This is a parody guys. Calm down.

How are those of us who aren't chronically online supposed to know some douche on Twitter is a parody account or not?

Because people like this guy literally exist in real life.

Poe's law teaches us that any satire, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from sincerity.

Or, as John Scalzi puts it:

1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.

2. The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”

Connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests. Every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.

• Sam Altman

Poe's law.

I've seen tech bros unironically argue that

• The sole purpose of art is the end product
• The objectively correct thing to do with a piece of human-made art that is not up to your standard of quality is to feed it through an image to image model to "improve" it so that it is up to a publishable standard
• Their LLM is better than them at their day job
• Resolving marital disputes by asking ChatGPT who's right is an appropriate thing to do
• Letting an LLM answer every single email you get eliminates the need to read them yourself
• An LLM is sapient and has its own thoughts and opinions
• Making and eating food is a waste of time, and eliminating it from their day using meal replacement shakes feels "liberating"

In light of that, this isn't too farfetched.

Honestly, Lemmy used to be a refreshing departure from Reddit when people were joining because they hated Spez for political reasons, but now people just hate ads and are miffed about the moderator upheaval. Lemmy is basically just ad-free Reddit with worse moderation now.

Overall, it's still better than Reddit, but that's a low bar. I'm starting to think that social media, federated or not, is a bad idea. We need to bring back topical forums and ban people for being off-topic and wrong.

This site is for ex redditer so I'm not suprised in the least.

Yeah.... I've been sent enough AI generated voice memos that I'm not so sure it's parody. Maybe this specific guy, but I 100% believe there's people out there doing it.