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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.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    a crossover sneer from the Nix Zulip:

    This is an easy place to add a hook that goes through each message and asks a language model if the message violates any rules. Computers are about as good as humans at interpreting rules about tone and so on, and the biases come from the training data, so for any specific instance the decision is relatively impartial.

    please for the love of fuck kick the fascists out of your community because they’ll never stop with this shit

    • o7___o7@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      This is using-a-sheep’s-bladder-to-predict-earthquakes territory.

      Do you suppose that an LLM can detect a witch?

    • pyrex@awful.systemsEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      This is another one for the “throw an AI model at the problem with no concrete plans for how to evaluate its performance” category.