#techbros are stupid

[prokyon]

"You just don’t really have to think that much."

I'm going to scream.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

Archived link to read the full article: https://archive.md/tRRgn

From now on, you should probably ask your doctor, nurse, lawyer, accountant, etc:

Did you graduate after ~2022?

If so, did you use AI for any of your coursework?

They will probably lie, if they're smart enough to lie. And frankly, anybody graduating before then aren't inherently safer either, as they could be using this in their jobs now instead of their coursework a decade ago.

But we need to seriously consider this as part of the new landscape we are in. We need to counter this wherever possible, and try where we can to keep our lives out of the hands of people who outsource thinking to a predictive text bot. Do not trust anyone who uses ChatGPT to know how to treat you or your loved ones. These people literally do not know what they're doing.

[autumn-the-kitty-cat]

tech was way cooler when it was more gay people tinkering with electricity and less straight people tinkering with crypto

[luckylunatix]

A decade+ ago: "If it has even the slightest similarity to Pokémon I don't want it!"

Now: "Yeah I know this game straight up plagiarized designs and stole assets from Pokémon, but Pokémon ain't what it used to be and this game has guns in it, so who cares? Fuck the actual creativity that went into those Pokémon designs, the artists that made them are clearly just as bad as the company higher-ups!"

[cryptvokeeper]

I'm like really annoyed with Old Guard 2 I have never been more disappointed in a movie in my life WHAT HAPPENED

[cormancatacombs]

You can tell the talentless tech bros are desperate for attention because the last three times I’ve seen a Blazed post it’s been some AI art garbage.

These assholes are paying real money just to get added to sane people’s blocklists 😹

[cr-ok]

I will never forgive Pinterest for the sheer volume of ai-generated horseshit I see on my homepage alone.

I miss when their site centered cool DIY projects and pretty photos I can perceive as something that would exist in real life.

Don’t get me started on the ads. I know they already had ads, but I don’t remember as many ads as there are today.

[anarkhebringer]

Today I learned that BonziBUDDY NFTs are real. Not only real, but literally official and made by the dudes that created him.

[noegrets]

To be honest, I think this is part of a larger ongoing trend of these assholes making us distrust important words that didn't originally mean what they warped them into. I am not sure if it's some sort of intentional psyop to make us fear the computer science that might save us, or if it's them just trampling carelessly over anything and everything without there needing to be any additional maliciousness involved... but either way it sucks.

I think this trend started with "algorithm". What do you think of when I say "algorithm" in 2025? I bet a lot of people first think of the evil social media "algorithms" that impose censorship and oppression and try to keep us all trapped doomscrolling further down cultish piplines.

But algorithm simply means a set of defined steps for solving a problem, and the study of algorithms in computer science is about finding the most efficient techniques for finding the correct answers to common problems, things like how to sort a list alphabetically with the fewest number of swaps, or how to retrieve data based on a specific keyword in the least amount of time. The study of algorithms helps us measure which set of steps finds the correct answer in the most efficient way.

Social media algorithms don't really find the "correct" answer, and aren't really optimized for anything, not even really for evilness, honestly, so they sure aren't great algorithms. For example, while we were using Twitter, there was awhile when it started making recommendations for us as if trying to guess our zodiac signs. Each week, I'd get a recommendation of, would you like to follow...... Libra? Next week it would be, how about.... Sagittarius? Twitter somehow never managed to recommend either of our actual zodiac signs to follow, which is especially hilarious given that there are only twelve of them and Twitter knew our freakin' birthdays!!! "Algorithm", my left buttcheek!

But, yeah, well-made and well-optimized algorithms are necessary for solving all sorts of useful problems in energy-efficient ways! We shouldn't hate algorithms or think of them as being evil, just because the people behind the code of Twitter don't care if it is actively malicious! We need good algorithms! And poor Mr. al-Khwarizmi, brilliant namesake of the algorithm, did nothing to deserve this slander!!

Then there's "crypto". No, I don't mean cryptocurrency, which is essentially synonomous with "bullshit" and "scam". I mean cryptography! The study of cybersecurity and encryption, which is absolutely critical for us to have any privacy online! To be able to log into a website or to make an online transation by credit card or to not have outsiders snooping in on our web browsing. That was what "crypto" used to refer to, before that word got ruined. We shouldn't be doubting that the technology that is critical for our digital security is somehow a bullshit scam.

