RetroFedBlueMonday1984, bluemonday1984@awful.systems
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(from the youtube comments)
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One of the lesser discussed issues with the generative AI hype is that it put every single deep learning application under scrutiny. They tend to hide behind the positive uses of deep learning whenever generative AI is criticized, as if medicine research and the misinformation generator cannot be separated. “Nuclear power is impossible unless we are allowed to use nukes” type of argument
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Alphafold was a really interest project. It was not magic but had some utility. Now all remaining AI projects are lying plagiarism machines.
AI is officially a pseudoscience now.
LLM bros actively force themselves everywhere, part infinity:
Newgrounds moderation had to deal with someone (probably a scammer) posting slop “art advice” recently - exactly why, nobody fuckin’ knows:
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I’ve already passed it off to folks that could nuke the account from orbit, but I guess as a public service announcement, be on the lookout for replies in the forums that sound a little too LLM-y.
An account (unsure if a bot or just a weirdo) recently attempted to infiltrate the art forum, giving plausible-sounding AI-generated list-based advice, complete with preambles and summations, exactly the kind of syntax and format one would expect if they’ve dealt with enough clanker slop text. It fooled a small handful of people, but it was extremely easy to confirm my suspicions as soon as I smelled the clanker stank on it. One click made it clear that they had a generated PFP and profile linking to some image slopification scam.
It raises the question, what would anyone possibly have to gain from posting slop on the forums? It seems like a really stupid thing to do, but I guess braindead behavior tracks, given who we’re dealing with. Make sure “helpful” new users aren’t just trying to Dead Internet us or whatever.
A lot of annoying people in technical areas view the world in terms of an intelligence hierarchy: the smartest people do math and physics, the slightly less smart people do coding, and the dumb people do everything else. So if AI can do math then it can do anything else. But, as an example, it is abundantly obvious now that AI is not replacing filmmaking.
Going by those annoying peoples’ logic, filmmakers are smarter than coders, because LLMs can (allegedly) program, but they can’t make a good film. I have no wider point to this, I just find this really, really funny
I tested this with the Navy Seal Copypasta (well, the first 400 letters of it, the demo’s got a limit) - using just Cryllic characters got me a 3.01x increase, and turning on all four control types got a 4.53x increase.
Testing your own recent comment, Cryllic only got 3.38x, and all four controls got 5.11x.
Going from those two, the boost from homoglyphs alone is likely higher than you think - 3x to 3.5x, by my guess - pretty good for human readable text.
Tarpits like Iocaine and Nepenthes can easily sacrifice readability for token burn, so they can easily go higher.
Adversarial tokenmaxxing could probably be done by using non-English character sets in lieu of English letters (e.g. faux Cryllic) - for two examples from the Greek alphabet, alpha and omicron alone can easily substitute for A and O, respectively.
As a bonus, this would likely make the text look like complete gibberish to LLMs, potentially leaving them unable to process the document altogether. This would probably shaft anyone using screen readers, though.
EDIT: Turns out the demonstration’s already caught on to this idea, didn’t notice beforehand:
The Butlerian Jihad grows closer and closer by the day. Maybe its already arrived.
Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses
There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]
Given Parliament’s track record, they’ll probably respond by banning glasses that don’t have cameras, but I still endorse this
Another “AI fucked compsci grads” post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn’s algorithm) (because I’m still on that site for some fucking reason):
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study philosophy, not computer science
data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that philosophy students have a lower unemployment rate (about 5.1%) than computer science students (7%)
why?
unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning are becoming premium assets, and better tech means companies increasingly DON’T need to ask “can we build this?”, and increasingly DO need to ask “should we build this, and what are the consequences?”
If there has ever been a time to build those soft, truly human, skills, it is now.
p.s. what do you think is the BEST skill to have right now - my thoughts are in the comments
This one’s attributing the decline to “unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets”, and her graph comes from The Economist’s Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist’s sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.
The main thing I knew him for is his failed attempt to hijack the Hugo Awards back in 2015.
(There’s a r/HobbyDrama post about the whole debacle, which I recommend checking out)
“Okay, so it starts with a doomsday cult which formed around GameStop…”
Your qualifications predate the LLM rot by fucking ages, and your position against them is crystal clear. Given both of those, bypassing that filter should be easy enough.
new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
So not only are STEM graduates (mainly compsci grads) struggling to get jobs as it is, employers are explicitly passing them over for “""useless""” humanities degrees instead. I’m not sure whether to laugh at the irony of the situation, or crash out at the fact my own compsci/cybersec degrees may have become a liability.
