ChatGPT is using straight up fraud to sell subscriptions:
โIn the first week, Mr. Brooks hit the limits of the free version of ChatGPT, so he upgraded to a $20-a-month subscription. It was a small investment when the chatbot was telling him his ideas might be worth millions.โ
10.08.2025 19:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
You canโt tell how many ๅคงs there are in ๅคง้นฟๅคง้นฟๅคง้นฟ?
09.08.2025 17:30 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Incredible often turns out to be not credible. AI currently exists in a very permissive regulatory, environmental, and financial context. Itโs far from given that it can exist in any other context.
09.08.2025 17:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Are you actually examining the training data to verify those claims?
08.08.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
But do you then check the initial data set for any element that resembles the novel data or the resulting output?
08.08.2025 16:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Then it seems to me that thereโs no real way to tell the difference from the userโs end between an AI that replaces human intelligence and one that simply obfuscates it.
08.08.2025 15:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Are there any AIs that arenโt dependent on massive amounts of human generated training data?
08.08.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Did you examine the training data to confirm that it hadnโt seen anything like your story before?
08.08.2025 14:31 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
It has a spherical pressure vessel, so itโs still a better design than Oceangateโs.
07.08.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
โand stressing the importance of checking the past before one makes a decision, not afterward, when the decision has already been made.โ
07.08.2025 17:04 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Strike โaccelerated path toโ and you have a plan.
06.08.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I figured it out in 2002 from involuntarily watching Fox News during my shifts at RadioShack.
04.08.2025 03:33 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Aside from the fact that we would need a Senate supermajority to do that.
03.08.2025 18:57 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0
Youโre comparing Abilene to all of Texas.
01.08.2025 18:06 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The first ballot. The trajectory. You seem fixated on the process, but your argument kind of trails off prior to any actual conclusion.
01.08.2025 12:59 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
You donโt seem to be contesting the outcome anymore, is that a fair assessment of where you are with your current thinking?
01.08.2025 12:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic
30.07.2025 01:15 โ ๐ 15279 ๐ 3692 ๐ฌ 205 ๐ 103
I mean, itโs not the most insane idea ever that the historical Jesus was teaching the ideas of a preexisting school of thought.
30.07.2025 00:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
They were all good ideas, and worked more or less within the problems they were expected to solve.
29.07.2025 23:32 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
You can make jokes about politics.
You canโt treat politics like a fucking joke.
27.07.2025 02:09 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Diamond Joe only worked when Biden was a trivial figure. If you think they could keep doing that bit about an actual president, then I donโt think you really understand the importance of politics.
27.07.2025 02:05 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
If Kerry gave half a fuck about what the left wanted, he wouldnโt have voted for the war in the first place.
24.07.2025 12:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
You have your history backwards.
23.07.2025 17:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My arguments at the time were quite good. I managed to convince everyone at my RadioShack that there were no WMDs and that the war was a bad idea.
23.07.2025 17:37 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We made Assad destroy his chemical weapons stockpile, but the fact that we accomplished that without resorting to an actual invasion renders the victory invisible in your eyes.
23.07.2025 17:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
The Iraq war was a stupid thing and was properly identified as such ahead of time.
23.07.2025 17:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Donโt declare war on an emotion? Donโt invade a random country that isnโt allied with your actual enemy? Donโt invent an ad hoc legal system when your preexisting one works perfectly well?
23.07.2025 15:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
If it turns out that people are cool with it, would you be willing to admit that youโre wrong?
23.07.2025 14:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
The left opposed the Iraq war. Donโt do stupid things might not seem like that sophisticated of a policy, but itโs head and shoulders above the center and the right.
23.07.2025 14:24 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
That sounds like the losing side accepting defeat.
23.07.2025 14:16 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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