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Even that is a lie, from the formerly Don't Be Evil company. "choose to" != "have to opt out in multiple places not to".

AU Pro user here. 3.8 Flash available (default) in the web app for me.

While that is terrible, it's still nowhere near proving your original assertion.

They added search & deep research ages ago.

I think Ed Zitron has this market covered already

Except you do, if you are an average user, i.e. not self-selected into the HN bubble.

I was downvoted a few weeks ago for making this exact point. Humans can and do use em-dashes occasionally, but given that you have to go digging for the key combination, you're not using it every 3rd sentence like every AI model does.

> (& fiends)

Freudian slip?

The HN readership has changed massively in that timeframe, from the earlier Hackers and Painters / libertarian ideology to a much more socialist outlook. I could speculate about the reasons for this, but my theories would probably attract even more downvotes than just pointing out the obvious change in tone will.

It does make you wonder about the "E" part of the EA cultists who infest that particular company.

That's hilarious. Reminded me of the scene at spaceport security in the original Total Recall where Arnie's AI loses the plot.

"I've never worked at any company where there was any limit to the work to be done." Then you live in a bubble. Many organisations are restricted in available profitable work to be done, by many factors. Capital & cashflow, capacity & physical limits, demand, regulation & licensing, supply chains & inputs, management bandwidth, risk tolerance, access to credit, etc. etc.

There was a similar case in Seattle with the South Lake Union Trolley, which was quickly renamed to South Lake Union Streetcar, once T-shirts pointing out the unfortunate acronym started drawing attention. This one is clearly deliberate though.

"Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't." <- this is the point you missed.

I see, so people in the non-HN universe aren't abandoning the em-dash where it's actually appropriate, due to massive over-use by chatbots? And despite there being no em-dash key on a keyboard, the appearance of em-dashes in text created by members of the non-HN universe is definitely not cause for suspicion? Why would I be sarcastic /sarc