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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not wanting to be left out of the action and let our good friends have all the robotic god fun, the catholic church has also got in on the action, and it went so good

From some of those replies you just know the kinds of training data it must’ve had.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

this is most certainly a clerical error

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From the bot-runners website:

Catholic Answers works each day to ensure our content is faithful to the Magisterium. Our staff apologists have decades of practice in apologetics, and several hold advanced degrees in theology and philosophy. We maintain a broad list of associates (clergy and laymen) who are experts in the fields of liturgy, history, bioethics, theology, philosophy, canon law, and more.

"And we've decided to throw the hard work of these people under the bus in favor of an unfinished toy that ridicules our faith. A consultant named Damien Thorn made a compelling case!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the imagery (in the article) is also amazing, it's like if someone took all the images of Civ leader dialogue screens as source material for ~~direct replication~~ "inspiration"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

did nobody get the bot to write some python

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Python? I have rooted it, and the vatican is now mining bitcoin for me. (oddly, they already had a full mining kit installed, no idea how this P0P3 guy was, but took all his butts).

E: why is Chris Hansen at my door?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

to help you move to another parish

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

One thing I’d mention is that we spent a lot of time beta-testing this, with thousands of people, before we released it. We did six months of that beta-testing.

I’m sure they tested it, but were their testers the nice Catholic people they happen to know, or, you know, normal internet people?