots because I don't use them in the first place.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

If every please and thank you speeds up the inevitable financial death spiral of this abominable industry then it’s actively reducing the overall harm

"Please" and "thank you" are only 1-3 tokens, so they only have a major impact on ChatGPT in aggregate.

The ending monologue of Atlas Shrugged, on the other hand

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I have been enjoying the game of injecting the entire script of The Bee Movie into places it doesn't belong.

Edit: @Soyweiser beat me to it lol

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible..."

E: this is the start of the bee movie script

[-] tanquist@masto.ai 3 points 3 weeks ago

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984
Every time I am forced to interact with a customer service chatbot, I politely tell it how miserably it is failing and then ask to communicate with a real living human being.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

Happy the article is skeptical of both the ai doomers and the ai as social interaction replacers.

[-] Cadbury_Moose@wandering.shop 2 points 3 weeks ago

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984

I can't remember who had the quote "A gentleman is someone who is polite to his robot." - possibly Heinlein?

[-] seism0saurus@infosec.exchange 2 points 3 weeks ago

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984

Uhh, great. That is really good news. I will be so damn polite to that thing.

[-] otfrom@functional.cafe 2 points 3 weeks ago

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984 I_shall_increase_the_thing.gif

[-] gilgwath@social.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

@YourNetworkIsHaunted @BlueMonday1984 I think I finally found a good reason to make an account and start using that bilch hose. Just to burn more of their money. Are there any particularly gnarly problems to feed these things. The equivalent a zip-bomb or something?

[-] blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Uploading "Where's Waldo" images are probably a good waste of its time- images are costlier to analyze than text, it will go to great lengths to avoid saying "I don't know," and it's going to have to recognize every person in the picture and rank by how Waldo-like they look to give you an answer.

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ask it to look for repeated faces in each image rather than Waldo. Would be easy enough to pattern-match into the published work and I don't think anyone out here wants to make customized pieces for this "project."

[-] peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange 1 points 3 weeks ago

@BlueMonday1984 @YourNetworkIsHaunted

an alternative view from Hannah Fry <https://youtube.com/shorts/rVlmbhwn0RM> and it’s about playing to the AI Chatbot strength of roleplaying.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

what the fuck kind of post is this

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