Thread | Brutkey

Oh boy, the Mansplaining Olympics are wild this year.

Screenshot of a conversation on Bluesky:

Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 20h):
“Signal will some sort of LLM integration in it soon.”

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11h):
“No ❤️”

Bill Mitchell (@askbillmitchell.bsky.social · 6h):
“They will, likely be timing up with Anthropic's Claude or Perplexity, but its coming. The engineers have already began laying out the ground work for such support.”

Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5h):
“…he says to Signal's president”

@Starkimarm@23.social Did you see his response to being called out was to say, “Actually I do think I know more about this than the company’s president. I have amazing pattern recognition skills.”

ralocycleuse
@ralocycleuse@eldritch.cafe

@Starkimarm@23.social this is beyond what I could ever have imagined

King of mnasplaining Bill Mitchell digging far beyond an abyssal level :
"So yes, I do think I have a better insight than the president of the company. I'll wait while you try to remind me that Signal is non-profit, and I retort with something clever like "And how do you developers feed themselves"."

@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net

@Starkimarm@23.social I know asking "for what purpose" is pretty silly when it comes to things which have no real purpose, like LLMs, but for what purpose would one want an LLM built into a chat program? It can't just be to legitimise the money spent developing the things, can it? Like the software equivalent of the cube in the Cube franchise, "we've got it now, so we may as well torture people with it"? (Which is just a supposition from someone being tortured in it, anyway)

Bruce Heerssen :guillotine:
@bruce@darkmoon.social

@ralocycleuse@eldritch.cafe @Starkimarm@23.social

Wait... does he think non-profits don't pay salaries?

Bruce Heerssen :guillotine:
@bruce@darkmoon.social

@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net @Starkimarm@23.social

I guess if you really want to use a chat program but don't have anyone who wants to chat with you?

... that actually might explain a lot. 🤔