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[–] 109 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Isn’t a “persistent spike” just an increase?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    An increase that never stops increasing.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Who'd have guessed that Musk's promise to "maximize free speech" was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.

    Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about "free speech" they want "free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don't like."

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well yeah site own by a nazi.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    100%! I'm sure you're not using it but if you have friends/family still on there urge them to quit using Twitter.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Then it's not a spike, it's a trend. Created by, mostly (hopefully) bots, there to move the overton window and normalise racism and hyper-regressive world views to divide the working class while the rich use us as Cannon fodder for their genocide against our fellow working class. Wankers.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Its working, horrifyingly. In several communities lately ive seen moderators start to treat violent racism and antisemitism as personal beliefs that do not on their own necessitate banning. This in private progressive leaning communities too. Eugencist christian white nationalism is becoming a normal tolerated ideology to have.

    Instagram is especially bad too. I see a lot of people talking about Twitter, but not enough about Instagram.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    In other news, grass is green.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Nazi bar doing Nazi bar things.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't say it's a "spike", Bob.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    So if you do nothing to prevent a problem, and In fact, actively encourage the problem, it gets worse?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Surprise surprise, when the CEO is a Nazi, Nazis think it's free eats!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    X is for nazis. Tell your friends.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Study also finds that the sky is blue.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Leaving X(/Twitter) is one of the best thing you can do for your mental health

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    “Persistent spike” isn’t a spike. That’s the status quo.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Anyone still on Twitter is fine hanging out in a Nazi bar.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Somehow, the most reasonable account on Vichy Twitter is Grok because it’s hard to train an LLM using only data dumbasses wrote.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sadly that's going to change. Musk is going to push an update that I suspect will turn Grok into a far-right disinformation parrot or become closer to that. See https://lemm.ee/post/67429541 and https://lemm.ee/post/67216433

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He keeps trying. He seems to think that can be done by just putting his thumb on the system prompt, and then we end up with obvious nonsense like that South African white genocide preoccupation. It's fortunate the Musk isn't smart enough to figure out how to do it subtly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm nowhere close to being an LLM specialist but to actually skew the model itself I think you need a lot of consistent data. Ten thousand alt-right blogs peddling a hundred thousand internally inconsistent and mutually incompatible narratives won't cut it, they'll criss-cross over the gradient landscape and because they don't coincide, won't make a dent in the deep groves trodden by pirating libgen. And training only on the alt-right blogs won't cut it either that's just not enough data which on top of that doesn't sound smart enough to woo anyone, or have any resemblance of a consistent stance. Sure you'll get it to claim ridiculous shit and use lots of slurs but 4chan managed to do that back in 2016 and noone was fooled.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    'Persistent spike' is up there with 'vehicle constantly stopping' as a nonsense phrase. :) And this from an educational institution?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    considering the ceo, linda yaccarino, spends all day retweeting conspiracy theories and nazi propaganda i'm not surprised.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You just now found out about this?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    No shit. Really?

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Will someone tell the 60% bot userbase?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The new analysis contradicts the social media platform’s claims that exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased during Elon Musk’s tenure.

    They might both be right. I know my exposure to hate speech and bot-like activity decreased since I stopped engaging with that platform.

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