I don’t know what people expected from a model that’s essentially been trained by the Internet.

Unless we’re talking about Trump’s brain, of course.

I knew it started with an ‘A’!

So… Riddle me this: What’s the difference between ‘states invading each other’ and ‘civil war’?

Man, I hate the smell of fascism in the morning. I hate it at all other times of day too, but starting the day with nausea is the worst.

I can’t say I mind the sentiment nor the phrasing, although I suppose it’s entirely possible that we’re both tools :)

Really? Because it sounds to me like somebody just became a kidnapper, torturer and murderer for attention. Different person admittedly, but same old story.

Human history is unfortunately littered with individuals literally and figuratively dying to do stupid shit for attention, and I doubt any amount of regulatory intervention will ever fix that. Hell, not even radical genome editing is likely to fix it - I suspect it’s an emergent property of sentience.

“I regret to inform you…”

In reality it’s more like:

Ukraine: “Elections are impossible in the middle of our country being invaded and a good third of it being in enemy hands.”

US: “Imma invade you, bitch. Then Greenland is next. Or Mexico, I don’t fucking know.”

Everybody else: “No, America, sweetie…”

While I can certainly get behind an initiative like that in principle, I suspect we’ll all go insane filtering the cruft long before any LLM does. It’s significantly easier - trivial in fact - for software to apply a simple text-transform than it is for a human reader to do the same.

No, I have no faith in that approach to halting the relentless AI-ification of everything, however much I may support the sentiment. Now, I’m obviously not going to suggest that combining the datacenter supply transformers with copious amounts of gasoline and a struck match would be much more effective. Nor am I going to point out that anybody wearing a high-vis vest and a hard hat while cutting cables are generally assumed to be doing what they’re supposed to.That might get me in trouble.

That’s an excellent point.

Yes, but at least the fascists will be there to comfort them as they burn together.

No, I don’t think I will, thanks.

Since AMP, yes. It’s hardly a recent development.

That’s cool, but seeing as how I’m not Icelandic and my part of Scandinavia haven’t used Thorn since the Middle Ages, I think I’m just going to continue using the modern digraph like everybody else. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not conservative by nature, but I am a fan of not wasting time of fixing things that aren’t broken - that way I can reserve my energy for fixing one of the many, many things that are broken. Good grief, of all the ways one could change English, this is what people focus on? Do something about the damn homonyms! Even native speakers don’t know how to use those appropriately more than half the time. Prejudicially terminate any cretin using ‘of’ in place of ‘have’ until we can collectively forget that was ever a thing idiots did! Just about other thing would be more worthwhile.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall the first time somebody receives a job application using it. Might as well submit your application in full-on Elder Futhark (it’s totally metal!), get a really nice facial tattoo declaring your tribal allegiance (radically metal!) or maybe show up to the interview wearing clip-on cat ears with integrated LEDs (cute, or ‘moe’ for those in the know!). Employers love that shit. Comes across as professional, sane and dependable, you see.

All right, the old man rant is over. I’ll stop impotently shaking my fist at the nearest cloud now, and head back inside. I need a drink anyway. No, two drinks.

Nor should you. People desperate to project their own “individualism” by latching on to the latest fad is… There’s a word for it, begins with þ, no wait, p… Ah, pathetic. That’s it.

Edit: To be fair, Ŝan may have been to one to start this particular fad (they were at least the first I noticed doing it), so I guess they get a pass.

Still bloody annoying to read though.

Ooh, that’s though sweetheart. If the owners of those servers want you to visit, they’ll just choose another WAF than CF’s.

All zero of them.

“Stop people using VPNs for anything”, more like. Knock it off, you fascist fucks. Get out of my computer, my bedroom and my life.

So long as we stick to serious business like industrial process optimization and stay away from LLM chatbots and AI waifus, that’s fine.

Oh, and no: You don’t get to install attack-surface widening software on everybody’s machines that scan local files for CSAM (exactly what are you sickos going to train that model on and where did you get it?) in addition to wasting everyone’s system resources and electricity on declaring innocent people for pedo’s due to the inevitable false positives. By all means use AI to actually increase productivity and product quality. Hell, use machine learning to optimize logistics, save energy and minimize waste.

But don’t attempt to use it as a means of invasive control and surveillance.