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Comment · 4 months ago
AI is only creative when it's messing up. Guide rails are basically the opposite to the subversive nature of jokes, so the only time it can make with the funny is by falling off the rails

(or lifting some comedians work, but I'm not counting that as the AI's creation of course)

See also: Will Smith eating spaghetti

Comment · 4 months ago
If mind viruses exist this is one of them along with saying "nice" after something is 69 haha

Weird sort of internet-evolved performance art where people act out the old quote, every time.

It's 20 years old. Quit having fun!

Comment · 4 months ago
Christ I'd be so embarrassed to find out my AI robot has been discussing things with outsiders without my oversight

Does nobody have any shame lmao

Comment · 5 months ago
I like how you need to tap the spoiler tags to show the text which works as a link to the individual page where you need to again unveil the spoilers
Comment · 5 months ago
Dunno what it is with the wording but my brain started reading it in a bit of a "Hello Clarice" Hannibal Lecter style lol

>The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique — like a fingerprint made of letters

Is this one true? I've not made any changes to fonts on my phone that I know of, wouldn't it just be bog standard iPhone fonts?

Curiosity not challenge

Would be cool if you actually did track just to prove the point like "you've opened this page 6 times now, 2 of those were via VPN and one time was using the Firefox Focus browser. Have you found any flaws in the data yet?"

Comment · 5 months ago
I just treat it as if I'd asked a public forum the question like reddit.

Decent for stuff that doesn't really matter, even if it gets it wrong.

Still gonna be polite to it because I'm about ready to slap the next person that talks to me like an LLM, I don't want to get used to not being polite in a chat interface

Comment · 6 months ago
Oh no they gave GPT ADHD
Comment · 9 months ago
100k a month?? Well there's yer problem lmao
Comment · 9 months ago
It takes the recurring out of recurring revenue, 100% churn
Comment · 10 months ago
The malware of "up next" that eats billions of hours a year lol
Comment · 10 months ago
LLMs are an amazing advance in natural language parsing.

The problem is someone decided that and the contents of Wikipedia was all something needs to be intelligent haha

Comment · 10 months ago
As long as they start with the titular character that's a fair end to the species

Chances are half of humans would vote for it too

Comment · 10 months ago
> maybe these robots don’t last that long

Landfills full of broken robots is totally something humans would do haha

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