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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.

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  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.
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Twice this week I've looked up some song lyrics origins/meanings, and it's obvious the old sites are just running LLM summaries of every song they have in their DB.

Wikipedia has notoriously been vague on this, only covering it with a couple sentences for some interview source etc. But those couple of sentences said so much more than the 20 paragraph essay of an LLM trying to figure out and explain creative writing.

It used to be fans chimed in with their ideas and sources, establishing a solid lyrics origin or meaning. But apparently that's dead now for the big services and the blogs that exist buried under SEO.

Seriously, do it now and see what I'm talking about. It's absolute spew.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 8 months ago

LLM trying to figure out and explain creative writing.

They aren't even that capable. They simply try to predict the words that would meet a naïve observer's expectations.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago

It's depressing because I'd rather read someone being completely wrong about a song than for some LLM to summarise the "correct" answer

[–] Ethanol@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago

I also hate how ChatGPT infected the web nowadays is, though I usually look up song lyrics on genius. They sometimes have user generated comments with interesting tid bits. Akin to the old forums would be a lemmy community for interpreting song lyrics :)

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

I looked up something recently, I think it was about some game, and the top result (and probably several after) were just total gibberish that didn't help at all. Just generative nonsense based on the words it was provided.

I really hope we get a solution to this. I know this is the most profitable to these people, but it's far from the most useful. It's just so cheap to make that anything else existing becomes near impossible. No matter what else is created, once the rules for optimizing it are figured out it'll be flooded with AI nonsense. It honestly feels like the death of information right now, and I don't see an ending.