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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
apparently this got past IRB, was supposed to be a part of doctorate level work and now they donāt want to be named or publish that thing. what a shitshow from start to finish, and all for nothing. no way these were actual social scientists, i bet this is highly advanced software engineer syndrome in action
This is completely orthogonal to your point, but I expect the publicās gonna have a much lower opinion of software engineers after this bubble bursts, for a few reasons:
Right off the bat, theyāre gonna have to deal with some severe guilt-by-association. AI has become an inescapable part of the Internet, if not modern life as a whole, and the average experience of dealing with anything AI related has been annoying at best and profoundly negative at worst. Combined with the tech industry going all-in on AI, I can see the entire field of software engineering getting some serious āAI broā stench all over it.
The slop-nami has unleashed a torrent of low-grade garbage on the 'Net, whether it be zero-effort āAI artā or paragraphs of low-quality SEO optimised trash, whilst the gen-AI systems responsible for both have received breathless hype/praise from AI bros and tech journos (e.g. Sam Altmanās Ai-generated āmetafictionā). Combined with the continous and ongoing theft of artistās work that made this possible, and the public is given a strong reason to view software engineers as generally incapable of understanding art, if not outright hostile to art and artists as a whole.
Of course, the massive and ongoing theft of other peopleās work to make the gen-AI systems behind said slop-nami possible have likely given people reason to view software engineers as entirely okay with stealing otherās work - especially given the aforementioned theft is done with AI brosā open endorsement, whether implicitly or explicitly.