this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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as seen here and here, some instances are feeding posts wholesale to prompts, for what seem like extremely unsound reasons to me

any of you run into this shit yet?

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 19 points 5 days ago

The cabal has gone "yeah fuck this" and succumbed to exhaustion https://awful.systems/post/8294148

[–] self@awful.systems 23 points 5 days ago

believe it or not we’ve read the posts and context in question and come to the conclusion that the use of LLMs for summarizing posts and confirming a moderation decision still obviously fucking sucks and obviously represents algorithmic bias in a way we don’t want on any instance we federate with

I know you kids won’t read this but uhhh if you come at us with an attack on our ability to read, all that’s going to happen is I’m going to tell you to fuck yourself before I ban you

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My god, I just saw he kept this truck running on Mastodon too.

There is "doubling down" and then there's... whatever this lunacy is.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and came by with a hachyderm account to post on the defed notice

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Misinformation misinformation! I did not punch Jeremy! I was merely extending my arm fast and then my glove punched Jeremy. Stop saying I punched Jeremy!!

[–] self@awful.systems 18 points 5 days ago

no it’s fine you see, they fed the posts in question to a homegrown open source LLM (still trained on plagiarized sources by a gigantic corporation as part of an extremely obvious market domination plan) and only pretended to feed a ton of posts to chatgpt as a joke that nobody laughed at

moderator’s note to anyone who came here to make the above point in earnest: lol

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

ok, wtf did I just wake up to

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lol, yeah, didnt check awful for a day and this escalated. Well done on all the mods for keeping us informed what is going on btw.

What a great example of how not to react when caught in a controversy by the db0 crew.

[–] xgranade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

And I get to use it twice, because I took a nap.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago

we apologise for the world

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

sorry blake 🥺

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 11 points 5 days ago

> Fediverse drama involving db0
> Looks inside
> Unruffled

Naturally

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Extremely unsound reasons, such as finding users years long history of vile genocide downplaying and denying comments and pro Zionism?

Even PieFed.social banned the user who the AI found this out about. So it was obviously useful for them as well.

[–] self@awful.systems 15 points 5 days ago

fuck off with this equivocating shit

piefed banned the user by, uhhhh, reading their posts like a fucking normal person

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago

did you know you can just use mk.i wetware eyeballs to read dipshits' posting histories? revelatory, I know!

and did you just roll into awful trying to pretend that it's a place that is favourable to nazis, genocidists, and other shitbags? or to imply that I am? seriously? because I'm pretty sure I've seen you post here before..

maybe you should stop making shit up in your head and acting like someone else said it

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