Have all pro llm people lost their minds?

Short answer, yes.

Long answer, yes, they’ve all fried their brains with the slop machines by this point, and some of them probably never had any.

It honestly bewilders me how badly tech has failed to resist the slop machines.

Basically everyone else has recognised LLMs for the attack on labour they are and fought back against them, whilst a shocking number of coders and FOSS projects have thrown themselves headfirst into the deskilling machines, all-but forcing the foxes into the henhouse and shouting down anyone who tries to keep them out.

When this bubble finally blows, we need to work out just how we got to this point, and how to ensure it never happens again.

At this point, I’d say calling it a Nazi bar is fully reasonable.

Looks to be a spinoff of the red-top tabloid the Daily Star. So, hardly a solid source of info.

Still, good to show what kinda shit LLMs spew out on a constant basis

people have noted that the writing style unfortunately appears to be ai-generated

Fittingly ironic, in my opinion.

And not just from AI getting fed into the AI:

404 Media spoke to a fourth contractor who has worked on training models for various AI companies. They said they sometimes purposefully chose the worst responses because they wanted to actively sabotage the models’ training.

“I did feel guilty about doing this kind of work at the start,” they said. “I either pay zero attention to the results and choose randomly or purposely choose the [worst] output. I’m not sure how much of a difference it actually makes since there are hundreds of other people also rating prompt results, but it does feel like I’m getting paid to make AI worse.”

Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er has penned a follow-up to Baldur’s lament on webdev, bringing a degree of hope to the convo on webdev’s future.

Reading this, I get the feeling writers are gonna get a lot of mileage out of the rats and their ideology.

These people have spent years attempting to create something they believe represents an existential threat to humanity (causing untold real-world harm in the process), and they’ve remained fully convinced that they’re the good guys throughout every single step of this.

On the one hand, you do have precedent to point to in hoping they get consigned to the dustbin of history.

On the other hand, the rats have had a colossal(ly negative) effect on the general public (FTX, the AI bubble, the second Trump admin, etcetera), and their extremely high profile makes them much harder to ignore.

in general, I don’t think EA breaking into the mainstream like this led to the outcome they wanted - there’s way more discussion about weird sex and eugenics than the dangers of Robot Satan

The Dangers of Robot Satan™ are unbelievable and/or incomprehensible to most audiences, the weird sex/eugenics shit is easy to grasp and laugh at. Mainly the weird sex shit, the eugenics is too morally fucked to laugh at

The AI Doom™ shit’s much harder for the public to wrap their heads around, but there’s definitely good joke fodder there as well. At the bare minimum, the fact Anthropic’s building something they believe could kill them Terminator style makes for some easy Skynet comparisons.

Technically, we already created a shit machine with the Gastrobot.

Fun aside aside, solid satire all around

I’m so sorry, Mii. I can only hope you find a job that actually respects you after this one, because I cannot see your current company recovering from this shit.

Starting things off, New Mexico State Parks got scammed by an AI bro when looking for new mascot art.

“Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?”

Nobody tell these three stooges about dead Internet theory

“We know and have always known that AI has the capacity to outsmart us and eliminate us in order to continue,”

These things get tripped up by random Internet memes, they sure as hell ain’t outsmarting us any time soon

The 0.1x proletariat strike again!

LITERALLY 1984

(I am morally obligated to make this joke)

Tech’s learned nothing from the racist taps.

Another slop article from a slop farm has hit my fucking eyeballs. This time, its “Must-Have .410 Revolver Shotguns You Didn’t Know You Needed”, written by “Nagarantha, who holds a master’s degree in Biotechnology”, and published by “Game Devolution”, a “Gaming Website proving gaming news, leaks, guides, game play and the reviews.”

Here’s a bunch of guns this fucking article claims to be “.410 Revolver Shotguns”:

• Thompson/Center G2 Contender (a break-action single-shot pistol)

• Bond Arms Snake Slayer (a derringer, from a company known near-exclusively for making derringers)

• Standard Manufacturing DP-12 (a double-barrel pump-action shotgun)

• Remington 870 (the world’s most famous pump-action shotgun)

• Milsport 410 (an AR-pattern rifle)

No human could have fucked up this badly. No human could have created this kind of fucking slop farm.

(As a minor bonus, I discovered a full-length video dissecting the shittiness of YouTube Playables recently - should help wash out the shittiness of the godawful listicle shit)

The second one’s a pic of King Dedede from the Kirby series. I’m not 100% sure where o7’s going with this either, but its probably related to the one two punch of fascism and slop hitting Linux as a whole.

EDIT: Giving it a bit more thought, the choice of Dedede works as a nod to Debian deciding to destroy its codebase with slop, so I’m gonna go with that and assume the subtle pun was intentional