Yet another example of how acceptance of GenAI is increasingly coded as right wing
gerikson
joined 2 years ago
MAGA hates AI (well, Big Tech):
(Originally The Verge: MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech)
https://www.theverge.com/politics/773154/maga-tech-right-ai-natcon
I know think the endgoal is for them to convince the mods that anything critical of GenAI is off topic and they should nuke the comments. Just "neutral" discourse, please, "we only care about the technology".
Given that mod pushcx was the one who actually added the tag in the first place, I'm not sure their cunning plan will work, but who knows?
At least the About page has had more visitors than any other time in the site's history...
Yeah I noticed him too.
Lots of quite old accounts that haven't posted in years appear in those comments.
In contrast, the ones in the threads appealing the ban of friendlysock were a bit newer.
Promptfondlers on lobste.rs are unhappy about the tag "vibecoding", used to denote development using GenAI. I'd not recommend reading the thread, just want to observe that if slop coding had actually taken the coding world by storm, I doubt there would be much pearl clutchign about how slop-slingers are treated on the site. We're talking about people willing to pay Scam Altman money monthly after all.
Good news, everyone! A Wronger has Thoughts about Female Attractiveness
30 karma, 15 comments. Very Rational.
Thanks for this write-up, I just saw the advisory and didn't realize just how dumb the entire thing was.
They bet humanity's future on the premise that very rich people would keep promises.
This seems very stupid to me.
Enjoy this malicious prompt trying to find crapto secrets after a compromise
I mean it's still just funny money seeing the creator works for some company that resells tokens from Claude, but very few people are stepping back to note the drastically reduced expectations of LLMs. A year ago, it would have been plausible to claim that a future LLM could design a language from scratch. Now we have a rancid mess of slop, and it's an "art project", and the fact it's ersatz internally coherent is treated as a great success.
Willison should just have let this go, because it's a ludicrous example of GenAI, but he just can't help himself defending this crap.