Wednesday’s presentation for 2026 mostly hammers on Son’s love of AI. Son said: [Reuters]
I think it’s blasphemy against AI if you say it’s a bubble.
[THIS IS WHAT AI CULTISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]
Also, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” is a cautionary fable about greed being bad.
Knowing that would require techbros to actually read, so I’m not shocked
Honestly, a black comedy about the rats and/or the AI bubble would probably make bank. The years of sneers people have cooked up on them would provide plenty of material for the writers, and there’d be plenty of catharsis in seeing those responsible get ripped into for 2-ish hours straight.
We got a major engine slopifying itself before GTA VI
I’m pretty sure 2027 will be hilarious for Unreal Engine with AI. And expensive.
With how much market share Unreal also has, it’ll probably cause some major shockwaves in the video game industry as well.
In the meantime, start learning the Godot engine. Which doesn’t accept AI code. [*Godot*]
Godot also released a new version yesterday, so there’s another reason to check it out
I checked Wikipedia’s history, its been fucked since last year
J-R Conlin has left Mozilla after 15 years, and has some choice words for the company.
They’ve gone bankrupt once in ’24 , I’d bet good money they’re gonna go bankrupt again.
I switched to DuckDuckGo like a goddamn hipster years ago, nice to know I dodged a fucking artillery shell
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th May 2026 (awful.systems)
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
New(ish) Baldur Bjarnason - a fairly politically charged one at that, going into the US hegemony powering the current tech industry (and the AI bubble by extension), and how the Hormuz crisis is all-but guaranteed to topple the whole thing.
AI is bad at everything, part infinity: AI transcription whitewashes 18th-century documents
In more positive news, the Slopfree Software Index recently hit 100 stars.
Good thing I haven’t heard of either of them until now.
Same energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjREyGgR2yg
Dusk (Twilight Princess PC port) released (twilitrealm.dev)
Building on the completed decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and the Gamecube/Wii compatibility later Aurora, another unofficial port’s come to the PC.
🎶 We’re doing a sequel, we’re back by popular demand…
(Muppets: Most Wanted was fun, I should rewatch that)
PS3 emulator RPCS3 has put up some guardrails against slopcode, and responded to the AI bro shitfits by sneering them:
Bonus response:
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th May 2026 (awful.systems)
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Google is forcibly installing Gemini Nano onto every Chrome installation without the user’s knowledge, and actively re-installing it if the user deletes it. Probably an attempt to juice the numbers.
(h/t Matt Roszak)
New blog from Iris Meredith: Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox
Based off her own unusually good experience with Claude, the general thrust is about sneerers being better-equipped to use AI than boosters.
Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has sued Google for defaming him with AI, over his cancelled concert in December caused by Google’s AI overview calling him a sex offender.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th May 2026 (awful.systems)
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Given the slop bots have been actively destroying their users’ coding abilities for the past 2-3 years, finding someone capable of unfucking their codebases will be a bit of a challenge.
Picking red guarantees your survival by endangering everyone else, making it morally fucked, but risk-free. Picking blue puts your life at risk, but saves everyone’s ass if it pays off, making it the more moral option overall. Picking blue also requires you to put some trust in your fellow man, so I’d have probably picked red if I didn’t know how the Twitter poll came out.
Someone else on the orange site claimed the experiment would end with only red-pushers left if it went for multiple rounds. Adding my two cents, the outcome would depend on how the first round goes - if red wins round 1, voting blue looks like suicide, shifting the calculus in red’s favour, and if blue wins round 1, you have reason to trust everyone will continue voting blue, making it a lot less risky and shifting the moral calculus in blue’s favour.
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 3rd May 2026 (awful.systems)
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Another lament about the tech industry has come to my attention, as Ky Decker asks themselves “Do I belong in tech anymore?”
Pretty solid piece all around, recommend checking it out
Two tech-related links for today, both relating to fascism.
First, tante has a new blogpost about AI being overtly fascist in nature, which he’s also posted to LinkedIn, seemingly for kicks. (Found on red site, too)
Second, the Nazi laptop company has sent a second pre-release laptop to DHH, showing they have not changed at all since they went full fash six months ago: