For the afternoon crowd: a big announcement coming THIS WEEKEND! :D

So disappointing.

And will it often make up answers, instead of saying that 2+2 always = 4, like a real calculator always will? Honestly, the calculator thing is the dumbest conceivable "gotcha" comparison to GenAI junk. Absolutely incredible that some people still think they're clever by making it.

Dickens regards his characters with "sticky sentimentality"? DICKENS?!?

1. That's not even vaguely the premise of Middlemarch. 2. There are times when it's okay to just not let everyone know how much you haven't read something.

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

Yep, and of course they're also utter nonsense, brought to you by the same people trying to sell you this junk--just like "as long as we have guardrails," "these agents are going rogue and threaten humanity," etc. All marketing phrases from a flailing industry that knows its time is running short.

Absolutely wild.

They were not acting on their own. They were acting as their human programmers programmed them to act, just as you are acting as these corporate shills want you to act by propagating this fiction that GenAI programs are thinking for themselves.

I also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.

BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH Approaching the 2nd weekend of the annual October celebration of the Black Fantastic, gotta ask if you've read anything by Charles Saunders, L.A. Banks, or -contemporarily- Veronica Henry, Malon Edwards, Tana Jenkins, Leslye Penelope, Rob Cameron, Linda Addison...

The slop machine makes you stupid. The slop machine makes you stupid. THE SLOP MACHINE MAKES YOU STUPID. And that's why they want you to use it. Scared, stupid people are easier to control.

"The findings backed up what anecdotes and surveys have increasingly found in recent years: An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness."

Hope she makes it two more years; Fox is running out of room to platform ex-press secretaries.

Yep. The statement is a whole lot of words to say "we don't understand copyright."

Agreed!