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This is quite minor, but it's very funny seeing the intern would-be sneerers still on rbuttcoin fall for the AI grift, to the point that its part of their modscript copypasta
Or in the pinned mod comment:
tfw you're anti-crypto, but only because its a bad investing opportunity.
i came here from r/buttcoin and lmao
i mean technically it passes the very low bar of having a single non-criminal use case (mass manufacturing spam and other drivel)
some are not falling for it at least
Gross, that whole thread is gross. A lot of promptfans in that thread seemingly experiencing pushback for the first time and they are baffled!
While it's always correct to laugh at crypto advocates, /r/buttcoin just isn't very edifying lately. There's no depth to the criticism. It comes across as the "anti" version of wall street bets for people who lost their shirts, especially since The Appening, when a lot of subject matter experts left town.
ours is much better, it has the true buttcoin scorn without bothsidesing
accept no substitutes!
in that thread: marketing dude who uses chatgpt, never had issues with incorrect results. i mean how would he even catch this, his entire field is uncut bullshit
What does "incorrect" even mean in a marketing context???
something you can get sued for
I don't think that comment is unreasonable. LLMs can summarize large-ish amounts of information (as long as it fits in the context window) in a human-readable form, and while it's still prone to getting things wrong and I'd rather a human do it all day, it does do it "better than any other technology" that I know of. We can argue about "unique" but strictly speaking it will almost certainly generate an image that didn't exist before. I'd also rather a human make the image for quality's sake, but being fast, cheap, and copyright-free is a useful enough combo in certain situations.
It doesn't really bring up the main issues with AI, but I think that's acceptable in the context, which is "How is AI different from crypto in the context of r/Buttcoin", and in that context "crypto is completely useless" and "AI has minimal uses which may or may not be worthwhile depending on how you evaluate the benefits and negatives" are meaningfully different.
It's "reasonable" in context, I just thought it's funny that rbuttcoin would be headpatting AI at all, since its basically the exact same people pushing AI as the people pushing crypto with the exact same motives.