That’s why I’m on the fediverse, here at least there still are quite many humans around.

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    This guy is constantly whining about the consequences of his own unrestricted capitalism. Just STOP IT then, dude! Take your, money and fuck all the way off. Better yet, governments TAKE his money away as a punishment for ‘disrupting’ society.

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      Yeah, I do long for those good old days. I thought they the slow connections from then were bad but now I so wish I was back in those days.

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        It used to be the connection speeds were preventing you from enjoying great sites, now we’ve got reasonably good connection speeds and terrible sites.

        Who wished on the monkey’s paw?

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    Since I have not seen anyone from the fediverse in person i still can not be sure that you all`s ain’t bots.

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    He’s just upset that his ai is training on its own ai slop and is becoming exponentially worse

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      And he also paid for the above article to keep engagement going.

      Endless grift on all fronts.

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    Sam Altman is worried the dead internet theory is coming true the same way the Sacklers are worried there might be an opioid crisis.

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    the internet is so shitty I retreated to a couple of kind of oldschool “forums” and primarily exist on there now.

    yeah the content is scattered and I might not find very many people with some specific interest, but I know they are real people and we’re not getting swarmed by bots, ads, and glowies

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      I got a ban from reddit and you know what? I actually feel better for not being there anymore. I never actually realised just how much of an affect that endless drama on there was having on my mental health.

      I think back to those old school forums, and it really was simpler time. People were more genuine, and hadnt been utterly mind fucked by all the algorithms poisoning their opinions about movies they hadnt seen and books they hadnt read.

      You could even meet people IRL from some places, and it wasnt a big deal. Now everyone is a rapist, murder bot with a weird bum fetish, and meeting anyone is an insane idea.

      Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular.

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        Im also here because of a reddit perma.

        at first I was sad because I wasnt able to participate in niche communities that are important to me, but after a while I found other ways of talking to people about those things,

        “Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular.”

        thats how I feel about the internet in general, 90s, 00s, early 2010s the world wasnt terminally online, just the nerdy and geeky people were. But now that everyone is online, the reality is that most people are too untrustworthy or too stupid to be trusted with the internet because well, you see everything that happened.

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    Oh no, says Sam, the eminently predictable consequences of my own actions have come to pass through no fault of my own.

    And he’s not wrong. If I search for any topic on Google without narrowing my search very carefully, the first page will consist of one AI generated autoresponse and ten AI generated articles from SEO-exploiting link farms.

    If I search for advice on Reddit I have to narrow it down to posts from before 2022 or comments will be full of users who see a question and think “it is both useful and appropriate for me to plug this question into ChatGPT and post its answer.”

    (Edit: oh, shit, I forgot, Reddit also inserts links to AI-generated answers in old comments. So I’m reading an old comment and think the author linked to something relevant but the link actually triggers Reddit Answers to supply AI garbage. Ugh.)

    Product reviews have been 95% spam and ad copy for decades.

    I read fucking fanfiction and half the stories that started in 2025 show signs of being at least edited by LLMs.

    If that’s not the shambling zombie corpse of the Internet pretending to be human I don’t know what it is.

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    Oh, no. Did the guy who chose to move fast and break things end up moving fast and breaking things? Who could’ve seen that coming?

    I’m sure his solution is going to be to move fast and break things.

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      Any money this arsehole said this either to put twitter and grok down or to take an extreme approach “AI is much more sophisticated than we thought hurr” either way the motivations the same: profit.

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    Who knew Skynet would mostly make shitty AI art, cheat on college exams, and spread misinformation rather than launch nukes and send T-800’s?

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    Whatever, billionaire moron. Fuck off. Freaks this like one played a big part in killing what could have been a fantastic tool for the human race. A way to communally store and access troves of human knowledge quickly and easily. A way to communicate with each other instantly across huge distances.

    But no. Had to try and make a quick buck off it.

    Fucking dickhead.

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    Maybe he realized that the easiest way to get training data is now poisoned with his own ai shit.

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      I think they knew that always. It’s just not good for selling the product. That’s the problems with LLMs, they are designed to give you the most likely answer, not the most correct answer, because that’s mich harder to train for.