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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
apologies for just linking to my own bsky post but Iām lazy: https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3m4qjnkeyls23
tl;dr Iāve gotten a bit suspicious that āAI users will be genocidedā posts on reddit are a nazi op
not outside of the fascist playbook to claim that they are the real victims. The example that comes to mind is the myth of white genocide, but also literally any fascist rhetoric is like that.
Itās well trodden ground to say that genAI usage and support for genAI resonates with populist/reactionary/fascist themes in that it inherently devalues and dehumanises, and it promotes anti-intellectualism. If you can be replaced by AI, what worth do you have? And why think if the AI can do it for you?
So, of course this stuff being echoed in spaces where the majority are ignorant to the nazi tilt. They canāt and donāt understand fascism on a structural level, they can only identify it when itās trains and gas chambers.
Itās been a while since I used Reddit. Is the thesis that subscribers to ChatGPT will be rounded up and killed? By whom? For what stated reason? It sounds like a weird inversion of victimhood, considering the number of GenAI user (even if theyāre just casual users) and the massive money and hype around GenAI by companies and way too many govs.
frankly thatās the most detailed Iāve seen it get. usually itās more like this
this is weird. My first thought is that itās just another vector of normalization for the idea that people who are afraid of and Post about genocide or other forms of discriminatory violence are not to be taken seriously. By putting a variety of insane victimhood appropriating subcultures into the internet milieu, it allows people to ignore whatās happening (and what may be about to happen) in the real world, where groups of people actually are subject to fascistic violence.
That is my thought as well. Itās like the āyou call everyone you disagree with a Naziā argument from the 90s and 00s - discrediting attempts to call out fascist and genocidal ideas creates a lot of cover for those ideas to spread without being appropriately checked. It helps create a situation where serious and respectable people can keep arguing that things arenāt that bad all the way until they get pushed onto a cattle car.
Probably one part normalisation, one part AI supporters throwing tantrums when people donāt treat them like the specialiest little geniuses they believe they are. These people have incredibly fragile egos, after all.
curious, that art style in that reply strongly matches the image I saw on this toot drifting by in my timeline earlier
I havenāt touched image generators and idk how different their products are, if at all. but I think of this as the default AI āillustratedā style. very low on detail outside of the objects of focus, heavy line work, flat, rounded, muted colors
A lot of it looks like it was pissed on.
jfc
@gerikson @techtakes Itās classic DARVO gaslighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO