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  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • Finally, just because I included an LLM summary of the comment history in the public modlog, it does not logically follow that the ban occurred because of the LLM summary. It simply happened to correspond very well to my own manual review

    yeah, it’s ok because the LLM wasn’t hooked up directly to the ban API, you just used it systemically to not do the only fucking thing you’re supposed to be doing as a moderator

    this human in loop shit is how corporations absolve themselves of responsibility for decisions taken purely on the word of an LLM. it lets them fire a worker instead of an executive. you’re sure this is the route you want to go?

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • you thought I’d be ok with this shit because it was done with an allegedly open source model? I’m so glad you ignored all our posts about unchecked algorithmic bias and the fucking rotten origins of every open source model (hint: you don’t have the resources to train a model because you aren’t a billion-dollar company and that’s by design) because moderating your instances appropriately was ooh just too haard

    my guy what in the fuck are we doing here? more to the point what are you doing here?

  • what the everLLM-ing fuck is going on

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  • no it’s fine you see, they fed the posts in question to a homegrown open source LLM (still trained on plagiarized sources by a gigantic corporation as part of an extremely obvious market domination plan) and only pretended to feed a ton of posts to chatgpt as a joke that nobody laughed at

    moderator’s note to anyone who came here to make the above point in earnest: lol

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • it’s so fucking funny to me that “do not lie do not hallucinate” is still one of the prompt incantations the boosters use because they get really embarrassed when you make fun of them for it

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026

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  • thank you! I hear a rumor that my fiber might be repaired tomorrow but I’m not sure if I should trust it

    (also for posterity: all evidence points to my fiber being damaged by an animal or a human with the mechanical dexterity of an animal, I’m fairly sure it’s not particularly targeted sabotage)

  • OpenAI advisor: ‘adult mode’ risks becoming ‘sexy suicide coach’

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  • if for whatever reason you need example text of the mid phases of someone being driven out of their fucking mind by a chatbot, the above will do nicely

  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance

    anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges

  • AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money

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  • oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag

    however,

    Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard?

    let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because:

    • you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank
    • you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth
    • you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
    • you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
    • you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia

    there are more, we can go deeper

  • Survey results are in! AI is more hated than ICE! (but less hated than the Democratic Party)

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  • here’s the summary table that the article pulled its numbers from

    here’s a specific question regarding AI

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026

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  • Duolingo is dying celebratory thread

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  • it’s really rude to market a game as a language learning app

  • Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

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  • me telling you to go fuck yourself makes me exactly as unfair and mean as Palantir, a Peter Thiel company specializing in genocide and mass surveillance. yes hmm I see

    you and your friend can both fuck off with the type of truth and transparency where you claim to not be defending fucking Palantir of all things while uncritically parroting their words. nobody fucking needs that in any context. you don’t in fact have to hand it to the fascists on this or any other point.

  • Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

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  • I’m not defending palantir but no need to invent reasons to be mad at them.

    the fuck is wrong with you

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026

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  • if you should ever happen to be short on resumes…

    (it feels like a zero AI job board might be a good thing to have, but we’d need a way to vet submissions and handle anonymous submissions and inquiries so people don’t dox themselves)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd February 2026

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  • In March 2025, the large language model (LLM) GPT-4.5, developed by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, was judged by humans in a Turing test to be human 73% of the time — more often than actual humans were. Moreover, readers even preferred literary texts generated by LLMs over those written by human experts.

    do you know how hard it is to write something that aged poorly months before it was written? it’s in the public consciousness that LLMs write like absolute shit in ways that are very easy to pick out once you’ve been forced to read a bunch of LLM-extruded text. inb4 some asshole with AI psychosis pulls out “technically ChatGPT’s more human than you are, look at the statistics” regarding the 73% figure I guess. but you know when statistics don’t count!

    A March 2025 survey by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Washington DC found that 76% of leading researchers thought that scaling up current AI approaches would be ‘unlikely’ or ‘very unlikely’ to yield AGI

    […] What explains this disconnect? We suggest that the problem is part conceptual, because definitions of AGI are ambiguous and inconsistent; part emotional, because AGI raises fear of displacement and disruption; and part practical, as the term is entangled with commercial interests that can distort assessments.

    no you see it’s the leading researchers that are wrong. why are you being so emotional over AGI. we surveyed Some Assholes and they were pretty sure GPT was a human and you were a bot so… so there!

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • uhm @self can you show me where I wrote this? can you show me where I wrote these exact words? no? that’s so irrational of you.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026

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  • I’ll have you know we’re acting like someone who’s rude to “serving staff” right now, where serving staff is defined as a formerly chrome currently mozilla developer relations marketing guy with fucking flatlined vibes

  • Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

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  • Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public

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  • The original argument was about worries over Kessler syndrome and then they moved the goal post to space junk not burning up completely, utilizing an article about space junk that wasn’t ever in orbit.

    no, the "original argument" (jacking off motions) was prompted by this shitpost of yours:

    I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?

    nobody moved the fucking goal posts, normal people don't go online to engage in a spot of spacex defense while pretending to hate first-name basis "Elon". that you have a rehearsed set of fucking gotchas over the specific danger presented by spacex is fucking incredible.

    You could make the argument that putting more junk into space has negative and unnecessary outcomes, but that’s a completely different argument that I would agree with.

    but instead you decided to tediously split hairs over Kessler Syndrome as if anyone here other than the resident physicists give a shit. you don't get it. nobody is here to win points. we're not an IRB; nobody gives a shit what specific category of danger is represented by the space junk Musk's generating. we give a shit that there's danger at all.

    fuck me there's nothing more depressing than a spacex fan who swears they hate musk and goes to bat for the fucker's worst, most damaging excesses