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For reals. It seems like someone at Boing Boing has been conducting an experiment to see how long they could publish AI articles under the @EllsworthToohey pseudonym (a name borrowed from an Ayn Rand villain) before someone noticed, but decided to keep it up even after everyone noticed.
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Specifically AI articles about JD Vance, for some reason.
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People noticed on the very first post lol. The name is an odd choice if you’re trying to make people think it’s a genuine person.
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Be sure to give a warm welcome to the next contributor, Emsworth Threehey
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I concur:
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This forum may be one of the few places on the internet where the chatbot authors outnumber the chatbot commenters.
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Then I can’t wait for it to finally be over; as it has not been a success.
That BB seems to be actively leaning in to Enshitification is genuinely disappointing.
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I’m glad it’s being pointed out. The last time I tried to comment on it made me feel like I needed to leave for a while.
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Many of us have been pointing it out, making complaints, and of course mocking the fuck out of such low effort content; to the point where some of those comments have been moderated.
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Surely the villain was Howard Roark, a sociopathic rapist who blows up a building he doesn’t like.
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Ayn Rand’s dreck is villains all the way down.
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I have started recommending to people that they not get santorum on their couch.
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Thank you for furnishing that.
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… it was an act of chairity
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I think, given our fair and balanced media system, one side claiming Vance is a couch fucker, and he not addressing the controversy, it is OK to split the difference and say that Vance routinely gets to at least second base with his couch.
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