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just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers
wonder what Hive is making of Bluesky
“you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and gave it anxiety”
- gerikson ( @gerikson@awful.systems ) English13•9 months ago
Well that sucks. I’ve always had a lingering respect for Mullenweg because I think Wordpress.com is a good service, I really like Simplenote, and I thought that Automattic taking over Tumblr could not make stuff worse after the service being gelded by the porn-haters.
But his latest antics on moderation at Tumblr and now this (although he’s hardly alone, Reddit is also gonna sell its user’s contents to the AI mills) really showed his true face.
(I’ll never forget laughing at him for losing tens of thousands worth of Leica gear in a lost/stolen luggage incident many years back)
- self ( @self@awful.systems ) English8•9 months ago
tens of thousands worth of Leica gear
of course he’s one of those
- gerikson ( @gerikson@awful.systems ) English6•9 months ago
Well his tag is “photomatt” and AFAIK he was pretty involved in digital photography when that was the cool thing to be doing.
I found the post, from 2008: https://ma.tt/2008/05/dont-check-your-valuables/
All very expensive at the time, especially the Noctilux!
oh come on, don’t say you wouldn’t
- Steve ( @fasterandworse@awful.systems ) English11•9 months ago
- jonhendry ( @jonhendry@awful.systems ) English16•9 months ago
The sign of a great CEO is that sense of urgency.
- gerikson ( @gerikson@awful.systems ) English12•9 months ago
“We’re facing the biggest PR storm in our history, no hurry”.
Where is he, btw? Rehab?
- Steve ( @fasterandworse@awful.systems ) English11•9 months ago
that’s the fun part. He’s been on “samattical” since beginning of Feb. Plenty of time for twitter harassment but this one will have to wait
https://web.archive.org/web/20240229125209/https://ma.tt/2024/02/samattical/
- mountainriver ( @mountainriver@awful.systems ) English10•9 months ago
Banning trans women on Tumblr who are mad at him for them being harassed through the platform: Important.
Feuding with said trans women on Twitter: Important.
Explaining their decision to sell the users data: Not important.
- mountainriver ( @mountainriver@awful.systems ) English9•9 months ago
And to add, admitting that Tumblr had an admin who charged for banning trans women: Important.
Explaining wtf that was all about: Not important.
He probably should be in rehab.
- Jonathan Hendry ( @jonhendry@iosdev.space ) 7•9 months ago
Probably on a photography trip to some exotic and expensive place.
- swlabr ( @swlabr@awful.systems ) English10•9 months ago
Great, now LLMs are gonna format all their output as email-indented reblog chains.
- rinze ( @rinze@infosec.pub ) English9•9 months ago
We can’t have nice things.
The full text describes clusterfuck after clusterfuck. It’s worth registering (it’s free to read) even just for this one.
- Sailor Sega Saturn ( @sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems ) English8•9 months ago
Wordpress and Docusign of all businesses are now in the AI training hype train.
Because there’s nothing companies love more than torching their own good reputations for a bit of short term profit* at the expense of society!
* probably not even
- AcausalRobotGod ( @AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems ) English7•9 months ago
I can understand Wordpress doing it, but DOCUSIGN??? I’m not a federal judge or anything but I would immediately stop using their service for anything, sending stuff through the service is already a little sketchy, but I’m not going to give away my precious, precious boilerplate.
no i don’t have an unpaywalled copy, but it’s 404 so i’ll assume the article delivers on the headline and intro paras
- self ( @self@awful.systems ) English11•9 months ago
404 is the first time I’ve ever felt like a news source (that isn’t a journalist I know personally) has been consistently high quality enough to pay for it
- sc_griffith ( @sc_griffith@awful.systems ) English5•9 months ago
it’s the only news site I’m currently subscribed to. consistently great work is hard to find
- Soyweiser ( @Soyweiser@awful.systems ) English8•9 months ago
Imagine having to train your LLM on tumblr content, really scraping the bottom of the barrel in legibility (nothing against all those weird tumblr communities with their weird slang and stuff, prob going to make it the LLMs just sprout nonsense as the LLM doesn’t understand anything).
just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers
“you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and gave it anxiety”
- blakestacey ( @blakestacey@awful.systems ) English7•9 months ago
“you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and made it SuperWhoLock”
- self ( @self@awful.systems ) English8•9 months ago
it still amazes me that nobody at OpenAI seemed to realize ChatGPT at release sounded exactly like a bottom-tier reddit poster, because of how much of Reddit’s corpus they had ingested. part of me can’t wait for gpt’s shitty neoliberal tumblr impression before they re-weight it to once again sound like the kind of English essay that gets “Apply Yourself!” written on it in red ink