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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I worked for 30 years before it existed, and the first 10 of those there were barely an internet. Never had a problem. We had these things called books and libraries.

I've been testing the chat bots for about a year. What kind of idiot would trust any of their answers for their work?

One of the first questions i asked them for was the IRMAA Medicare Income Brackets. They got them wrong.

Just asked again. This time they got them right. I'd never trust them with anything important.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The trust thing is it for me. People are like, you could use them for your job, it'll save you time. Like, it saves me exactly zero time if I have to go back and check its work, because that's what I would've been doing anyway! And now, instead of my mistakes, which I'm very familiar with, I have the hallucinations of some machine to contend with.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 4 days ago

It takes more time to use AI when you check the work because you are interacting with AI on top of checking the answers yourself.

It only saves time for people who don't ever check anything.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I always think it's weird when they say nobody could write 10 pages or whatever without AI. I write for a living and grew up before all of this (I didn't have the internet until I was a teenager) and under the right conditions (IE a good amount of caffeine and people leave me alone) I can write 10,000 words in a single sitting lol.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I use to work for the army and flew a desk. By the time I retired my word smithing skills were great. Just put a pc in front of me and I will fill your document with all the relevant buzz words, needed to get managements and procurements buy in.

They are somewhat degraded now, I'm almost 70.