Comment by tmtvl
1 day ago
I will say it's funny seeing a post which starts off calling someone a 'woke cretin' ending with a lightly veiled take-that at Musk.
I think it may be better to say that the author has an agenda or is co-opting real issues, but I can't think of an elegant way to phrase that.
Or maybe we should give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume he's unhappy with both radical ends of the spectrum, which would be a refreshing take in 2025 to be honest.
I don't really agree with the general argument, though. I don't think painting this as an "AI Slop" issue is fair. Online communities are quicker (and quieter!) when dismissing obvious AI Slop than when dismissing legitimate discourse that looks like AI, or was cleaned-up with AI, or even it just uses Em––Dashes. Perhaps the excusable usage is marking content as machine-translated, which of course causes other disadvantages for the poster. But of course that's just one point of view and communities I don’t go to might be 100% different!
> he's unhappy with both radical ends of the spectrum
Seems to be very hard to realize that in the US. But from the outside, both ends are batshit insane.
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