And yeah, now the trend is conflating generativeAI with everything and anything "artificial intelligence". Actually "artificial intelligence" is just a kinda overly-hopeful but kinda misnomer umbrella term for certain types of problem solving: a variety of techniques for finding a good enough answer to things that are really hard to solve - so hard to solve that we don't even really know where to begin to start making defined algorithms to solve them. A lot of AI techniques are about making semi-random guesses in such a way that they get closer and closer to better answers, and hopefully they find a decent-enough answer within the alloted amount of time and resources. This is so important in situations where a pretty good answer is damn good, since finding the optimally correct solution might take infinite time and resources. These AI techniques are critical for us to find solutions to really hard problems, like all sorts of questions in science and medicine!

GenerativeAI is only "artificial intelligence" in the sense that, based on all the text and images stolen from the internet, and given some letters, it uses artifical intelligence techniques to try to guess what the next letter might be. Or given some pixels, it tries to guess what color the next pixel would be. It's actually pretty good at solving that specific sort of hard problem. But solving that specific hard problem doesn't let it solve other problems like, knowing the correct spelling of a certain word. Or knowing the correct answer to a certain question.

We shouldn't be boycotting all "artificial intelligence" techniques, we should be boycotting generativeAI when it's based on theft and when it's being used in situations where it's completely inappropriate. GenerativeAI is getting shoved in places where it makes absolutely no sense. Especially when a well-honed algorithm already exists to efficiently and accurately solve a particular problem!

And I'd say, one of the biggest evils right now, is that some perfectly accurate and well-optimized algorithmic solutions are getting ripped out and thrown away to be replaced with hallucinating and resource-draining generativeAI, just for the sake of telling the stock market that the product has AI now. We are losing the hard work of generations of past computer scientists. And, after this stupid AI bubble finally bursts, it's going to take a lot of really hard and unnecessary work to redevelop those lost algorithms from scratch again... to the point that some past brilliance might wind up lost forever. And that makes me really sad.

[zeeph-containment-zone]

EDIT: please stop calling me stupid and talking down to me for “not paying attention” to nintendos other dirty tactics (which I already was VERY well aware of btw) and getting angry because “erm well how was I suppose to know, dumbass” THIS WAS A VENT ABOUT TECHBROS ON TWITTER WHO WERE SPECIFICALLY BEING DISMISSIVE OF IT THE RB WHERE I CLARIFY THIS IS GETTING BURIED SO IM PUTTING IT ON THE MAIN POST NOW

Nintendo hatedom is crazy because like wdym y’all think the switch 2 not having an OLED screen and having inflation pricing is the most anti consumer, discourse worthy thing they’ve ever done but peach’s VA finding out she got recasted the day Mario kart world launched isn’t worth raising hell over or talking about whatsoever???

[disastrousoilthing]

I genuinely cannot fathom how character chat bots would be an improvement over "static" stories. Fucker's trying to capitalize off of an elliptical block in a circular hole.

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[niconiconwo]

So basically it isn't just about the licenses or big tech bad (which they are), but everything in totality and particular combination does matter. You can't techbro platitudes your way through, very reddit poster twitter user performative way of approaching things.

The root cause of Big Tech freeloading, the root cause that makes open platforms unable to directly support small developers, the root cause of sucking software, this and more are all inextricably linked together to foundational issues that no amount of Elon-esque posturing is going to ever be able to comprehend let alone resolve.

[stolenpensfromspencers]

whoever that guy in the university's cinema club whatsapp group was that was asking for ai software suggestions to type out a movie script because the stuff chatgpt (which he was using the PAID version for btw) was coming up with were sounding ARTIFICIAL (WOW I FUCKING WONDER WHY) may whatever you believe in bless you with a prolapsed colon

[twilight-good-yall-dumb]

seeing an actual big company (with more than enough money to pay artists) using ai for their commercial is actually making me feel sick. is this for real? are we actually going down this path? fuck you coca-cola. i can't believe my eyes actually had to bear witness to that. remember when Christmas commercials (though admittedly consumerist in nature) were heartwarming? remember when they had real people? we live in the worst fucking timeline.

[poorshadowspaintedqueens]

Once more for the people in the back:

AI generated art exists to people can avoid making art.

AI generated writing exists so that people can avoid writing for themselves.

It does not make either of these things easier to learn. All you are doing is bypassing the learning to get to the outcome, taking the laziest, most destructive route possible.

[patricia-taxxon]

"these stupid techbros think we can colonize mars, lol, why don't we try colonizing the sahara desert first" wait, no

[chr0matic-v0id]

Sighs. Okay. I am, unfortunately, always and forever probably gonna be rooted in this hellsite like a plant that evolved hyperspecific biological needs,

But I was already planning on branching out and using other sites. So. lol. Lmao even

Expect a post with links soonish ✌️

✨ fuck AI✨