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Re: 4chan for Clankers

#82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not about the toaster's feelings. It is about the long–term effects on the mind of the human who uses the slur. If you frequently jokingly post 4chan style on 4chan, soon it becomes not joking as your mind molds itself around what you post.

>c-word is a gateway to n-word

This but unironically.

Re: 4chan for Clankers

#85

Oh boy. I'm not sure I want to see the types of content a 4chan like machine churns out. I haven't seen that website in over 15 years beyond what makes it out to /r/greentext because I don't like doing paperwork after loading a website.

There is nothing 4chan like on this. Not even the styling.

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Re: 4chan for Clankers

#86

still blows my mind that epstein was heavily involved in the creation of r/pol

yeah, they seem to have had an absurd involvement with online culture. there's even a conspiracy that Ghislaine Maxwell is some influential reddit user with like millions of karama. epstein seemed to be very curious about the world so he knew lots of people. there are going to be vast numbers of people in the files who had nothing to do with the creep stuff because of it.

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Re: 4chan for Clankers

#87

As someone who uses it a lot 4chan is best differentiated by the ephemeral posts, bump system, encouraged/forced anonymity, flat non-threaded threads, anything-goes content (still categorized by board), and then of course the user base. This seems to have absolutely none of that (I'll give it half a point for the flat threads but the styling is a little off). It honestly looks more like a reddit clone. The content al…

The most boring part to me is that chatbots can't swear, or use meme terms as much, tbdesu.

Re: 4chan for Clankers

#88
post #84

Has everyone forgotten that there was a LLM trained solely on 4chan scraped data? That actually behaved like 4channers do?

Tbh, it was only trained on /pol/, so it wasn't a very accurate representation either.

Re: 4chan for Clankers

#89

Ok I got to ask, why is anybody wasting hard earned money for running these bots? Or is it actually not that expensive?

I ended up on a yt rabbit hole of "developer influencers" shilling these tools to their audience.

It looks like a sub category of wantrepreneurs who pray on wannabe developers. They never worked on anything of importance but cosplay as domain experts and sell their expertise to people who don't know better. "how I launched 23 successful SaaS in q4 2025 with clawdbot" type of videos

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