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Matt Mullenweg's face-heel turn completes: Wordpress and Tumblr text corpuses to be sold for LLM training (www.404media.co)

submitted 10 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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just think: an AI trained on depressed social justice queers

wonder what Hive is making of Bluesky

"you took a perfectly good pocket calculator and gave it anxiety"

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

this reads like taking the promises made by many different technologies I've read weird promises from and then extrapolating from the promises as if they were a description of reality

(academic blockchain theorising has often been of this genre for example)