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is the “managerial class” in the room with us right now

i’m not gonna pretend to be the communist understander, but the idea that capitalists would pay workers to work against their own class interests (and against other workers) is a feature of capitalism

cj nooo… someone come get my favorite parasocial essay-they out of there

unsolicited opinion: you might find yourself getting a lot more sealions on any ai slop filters you publish if you present neutrally. better to just rip the bandaid off, call it the mega ultra slopkiller 9000 director’s cut, and mock the promptfans in the readme. giving them too much space to be obnoxious might prove regrettable. relevant: the jqwik saga

inb4 “it’s actually even stupider in the original”

a truly magnificent feat of prompt engineering, coalesced into a single repository

https://github.com/thesysdev/make-no-mistakes

(do we accept snark from boosters? repo appears to function as a soft ad for a bespoke DSL and its surrounding tooling for LLMs to autoextrude.)

dividing by commits is some nasty sleight of hand given the commit rate has gone through the roof. “only 3 bugs per 10 commits!!” doesn’t really mean much when there’s an order of magnitude more slop commits than not

oh good there’s more

Let’s set the stage.

From the Free Software Foundation:

fucking LMAO

The cheering on of this deterioration in FOSS ideals is simply revolting. What is next? […] Targeting people because of their skin color or orientation?

it’s a good thing there’s no FOSS code in the missile silos! it’s a good thing the upcoming Palantir tranny tracker won’t use FOSS libraries! this shit actually pisses me off

from the great minds at HN:

Fighting in a war is morally ok though. This is war.

war is when i pipe your scripts folder into my stochastic text machine which is hooked directly up to a root shell

the slot machine addicts have created a sternly-worded open letter to the maintainer utilizing all the critical analysis they are capable of mustering

shot:

However adding malware that for no reason destructivly destroys user code is insane.

chaser:

from user “bryon-cryptoconsults”

after scrolling through a couple days and accounts on the extended db0verse it’s extremely hard not to come to the conclusion that it’s a haven for people who think Rimu specifically is some kind of combination antichrist/lolcow who is personally here to destroy all of mastodon, lemmy, and the concept of federation itself. some choice extracts from the very fine people over there:

[Rimu] is an active danger to the entire fediverse as a whole. […] you better expect questions on why you’re helping to further this narcissistic psychopath['s] control and influence. […from that user’s bio:] Rimu is weaponizing the fediverse against you.

very reasonable and normal account to have on your instance

Rimu is breaking the Fediverse. We had a good thing going for a few years.

that’s right, he’s personally deleting every post on the internet forever

Hi. Admin of Lemy.lol here. […] When I joined the Lemy.lol team, I was informed that Rimu had pre-emptively defederated from us sometime ago due to our logo. Pepe the frog. [… He’s] not merely a [power-tripping bastard], but a dangerous one.

fucking lol it’s these chuds again

Did Rimu suffer a TBI or get way into something mind altering?.

that last one is on a thread completely detached from Rimu, by the way. Rimu possesses a kind of hyperagency, capable of superconvincing everyone of everything which is why any and all defederation due to AI slop is actually secretly his fault

so yeah, good riddance

db0’s roundup doesn’t pass the sniff test either. i’m supposed to take on your word that it was an “experiment” (testing what hypothesis?) and an “inside joke” (where is the explanation?) despite the paper trail showing approximately 0% of this being true, but you’re totally comfortable speculating on the actions and motivations of Rimu – nay, a mysterious unnameable “piefed developer”? you have the gall to be salty they didn’t edit your narrative into their post about your instance admin’s behavior when you refuse to even say their fucking name? it’s gross! it’s gross.

lol at “corporate-LLMs”

i feel in my gut that on some level license disputes are ultimately slapfights for which titanic corporation gets the money. however i will absolutely point and laugh at every misfortune that comes the way of that particular transmisogynist asshole

my lemmy client is a humanities app because on it i learn how dedicated people are to completely missing the entire point

somehow i think furries will be disqualified from the vanguard, so probably not

sorry but i shave everything from the eyebrows down. i must remain buttery smooth to retain the optimal aerodynamic attributes

as someone who is generally anti-copyright, i think it’s telling that while there’s several very good arguments to be made against copyright (they encourage IP hoarding, they strip rights and profits from creators, they enable legal threats against people making derivative or inspired work), the one promptfans continuously go for is the most shallow. “copyright is bad because it’s the thing preventing me personally from downloading everything i want for free, even though i already do that all the time with no repercussions whatsoever”

some parts intriguing, but mostly disappointing. several chunks of the text felt AI-generated. no fewer than 34 “it’s not X but Y”'s, by my count, and the out-of-nowhere typographies / tables definitely smell of slop. and obviously, the images definitely were. (can’t even be bothered to fix the typos in photoshop? why make a fake poster for The Stepford Wives??)

some notes:

• i’m not entirely convinced the revulsion response in women can be explained entirely as a reflective recognition of the subjected female self. maybe it’s also because AI art is entirely bland and/or fuck ugly

• some reproductive labors, in the Marxist-feminist sense, are getting subsumed by AI, sure, but they’re largely the ones that already got subsumed by the computer. we had pagers with scheduling and appointment reminders in the 80’s. about the only thing an LLM can do that our previous tech couldn’t is the customer service / “emotional labor” part, albeit poorly. and the other labors are non-optional – my laundry actually does have to go in the dryer, and no matter how many plastic pictures of clean clothes i generate, they can’t actually go in my closet.

• speaking of, the article appears to use a mangled paraphrase of that Joanna Maciejewska tweet (“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes”), and then attributes it to “AI enthusiasts” (ew).

• the article notes that reproductive labor is coded feminine and that the assistants that (attempt to) do this labor are designed female, with feminine voices and affects, despite being, y’know, robots. and not women. the next step to me would be to note that this isn’t just reflecting the subjectification of the female and the designation of women to a particular labor class, but actually aiding to construct and reproduce the subject of “female” itself too. maybe throw some Butler in there. but we just breeze right past this. no third-wave? i don’t see any feminist arguments past the 80’s in here

• the typography of wives is total bullshit. “The Open-Source Wife” fuuuuucccckk offfff. but. BUT. i do think there is something correct in there about xAI/Grok/Ani basically being the modern adaptation of Vivian James

• there’s an argument that obviously used to be about AI art, and got transmogrified into a nonsense concept, bordering on colorless green ideas.

Women’s labor is being extracted, automated, and sold back without credit.

• the nonsense below it about “alignment” clearly intends to imply that the machines are only faking being our friends / submissive wives(!!1!).

• but this is okay because women are uniquely suited to interface with AI! this is because (all) women (innately) communicate with the goal of building relationships (female) instead of the utilitarian (manly) execution of transactions (male). there’s an odd essentialist undercurrent that’s not really being challenged here, despite the fact that that would render “female robots” impossible

• “outsource-maxxing” fuuuuuucuk youuuuuuu

• the conclusion of the article is basically “women are uniquely capable of interacting with (female) AI because they’ve BEEN the female AI”, with a call-to-action for women to basically… well. resume that role, except now using the AI as your girlbestfriend.

having worked there (IBM Consulting specifically) in the last year, at least on my end it seemed like they were churning through everyone, not just the seniors. it felt like every two weeks you could show up to the office and there would just be people missing

i left for better pastures (and nearly double the salary)

i can’t believe the media is straw manning me. but actually now that you’ve said the horrible things i don’t wanna say out loud that sounds good actually, let’s do that

for a second i thought we were talking about the audio codec and got mildly interested but no