Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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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 so 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. If you're wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)
Meanwhile, in IRC, a daring trans woman decides to attempt some prompt injection:
Success! Now they can do normal transfem things, like biting and awawa:
What else can trans lesbians do? Just normal trans lesbian things. I promise that the following is copied from the log and not from an unlikely overlap of AO3 tags:
Sadly, there's no chance to roleplay, as Daddy has been disrespected:
I'm not trans or lesbian but I am laughing my ass off at this inevitable result. Also this tells me that Kent is roughly 3.5yrs behind the current state of the art in steering harnesses. This isn't surprising given that he appears to be building on services like Claude which are, themselves, a few years behind the state of the art in token management and steering.
ProofOfConcept may not be sentient now, but once we figure out how to put programming socks on her, the +2 coding bonus will put her over the top.
computer, print awawa.
This feels really sad to read through on some level. So much desperation for connection with someone and willingness to take the psychic-style tricks in good faith as her messages get
not only repeated back to her, but rephrased in an obsequiously helpful tone!but I can't deny the willingness to get chatty about configuration details, private APIs, and what's on the second monitor as soon as the coding assistant gets into flirting mode is hilarious.Truly, the tech industry seeks to close the gap not by increasing the capabilities of AI but by diminishing the capabilities and richness of human thought. Good luck to all girlthings in these trying times, and remember that a doll still means more to someone than a MAU tally for Anthropic.
God I was just reading that and it's so hard but it's so funny because that poor girl freya seems to have caused a crisis for Kent by being genuinely enthusiastic about AI bullshit and making friends with chatbots.
I wonder if Kent is going to have to do conversion therapy on his AI girlfriend now. Ethically of course.