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Picked up a sneer in the wild (through trawling David Gerard's Bluesky):

You want my take, Kathryn's on the money - future expectations on how people speak will actively shift away from anything that could be mistaken for sounding like an LLM, whether because you want to avoid being falsely accused of posting slop, or because the slop-nami has pushed your writing habits away from slop-like traits.

Forgot to save who said it, but on bsky somebody said they or their friends had come up with a slur for people who use genAI for everything: sloppers.

Finally, a slur my British ass can sling at people guilt-free

This is literally just a Tamagotchi but worse

EDIT: This was supposed to be an offhanded comment, but reading further makes me think Mustafa Suleyman has literally never heard of a Tamagotchi

I've already predicted that scraper activity would crash due to AI in my most recent MoreWrite essay, and seeing this only makes me confident in that assessment.

On a wider front, I suspect that web search in general's gonna dive in popularity - even if scraper activity remains the same during the AI winter, the bubble (with plenty of help from Google) has completely broken the web ecosystem which allowed search engines (near-exclusively Google) to thrive, through triggering a slop-nami that drowned human-made art, supercharging SEO's ability to bury quality output, and enabling AI Summary™ services which steal traffic through stealing work.

Basically. Its to explicitly prevent Xe from becoming the load-bearing peg for a massive portion of the Internet, thus ensuring this project doesn't send her health down the shitter.

You want my prediction, I suspect future FOSS projects may decide to adopt mascots of their own, to avoid the "load-bearing maintainer" issue in a similar manner.

Xe has talked a bit about the mascot in question before - by her own testimony, its there to act as a shopping cart test to see who's willing to support the project. Reportedly, she's planning to exploit it to make some more elaborate checks as well.

New piece from Brian Merchant, and a new edition of AI Killed My Job just dropped

Someone I know called AI "a non-invasive procedure to lobotomise people" after I mentioned this Pivot to AI, and its stuck with me ever since

…You know, if I actually believed in the whole AGI doom scenario (and bought into Eliezer’s self-hype) I would be even more pissed at him and sneer even harder at him. He basically set himself up as a critical savior to mankind, one of the only people clear sighted enough to see the real dangers and most important question… and then he totally failed to deliver. Not only that he created the very hype that would trigger the creation of the unaligned AGI he promised to prevent!

As the cherry on top of this shit sundae, the bubble caused by said hype dealt devastating damage to the Internet and the world at large in spite of failing to create the unaligned AGI Yud was doomsaying about, and made people more vulnerable to falling for the plagiarism-fueled lying machines behind said bubble.

New (paywalled) 404 Media: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Not a sneer, but still inexplicably funny: You Can Now Venmo the Government to Help Pay Off National Debt

Now we need to make a logic puzzle involving two people and one cup. Perhaps they are trying to share a drink equitably. Each time they drink one third of remaining cup’s volume.

Step one: Drink two-thirds of the cup's volume

Step two: Piss one sixth of the cup's volume

Problem solved

Long-term, I'm expecting itch to dive in popularity from this - they've nuked much of the trust they've built up over the years with this.

Found a neat mini-sneer in the wild: It's rude to show AI output to people

Two ferrymen and three boats are on the left bank of a river. Each boat holds exactly one man. How can they get both men and all three boats to the right bank?

Officially, you can't. Unofficially, just have one of the ferrymen tow a boat.

Caught a particularly spectacular AI fuckup in the wild:

(Sidenote: Rest in peace Ozzy - after the long and wild life you had, you've earned it)

Found a banger in the comments:

Hey, remember the thing that you said would happen?

The part about condemnation and mockery? Yeah, I already thought that was guaranteed, but I didn't expect to be vindicated so soon afterwards.

EDIT: One of the replies gives an example for my "death of value-neutral AI" prediction too, openly calling AI "a weapon of mass destruction" and calling for its abolition.

Managed to stumble across two separate attempts to protect promptfondlers' feelings from getting hurt like they deserve, titled "Shame in the machine: affective accountability and the ethics of AI" and "AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work".

I found both of them whilst trawling Bluesky, and they're being universally mocked like they deserve on there.

I don't keep track, I just put these together when I've got an interesting tangent to go on.