as someone who is generally anti-copyright, i think it's telling that while there's several very good arguments to be made against copyright (they encourage IP hoarding, they strip rights and profits from creators, they enable legal threats against people making derivative or inspired work), the one promptfans continuously go for is the most shallow. "copyright is bad because it's the thing preventing me personally from downloading everything i want for free, even though i already do that all the time with no repercussions whatsoever"

For context, Yogthos is a Marxist-Leninist who is in favor of a very specific and cryptic sort of authoritarian revolution, generally defends the PRC, and usually is in favor of the Russian Federation. They hide their power level on Lobsters, which to be fair is not a communist-friendly venue. They gave it all away in their top-level thread-starter:

What I care about is the content, not how it was formatted or generated. If there is an interesting piece of code, some factual or thought provoking information, and so on. I don't see why it should be flagged merely because LLMs were involved.

LLMs are useful because they can generate the content: propaganda which provokes his glorious revolution. A modern-day Lenin wannabe. Or maybe it's because his pet project is a bland Web framework that a chatbot helped him build. Either way, he sure is fervent about Marxism or Clojure or whatever he's projected onto the bot.

call out his confabulation machine usage, and the block will be quick

i don't know if it's a convention even in the "serious" AI research industry to use anthropomorphic jargon, but it drives me up a wall to see shit like this:

17.6 Theory of Mind Limitations in Agentic Systems

Agentic systems don't have "theory of mind", they cannot infer mental state. they are probabilistic word generators operating within non-deterministic frameworks. They can have a system prompt that tells them to generate text that appears to be an interpretation of another entity's "mental state", and they can even be directed to refer to it as context, but it is not theory of mind and the entity they're generating in reference to may not have a mind at all.

I wish there was some way to stop these dorks from stealing the imprimatur of cognitive science.