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hckrfucrson The Scroll Art (Animated ASCII) Museum

Pure nostalgia for anyone who grew up in the "chain letter" email craze of the late 90s early 00s.

hckrfucrson GPTs and Feeling Left Behind

I have lost a few friends to llm sycophancy induced psychosis wherein they believe, and are encouraged to believe by the llm that, they are the sole individuals who have cracked "prompting", and, in fact, by so doing, have summoned the singularity for their sole benefit and under their sole control.

You sound exactly like them.

hckrfucrson GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

> Is there any single sentence in my comment that you think is factually incorrect as written?

I'll bite.

> You can track the small number of anti-AI sentiments that crop up here and elsewhere.

You say you can track. So, show me this "tracking".

hckrfucrson GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

Exactly!

I mean, what's political about having former NSA heads on your "exciting technology" board?

Or what's political about lining up together as the front row at the despot in chief's inauguration?

And what's so political about lobbying to and sequestering large amounts of public funds for your personal manufactured consent machine?

These things are literally software that runs on technology developed in the last 50 years, but by your clearly apolitical, unbiased, absolutely thoughtful, well reasoned, fully researched, insight is in fact "the most exciting technology in the last 50 years".

hckrfucrson GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

Ah yes, the highest form of curiosity, the kind that attempts to silence those whose opinion differs from your own.

If it hurts your feelings to have your terrible opinions "dunked" on then take the time to form better opinions.