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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

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.

Last week’s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this - this one was a bit late, I got distracted)

  • JFranek@awful.systemsEnglish
    13·
    22 days ago

    The promptfans testing OpenAI Sora have gotten mad that it’s happening to them and (temporarily) leaked access to the API.

    https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/artists-appears-to-have-leaked-access-to-openais-sora/

    “Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, feedback and experimental work for the [Sora early access] program for a $150B valued [sic] company,” the group, which calls itself “Sora PR Puppets,” wrote in a post …

    “Well, they didn’t compensate actual artists, but surely they will compensate us.”

    “This early access program appears to be less about creative expression and critique, and more about PR and advertisement.”

    OK, I could give them the benefit of the doubt: maybe they’re new to the GenAI space, or general ML Space … or IT.

    But I’m not going to. Of course it’s about PR hype.

    • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      21 days ago

      I’d say lol but I’m like 72% sure this is straight out of the video game industry’s playbook and very much intentional to create hype because everyone has forgotten this shit even exists.

      Also, I’m still waiting for just one use case for video-generating autoplag that is, even in theory, not either morally reprehensible or outright criminal.