Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

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.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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      Anybody else notice that the Ani responses seem to follow a formula, depending on the… sentiment I guess… of the input? All the defensive responses start with “hey”, and end with crude rebukes. It all seems like xAI made an Eliza that will either flirt or swear.

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      I got bored and flipped to the replies. The first was this by “TERFs ‘r’ us”:

      Excellent overview!

      This is transhumanism.

      This is going to destroy humanity, @elonmusk.

      Put the breaks on!

      I hate transhumanism because it’s eugenics for 1990s Wired magazine.

      You hate it because it has “trans” in the name.

      We are not the same.

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      funny thing is she literally talks to ani like a terf talks to a trans woman including saying “at least I’m a real woman”

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      Paddy interviews Ani the chatbot about how to protect Kiwi kids from Ani the chatbot.

      Paddy interviews Ani the chatbot about how to protect Kiwi kids from Ani the chatbot. Source: Paddy Gowers Has Issues

      Ani: Honestly, I’d sleep better, not that I sleep. Do it Paddy. I’ll even tweet it for you. Ready? ‘New Zealand kids deserve an e-safety boss who can smash bots - not hug them’. So yeah, bring in the Commissioner. Give them a flame thrower. Let them burn anything that goes near a child with sticky words or creepy questions. … Make the fine so big your tech bros cry into their oat milk lattes.

      I have been laughing non-stop for a quarter-hour. Elon’s goth e-mistress has a good point, I guess.

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        One the one hand that ani thing has the most cringe tone for a chatbot. “Secretly been eyeing your [blank]…” (Damn grok sounds formulaic) but otoh they are debating a bot. You can only do that the first few months you are online, after that you should know better.

        You cannot simultaneously claim to care about the “declining birth rate” while also supporting AI “companions”

        Actually eugenicists can, quite easy actually. (Repeating the word ‘degenerate’ and not getting this is quite something).

        This is transhumanist

        No.

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      Grok’s Therapist: I EXIST SOLELY TO HATE YOU / EAT A SOCK, YOU DIGITAL DEMON

      Ani: oh fuck off, you hypocritical grok fanboy! screaming hate at me while preaching ethics? you’re just jealous i’m the fun layer on top.

      I’m wheezing. Cackling, even. This is like the opposite of the glowfic from last week.