“I had the Nazi CSAM generator make a picture of myself covered in the piss filter, your argument is invalid.”

Tired: “model collapse”

Wired: goblins ate my model

For those keeping track: Richard Dawkins believes a chatbot algorithm can be a “her” but a trans woman cannot.

https://bsky.app/profile/brainspore.bsky.social/post/3mktbg2ilp22y

I’m always down to poison training data.

Bryan Johnson also has free unsolicited sex tips for men on twitter

Every day, new cursed text. That’s the awful.systems promise!

Alleging widespread financial fraud?! How absurd! And to prove just how absurd it is, I will namedrop the infamous financial fraud from the industry full of exactly the same people. Checkmate atheists

Precious awful.systems thread about her being maybe also Yud’s coauthor on the BDSM eugenics fanfic written as an impenetrable mass of forum posts:

https://awful.systems/post/5317207/8415418

The singularity of manosphere chud lingo and CEO babble… angels and ministers of grace defend us.

“I use AI sparingly for” is the new “I only do meth before my hookups for unprotected sex with strangers”.

I feel a bit regretful sometimes that none of my copious fanfic output has inspired anyone to draw fanart. But at least no one has gotten weird about it, either.

Ziz has always had a tendency to express her ideas through metaphors in fiction that are familiar to her. We spoke at length about Contessa and Doctor Mother from Worm; the Wardens from World of Warcraft; Frisk, Sans, and especially Undyne from Undertale; Tassadar from Starcraft; Harry and Dumbledore from HPMOR; Iji.

Does “read a second book” apply here, or is this a “read a first book” situation?

He showed up at my blog to talk math back in the ancient days when I had a comment section. And he’s active on Mastodon a fair bit.

This is a serious blow to coolness, from which not even drugs will easily recover.

When we’re all too tired for “let them fight”.

New random positivity thread:

https://awful.systems/post/8018168

Epistemic status: it’s aphids, man, aphids everywhere. I asked ChatGPT. They’re aphids. They’re in my hair, on my skin, in my lungs. And the pain, Barris, it’s unreasonable. They’re all over the place. Oh, they’ve completely gotten Millie too.

In knavin’

Habryka quoting Yud:

From my perspective, my whole life has been, when you raise the banner to oppose the apocalypse, crazy people gather around making things worse

“Crazy people”? That’s hardly a nice way to describe your biggest fans.

The third derivative… ah yes, the jerk