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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 soo 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.)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

one for the arse-end of this week's stubsack

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

In other news, Jazza's AI-generated cousin is back to continue pretending to be an actual artist. This time, its by actively denigrating the works of Studio Ghibli:

Unsurprisingly, he is getting raked over the coals by basically everyone. He's also having an utter meltdown in the replies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Lol the guy has gotten dragged by everybody so hard for his AI stances a while back, that he now has to double down and call AI superior. Meanwhile on Yt there is now a group of people who pay rent just making 'this guy stinks' videos.

E: The ratio on the replies/qt/likes oof. (Also, lol in his 'you have already lost, I drew myself as the chad and you as the soyjak' image he drew himself as a group of children). E2: sorry closed it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Do you think he knows that "inspired" and "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090" are not the same word?

Edit: oh no I read the replies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

By "better", he means "more fuckable".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

And by "more fuckable", he means "refusing/unable to consent".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

In case you missed it, a couple sneers came out against AI from mainstream news outlets recently - CNN's put out an article titled "Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown", whilst the New York Times recently proclaimed "The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes".

You want my take on this development, I'm with Ed Zitron on this - this is a sign of an impending sea change. Looks like the bubble's finally nearing its end.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Turns out that they can only stack shit so high before it falls back to earth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Taking a shot in the dark, journalistic incidents like Bloomberg's failed tests with AI summaries and the BBC's complaints about Apple AI mangling headlines probably helped with accelerating that fall to earth - for any journalists reading about or reporting on such shitshows, it likely shook their faith in AI's supposed abilities in a way failures outside their field didn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

By refusing to focus on a single field at a time AI companies really did make it impossible to take advantage of Gel-Mann amnesia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

The NYT also ran this little story about Bloomberg having "to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year".

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/business/media/bloomberg-ai-summaries.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.rrgt.pt3AGFekgpT3

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43515426

https://github.com/typedgrammar/typed-japanese

This project is still in very early stages and heavily relies on LLM-generated grammar rules, which may occasionally contain hallucinations or inaccuracies.

お前はもう死んでいる


Edit: from the English version of this project:

export type Pronoun = 'I' | 'you' | 'he' | 'she' | 'it' | 'we' | 'they' | 'me' | 'him' | 'her' | 'us' | 'them';

Ah yes, definitely the only pronouns in all of English

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Is Japanese really that strict

my Japanese uncle that works at nintendo says yes. If you write わ instead of は they make you 切腹 in front of all your friends

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Using an LLM to shit out grammar for an old school symbolic language model is a poetic ouroboros of AI circlejerking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In other news, Elon Musk's personal chatbot has proudly proclaimed its available on Telegram, and its proclamation got picked up by The Verge:

Right now, the integration is limited to "Grok's available as an optional chatbot", but going by what I've seen on BlueSky, people are already taking this as their cue to jump ship to Signal.

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