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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Oh yay my corporate job I've been at for close to a decade just decided that all employees need to be "verified" by an AI startup's phone app for reasons: https://www.veriff.com/ Ugh I'd rather have random drug tests.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Our combination of AI and in-house human verification teams ensures bad actors are kept at bay and genuine users experience minimal friction in their customer journey.

what's the point, then?

[–] rook@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

One or more of the following:

  • they don’t bother with ai at all, but pretending they do helps with sales and marketing to the gullible
  • they have ai but it is totally shit, and they have to mechanical turk everything to have a functioning system at all
  • they have shit ai, but they’re trying to make it better and the humans are there to generate test and training data annotations
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