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Am I the only one who notices that new pickup trucks are afflicted with like furry porn levels of cartoon masculinity in their angles and faces

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This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

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somewhat virgin olive oil

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religious killer: i can hear God speaking to me, to kill the demons that live in this world with my gun of justice

atheist killer: I kill only because of my own moral code. Whether it's for money so I can survive, or self-defense against a threat, I am the one who chooses when I kill.

agnostic killer: nobody really knows why I shoot people

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neowiganism. pey wet revival

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I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

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I'm trying to boil down the argument being made here. a) Some people think AI generated stuff is cool, and we shouldn't berate them for it b) AI is a useful tool that the left should be using c) Leftists should shape AI into something useful For me the second point is more interesting here. Beyond botting and or generating misinformation, what is this useful for in our current social context? These are genuinely the two main use-cases I see here, in a political context. Am I lacking in imagination? If not, are these strategies we should be heavily invested in?

We fight an uphill battle in corporate social media generally. The opponents both have these companies on their side, meaning that algorithms shift to suit their needs, and also have more resources to spend on compute, building bot farms, etc. There is also the issue of centralization, where the entire internet ends up focused on a USAmerican national political context, drowning out local political activism.

Given this, my hot take is that activism should be focused on meat space. The default should be to de-legitimize corporate social media. Sure, keep up to date on things that happen, share resources, art, build relationships, whatever, but don't expect to convince strangers. If the point is to build large movements of actual people working to change society in concrete ways, I think AI has a very marginal role to play in that because these movements are centered around human relationships and trust.

We need to change the way we think about AI and remember that arms races don’t just exist between nations. The problem is once again capitalism, not the technology itself or some other boogeyman.