swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Otherwise you’ll end up in a social corner filled with bitterness

This is a standard Internet phenomenon (I generalize) called a Sneer Club, i.e. people who enjoy getting together and picking on designated targets. Sneer Clubs (I expect) attract people with high Dark Triad characteristics, which is (I suspect) where Asshole Internet Atheists come from - if you get a club together for the purpose of sneering at religious people, it doesn't matter that God doesn't actually exist, the club attracts psychologically f'd-up people. Bullies, in a word, people who are powerfully reinforced by getting in what feels like good hits on Designated Targets, in the company of others doing the same and congratulating each other on it.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That’s the problem, isn’t it? If it can only maybe be good when used narrowly, what’s the point? If you’ve managed to corner a subproblem down to where an LLM can generate the code for it, you’ve already done 99% of the work. At that point you’re better off just coding it yourself. At that point, it’s not “good when used narrowly”, it’s useless.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (7 children)

All compiled code is machine generated! BRB gonna clang and IPO, bye awful.systems! Have fun being poor

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh. I mean there certainly are good points to be made about this sort of thing (lack of representation of a diversity of body types is probably the most correct one to think of). That one guy phrased his concern with such a specific mix of virtue signalling and horn-dogging that it had to be called out. And it was so specific that I wanted to know if other people were saying the same thing.

I stand by my opinion that the art we were talking about wasn’t particularly sexy. You could validly argue that there was objectification of women going on in the art (a woman coded robot is literally an objectified woman) but that wasn’t what that one guy was saying. Women of all shapes and sizes exist! They can be as sexy or unsexy as they want! A woman existing in a picture doesn’t automatically make the picture sexy, unless you’re a gooner-pilled moron. And in general we shouldn’t be commenting on women’s bodies where it isn’t appropriate.

But anyway, powering up my homespun BeefGPT to find those specific skeets, you can’t stop me 😡😡😡

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 38 points 1 month ago (22 children)

The headlines said that 30% of code at Microsoft was AI now! Huge if true!

Something like MS word has like 20-50 million lines of code. MS altogether probably has like a billion lines of code. 30% of that being AI generated is infeasible given the timeframe. People just ate this shit up. AI grifting is so fucking easy.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

as long as you don’t yuck my yum we good

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Specifically about the pivot to AI art??? I gotta know…

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Joke’s getting a bit tired I think but RE: picture in article: I want to file a CoC(k) complaint

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh cool what do you work on? I’d love to know the product.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Ah so you’re consistently choosing to make us horny!!!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

It’s almost as if they have problematic conceptions (or lack thereof) of exploitation and power dynamics!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Hi hi please explain my boner

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