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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I dunk on LLM hype a lot. Even so, I utterly despise the liberal tactic of accusing people they don’t like of being LLM products. It’s nearly identical to the chud tactic of calling people they don’t like “NPCs.”

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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      258 months ago

      Trolls, bots, NPC’s, ai, it’s all the exact same attack - “this isn’t a real person so I don’t have to deal with their argument.” It’s a thought terminating cliche so they don’t have to deal with the cognitive dissonance.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        98 months ago

        By default I just assume that people with predictable and exhausting cliches are just indoctrinated that thoroughly, and are still people.

        The most blatant example of that is how many my-hero glazers, going back at least a decade, will say almost word for word “but humans must become an interplanetary species” to run interference for whatever environmental devastation, resource plundering, or worker abusing skullduggery their savior of humanity was up to today.

      • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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        68 months ago

        if i’m being completely honest i tell this to myself when i read something reactionary or hateful … it helps to believe that they’re a Koch bot or that they’re being paid by rich assholes. maybe that’s not something i should do?

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          158 months ago

          People are quite capable of bigotry, hate, and ignorance.

          It arguably makes us more vulnerable to bad people if we assume bad people simply don’t exist.