And yet, they chose to demo a broken technology with obvious bugs and flaws. The demos from tech companies are supposed to make people excited, not recoil in disgust.

This isn’t some tiny company, either. It’s fucking nVidia, who supposedly has the money to create a good demo.

Oh, that’s an interesting way to do it. You’d probably have to have a handful of moderators each for the various comms, but it sounds like it would at least resist lazy engagement.

However, if you’re going to down vote something, have the balls to explain why.

This is why downvoting is fundamentally flawed. It could be “I don’t like it” all the way up to “I know for a fact that’s wrong,” but nobody else will ever know the rationale.

I don’t even see downvotes on my instance, and I never want to, because it just raises questions and confusion.

No. If people think em-dashes are a “surefire sign” of LLMs, they’re just as dumb as the people who take LLM output uncritically. Sometimes, you need to separate a thought with something other than a period, semicolon, or parenthesis, and a hyphen or double hyphen is simply not correct grammar. LLMs can pry my em-dashes from my cold, dead fingers.

You say tomato, I say tomatermort.

Great, when did I say otherwise? Pareidolia is a thing humans do, because we like patterns. Finding patterns is something that has benefited our species, but it is sometimes so strong that we see faces in electrical outlets or the shape of a car’s front profile (for example).

We do enjoy pareidolia, don’t we?

One in 100. However, that is simple a measure of probability, so do not expect that to always be true for every 100 prompts.

For example, if you rolled a 100-sided die 100 times, it’s possible to get a one every time. In practice, it would likely be a mix. You might have a session where you get no wrong answers and times when you get several.

The problem is that ignorant people trust these models implicitly, because they sound convincing and authoritative, and many people are not equipped to be able to vet the information being generated (also notice I didn’t say “retrieved”).

That’s what regular people never seem to understand (and the AI apologists are hoping you don’t know). These models aren’t “getting better,” they’re just filled with more reactive patches over these unintended responses. And as the models scale up, so do the holes that need patching.

It’s a never ending game of bad-prompt Whack-a-Mole, all at the cost of our environment and safety, just so the Tech Bros can try to convince venture capitalists that “AGI is definitely just around the corner, trust me, bro,” and keep that bubble filled with their own farts.

Absolutely! Not making fun, but whenever somebody brings up Emacs in earnest, this is what I think of!

Emacs is not that hard. You can learn Emacs in one day, every day!

A relatively small company can’t afford to fight a protracted legal battle or simply ignore the law. They have employees with families, and $800/hr for legal representation adds up fast, not to mention potentially getting hit with $6500 fines per infraction for refusal to comply. They also can’t afford to just not sell in California, which has a huge chunk of the US population.

We don’t have to be happy about the state of things, but it’s not their fault that capitalism and authoritarianism have effectively forced them to comply.

Be upset by all means, but remember to focus your anger upon those who actually put/is putting these laws in place.

Are you talking about The Pearl, by chance? It’s one I haven’t read, yet, but if you’re talking about another story, I’d like to read that, too!

Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket “no,” forcing him to go his own way.

Not arguing, just asking.

I think they’re still a pretty small operation, and I’m just grateful that I have a functional alternative to Goodreads.

They’re talking about Twitch’s own internal moderation, not streamer-specific mod tools.

A streaming suspension applies to violations occurring during a livestream. This penalty blocks the user from going live and temporarily disables chat on their channel.

It was not. Poe’s Law.

They’re a complete stranger, and there are actual people who unironically say stuff like that, even on the Fediverse.

Omfg, don’t talk to Meta’s chatbot. Period. Don’t use Facebook.

I can’t believe it’s 2026, and people still think Meta somehow has any neutrality—after it’s been demonstrated time and again that they aren’t just accidentally bad, they’re actively malicious.

Sigh of course it’s a Nordic thing. I should have guessed. White nationalists also love other Heathen/Norse symbolism.

Good to be careful, so thanks for educating me.