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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3563 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 9, 2026

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I recall one that featured an unprepared book club hostess "cunningly" asking an LLM just before the guests arrived to "suggest themes for discussion for the book Moby Dick".

What level of pretentious sub-midwit is that marketing towards?

George Costanza?

Actually perfect example. Exactly the kind of guy who would find himself hosting a classic book club, while being so generally ignorant that he couldn't fake up "Moby Dick is an allegory for obsession and revenge".

I was specifically referring to the book club episode where he tried to get out of reading Breakfast at Tiffany's by watching the movie.

lol what? It's faster to read it than watch the movie. Though I'm guessing the gag is they diverge quite a bit.

George, Paul is gay

It's like the marketing is meant to tell you: hit defect, everyone around you is about to become fake and gay, you might as well defect early and reap some measly social prestige benefits quickly before this kind of thing becomes so well known that all meaning is destroyed forever.

Holy cow THIS.

Cluely's very clueless ad was the Reductio ad absurdum of this particular message.

"Use AI to cut corners on tasks you are ostensibly supposed to enjoy in order to gain, I guess social credit among people who will somehow not mind that you used AI?

No, can you show me the AI directly enriching my life? Making me wealthier? Cutting out tasks that I don't enjoy and nobody else relies on me to perform?

Perhaps the actual goal of the ad is what you suggest. "All your friends are going to cheat with these tools, don't be the sucker who is left out!"

Look, I don't even mind the concept of using LLMs as the enhanced Google replacement. I just hate that 'hype' is built around use cases that are not actually improving my general day-to-day experience, and if EVERYONE ELSE stats using it that way, might degrade my experience!

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