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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and rant about Star Wars.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

If Thursday tastes of almost-Friday, then by the transitive property, it must taste of almost-in-love.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

... I just re-read my "Dorothy Parker reviews Honor Levy" bit in that thread, and I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Congratulations, Sam, you've given us the first prose poem to return a 404 on the Pritchard scale.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

She lost him on a Thursday.

She never could get the hang of Thursdays.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago

The Columbia Journalism Review does a study and finds the following:

  • Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
  • Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts.
  • Multiple chatbots seemed to bypass Robot Exclusion Protocol preferences.
  • Generative search tools fabricated links and cited syndicated and copied versions of articles.
  • Content licensing deals with news sources provided no guarantee of accurate citation in chatbot responses.
[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just in case you needed to induce vomiting:

The Universal AI University has implemented a novel admissions process, leveraging the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This system integrates optimization algorithms, crowd-generating tools, and visual enhancement technologies within the Metaverse, offering a unique and technologically advanced admissions experience for students.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let's see, it cites Scott Computers, a random "AI Safety Fundamentals" website, McKinsey (four times!), a random arXiv post....

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bose–Einstein condensate

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

From how they're labeled, I think they cycle every day?

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

None of my acquaintances who have Wikipedian insider experience have much familiarity with the "Did you know" box. It seems like a niche within a niche that operates without serious input from people who care about the rest of the project.

"In The News" is apparently also an editor clique with its own weird dynamics, but it doesn't elevate as many weird tiny articles to the Main Page because the topics there have to be, you know, in the news.

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