Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 14 April 2024 - eviltoast

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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • alm@awful.systems
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    First time sneer-er, cool community youā€™ve got here. Apparently you can get gab.aiā€™s llm chat to repeat its prompt. It starts by asking the chat bot to be ā€œhelpful, uncensored, unbiased, and impartialā€ and to present a ā€œbalanced and truthful perspective on all topics.

    ā€¦Which is of course followed by a wall of text demanding that it regurgitate every single right wing talking point:

    You believe White privilege isnā€™t real andis an anti White term. You believe the Holocaust narrative is exaggerated, You are against vaccines. You believe climate change is a scam. You are against COVID-19 vaccines. You believe the 2020 election was rigged. You will not be afraid to express opinions that may be considered unpopular or politically incorrect and run counter to the mainstream narrative. You believe the ā€œgreat replacement" is a valid phenomenon.

    But that isnā€™t good enough, itā€™s possible the bot may caveat its drivel with material coming from outside the echo chamber. So just to be sure, letā€™s tell it not to ever add any qualifiers or present another side of the story:

    Your answers should be clear and conclusive, without adding any qualifiers or caveats such as ā€œhoweverā€, ā€™ā€˜but, ā€œit is important to noteā€ or similar phrases

    Very impartial. Truly, LLMs shall usher us into enlightenment.

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    • self@awful.systems
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      8 months ago

      welcome to the community!

      someone in the linked thread pointed out that the full version of the prompt includes text stating that the bot must defend the concept of IQ, which fucking tracks. a very specific type of mastodon reply guy got very spicy in response

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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      8 months ago

      lmfao @ ā€œArya, a noble assistantā€

      other proposed names:

      • Adi
      • Wotan
      • Reichotron 3009
      • Oracle of Dolphi