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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I mean itās still just funny money seeing the creator works for some company that resells tokens from Claude, but very few people are stepping back to note the drastically reduced expectations of LLMs. A year ago, it would have been plausible to claim that a future LLM could design a language from scratch. Now we have a rancid mess of slop, and itās an āart projectā, and the fact itās ersatz internally coherent is treated as a great success.
Willison should just have let this go, because itās a ludicrous example of GenAI, but he just canāt help himself defending this crap.
Thatās a good point that Iām not sure many people are talking about. Thereās a shift happening where while Iām still seeing way too much āyouāre just not prompting it rightā, it has lessened. Now Iām seeing a lot more āwell of course it canāt do thatā even from the believers.
Theyāre still crying āthe problem is that youāre using it wrongā, and blaming on the end user but it seems to be quietly shifting so theyāre now calling people dumb for ever believing the hype that they were the ones pushing to begin with.