if for whatever reason you need example text of the mid phases of someone being driven out of their fucking mind by a chatbot, the above will do nicely

adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance

anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges

oxy is a mastodon user who follows David so they’re most likely telling the AI startups in question to GTFO and lemmy has kindly reinterpreted that as a tag

however,

Why are people hating on / blocking dgerard?

let’s go down the list! depending on the subculture, you’re blocking dgerard because:

• you’re a Scientologist and interacting with dgerard will cost you your Operating Thetan rank
• you’re a Rationalist and have read the Lightcone Infrastructure memo about how dgerard is the devil, beating out all other contenders for most evil being on the earth
• you’re a cryptocurrency gambler and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
• you run an AI startup and you think dgerard’s critiques lost you money
• you’re on the far right and dgerard won’t let you edit misinformation straight into Wikipedia

there are more, we can go deeper

here’s the summary table that the article pulled its numbers from

here’s a specific question regarding AI

DAIR, the AI-critical research organization founded by Timnit Gebru, is looking for a communications lead

it’s really rude to market a game as a language learning app

me telling you to go fuck yourself makes me exactly as unfair and mean as Palantir, a Peter Thiel company specializing in genocide and mass surveillance. yes hmm I see

you and your friend can both fuck off with the type of truth and transparency where you claim to not be defending fucking Palantir of all things while uncritically parroting their words. nobody fucking needs that in any context. you don’t in fact have to hand it to the fascists on this or any other point.

I’m not defending palantir but no need to invent reasons to be mad at them.

the fuck is wrong with you

as a choosy problem gambler you’d never dream of touching anything but the original griftcoins

if you should ever happen to be short on resumes…

(it feels like a zero AI job board might be a good thing to have, but we’d need a way to vet submissions and handle anonymous submissions and inquiries so people don’t dox themselves)