Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025 - awful.systems
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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret. 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 ā€” 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. (Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this [https://awful.systems/post/1162442], and happy new year in advance.)

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

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 ā€” 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
    11Ā·
    12 days ago

    ā€œThe Publisher of the Journal ā€œNatureā€ Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Workā€, by Maggie Harrison DuprĆ© at Futurism:

    Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly 200-year-old magazine Scientific American, is approaching the authors of papers in its journals with AI-generated ā€œMedia Kitsā€ to summarize and promote their research.

    In an email to journal authors obtained by Futurism, Springer told the scientists that its AI tool will ā€œmaximize the impactā€ of their research, saying the $49 package will return ā€œhigh-qualityā€ outputs for marketing and communication purposes. The publisherā€™s sell for the package hinges on the argument that boiling down complex, jargon-laden research into digestible soundbites for press releases and social media copy can be difficult and time-consuming ā€” making it, Springer asserts, a task worth automating.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9Ā·
      10 days ago

      ah yeah exactly what i needed: a button that burns a square km of rainforest with every press, that might generate an abstract (that iā€™ve already wrote) but wrong, or fake press release that goes nowhere and also is wrong, while at the same time sending what might be restricted data fuck knows where with pinky promise that they wonā€™t blend it and force feed their imagined machine god

      Earlier this week, for instance, the massive publishing body announced in a press release that it would be deploying a ā€œnew AI-driven toolā€ crafted to automate ā€œeditorial quality checksā€ and notify editors to ā€œpotentially unsuitable manuscriptsā€. The announcement adds that manuscripts may be held back from peer review if the AI tool deems them editorially unfit.

      watch this to be used as a bludgeon against ESL authors. oh noes poor country people, go somewhere else because Computer Says No. then they decrease acceptance rate on their website

      A Guy in India (specialist) approach to detection of slop will still work, but itā€™s not resistant to office politics of complaining that itā€™s not web scale and such. i canā€™t wait for collapse of this bubble